Books like Time Shelter
12 books with a reading profile close to Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Outline
by Rachel Cusk
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
Faye, a British novelist, travels to Athens during a summer heatwave to teach a week-long creative writing course.
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Lincoln in the Bardo
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln visits a Georgetown cemetery to mourn his young son, Willie, who has just died of typhoid fever.
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Weather
by Jenny Offill
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Lizzie Benson is a university librarian and former addict who begins answering mail for a climate change podcast hosted by her old mentor.
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100 Selected Poems
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
This collection showcases Edward Estlin Cummings’s rejection of standard grammar and punctuation in favor of visual typography.
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Invisible Cities
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
In a garden within the Mongol dynasty, the aging ruler Kublai Khan listens to Marco Polo describe the far-flung outposts of an expanding empire.
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
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 Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Toru Okada is an unemployed man in suburban Tokyo whose mundane life fractures after his cat vanishes and his wife, Kumiko, leaves him without explanation.
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Immortality
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
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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Autobiography of Red
by Anne Carson
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
In this verse novel, Anne Carson reimagines a fragment of Greek mythology through the eyes of Geryon, a red winged monster.
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The Argonauts
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
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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Bluets
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
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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