Books like The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha
12 books with a reading profile close to The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha by Thomas Shelton, Charles-Antoine Coypel. Deep, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Plague
by Albert Camus
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Set in the coastal city of Oran, the narrative begins when rats emerge from the shadows to die in the streets, signaling an outbreak of bubonic plague.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray Illustrated
by Oscar Wilde
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
In Victorian London, the young Dorian Gray sits for a portrait by artist Basil Hallward, who captures the youth's extraordinary beauty on canvas.
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3
Lord of the Flies
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
During a nuclear conflict, a plane crash leaves a group of British schoolboys stranded on an uninhabited tropical island without adult supervision.
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Invisible Man
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
An unnamed Narrator chronicles his descent from a hopeful Southern student to a disillusioned resident of a basement apartment in Harlem.
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The Baron in the Trees
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
In 1767, twelve-year-old Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, a young nobleman in Liguria, climbs a tree after a quarrel at dinner, and vows never to come down.
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Wise Blood
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, narrative
Hazel Motes returns from war to a rural Tennessee landscape and establishes the Church Without Christ.
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The Odyssey
by Homer
Also deep · philosophy, narrative
Following the destruction of Troy, the Greek king Odysseus begins a ten-year voyage to reach his home in Ithaca.
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East of Eden
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Set in the Salinas Valley between the Civil War and World War I, the narrative tracks the interconnected fates of the Trask and Hamilton families.
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9
Narcissus and Goldmund
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Set in medieval Germany, the novel follows two antithetical men who begin as student and teacher at Mariabronn monastery.
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Silence
by Shūsaku Endō
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
In seventeenth-century Japan, Father Sebastião Rodrigues, a Portuguese Jesuit, enters the country secretly to locate his former mentor, Cristóvão Ferreira, who reportedly committed apostasy under torture.
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Snow
by Orhan Pamuk
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Ka, an exiled poet, returns to Turkey to investigate a series of suicides among young women in the border city of Kars.
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Zorba the Greek
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Set in rural Crete, the narrative follows an unnamed intellectual who attempts to reopen a lignite mine while escaping his bookish existence.
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