Books like Switch Bitch
12 books with a reading profile close to Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl. Escapist; an easy read.
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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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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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Batman: Year One
by Frank Miller
Also escapist · 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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4
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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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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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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20th Century Ghosts
by Joe Hill
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Joe Hill's first collection gathers fifteen stories of horror, fantasy and the odd.
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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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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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Seeking Whom He May Devour
by Fred Vargas
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In the French Alps, a village faces a growing crisis as a hidden predator methodically slits the throats of local sheep.
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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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