Books like The Trial
12 books with a reading profile close to The Trial by Franz Kafka. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Pedro Páramo
by Juan Rulfo
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
Juan Preciado travels to Comala to fulfill a deathbed promise to his mother: find his father, the ruthless cacique Pedro Páramo.
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Immortality
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
A woman in her sixties waves goodbye to a lifeguard at a pool, and the gesture is enough to give Kundera's narrator the idea for Agnès, a character he follows through the whole book.
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White Noise
by Don DeLillo
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
Jack Gladney is a professor of Hitler studies at a Midwestern college, living with his fourth wife, Babette, and their brood of children from various marriages.
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4
Waiting for Godot
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Two men, Vladimir and Estragon, stand by a leafless tree on a barren road.
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Ficciones
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
Ficciones consists of seventeen short stories divided into two sections, The Garden of Forking Paths and Artifices.
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Milan Kundera's novel is composed of seven parts which are linked by themes of memory, forgetting and the exercise of power.
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The Castle
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
A land surveyor named K arrives in a frozen village, claiming he was summoned by the authorities of the nearby castle.
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Journey to the End of the Night
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Ferdinand Bardamu, a cynical and nihilistic protagonist, begins his odyssey in the trenches of World War I, where he observes the senseless brutality of mechanized slaughter.
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Heart of Darkness
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Charles Marlow, a seasoned sailor, narrates his passage aboard a steamship into the Congo Free State to retrieve Mr.
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Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
Brás Cubas begins his narrative after his death, writing as a deceased man who recounts his life from the grave.
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
This collection gathers the lyrical output of a recluse who examined the intersections of nature, mortality, and the inner self.
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Absalom, Absalom!
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
Thomas Sutpen arrives in Mississippi in 1833 with a group of enslaved people and a plan to create a vast plantation called Sutpen’s Hundred.
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