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12 books with a reading profile close to Valperga by Mary Shelley. Deep and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

Also deep and thought-provoking · history, literary

Lyman Ward, a retired historian living with a bone-deteriorating disability, spends his final years chronicling the lives of his grandparents, Susan and Oliver Ward.
2

The Fortunes Of Perkin Warbeck A Romance

by Mary Shelley

Also thought-provoking · history, literary

Mary Shelley’s historical novel reimagines the life of the fifteenth-century pretender to the English throne.
3

Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and thought-provoking · history, literary

King Henry IV struggles to maintain his throne while a rebellion led by the Percy family threatens the stability of England.
4

A Passage to India

by E.M. Forster

Also deep and thought-provoking · history, literary

Set in the British Raj during the 1920s, the narrative centers on the relationship between Dr.
5

Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

Also deep and thought-provoking · history, literary

Father Jean Marie Latour, a French cleric, travels to the newly acquired New Mexico Territory in 1851 to serve as Apostolic Vicar.
6

King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and thought-provoking · history, literary

Following the death of his father, the young King Henry V moves from a disorganized youth to a focused military commander.
7

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Austin Warren

Also deep and thought-provoking · history, literary

Set in seventeenth-century Puritan Boston, the narrative follows Hester Prynne, a woman forced to wear a scarlet "A" as a permanent mark of adultery after conceiving a child out of wedlock.
8

The Crucible

by Arthur Miller

Also deep and thought-provoking · history, literary

Set in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, the play follows John Proctor as he navigates a community consumed by religious extremism and legal manipulation.
9

Notes of a Native Son

by James Baldwin

Also deep · history, literary

James Baldwin’s collection of ten essays analyzes the intersection of racial identity and social structures in mid-century America and Europe.
10

Thais

by Anatole France

Also deep and thought-provoking · history, literary

Set in fourth-century Roman Egypt, this novel follows the ascetic monk Paphnuce as he travels from the desert to Alexandria to convert the famous courtesan Thais.
11

Ragtime

by E.L. Doctorow

Also deep and thought-provoking · history, literary

Set in the decade preceding World War I, the narrative weaves together the lives of three distinct families: a wealthy suburban household in New Rochelle, a Jewish immigrant father and daughter in the Lower East Side, a…
12

Season of Migration to the North

by Tayeb Salih

Also deep and thought-provoking · history, literary

After years of studying in England, the narrator returns to his village on the Nile in Sudan.

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