Books like Batman: Year One
12 books with a reading profile close to Batman: Year One by Frank Miller. Clear-cut and escapist; a moderate read.
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1
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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Switch Bitch
by Roald Dahl
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Published in 1974, Switch Bitch is a collection of four long-form short stories centered on sexual deception and the pursuit of hedonism.
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6
City of Thieves
entertainment, narrative
During the devastating Siege of Leningrad in 1942, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting a dead German paratrooper.
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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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9
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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10
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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11
20th Century Ghosts
by Joe Hill
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Joe Hill's first collection gathers fifteen stories of horror, fantasy and the odd.
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12
Seeking Whom He May Devour
by Fred Vargas
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In the French Alps, a village faces a growing crisis as a hidden predator methodically slits the throats of local sheep.
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