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12 books with a reading profile close to The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith. Inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.

1

The Price of Salt

by Claire Morgan

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Therese Belivet is a nineteen-year-old stage designer working a temporary retail job at Frankenberg’s department store in Manhattan.
2

Madonna in a Fur Coat

by Sabahattin Ali

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

In the grey landscape of 1920s Berlin, Raif Efendi, a reserved Turkish clerk, encounters a self-portrait in an art gallery and becomes obsessed with the woman depicted.
3

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Newland Archer, a young gentleman integrated into the rigid social hierarchy of 1870s New York, prepares for a safe marriage to the conventional May Welland.
4

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain records her family’s life within a decaying English castle during the 1930s.
5

Desayuno en Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

romance, narrative

Set in wartime Manhattan, the story follows an aspiring writer who becomes fascinated by his neighbor, Holly Golightly.
6

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Jane Eyre follows the life of an orphaned girl who survives a neglectful upbringing at Gateshead Hall and the harsh conditions of Lowood Institution.
7

Three Comrades

by Erich Maria Remarque

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Robert Lohkamp, Otto Köster and Gottfried Lenz are three veterans of the First World War who run a car repair shop in Germany in the late 1920s, bound by their wartime experiences and poverty.
8

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

Also contemplative · romance, narrative

Anne Elliot, the overlooked middle daughter of a vain baronet, lives with the regret of having broken her engagement to Frederick Wentworth eight years earlier.
9

North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

romance, narrative

Margaret Hale, a clergyman’s daughter, is uprooted from the genteel landscapes of southern England when her father moves the family to the industrial northern town of Milton.
10

The novels of Jane Austen [6 volumes]

by Jane Austen

Also contemplative · romance, narrative

This six-volume collection contains the complete major fiction of Jane Austen, including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
11

Corelli’s Mandolin

by Louis de Bernières

romance, narrative

Set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Second World War, the narrative follows Pelagia, the strong-willed daughter of a local physician, and Captain Antonio Corelli, an officer in the occupying Italian army.
12

HEART THE LOVER

by Lily King

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Decades after the height of a complex romantic entanglement involving two different men, a woman reconstructs the timeline of her early adulthood to understand the lasting impact of her decisions.

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