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Books like The Holy Bible: King James Version

12 books with a reading profile close to The Holy Bible: King James Version by Anonymous. Deep, contemplative and open-ended; a moderate read.

1

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

Also deep and contemplative · history, philosophy

Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, this novel tracks the interconnected lives of three aristocratic families: the Rostovs, the Bolkonskys, and the Kuragins.
2

War and Peace

by Лев Толстой

Also deep and contemplative · history, philosophy

Leo Tolstoy’s narrative tracks the intersecting lives of three main aristocratic families—the Rostovs, Bolkonskys, and Kuragins—during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia.
3

The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

by Sophocles

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

These three plays by Sophocles follow Thebes' royal family through its curse.
4

Apology

by Plato

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Plato’s text documents the legal defense of Socrates as he faces trial in Athens for impiety and corrupting the youth.
5

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Alonso Quijano, an elderly man from La Mancha, loses his grip on reality after consuming a constant diet of chivalric tales.
6

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Dante Alighieri narrates his descent through nine concentric circles of hell under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil.
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Sobranie sochinenii v dvadtsati dvukh tomakh

by Лев Толстой

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

This 1882 collection consolidates the literary output of Lev Tolstoy, organizing his major novels, short fiction, and emerging pedagogical essays.
8

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

by W.B. Yeats

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

This volume tracks the evolution of William Butler Yeats’s poetic output across four decades, charting a progression from early Victorian romanticism to a starker, modernist aesthetic.
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The Bhagavad Gita

by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

The Bhagavad Gita documents a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and the deity Krishna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra.
10

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

This 1730 collection organizes the complete dramatic and poetic output of William Shakespeare, encompassing comedies, histories, and tragedies alongside his lyrical sequences.
11

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Charles Marlow, a seasoned sailor, narrates his passage aboard a steamship into the Congo Free State to retrieve Mr.
12

The Hymns of the Ṛgveda

by Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, Jagdish Lal Shastri

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

This volume presents the complete English translation of the oldest Sanskrit text, a collection of over one thousand sacrificial hymns addressed to deities such as Indra, Agni, and Varuna.

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