Plot/characters driven books and .... the rest

[J_BlueFlower]

Inspired by reading The Dispossessed:

Most books seems to be plot driven. Lots of plot, but characters are sometimes stereotypes/one dimensional. Example: Agatha Christie.

Some books are character driven. Little plot, but rich characters that develop through interaction and grow older. Example: Middlemarch

Some books are not in these two categories. Ideas driven? Like for example The Dispossessed. What is it? Philosophy of society driven?

What other 1001-book are mostly something other than plot and character driven?

I would also say that Solaris falls in this “other” category.

[Melanti]

A lot of classic sci-fi are idea-driven.

So, I'd add:
Foundation
I, Robot
Brave New World
Journey to the Center of the Earth


For a non-sci-fi inclusion:
The Purloined Letter

Not to say that these don't have any plot, but IMO, the plot is mostly there to give an excuse to talk about the ideas.

[J_BlueFlower]

Melanti wrote: " the plot is mostly there to give an excuse to talk about the ideas. "

Exactly. Seems I have a tendency to read ideas-books. I have read all the suggested except If on a Winter's Night a Traveler and The Body Artist respite have read only 134 read from the list. Here are some more:
Walden
Exercices de style (rather extreme)
Der Prozess
Les reveries du promeneur solitaire
Animal Farm
The Iron Heel
Lord of the Flies