Books like Weather
12 books with a reading profile close to Weather by Jenny Offill. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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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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Time Shelter
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Gospodinov's novel imagines a Swiss-run clinic that treats Alzheimer's patients by recreating the decade of their youth, with floors that look like the 1960s, 1970s and so on.
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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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The Memory Police
by Yōko Ogawa
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
On an unnamed island, objects disappear from public life and collective memory.
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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 Woman in the Dunes
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
An entomologist named Niki is drawn into a strange village by a woman who lives in a pit.
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Einstein’s Dreams
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
Set in Bern, Switzerland, in 1905, this novel presents a series of thirty fictional dreams experienced by a young Albert Einstein while he works as a patent clerk.
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The Wall
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
A woman is staying at a hunting lodge in the Austrian Alps with relatives when she wakes to find that an invisible, impassable wall has cut off the valley, and everything beyond it appears dead.
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I Who Have Never Known Men
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Forty women live in an underground cage, guarded by silent men who never speak or touch them.
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