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12 books with a reading profile close to Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados. Balanced in tone; an easy read.

  1. 1 Black Buck

    Black Buck

    by Mateo Askaripour

    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.

  2. 2 The Bandit Queens

    The Bandit Queens

    by Parini Shroff

    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.

  3. 3 French Exit

    French Exit

    by Patrick deWitt

    entertainment, narrative

    Frances Price is a New York widow whose husband died years earlier, leaving her a wealthy woman.

  4. 4 Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

    Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

    by Kirsten Miller

    entertainment, narrative

    In the small town of Troy, Georgia, Lula Dean spearheads a campaign to purge local library shelves of titles she deems inappropriate.

  5. 5 Straight Man

    Straight Man

    by Richard Russo

    entertainment, narrative

    William Henry Devereaux Jr.

  6. 6 Utopia Avenue

    Utopia Avenue

    by David Mitchell

    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.

  7. 7 City of Thieves

    City of Thieves

    by David Benioff

    entertainment, narrative

    During the devastating Siege of Leningrad in 1942, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting a dead German paratrooper.

  8. 8 Batman: Year One

    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.

  9. 9 Solar

    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.

  10. 10 Switch Bitch

    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.

  11. 11 Bluebeard

    Bluebeard

    by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

    entertainment, narrative

    Rabo Karabekian is an old, once-famous abstract expressionist painter, living in a house in the Hamptons.

  12. 12 Batman: The Killing Joke

    Batman: The Killing Joke

    by Alan Moore

    entertainment, narrative

    The Joker escapes Arkham Asylum and initiates a psychological experiment on Commissioner James Gordon to prove that the loss of sanity is inevitable after a "one bad day" experience.

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