The phrase "profound novel" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a novel that has a deep or profound impact on the reader. Example: "The story of a young girl's journey to self-discovery in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is a profound novel that explores themes of prejudice and innocence."
Is this a profound novel?
It is an uncomfortable, erudite and deeply profound novel.
Atkinson gives her rueful detective Jackson Brodie a break for this playful, profound novel about fate, destiny and alternative realities.
In this story of Molly's longing to be useful -- and her deep frustration -- Emerson has produced a funny, moving and strangely profound novel.
Christine Dwyer Hickey's tale of a very ordinary Dubliner, starting at the close of his life, is the most profound novel I have read for years.
What they get instead is akin to a gentle tab of LSD: an eccentric and slyly profound novel, seemingly narrated by the ghost of trout fishing past and filled with surreal post- Walden" visions like a dismembered trout stream for sale at a junkyard.
I was recently introduced to the work of the Jamaican novelist Erna Brodber, and I am reading through her short but profound novels.
Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Jonathan Mahler described it as "one of the most electric, profound novels I have read in years".
Now Colum McCann has repurposed Petit's daring act as the leitmotif for "Let the Great World Spin," one of the most electric, profound novels I have read in years.
Unlike so many of the less-than profound novels being published today, one must pay attention when reading The Informer, but that may be asking a lot of our fast-food society, one that is willing to believe in fallacies in order to satisfy its hunger for control.
On one level, "A Change of Climate" succeeds just as a thriller, but it is also a profound psychological novel.
