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Books like Three Comrades

12 books with a reading profile close to Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Newland Archer, a young gentleman integrated into the rigid social hierarchy of 1870s New York, prepares for a safe marriage to the conventional May Welland.
2

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, narrative

Anna Karenina chronicles the collapse of a high-society marriage in nineteenth-century Russia after the protagonist begins an affair with Count Vronsky.
3

Madonna in a Fur Coat

by Sabahattin Ali

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

In the grey landscape of 1920s Berlin, Raif Efendi, a reserved Turkish clerk, encounters a self-portrait in an art gallery and becomes obsessed with the woman depicted.
4

The novels of Jane Austen [6 volumes]

by Jane Austen

Also contemplative and thought-provoking · romance, narrative

This six-volume collection contains the complete major fiction of Jane Austen, including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
5

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, narrative

Jane Eyre follows the life of an orphaned girl who survives a neglectful upbringing at Gateshead Hall and the harsh conditions of Lowood Institution.
6

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

Also contemplative · romance, narrative

Anne Elliot, the overlooked middle daughter of a vain baronet, lives with the regret of having broken her engagement to Frederick Wentworth eight years earlier.
7

Desayuno en Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

Also thought-provoking · romance, narrative

Set in wartime Manhattan, the story follows an aspiring writer who becomes fascinated by his neighbor, Holly Golightly.
8

The Price of Salt

by Claire Morgan

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Therese Belivet is a nineteen-year-old stage designer working a temporary retail job at Frankenberg’s department store in Manhattan.
9

The Price of Salt

by Patricia Highsmith

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Therese Belivet works as a temporary shop assistant in a Manhattan department store when she meets Carol Aird, an elegant suburban mother purchasing a doll for her daughter.
10

North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

romance, narrative

Margaret Hale, a clergyman’s daughter, is uprooted from the genteel landscapes of southern England when her father moves the family to the industrial northern town of Milton.
11

Home

by Toni Morrison

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.
12

Black Swan Green

by David Mitchell

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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