Books like The Grace Year
12 books with a reading profile close to The Grace Year by Kim Liggett. Escapist; an easy read.
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Whisper Network
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Ames Garrett is positioned to become the next CEO of Truviv, a high-growth athletics company in Dallas.
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2
American Dirt
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Lydia Quixano Pérez, a bookstore owner in Acapulco, survives a mass shooting that kills sixteen members of her family, including her journalist husband.
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This Is Where It Ends
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Set over the course of fifty-four minutes at Opportunity High School, the narrative follows a school shooting from the perspectives of four students: Claire, Autumn, Sylv, and Tomas.
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The Reckoning
by John Grisham
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Pete Banning, a decorated war hero and prominent farmer in Clanton, Mississippi, walks into his pastor’s office in 1946 and shoots him dead.
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon
narrative, accessible
In the Protectorate, the Council of Elders leaves a baby in the forest every year as a sacrifice to appease a misunderstood witch.
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Book of a Thousand Days
by Shannon Hale
narrative, accessible
When Lady Saren refuses an arranged marriage with the violent Lord Khasar, her father brick her inside a stone tower for seven years.
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Harry Potter (series) 1-4
narrative, accessible
Harry Potter, an orphaned boy living with neglectful relatives, discovers on his eleventh birthday that he is a wizard.
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The Thief Lord
narrative, accessible
After runaway brothers Prosper and Bo flee to Venice to escape their cruel aunt and uncle, they find refuge in a derelict cinema.
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Tales of the Peculiar
by Ransom Riggs, Andrew Davidson
narrative, accessible
This collection functions as an expanded mythology for the Miss Peregrine universe, presented as a historical text curated by the character Millard Nullings.
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A Book of Narnians
by C. S. Lewis
narrative, accessible
This volume serves as a comprehensive visual encyclopedia of the diverse inhabitants of the Narnian universe.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
narrative, accessible
Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for his second year despite warnings from a house-elf named Dobby.
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Stardust
by Neil Gaiman
Also escapist · narrative, accessible
In the Victorian village of Wall, a young man named Tristran Thorn crosses a forbidden stone barrier into the magical realm of Faerie to retrieve a fallen star for his beloved.
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