Books like The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
12 books with a reading profile close to The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson. Outward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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Dodger
entertainment, narrative
In the rain-slicked filth of Victorian London, a tosher named Dodger earns his living scavenging through the city sewers.
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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 Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden
entertainment, narrative
Nombeko Mayeki begins her life emptying latrines in Soweto, South Africa, during the 1970s.
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Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon
entertainment, narrative
When he is not fighting alongside the Avengers, Clint Barton spends his time protecting a Brooklyn apartment building from a local organized crime syndicate known as the "Tracksuit Mafia." This collection follows Barton…
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One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn
by Eiichiro Oda
Also clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Monkey D.
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Revolting rhymes
by Roald Dahl
Also clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Roald Dahl reimagines six classic fairy tales through dark, comedic poetry.
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Blockade Billy
by Stephen King
entertainment, narrative
Set in the 1957 baseball season, this novella follows William Blakely, a catcher for the fictional Newark Titans.
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Pope Joan
Also clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
In ninth-century Europe, Joan is born into a world that denies women education and agency.
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Funny Girl
by Nick Hornby
Also clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
In 1960s Britain, Barbara, a young woman from Blackpool, wins a beauty contest but gives up the crown to pursue her dream of becoming a comedian.
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Beauty Queens
by Libba Bray
entertainment, narrative
Fifty contestants for the Miss Teen Sweetheart pageant crash-land on a deserted island when their plane malfunctions.
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My Hero Academia, Vol. 1
Also clear-cut · 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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Last Chance to See
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Douglas Adams departs from fiction to document his global travels with zoologist Mark Carwardine, tracking species on the brink of extinction.
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