Books like Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
12 books with a reading profile close to Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt. Deep and contemplative; a moderate read.
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The Night Watchman
Also deep and contemplative · history, literary
Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at a jewel-bearing plant in rural North Dakota in 1953, and also a Chippewa council member.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
Also deep and contemplative · history, literary
Father Jean Marie Latour, a French cleric, travels to the newly acquired New Mexico Territory in 1851 to serve as Apostolic Vicar.
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The Poisonwood Bible
Also deep and contemplative · history, literary
Nathan Price, a rigid evangelical Baptist, moves his wife Orleanna and their four daughters from Georgia to the Belgian Congo in 1959.
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4
Angle of Repose
Also deep · history, literary
Lyman Ward, a retired historian living with a bone-deteriorating disability, spends his final years chronicling the lives of his grandparents, Susan and Oliver Ward.
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The Narnian
by Alan Jacobs
Also contemplative · biography, literary
Alan Jacobs traces the intellectual and spiritual development of C.S.
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Brotherless Night
Also deep and contemplative · history, literary
Set in Jaffna during the onset of the Sri Lankan Civil War, the narrative follows Sashi, a young woman whose ambitions to become a doctor are redirected by the escalating ethnic conflict.
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All the Light We Cannot See
Also contemplative · history, literary
Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind girl living in Paris, flees to Saint-Malo with her father to escape the Nazi occupation, carrying a precious and potentially cursed diamond from the Museum of Natural History.
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The Lacuna
history, literary
The novel follows the life of Harrison Shepherd, a man navigating the political upheaval of mid-twentieth-century Mexico and the United States.
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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
by Lea Ypi
Also deep and contemplative · history, literary
Lea Ypi narrates her upbringing in Albania during the final decade of the Cold War and the subsequent transition to a market economy.
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Also contemplative · history, literary
In a rural village in war-torn Chechnya, Akhmed rescues an eight-year-old girl named Havaa after her father is abducted by Russian soldiers.
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Valperga
by Mary Shelley
Also deep · history, literary
Set in fourteenth-century Italy, the narrative follows Castruccio Castracani, a historical Ghibelline tyrant who prioritizes military conquest and political dominance over human connection.
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The Covenant of Water
history, literary
Spanning seven decades in Kerala, South India, the narrative follows three generations of a family afflicted by a peculiar medical condition known as the Condition.
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