Books like The Road
12 books with a reading profile close to The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Deep, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Yol
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
A father and his son are the only characters who really matter in this novel.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Genly Ai arrives on the frozen planet Gethen as an envoy representing the Ekumen, a coalition of human worlds.
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Klara and the Sun
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Klara is an Artificial Friend, a solar-powered solar-observing android waiting in a storefront to be chosen by a child.
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A Tale for the Time Being
by Ruth Ozeki
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
On a remote island in British Columbia, a novelist named Ruth finds the washed-up diary of Nao, a sixteen-year-old girl living in Tokyo.
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
by Claire North
philosophy, narrative
Harry August is a kalachakra, a man who lives his life in a loop.
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Contact
by Carl Sagan
Also contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Radio astronomer Ellie Arroway detects a structured signal originating from the star Vega, transmitted in a sequence of prime numbers.
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The Lathe of Heaven
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction
George Orr lives in a future Portland where his dreams physically alter reality.
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The Book of Strange New Things
by Michel Faber
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
Peter Leigh, a dedicated Christian pastor, leaves his wife Beatrice on a crumbling, disaster-stricken Earth to travel to the planet Oasis.
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Machines like Me
by Ian McEwan
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
In a version of 1982 where Britain lost the Falklands War, Alan Turing is alive and artificial intelligence has advanced a long way.
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Station Eleven
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, science fiction
The narrative begins with a stage actor dying of a heart attack during a production of King Lear, moments before a Georgia Flu pandemic kills most of the global population.
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The Solitaire Mystery
Also deep · philosophy, narrative
Hans Thomas travels with his father from Norway to Greece to find his long-lost mother.
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