Books like The Sun Also Rises
12 books with a reading profile close to The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Deep, inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
The Marriage Plot
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in the early 1980s, the story follows three Brown University graduates navigating the transition to adulthood.
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2
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
John Wheelwright narrates the life of his best friend, Owen Meany, a boy with a high-pitched voice who accidentally kills John’s mother with a foul ball during a Little League game in 1953.
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3
The Edible Woman
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Marian McAlpin works at a consumer research firm, methodically cataloging the tastes of the public while maintaining a predictable relationship with her fiance, Peter.
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4
A Streetcar Named Desire
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Blanche DuBois, a displaced schoolteacher with a fragile mental state, arrives at the cramped New Orleans apartment of her sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski.
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5
The Overcoat
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Akaky Akakievich is a low-ranking government clerk in St.
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6
La tregua
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Martín Santomé, a widowed Montevideo office worker, is nearing retirement.
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7
Black Swan Green
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor navigates thirteen months of adolescence in a claustrophobic Worcestershire village during 1982.
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
This comprehensive collection gathers the full breadth of Hemingway’s short fiction, including the iconic Nick Adams adventures, vignettes from In Our Time, and posthumously published fragments.
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy, Margaret R. Higonnet
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Tess Durbeyfield, a young woman living in the rural English countryside, discovers her family descends from the aristocratic d’Urberville line.
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10
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in a crumbling house in the Himalayas against the 1980s Gorkhaland insurgency, the narrative follows Biju and Sai.
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11
A Month in the Country
by J.L. Carr
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Tom Birkin arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby in 1920, physically scarred and suffering from a nervous facial twitch following his service in the Great War.
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12
Johnny Got His Gun
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, 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.
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