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Books like Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

12 books with a reading profile close to Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

The Story of an Hour

by Kate Chopin

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · classic literature, literary

Set in 1894, the narrative follows Louise Mallard as she receives news of her husband Brently’s death in a railroad disaster.
2

The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also deep and thought-provoking · classic literature, literary

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.
3

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

by Ambrose Bierce

Also inward-looking and open-ended · classic literature, literary

Farquhar, a Southern planter, is being hanged for attempting to sabotage an Owl Creek bridge during the Civil War.
4

A Rose for Emily and Other Stories

by William Faulkner

Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary

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.
5

Schoolgirl

by Osamu Dazai

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · classic literature, literary

The novella that first propelled Dazai into the literary elite of post-war Japan, Schoolgirl was essentially the start of his career and gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language.
6

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · classic literature, literary

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.
7

The Complete Fairy Tales

by Oscar Wilde

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · classic literature, literary

This collection brings together stories including The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant, and The Nightingale and the Rose.
8

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

by Anton Chekhov

Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary

This collection gathers short fiction depicting the mundane lives of late nineteenth-century Russian peasants, clerks, and aristocrats.
9

Washington Square

by Henry James

Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary

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.
10

Portnoy’s Complaint

by Philip Roth

Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary

Alexander Portnoy lies on a psychoanalyst’s couch and delivers a frantic, obscene monologue regarding his sexual frustrations and childhood hangfires.
11

First Love

by Ivan Turgenev

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · classic literature, literary

Sixteen-year-old Vladimir Petrovich becomes infatuated with Zinaida Alexandrovna, a twenty-one-year-old princess living in a neighboring summer villa.
12

Tartuffe

by Molière

Also deep and thought-provoking · classic literature, literary

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

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