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Books like The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre

12 books with a reading profile close to The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre by Jean-Paul Sartre. Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.

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The crack-up, with other uncollected pieces, note-books and unpublished letters, together with letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe and John Dos Passos, and essays and poems by Paul Rosenfeld [and others] Edited by Edmund Wilson

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

This collection centers on the psychological collapse of F.
2

Mortality

by Christopher Hitchens

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Christopher Hitchens chronicles his final eighteen months following a stage four esophageal cancer diagnosis.
3

Intimations

by Zadie Smith

Also deep · philosophy, memoir

Written during the early months of the 2020 pandemic, this collection consists of six essays that analyze the sudden contraction of physical space and the expansion of internal reflection.
4

De profundis

by Oscar Wilde

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Written during his incarceration at Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde’s long letter to Lord Alfred Douglas details the emotional and financial ruin resulting from their relationship.
5

The House of the Dead

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Alexandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, a nobleman sentenced to ten years of hard labor in Siberia for uxoricide, narrates his daily existence within a communal prison barracks.
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Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Written as a letter to his teenage son, Ta-Nehisi Coates frames the black body as the central site of American history and civic stability.
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WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR

by Paul Kalanithi

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Paul Kalanithi was a neurosurgical resident nearing the end of his decade-long training when he was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer.
8

Bluets

by Maggie Nelson

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Maggie Nelson constructs this book as a series of 240 numbered prose poems centered on her obsession with the color blue.
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The Argonauts

by Maggie Nelson

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

The Argonauts documents the evolving relationship between Maggie Nelson and the artist Harry Dodge, focusing on their domestic life during Dodge’s gender transition and Nelson’s pregnancy.
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A Grief Observed

by C.S. Lewis

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

C.S.
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Letters to Milena

by Franz Kafka

Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, literary

Franz Kafka’s correspondence with Milena Jesenská begins as a professional exchange regarding the translation of his prose into Czech but quickly pivots into a private record of obsessive emotional attachment.
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The Drowned and the Saved

by Primo Levi

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Primo Levi uses his final work to analyze the complex social hierarchy and psychological erosion within the Nazi concentration camps.

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