Books like The Passion
12 books with a reading profile close to The Passion by Jeanette Winterson. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Written on the Body
Also deep and inward-looking · romance, literary
The story follows an unnamed and gender-neutral narrator who falls into a passionate affair with Louise, a married woman.
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2
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
by John Fowles
Also deep and open-ended · romance, literary
Set in the 1860s in the coastal town of Lyme Regis, the narrative follows Charles Smithson, a gentleman naturalist engaged to the wealthy Ernestina Freeman.
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3
Lost Children Archive
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
A family of four travels by car from New York City to the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona.
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4
Sputnik Sweetheart
by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
Also deep and inward-looking · romance, literary
The narrative follows K, a primary school teacher, who maintains a quiet devotion to his best friend, Sumire.
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Assembly
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
In this concise novel, an unnamed Black British woman prepares for a weekend party at her white boyfriend’s family estate.
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Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental
Interior Chinatown follows Willis Wu, a background actor trapped in the repetitive hierarchy of a procedural television show titled Black and White.
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Pastoralia
Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, experimental
George Saunders' collection mixes satire, dark comedy and surreal settings, with working-class characters who struggle against a strange economy.
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8
Howl and Other Poems
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Published in 1956, this collection centers on the title poem, a frantic catalog of mid-century American struggle.
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9
The Employees
by Olga Ravn
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Set aboard the Six-Thousand Ship orbiting the planet New Discovery, the narrative unfolds through a series of witness statements delivered to an anonymous committee.
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10
No One Is Talking About This
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
The first half of the narrative follows a woman who has achieved minor celebrity status within a digital landscape called the portal.
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11
To Paradise
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
This novel follows three distinct narratives set in a reimagined New York City across different centuries.
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12
The Nix
by Nathan Hill
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Samuel Andresen-Anderson, a disappointed English professor who is addicted to an online video game, sees his mother Faye on the news after decades of absence: she has been arrested for throwing gravel at a right-wing pr…
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