Books like Winesburg, Ohio
12 books with a reading profile close to Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Out Stealing Horses
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man, has moved to a remote cabin in eastern Norway to live alone with his dog.
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2
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Janie Crawford returns to Eatonville, Florida, and recounts her life to her friend Pheoby Watson.
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3
Martin Eden
by Jack London
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Martin Eden, a coarse and uneducated sailor, decides to overhaul his entire identity after meeting Ruth Morse, a woman from a refined bourgeois family.
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4
Train Dreams
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Robert Grainier is a day laborer in the American West during the early twentieth century.
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5
Black Swan Green
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor navigates thirteen months of adolescence in a claustrophobic Worcestershire village during 1982.
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6
Home
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Frank Money, a Black Korean War veteran, wakes up in a psychiatric ward in Seattle in the 1950s, haunted by what he saw in battle.
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7
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in a crumbling house in the Himalayas against the 1980s Gorkhaland insurgency, the narrative follows Biju and Sai.
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8
A Month in the Country
by J.L. Carr
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Tom Birkin arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby in 1920, physically scarred and suffering from a nervous facial twitch following his service in the Great War.
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9
A Fine Balance
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in mid-1970s India during the government-mandated Emergency, the narrative centers on four strangers cohabitating in a cramped apartment to survive economic hardship.
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10
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
John Wheelwright narrates the life of his best friend, Owen Meany, a boy with a high-pitched voice who accidentally kills John’s mother with a foul ball during a Little League game in 1953.
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11
La tregua
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Martín Santomé, a widowed Montevideo office worker, is nearing retirement.
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12
Interpreter of Maladies
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
In this collection of nine short stories, Jhumpa Lahiri depicts the domestic lives of Indian immigrants and their first-generation children navigating the friction between traditional heritage and American secularism.
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