Books like Batman: The Killing Joke
12 books with a reading profile close to Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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1
Happy Hour
entertainment, narrative
Set in New York City during a sweltering summer, the story follows Isa Epley and her best friend Gala as they navigate the underground social hierarchies of the city without any stable income.
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French Exit
entertainment, narrative
Frances Price is a New York widow whose husband died years earlier, leaving her a wealthy woman.
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3
Black Buck
entertainment, narrative
Darren Vender is a nineteen-year-old Black Brooklyn kid with a dead-end job at Starbucks, until a chance meeting with Rhett, the leader of a mostly white sales team at a start-up called Sumwun.
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Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
entertainment, narrative
In the small town of Troy, Georgia, Lula Dean spearheads a campaign to purge local library shelves of titles she deems inappropriate.
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The Bandit Queens
entertainment, narrative
In a rural Indian village, Gehna remains an outcast because her neighbors believe she murdered her husband, Ramesh, who actually vanished years ago.
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The First Day of Spring
by Nancy Tucker
narrative, literary
Eight-year-old Chrissie lives in a state of constant, gnawing hunger and neglect.
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Utopia Avenue
entertainment, narrative
Set in London’s psychedelic folk-rock scene of the late 1960s, the novel follows the rapid ascent of a fictional band named Utopia Avenue.
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All My Rage
by Sabaa Tahir
narrative, literary
The story follows Sal and Noor, two Pakistani-American teenagers living in the Mojave Desert.
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10
Mexican Gothic
entertainment, narrative
In 1950s Mexico, socialite Noemí Taboada travels to High Place, a decaying English mansion in the mountains, after receiving a frantic letter from her recently married cousin, Catalina.
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Solar
by Ian McEwan
entertainment, narrative
Michael Beard, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist based in London, has spent decades coasting on a single early achievement while his personal life collapses through five failed marriages.
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Difficult Women
by Roxane Gay
narrative, literary
Roxane Gay’s collection of short stories centers on the private lives of American women navigating a broad spectrum of class, race, and trauma.
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