Books like Someone Like You [18 stories]
12 books with a reading profile close to Someone Like You [18 stories] by Roald Dahl. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
20th Century Ghosts
by Joe Hill
horror, entertainment
Joe Hill's first collection gathers fifteen stories of horror, fantasy and the odd.
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Mexican Gothic
horror, entertainment
In 1950s Mexico, socialite Noemí Taboada travels to High Place, a decaying English mansion in the mountains, after receiving a frantic letter from her recently married cousin, Catalina.
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3
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
by Stephen King
horror, entertainment
This collection gathers twenty stories by Stephen King, each introduced by a note on how it came about.
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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
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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6
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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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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Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
entertainment, narrative
In the small town of Troy, Georgia, Lula Dean spearheads a campaign to purge local library shelves of titles she deems inappropriate.
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9
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
by Stephen King
horror, entertainment
This collection brings together twenty-four stories by Stephen King, ranging from horror to fantasy to near-comedy.
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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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12
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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