Can be fiction or nonfiction. Not looking for any particular genre. Some examples of books that scratched this itch for me –
Annihlation, Jeff Vandermeer
Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green
The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon jiminez
Psalm for the Wild Built, Becky chambers
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
I Who Have Not Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman
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Anything by Kurt Vonnegut but for me personally Slaughterhouse Five
Anathem, Neal Stephenson
Foucault’s Pendulum? I haven’t read it but I read Name of the Rose and that had a ton of philosophy and theological exploration. (and a 4 page description of a door that I skipped after a page and a half)
If you loved The Spear Cuts Through Water and Piranesi I think that you would enjoy Thousand Autumns by Meng Xi Shi it’s a series with passage on Taoism Inspired by Tao te Ching and main leads represent discussion between two opposite worldviews.
The Employees by Olga Ravn
I love Stephen Jenkinson. His two books “Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul” and “Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble” were both heartbreaking and beautiful.
Life Impossible by Haig
Master and Margarita by Buglakov
The City and the City meilville
The Boarder Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy I mean it takes a bit to get use to his prose but it’s amazing and it has some of the best philosophy and theology I have ever read
Honestly anything by Pat Conroy especially beach music and the Prince of tides.
And of course The Sound and the Fury and Absalom,Absalom by William Faulkner
Edit a gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles has some good deep themes
_Fear and Trembling_ by Kierkegaard
Katabasis
Chain Gang All-Stars
Beloved by Toni Morrison