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12 books with a reading profile close to Kick-Ass by Mark Millar. Practical, outward-looking, growth-minded and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

by Ben Mezrich

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

Ben Mezrich chronicles the activities of the MIT Blackjack Team, a group of math-oriented students and alumni who used card counting and sophisticated team play to extract millions from Las Vegas casinos.
2

Flush

by Carl Hiaasen

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

Noah Underwood's father is in jail for sinking a casino boat, the Coral Queen, which he says is dumping raw sewage into the waters of the Florida Keys.
3

Dragon Teeth

by Michael Crichton

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

Set in 1876, the story follows William Johnson, a wealthy Yale student who joins a fossil-hunting expedition to the American West.
4

Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice

by John Layman

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

Tony Chu is a detective with a unique physiological condition: he is a cibopath, meaning he receives intense psychic visions from anything he eats.
5

Playing for Pizza

by John Grisham

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

Rick Dockery is a third-string NFL quarterback whose career ends after a disastrous performance in a championship game.
6

Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

by Rick Riordan

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

In this illustrated compendium, Percy Jackson provides a firsthand account of the Greek creation myth and the origins of the Olympians.
7

Ford County

by John Grisham

Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

John Grisham's only story collection gathers seven tales set in and around Clanton, Mississippi, the county seat of his first novel A Time to Kill.
8

George's Marvelous Medicine

by Roald Dahl

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

When George Kranky is left alone to care for his mean-spirited, demanding grandmother, he decides to replace her regular medicine with a homemade brew.
9

Fence, Vol. 1

by C.S. Pacat

Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

Nicholas Cox, the illegitimate son of a retired fencing champion, strives to enter the competitive world of elite athletics despite his lack of formal training.
10

Hard Luck

by Jeff Kinney

Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

Greg Heffley faces a period of isolation after his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, starts dating a girl and abandons their daily routine.
11

The Next Chapter

by Jeff Kinney

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

In this 2017 volume, Jeff Kinney moves away from the middle-school classroom to focus on the technical and creative processes involved in making the Diary of a Wimpy Kid films.
12

SPY×FAMILY 2

by Tatsuya Endo

Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

In the second volume of this action-comedy manga, the makeshift Forger family faces the next stage of Operation Strix: enrolling Anya in the prestigious Eden Academy.

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