Books like Black Buck
12 books with a reading profile close to Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour. 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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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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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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Batman: Year One
by Frank Miller
entertainment, narrative
The narrative follows Bruce Wayne’s return to Gotham City after twelve years of training abroad, documenting his amateurish early attempts at vigilantism and his eventual adoption of the bat persona.
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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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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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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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Switch Bitch
by Roald Dahl
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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Bluebeard
entertainment, narrative
Rabo Karabekian is an old, once-famous abstract expressionist painter, living in a house in the Hamptons.
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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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