Books like The Anna Karenina Fix
12 books with a reading profile close to The Anna Karenina Fix by Viv Groskop. Clear-cut; a moderate read.
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By the book
Also clear-cut · personal growth, accessible
This collection compiles sixty-five interviews from the New York Times Book Review column, featuring writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Neil Gaiman, and David Sedaris.
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Walk Two Moons
personal growth, accessible
Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle travels from Ohio to Idaho in a car with her eccentric grandparents to find her mother, who left the family months earlier.
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Dry
Also clear-cut · personal growth, accessible
Following his success in the Manhattan advertising world, Augusten Burroughs faces an ultimatum from his employers: attend rehabilitation or lose his job.
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Starfish
by Lisa Fipps
Also clear-cut · personal growth, accessible
Ellie is a young girl who has lived by a set of "Fat Girl Rules" since her fifth birthday party, a mental list designed to make her invisible and minimize the space she occupies.
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Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
Also clear-cut · personal growth, accessible
Fredrik Backman presents a series of personal essays written to his infant son, mixing practical advice with humorous confessions about early fatherhood.
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The Invention of Wings
accessible, literary
The story follows Sarah Grimké, the daughter of a wealthy Charleston judge, and Hetty "Handful," the enslaved girl gifted to Sarah on her eleventh birthday.
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A Man Without a Country
accessible, literary
This collection of short essays serves as a final public address on the state of American life and the health of the planet.
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Maine
accessible, literary
Three generations of the Kelleher family, an Irish American clan from Boston, gather at the family's house in Maine for a summer.
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This Tender Land
accessible, literary
In 1932, orphans Odie and Albert O’Banion flee the Lincoln School in Minnesota, a state-run institution where Native American children face systemic abuse.
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Dear Fahrenheit 451
by Annie Spence
Also clear-cut · accessible, literary
Libarian Annie Spence writes specific, direct letters to the physical books she has encountered throughout her career and personal life.
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