Books like The Ransom of Red Chief
12 books with a reading profile close to The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry. Clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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1
Treasure Island
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Young Jim Hawkins discovers a hand-drawn map in the trunk of a deceased sea captain, pointing the way to Captain Flint’s buried hoard on a remote tropical island.
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2
Le Petit Nicolas
Also clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Nicolas is a young schoolboy living in 1950s France.
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Bilbo Baggins, a quiet hobbit who prefers the safety of his underground home, is recruited by the wizard Gandalf and a party of thirteen dwarves to serve as a professional thief.
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
by Howard Pyle
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
In medieval Nottinghamshire, young Robin Hood becomes an outlaw after killing a royal deer and an abusive forester in self-defense.
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Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
by Bill Bryson
Also clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Bill Bryson retraces a backpacking trip he took across Europe decades earlier, beginning in the frozen outskirts of Hammerfest and ending in the chaotic streets of Istanbul.
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The Prisoner of Zenda
by Anthony Hope, Gary Hoppenstand
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman with an uncanny physical resemblance to the heir of Ruritania, travels to the small European kingdom for a royal coronation.
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Schweizerische Robinson
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
The narrative recounts the experiences of a Swiss pastor, his wife, and their four sons—Fritz, Ernest, Jack, and Franz—after their ship wrecks on a deserted tropical island.
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My Hero Academia, Vol. 1
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Izuku Midoriya lives in a world where most people are born with superpowers called Quirks, but he has none.
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One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn
by Eiichiro Oda
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Monkey D.
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The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
by Bill Bryson
Also clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Twenty years after his first tour of Britain, Bill Bryson returns to traverse the island along a route he names the Bryson Line, stretching from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath.
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Letters from Father Christmas
by J.R.R. Tolkien, Baillie Tolkien
Also clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Every December between 1920 and 1943, J.R.R.
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Robinson Crusoe
Also clear-cut and escapist · narrative, accessible
The story follows Robinson Crusoe, a mariner from York who survives a catastrophic shipwreck to find himself the sole inhabitant of a remote tropical island.
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