Books like The Stone Raft
12 books with a reading profile close to The Stone Raft by José Saramago. Deep, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Flights
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Olga Tokarczuk’s work is a constellation of short stories, historical anecdotes, and anatomical observations centered on the physical reality of the human body in motion.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, narrative
Toru Okada is an unemployed man in suburban Tokyo whose mundane life fractures after his cat vanishes and his wife, Kumiko, leaves him without explanation.
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Orbital
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Set over twenty-four hours aboard the International Space Station, the narrative follows six astronauts—Roman, Pietro, Shaun, Nell, Chie, and Anton—as they complete sixteen orbits around Earth.
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The Memory Police
by Yōko Ogawa
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, narrative
On an unnamed island, objects disappear from public life and collective memory.
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The Wall
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
A woman is staying at a hunting lodge in the Austrian Alps with relatives when she wakes to find that an invisible, impassable wall has cut off the valley, and everything beyond it appears dead.
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Snow
by Orhan Pamuk
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
Ka, an exiled poet, returns to Turkey to investigate a series of suicides among young women in the border city of Kars.
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Outline
by Rachel Cusk
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
Faye, a British novelist, travels to Athens during a summer heatwave to teach a week-long creative writing course.
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Invisible Cities
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
In a garden within the Mongol dynasty, the aging ruler Kublai Khan listens to Marco Polo describe the far-flung outposts of an expanding empire.
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The Guest Cat
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
A married couple in a Tokyo suburb, both freelance writers with no children, live in a small rented cottage.
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The White Book
by Han Kang
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, narrative
The White Book is a collection of sixty-five short prose pieces centered on the color white.
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Time Shelter
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
Gospodinov's novel imagines a Swiss-run clinic that treats Alzheimer's patients by recreating the decade of their youth, with floors that look like the 1960s, 1970s and so on.
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The Promise
by Damon Galgut
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, literary
The narrative follows the Swart family, white farmers living near Pretoria, across four funerals spanning four decades of South African history.
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