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Books like The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

12 books with a reading profile close to The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Gustav von Aschenbach, a disciplined German writer who has prioritized rigorous intellect over sensory pleasure, travels to Venice to escape a creative drought.
2

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

A cynical protagonist, convinced that nothing in the universe possesses objective value, decides to commit suicide.
3

Poems by John Keats

by John Keats

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

John Keats’s debut collection, published in March 1817 rather than 1800, organizes lyrical meditations on the restorative capacity of the natural world and the permanence of classical mythology.
4

The Tartar Steppe

by Dino Buzzati

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Giovanni Drogo, a young officer, is posted to the Bastiani Fortress, an isolated outpost on the northern frontier overlooking a barren plain.
5

Medea

by Euripides

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Euripides depicts the psychological collapse and subsequent vengeance of Medea, a Colchian princess abandoned by her husband, Jason.
6

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman and his family’s sole financial provider, wakes up one morning to find he has become a giant, literal insect.
7

Songs of innocence and of experience

by William Blake

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

William Blake’s hand-colored collection contrasts two differing states of the human soul.
8

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

In Algiers, a clerk named Meursault receives news of his mother’s death and attends her funeral with complete emotional detachment.
9

One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

by Luigi Pirandello

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Vitangelo Moscarda, a man of comfortable means who has inherited a bank from his father, is told by his wife that his nose is crooked.
10

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, classic literature

Arkady Kirsanov returns from university to his father's estate in 1859, bringing his friend Yevgeny Bazarov, a medical student and self-declared nihilist who rejects authority, art, and tradition.
11

The power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Set in 1930s Mexico during the Cristero War, the narrative follows a nameless whiskey priest fleeing a paramilitary police force.
12

Alcestis

by Euripides

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, classic literature

In this tragedy, King Admetus is granted a reprieve from his impending death on the condition that someone else dies in his place.

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