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Books like The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

12 books with a reading profile close to The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima. Deep, inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams

Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, classic literature

Set on a Mississippi Delta cotton estate, the narrative centers on the Pollitt family during Big Daddy’s sixty-fifth birthday.
2

The Seagull

by Anton Chekhov, Laurence Senelick

Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, classic literature

Konstantin Treplev, an aspiring playwright, stages an experimental outdoor performance to impress Nina Zarechnaya, a young actress whom he loves.
3

Othello

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, classic literature

In seventeenth-century Venice and Cyprus, a high-ranking Moorish general named Othello secretly marries Desdemona, the daughter of a nobleman.
4

The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene

Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, classic literature

Henry Scobie, a deputy police commissioner in a West African British colony during the Second World War, is a conscientious Catholic who has been passed over for promotion.
5

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, classic literature

Emma Bovary, a country doctor’s wife in provincial France, finds her domestic life suffocatingly dull.
6

Oblomov

by Ivan Goncharov

Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, classic literature

Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a young Russian nobleman who lives in a state of terminal inertia within his dusty St.
7

The Meek One

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, classic literature

A middle-aged pawnbroker ponders the corpse of his young wife, who has just committed suicide by jumping from their window while holding an icon.
8

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, classic literature

Set in London during and after the Blitz, the novel follows Maurice Bendrix, a novelist who begins a physical relationship with Sarah Miles, the wife of a civil servant.
9

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

Also deep and thought-provoking · psychology, classic literature

In 1930s Edinburgh, schoolmistress Jean Brodie selects six young pupils to become the Brodie set, her personal elite.
10

Confessions of a Mask

by Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weatherby

Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, classic literature

The novel chronicles the internal struggles of its narrator, Kochan, as he navigates his adolescence and young adulthood in post-war Japan.
11

Passing

by Nella Larsen, Matthew Hodgson

Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, classic literature

Set in 1920s Harlem and Chicago, the narrative follows the unexpected reunion of two childhood friends, Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry.
12

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, classic literature

Nora Helmer lives as a pampered wife and mother under the strict domestic authority of her husband, Torvald.

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