Books like The Turn of the Screw
12 books with a reading profile close to The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Also deep and inward-looking · horror, psychology
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story follows an unnamed woman confined to a nursery in a rented colonial mansion.
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Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Zeno Cosini, a rich businessman from Trieste, is told by his psychoanalyst to write his memoirs, and he produces an account of his habits, in particular his failed attempts to give up smoking.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
Also deep and inward-looking · horror, psychology
Gabriel Utterson, a London lawyer, investigates the connection between his respected friend Dr.
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The Double
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
The story follows Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a socially insecure titular councillor in Saint Petersburg whose fragile mental state shatters when he encounters a man identical to himself.
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Also deep and inward-looking · horror, literary
When an unnamed narrator arrives at the isolated, decaying Usher estate, he finds his childhood friend Roderick suffering from extreme sensory sensitivity and a conviction that the house possesses a malignant consciousn…
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Nine Stories
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Nine Stories centers on the Glass family and other urban protagonists navigating mid-century American life.
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Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weatherby
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
The novel chronicles the internal struggles of its narrator, Kochan, as he navigates his adolescence and young adulthood in post-war Japan.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Middle-aged history professor George and his wife Martha return home after a campus party and invite a younger couple, Nick and Honey, for late-night drinks.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Set on a Mississippi Delta cotton estate, the narrative centers on the Pollitt family during Big Daddy’s sixty-fifth birthday.
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Dom Casmurro
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Bento Santiago, a retired man living in Rio de Janeiro, writes a memoir to explain why he earned the nickname Dom Casmurro.
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Oblomov
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a young Russian nobleman who lives in a state of terminal inertia within his dusty St.
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