Books like Flotsam
12 books with a reading profile close to Flotsam by David Wiesner. Outward-looking; an easy read.
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1
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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2
Faeries
by Brian Froud
accessible, literary
Brian Froud and Alan Lee present a biological and historical survey of the inhabitants of the British Isles’ invisible realms.
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3
The Canterville Ghost
by Oscar Wilde
accessible, literary
Sir Simon de Canterville is a sixteenth-century spirit who has successfully terrified the residents of Canterville Chase for three hundred years.
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4
Higglety pigglety pop! ; and, Where the wild things are
by Maurice Sendak, Oliver Knussen
accessible, literary
This volume contains the librettos and production designs for two operas based on Maurice Sendak’s picture books.
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5
Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months
Also outward-looking · accessible, literary
This small-format picture book uses twelve rhyming verses to walk through a single calendar year, centered on a recurring culinary theme.
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The Salmon of Doubt
accessible, literary
The Salmon of Doubt is a posthumous mosaic of Douglas Adams’s unfinished fiction and personal non-fiction, compiled from his hard drives.
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8
The Strange Library
accessible, literary
A boy stops at the municipal library on his way home from school to return some books and ends up in a windowless basement reading room.
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9
An Object of Beauty
by Steve Martin
accessible, literary
In the fast-paced world of the Manhattan art scene between the late 1990s and the 2008 financial crisis, ambitious Lacey Yeager climbs from an entry-level position at Sotheby’s to ownership of her own gallery.
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10
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
accessible, literary
In 1930s Paris, a young orphan named Hugo Cabret lives in the hidden maintenance tunnels of a busy train station.
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11
The Uncommon Reader
by Alan Bennett
accessible, literary
When the Queen’s corgis stumble upon a mobile library parked outside Buckingham Palace, the monarch discovers a dormant passion for literature.
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Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
accessible, literary
Nikki, a young British-Punjabi woman, accepts a job teaching creative writing to a group of Sikh widows in Southall, London.
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