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12 books with a reading profile close to WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR by Paul Kalanithi. Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.

1

A Grief Observed

by C.S. Lewis

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

C.S.
2

Mortality

by Christopher Hitchens

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Christopher Hitchens chronicles his final eighteen months following a stage four esophageal cancer diagnosis.
3

The Essential Rumi

by Coleman Barks

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational

Coleman Barks translates the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic’s Persian verses into contemporary English free verse.
4

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

by Jean-Dominique Bauby

Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, inspirational

In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor-in-chief of French Elle, suffered a massive stroke that left him with locked-in syndrome.
5

The crack-up, with other uncollected pieces, note-books and unpublished letters, together with letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe and John Dos Passos, and essays and poems by Paul Rosenfeld [and others] Edited by Edmund Wilson

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

This collection centers on the psychological collapse of F.
6

Gandhi: An Autobiography

by Mahatma Gandhi

Also inward-looking and contemplative · philosophy, memoir

In this memoir, Mohandas K.
7

Manuscript Found in Accra

by Paulo Coelho

Also inward-looking and contemplative · philosophy, inspirational

In the year 1099, the people of Jerusalem gather in the city's square on the eve of an invasion by crusaders, and a wise Greek called the Copt invites them to share their thoughts.
8

Gift from the Sea

by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational

Anne Morrow Lindbergh uses five distinct seashells found on Captiva Island to categorize the stages of a woman's life.
9

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

by David Foster Wallace

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational

Originally delivered as a 2005 graduation speech, this essay focuses on the mental discipline required to overcome the "default setting" of self-centeredness.
10

De profundis

by Oscar Wilde

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Written during his incarceration at Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde’s long letter to Lord Alfred Douglas details the emotional and financial ruin resulting from their relationship.
11

Gratitude

by Oliver Sacks

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

In this collection of four essays written during the final years of his life, neurologist Oliver Sacks reflects on his terminal cancer diagnosis and the process of aging.
12

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational

Siddhartha, a young Brahman in ancient India, abandons his high-caste life and ritualistic obligations to seek an end to personal suffering.

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