Books like What Are You Going Through
12 books with a reading profile close to What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Caim
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
In Saramago's last novel, the first murderer of the Bible, Cain, is condemned to wander the earth for killing his brother Abel.
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
A cynical protagonist, convinced that nothing in the universe possesses objective value, decides to commit suicide.
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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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The Essential Rumi
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Coleman Barks translates the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic’s Persian verses into contemporary English free verse.
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
In Algiers, a clerk named Meursault receives news of his mother’s death and attends her funeral with complete emotional detachment.
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The Book of Form and Emptiness
by Ruth Ozeki
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Following the sudden death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear the voices of inanimate objects.
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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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Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Sally Rooney, Octavi Gil Pujol
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Alice, a novelist recovering from a psychiatric collapse, moves to a quiet Irish coastal town where she pursues a relationship with Felix, a local warehouse worker.
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The power and the Glory
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Set in 1930s Mexico during the Cristero War, the narrative follows a nameless whiskey priest fleeing a paramilitary police force.
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Women Talking
by Miriam Toews
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Based on real events in the Manitoba Colony in Bolivia, this novel centers on eight Mennonite women meeting secretly in a hayloft.
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Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
Also deep and inward-looking · 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.
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