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12 books with a reading profile close to Voskresenīe by Лев Толстой. Deep, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

Arkady Kirsanov returns from university to his father's estate in 1859, bringing his friend Yevgeny Bazarov, a medical student and self-declared nihilist who rejects authority, art, and tradition.
2

Eugene Onegin

by Alexander Pushkin

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse follows Eugene Onegin, a cynical aristocrat weary of Saint Petersburg’s high society.
3

Alcestis

by Euripides

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

In this tragedy, King Admetus is granted a reprieve from his impending death on the condition that someone else dies in his place.
4

Island

by Aldous Huxley

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary

The story follows Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who shipwrecks on the forbidden Pacific island of Pala.
5

The power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

Set in 1930s Mexico during the Cristero War, the narrative follows a nameless whiskey priest fleeing a paramilitary police force.
6

Songs of innocence and of experience

by William Blake

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

William Blake’s hand-colored collection contrasts two differing states of the human soul.
7

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

by Robert Frost

Also contemplative · philosophy, literary

Robert Frost’s 1916 collection, originally titled Mountain Interval, centers on the rural landscapes and social dynamics of New England.
8

Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

Gustav von Aschenbach, a disciplined German writer who has prioritized rigorous intellect over sensory pleasure, travels to Venice to escape a creative drought.
9

The Wall

by Jean-Paul Sartre

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary

Sartre's collection takes its name from the title story, set during the Spanish Civil War.
10

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

After receiving a prophecy from three witches that he will become King of Scotland, a general named Macbeth murders King Duncan to seize the throne.
11

Measure for Measure

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary

Duke Vincentio departs Vienna under a pretext of travel, leaving the puritanical Angelo to enforce long-ignored moral laws.
12

Poems by John Keats

by John Keats

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

John Keats’s debut collection, published in March 1817 rather than 1800, organizes lyrical meditations on the restorative capacity of the natural world and the permanence of classical mythology.

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