Books like The Odyssey of Homer
12 books with a reading profile close to The Odyssey of Homer by Homer. Deep and contemplative; a moderate read.
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Doctor Zhivago
Also deep and contemplative · dense, narrative
Set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent Civil War, the narrative follows Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet who struggles to maintain his medical ethics and artistic integrity amidst social…
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2
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Also deep · dense, narrative
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the narrative follows Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley as they navigate British high society.
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3
The Complete Stories
Also deep and contemplative · dense, narrative
This 1971 collection brings together thirty-one stories set largely in the rural American South.
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Bleak House
Also deep · dense, narrative
In nineteenth-century London, the protracted legal battle of Jarndyce and Jarndyce drags through the Court of Chancery, eroding the inheritance and sanity of those caught in its wake.
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5
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
Also deep · dense, narrative
Bond Market trader Sherman McCoy sees his life as a self-proclaimed Master of the Universe collapse after a wrong turn into the Bronx.
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6
The God of Small Things
Also deep and contemplative · dense, narrative
Set in Ayemenem, Kerala, during the late 1960s, the story follows fraternal twins Rahel and Estha as they navigate a rigid social hierarchy.
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7
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
Also deep · dense, narrative
Seymour "Swede" Levov represents the fulfillment of the mid-century American dream as a successful Newark businessman, star athlete, and family man.
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8
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
Also deep and contemplative · dense, narrative
Set in a fictional Midlands town during the 1830s, the narrative tracks the interconnected lives of Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate.
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9
Song of Solomon
Also deep and contemplative · dense, narrative
Macon "Milkman" Dead III grows up in a wealthy but emotionally stifled Black household in Michigan, isolated from the struggles of his community and the history of his ancestors.
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10
The Aeneid
by Virgil
Also deep and contemplative · dense, narrative
Virgil’s epic poem follows Aeneas, a Trojan prince who escapes the ruins of Troy to establish a new lineage in Italy.
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Sula
Also deep and contemplative · dense, narrative
In the segregated neighborhood of Medallion, Ohio, Nel Wright and Sula Peace share a girlhood bond that fractures as they enter adulthood.
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, literary
Set in the 1960s, the narrative centers on the Biafran War through the intersecting lives of five characters.
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