Books like Vladimir
12 books with a reading profile close to Vladimir by Julia May Jonas. 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 Casual Vacancy
by J.K. Rowling
narrative, accessible
Set in the fictional English village of Pagford, the story begins with the sudden death of parish councillor Barry Fairbrother.
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3
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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4
Mercy
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, accessible
Cam MacDonald is a police chief in a small Massachusetts town, and he is happily married to his wife Allie.
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5
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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6
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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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
Tampa
narrative, accessible
Celeste Price is a beautiful, married eighth-grade teacher in Tampa, Florida, who is sexually obsessed with fourteen-year-old boys.
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9
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
narrative, accessible
In a nameless South American country, a lavish birthday party for Japanese mogul Katsumi Hosokawa ends in a prolonged hostage crisis.
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10
Prep
narrative, accessible
Lee Fiora, a girl from a modest family in Indiana, wins a scholarship to the Ault School, a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
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11
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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12
Either/Or
by Elif Batuman
narrative, accessible
Set in 1996, the story follows Selin Karadağ during her sophomore year at Harvard as she attempts to construct a life based on aesthetic and literary principles.
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