Books like Tropical classical
12 books with a reading profile close to Tropical classical by Pico Iyer. Contemplative; a moderate read.
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1
Mother Mary Comes to Me
memoir, literary
Arundhati Roy's 'Mother Mary Comes To Me' is a collection of essays and non-fiction pieces rather than a novel, despite the evocative title.
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2
How to Say Babylon
Also contemplative · memoir, literary
Safiya Sinclair recounts her childhood in Jamaica under the rigid authority of her father, a strict Rastafarian musician who enforced a sequestered life to protect his daughters from "Babylon," his term for the corrupti…
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3
Letters to Milena
by Franz Kafka
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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4
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
by Lea Ypi
Also contemplative · memoir, literary
Lea Ypi narrates her upbringing in Albania during the final decade of the Cold War and the subsequent transition to a market economy.
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5
Intimations
by Zadie Smith
memoir, literary
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.
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6
Blue Highways
Also contemplative · memoir, literary
After losing his teaching job and his marriage in the same day, William Least Heat-Moon outfitted a Ford Econoline van to navigate the United States exclusively via backroads—the thin blue lines on old Rand McNally maps.
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7
Chronicles, Volume One
by Bob Dylan
Also contemplative · memoir, literary
Bob Dylan sidesteps the traditional chronological life story to focus on three specific periods of his career: his 1961 arrival in Greenwich Village, the 1970 recording sessions for New Morning, and the 1989 production…
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8
Yossarian slept here
by Erica Heller
memoir, literary
Erica Heller’s memoir documents her upbringing as the daughter of Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22, within the Apthorp apartment building in Manhattan.
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9
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs
Also contemplative · memoir, literary
This book contains the formal lecture Kazuo Ishiguro delivered upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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10
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
by Eve Babitz
memoir, literary
Eve Babitz presents ten interconnected narratives that document the sensory landscape of Southern California in the 1960s and 1970s.
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11
Priestdaddy
memoir, literary
Patricia Lockwood, a poet, moves back with her husband into her parents' house in a Kansas City rectory.
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12
Everything Sad Is Untrue
memoir, literary
Khosrou, called Daniel, is a twelve-year-old Iranian refugee living in a small town in Oklahoma.
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