Books like The Guest Cat
12 books with a reading profile close to The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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The Wall
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
A woman is staying at a hunting lodge in the Austrian Alps with relatives when she wakes to find that an invisible, impassable wall has cut off the valley, and everything beyond it appears dead.
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The Memory Police
by Yōko Ogawa
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
On an unnamed island, objects disappear from public life and collective memory.
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The White Book
by Han Kang
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
The White Book is a collection of sixty-five short prose pieces centered on the color white.
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Orbital
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Set over twenty-four hours aboard the International Space Station, the narrative follows six astronauts—Roman, Pietro, Shaun, Nell, Chie, and Anton—as they complete sixteen orbits around Earth.
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The Emperor of Gladness
by Ocean Vuong
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
In this debut for young readers, the narrative combines structured verse and prose to follow a young protagonist navigating the quiet landscapes of suburban New England.
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Flights
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Olga Tokarczuk’s work is a constellation of short stories, historical anecdotes, and anatomical observations centered on the physical reality of the human body in motion.
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Women Talking
by Miriam Toews
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
Based on real events in the Manitoba Colony in Bolivia, this novel centers on eight Mennonite women meeting secretly in a hayloft.
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The Book of Form and Emptiness
by Ruth Ozeki
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
Following the sudden death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear the voices of inanimate objects.
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Shark Heart
by Emily Habeck
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Newlyweds Wren and Lewis face a physiological crisis when Lewis is diagnosed with a rare genetic mutation that will gradually transform him into a great white shark.
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10
Daytripper
by Fábio Moon
Also inward-looking and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Brás de Oliva Domingos writes obituaries for a Brazilian newspaper while living in the shadow of his famous novelist father.
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Men Without Women
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Across seven short stories, various men cope with the physical or emotional absence of women in their lives.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, narrative
Toru Okada is an unemployed man in suburban Tokyo whose mundane life fractures after his cat vanishes and his wife, Kumiko, leaves him without explanation.
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