Books like Their Eyes Were Watching God
12 books with a reading profile close to Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Out Stealing Horses
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man, has moved to a remote cabin in eastern Norway to live alone with his dog.
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2
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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3
Tokyo Ueno Station
by Yū Miri
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Kazu is a ghost who haunts the grounds of Tokyo’s Ueno Park, mirroring the era he spent living there as a homeless laborer.
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4
Martin Eden
by Jack London
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Martin Eden, a coarse and uneducated sailor, decides to overhaul his entire identity after meeting Ruth Morse, a woman from a refined bourgeois family.
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5
Winesburg, Ohio
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in a small Midwestern town at the turn of the century, this collection of interconnected stories centers on George Willard, a young reporter for the local newspaper.
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Train Dreams
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Robert Grainier is a day laborer in the American West during the early twentieth century.
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7
Dear Life
by Alice Munro
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Dear Life is Alice Munro's last collection, with ten stories of rural and small-town Canada.
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8
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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9
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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10
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
by Lucia Berlin
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Lucia Berlin's collected short stories draw on her own life: a childhood in mining towns, years in El Paso and Chile, work as a cleaning woman, hospital switchboard operator and teacher, and struggles with alcoholism an…
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11
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Sophie Caco is raised by her aunt Atie in a Haitian village until, at twelve, she is sent to New York to join the mother she barely knows.
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12
Home
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Frank Money, a Black Korean War veteran, wakes up in a psychiatric ward in Seattle in the 1950s, haunted by what he saw in battle.
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