Books like The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
12 books with a reading profile close to The Letters of Vincent van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh. Deep and inward-looking; a moderate read.
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The House of the Dead
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, literary
Alexandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, a nobleman sentenced to ten years of hard labor in Siberia for uxoricide, narrates his daily existence within a communal prison barracks.
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Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, literary
Isak Dinesen chronicles seventeen years spent managing a coffee plantation at the foot of the Ngong Hills in Kenya.
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3
Letters to Milena
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, literary
Franz Kafka’s correspondence with Milena Jesenská begins as a professional exchange regarding the translation of his prose into Czech but quickly pivots into a private record of obsessive emotional attachment.
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A Moveable Feast
memoir, literary
Ernest Hemingway recounts his early years as an aspiring writer living in Paris during the 1920s.
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The World of Yesterday
by Stefan Zweig
Also deep · memoir, literary
Stefan Zweig chronicles the collapse of European civilization from the late nineteenth century through the start of World War II.
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Washington Square
by Henry James
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, classic literature
In the affluent backdrop of mid-nineteenth-century New York, Catherine Sloper lives under the scrutiny of her father, Austin, a prominent physician who views his daughter as dull and unremarkable.
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Portnoy’s Complaint
by Philip Roth
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, classic literature
Alexander Portnoy lies on a psychoanalyst’s couch and delivers a frantic, obscene monologue regarding his sexual frustrations and childhood hangfires.
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De profundis
by Oscar Wilde
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, literary
Written during his incarceration at Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde’s long letter to Lord Alfred Douglas details the emotional and financial ruin resulting from their relationship.
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How to Say Babylon
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
Safiya Sinclair recounts her childhood in Jamaica under the rigid authority of her father, a strict Rastafarian musician who enforced a sequestered life to protect his daughters from "Babylon," his term for the corrupti…
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Schoolgirl
by Osamu Dazai
Also inward-looking · literary, classic literature
The novella that first propelled Dazai into the literary elite of post-war Japan, Schoolgirl was essentially the start of his career and gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language.
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The Beautiful and Damned
Also inward-looking · literary, classic literature
Set in the shifting social landscape of 1910s New York, the narrative follows Anthony Patch, the presumptive heir to a massive tycoon fortune, and his marriage to the socialite Gloria Gilbert.
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If Beale Street Could Talk
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, classic literature
Set in 1970s Harlem, the story follows nineteen-year-old Tish Rivers and her fiancé, Fonny Hunt, an aspiring sculptor.
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