Books like By the book
12 books with a reading profile close to By the book by Pamela Paul, Scott Turow, Jillian Tamaki. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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The Anna Karenina Fix
by Viv Groskop
Also clear-cut · personal growth, accessible
Viv Groskop examines the perceived heavy-heartedness of Russian literature to extract practical advice for modern living.
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A Man Without a Country
accessible, literary
This collection of short essays serves as a final public address on the state of American life and the health of the planet.
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Walk Two Moons
personal growth, accessible
Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle travels from Ohio to Idaho in a car with her eccentric grandparents to find her mother, who left the family months earlier.
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This Tender Land
accessible, literary
In 1932, orphans Odie and Albert O’Banion flee the Lincoln School in Minnesota, a state-run institution where Native American children face systemic abuse.
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Also clear-cut · accessible, literary
Thomas C.
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Miss Benson's Beetle
by Rachel Joyce
accessible, literary
In 1950s London, Margery Benson, a lonely domestic science teacher, abandons her stifling life to find a mythical golden beetle on the island of New Caledonia.
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Cold Comfort Farm
Also clear-cut · accessible, literary
Following the death of her parents, the sensible and urbanely refined Flora Poste moves to Sussex to live with her eccentric relatives, the Starkadders, at the decaying Cold Comfort Farm.
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West With Giraffes
Also clear-cut · accessible, literary
In 1938, a hurricane strikes the New York harbor, leaving two young giraffes stranded on the docks.
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Uncommon Type
by Tom Hanks
accessible, literary
Tom Hanks's debut book of fiction contains seventeen stories, each in some way featuring a typewriter, whether as the object at the centre or just in passing.
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The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
accessible, literary
In 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson returns to his foreclosed Nebraska farm after serving time at a juvenile work farm for involuntary manslaughter.
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