Books like Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
12 books with a reading profile close to Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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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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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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3
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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4
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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5
Black Buck
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.
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6
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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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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8
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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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
entertainment, narrative
Levi, known as Biff, is resurrected by an angel in the twenty-first century to write a new gospel that fills the thirty-year gap in the life of Jesus, or Joshua.
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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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20th Century Ghosts
by Joe Hill
entertainment, narrative
Joe Hill's first collection gathers fifteen stories of horror, fantasy and the odd.
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