Books like The Casual Vacancy
12 books with a reading profile close to The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Fleishman Is in Trouble
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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2
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
narrative, accessible
In 1972, workers digging a foundation in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, discover a skeleton at the bottom of a well.
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3
Rules of Civility
by Amor Towles
narrative, accessible
On New Year’s Eve in 1937, legal secretary Katey Kontent and her roommate Eve Ross meet a wealthy banker named Tinker Grey in a Greenwich Village jazz hole.
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4
Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid
narrative, accessible
Emira Tucker, a twenty-five-year-old Black babysitter, is confronted by a security guard in a high-end grocery store and accused of kidnapping the white toddler in her care.
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5
Wonder Boys
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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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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7
How I Live Now
by Meg Rosoff
narrative, accessible
Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from New York to the English countryside to live with cousins she has never met.
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8
Infinite Country
narrative, accessible
The narrative follows Elena and Mauro, a Colombian couple who overstay their visas in the United States, and the three children they raise across two nations.
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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King
narrative, accessible
Andy Dufresne, a banker convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, arrives at Shawshank State Penitentiary in Maine.
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10
You Think It, I'll Say It
narrative, accessible
Curtis Sittenfeld's collection of ten stories looks at contemporary American relationships with a sharp, witty eye.
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11
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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12
The Uncommon Reader
by Alan Bennett
narrative, accessible
When the Queen’s corgis stumble upon a mobile library parked outside Buckingham Palace, the monarch discovers a dormant passion for literature.
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