I really like The Little Prince, because it’s a light read but has several meaningful reflections about reality that still make me stop and think, even when I reread it.
Basically, I’m looking for books that make you reflect on life and reality and things like that, but that aren’t heavy to read (like Crime and Punishment, for example, which I like, but it’s pretty dense).
It can even be a children’s book, like The Giving Tree, which I also think is really nice, even though it’s very short. Anyway, would you have any recommendations for books like that?
P.S.: I’m also a Christian, so books that approach themes from that worldview are welcome too, but I’m open to different suggestions!
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*A Psalm for the Wild-Built* by Becky Chambers
Mickey 7
A Psalm for the Wild-built and its sequel, A Prayer For The Crown-shy, are perfect for this.
Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. I’d start with Guards! Guards!, or Mort.
But honestly any of them would work. The Truth, Going Postal, Monstrous Regiment are also some more reflective ones. You can read them standalone, but you’ll miss out on some of the character arcs. The character Vimes you see in Monstrous regiment is way different than you first meet him in Guards.
I really love Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot books for this. They aren’t Christian, though; the monk character is spiritual but not in a way that is Christian or anything analogous. The books do present some utopia-type ideas for society, and read very anti capitalist.
Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
__La historia interminable y también Momo ambas de Michael Ende.
__Siddartha de Herman Hesse
Solito. Non-fiction but it will feel like a fictional story.
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, by Charlie Mackesy
Pew by Catherine Lacey
Tistou the Green Thumb by Maurice Druon maybe
The Secret Garden
Remarkably Bright Creatures
A Man Called Ove
The Guncle
The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis