Books like The Penelopiad
12 books with a reading profile close to The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. Contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Difficult Loves
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
This collection gathers fifteen short stories centered on the internal friction between private desire and social reality.
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Tenth of December
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
George Saunders’ collection of short fiction presents characters navigating moral crises within a landscape of economic precarity and pharmaceutical intervention.
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Perfection
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Anna and Tom are a professional creative couple who migrate from southern Europe to Berlin, seeking an aesthetic and social utopia.
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On The Road
by Jack Kerouac
narrative, classic literature
Sal Paradise, a young writer from New York, hitches rides and drives across North America alongside his charismatic friend Dean Moriarty.
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Great Gatsby
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Jay Gatsby spends his life accumulating wealth through criminal channels to reclaim a past romance with Daisy Buchanan.
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Doce cuentos peregrinos
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Doce cuentos peregrinos follows Latin American migrants living throughout Europe, from the rainy streets of Geneva to the apartments of Barcelona and Rome.
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ILL - One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
In Dale Wasserman’s 1970 stage adaptation of the Ken Kesey novel, the narrative centers on Randle P.
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Harry, a writer dying of gangrene while on an African safari, lies at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro and catalogues his professional failures.
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First Person Singular: Stories
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Eight stories by Haruki Murakami, most narrated in the first person by men looking back at odd episodes in their lives.
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Intimacies
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
An unnamed female interpreter moves from New York to The Hague to work at the International Criminal Court.
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Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb, Alabama, from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus.
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La tregua
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Martín Santomé, a widowed Montevideo office worker, is nearing retirement.
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