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Books like The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

12 books with a reading profile close to The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda. Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.

1

The Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost

Also deep and inward-looking · inspirational, classic literature

This collection assembles the complete poetic output of Robert Frost, organizing over three hundred poems chronologically from his early twentieth-century debut through his final years.
2

Rubá'iyát of Omar Khayyám

by Omar Khayyam, Tomoyé Press Bkp Cu-Banc

Also deep and inward-looking · inspirational, classic literature

The Rubá'iyát of Omar Khayyám presents a series of four-line stanzas, or quatrains, attributed to the eleventh-century Persian polymath Omar Khayyám and translated into English by Edward FitzGerald.
3

The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also deep · classic literature, literary

Charles Strickland is an ordinary London stockbroker with a wife and two children until he abandons them without explanation and moves to Paris to paint.
4

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

by Anton Chekhov

Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary

This collection gathers short fiction depicting the mundane lives of late nineteenth-century Russian peasants, clerks, and aristocrats.
5

Walden & Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

Also deep and inward-looking · inspirational, classic literature

Henry Thoreau documents two years spent in a self-built cabin near Concord, Massachusetts, where he practiced deliberate solitude to study the economy of basic living.
6

Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary

Joe Bonham, a young American soldier serving in World War I, wakes up in a hospital bed to discover he is a victim of a massive artillery shell explosion.
7

El llano en llamas

by Juan Rulfo

Also deep and contemplative · classic literature, literary

Juan Rulfo's collection has seventeen short stories set in the arid countryside of Jalisco in Mexico, after the Revolution and the Cristero War.
8

Portnoy’s Complaint

by Philip Roth

Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary

Alexander Portnoy lies on a psychoanalyst’s couch and delivers a frantic, obscene monologue regarding his sexual frustrations and childhood hangfires.
9

The Story of an Hour

by Kate Chopin

Also inward-looking · classic literature, literary

Set in 1894, the narrative follows Louise Mallard as she receives news of her husband Brently’s death in a railroad disaster.
10

Washington Square

by Henry James

Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary

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.
11

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

Also deep and inward-looking · inspirational, classic literature

Siddhartha, a young Brahman in ancient India, abandons his high-caste life and ritualistic obligations to seek an end to personal suffering.
12

The Complete Fairy Tales

by Oscar Wilde

Also inward-looking and contemplative · classic literature, literary

This collection brings together stories including The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant, and The Nightingale and the Rose.

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