Books like Tampa
12 books with a reading profile close to Tampa by Alissa Nutting. Inward-looking and open-ended; a moderate read.
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1
Vladimir
narrative, accessible
A popular English professor at a small liberal arts college faces a social crisis when her husband, the chair of the department, is investigated for past sexual misconduct with students.
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2
Mercy
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, accessible
Cam MacDonald is a police chief in a small Massachusetts town, and he is happily married to his wife Allie.
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3
Prep
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Lee Fiora, a girl from a modest family in Indiana, wins a scholarship to the Ault School, a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
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4
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Toby Fleishman is a forty-one-year-old hepatologist navigating the immediate aftermath of a bitter divorce in Manhattan.
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5
Migrations
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Franny Stone travels to Greenland to track the final migration of Arctic terns, a species nearing extinction in a world depleted of wildlife.
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6
Wonder Boys
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Grady Tripp, a middle-aged English professor in Pittsburgh, wrote a successful novel years ago and has spent seven years trying to finish a second one, which has grown to thousands of pages.
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7
Either/Or
by Elif Batuman
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Set in 1996, the story follows Selin Karadağ during her sophomore year at Harvard as she attempts to construct a life based on aesthetic and literary principles.
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8
The Rachel Incident
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Set in Cork, Ireland, during the post-2008 financial crisis, the story follows Rachel, a bookstore employee and student, and her intense platonic bond with her roommate, James.
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9
A Spark of Light
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, accessible
The novel takes place in a single day at a women's reproductive health clinic in Jackson, Mississippi, where a gunman takes hostages.
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10
Pizza Girl
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Eighteen-year-old Jane is pregnant, grieving her alcoholic father’s recent death, and working as a pizza delivery driver in suburban Los Angeles.
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11
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
In a nameless South American country, a lavish birthday party for Japanese mogul Katsumi Hosokawa ends in a prolonged hostage crisis.
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12
The Casual Vacancy
by J.K. Rowling
narrative, accessible
Set in the fictional English village of Pagford, the story begins with the sudden death of parish councillor Barry Fairbrother.
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