Books like The House of the Spirits
12 books with a reading profile close to The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Still Life
by Sarah Winman
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
In 1944, British soldier Ulysses Temper meets art historian Evelyn Skinner in a ruined Tuscan cellar.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Helen Graham arrives at a desolate Yorkshire estate under a shroud of secrecy, sparking intense local gossip and the unwanted attention of a neighboring farmer, Gilbert Markham.
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The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
Quoyle, a socially inept and physically ungainly third-rate newspaperman, retreats to his ancestral home in Newfoundland following the death of his unfaithful wife and the discovery of his parents’ double suicide.
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The History of Love
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
The story follows Leo Gursky, an elderly locksmith in New York who avoids solitude by making himself seen in public, unaware that a manual he wrote in Poland sixty years ago survived the Holocaust.
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The Cider House Rules
by John Irving
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Set in early twentieth-century Maine, the narrative follows Homer Wells, a perpetual orphan raised at St.
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Shirley
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Set in Yorkshire during the Napoleonic Wars, the narrative centers on the industrial unrest caused by the Orders in Council and the introduction of textile machinery.
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Silas Marner
by George Eliot, John O'Connor
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
Silas Marner is a reclusive weaver living in the village of Raveloe after being falsely accused of theft by his religious community in Lantern Yard.
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The Interestings
by Meg Wolitzer
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
The story begins in 1974 at a summer arts camp where six teenagers—Jules, Ash, Goodman, Ethan, Jonah, and Cathy—form a tight-knit circle based on their shared creative ambitions.
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David Copperfield
Also inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
The narrative follows David Copperfield from his early years in Suffolk through his development into a successful novelist in Victorian London.
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White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
In post-war North London, two former soldiers, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, navigate a cityscape shaped by the aftermath of the British Empire.
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Of Love and Other Demons
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, classic literature
In the old Colombian port of Cartagena, twelve-year-old Sierva María is the neglected daughter of a marquis.
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