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12 books with a reading profile close to Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster. Deep and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

A Handful of Dust

by Evelyn Waugh

Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Tony Last is a gentle English country gentleman who lives at Hetton Abbey, a Gothic mansion he loves, with his wife Brenda and young son John Andrew.
2

Tartuffe

by Molière

Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

In seventeenth-century Paris, a wealthy patriarch named Orgon falls under the spell of Tartuffe, a man posing as a pious ascetic.
3

Washington Square

by Henry James

Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

In the affluent backdrop of mid-nineteenth-century New York, Catherine Sloper lives under the scrutiny of her father, Austin, a prominent physician who views his daughter as dull and unremarkable.
4

The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Charles Strickland is an ordinary London stockbroker with a wife and two children until he abandons them without explanation and moves to Paris to paint.
5

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Set in the shifting social landscape of 1910s New York, the narrative follows Anthony Patch, the presumptive heir to a massive tycoon fortune, and his marriage to the socialite Gloria Gilbert.
6

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

by George Orwell

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Gordon Comstock, a young London poet, has quit a good advertising job because he despises the worship of money.
7

The Portable Oscar Wilde

by Richard Aldington, Oscar Wilde

literary, classic literature

This 1946 compilation preserves the breadth of Oscar Wilde’s literary output, moving beyond his reputation as a mere wit.
8

Portnoy’s Complaint

by Philip Roth

Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Alexander Portnoy lies on a psychoanalyst’s couch and delivers a frantic, obscene monologue regarding his sexual frustrations and childhood hangfires.
9

The Story of an Hour

by Kate Chopin

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Set in 1894, the narrative follows Louise Mallard as she receives news of her husband Brently’s death in a railroad disaster.
10

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Eliot Rosewater, the alcoholic heir to a massive industrial fortune, abandons high society to relocate to a decaying town in Indiana.
11

Burmese Days

by George Orwell

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Set in the remote logging town of Kyauktada during the final decades of British imperial rule, the story follows John Flory, a weary teak merchant disillusioned by the bigotry of his peers.
12

A Rose for Emily and Other Stories

by William Faulkner

Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Faulkner's collection centers on the title story, in which the townspeople of Jefferson, Mississippi, attend the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson, a reclusive woman from an old family.

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