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12 books with a reading profile close to We Found a Hat by Jon Klassen. Practical; an easy read.

  1. 1 The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

    The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

    by Bill Watterson

    entertainment, narrative

    This anthology collects the early installments of Bill Watterson’s comic strip, featuring a hyper-imaginative six-year-old boy named Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes.

  2. 2 The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

    The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

    by Bill Watterson

    Also practical · entertainment, narrative

    This collection compiles a decade of comic strips featuring the adventures of six-year-old Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes.

  3. 3 Sourdough

    Sourdough

    by Robin Sloan

    Also practical · entertainment, narrative

    Lois Clary is a software engineer in San Francisco who spends her days coding robotic arms.

  4. 4 Letters from Father Christmas

    Letters from Father Christmas

    by J.R.R. Tolkien, Baillie Tolkien

    entertainment, narrative

    Every December between 1920 and 1943, J.R.R.

  5. 5 Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

    by Bill Bryson

    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.

  6. 6 The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

    by Bill Bryson

    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.

  7. 7 Revolting rhymes

    Revolting rhymes

    by Roald Dahl

    entertainment, narrative

    Roald Dahl reimagines six classic fairy tales through dark, comedic poetry.

  8. 8 Hoot

    Hoot

    by Carl Hiaasen

    Also practical · entertainment, narrative

    Roy Eberhardt, a newcomer to Coconut Cove, Florida, becomes entangled in a local conflict when he follows a barefoot runaway known as Mullet Fingers.

  9. 9 Funny Girl

    Funny Girl

    by Nick Hornby

    Also practical · 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.

  10. 10 Last Chance to See

    Last Chance to See

    by Douglas Adams

    entertainment, narrative

    Douglas Adams departs from fiction to document his global travels with zoologist Mark Carwardine, tracking species on the brink of extinction.

  11. 11 Restart

    Restart

    by Gordon Korman

    Also practical · entertainment, narrative

    Chase Ambrose falls off a roof, hits his head and wakes up with no memory of who he was.

  12. 12 Today Will Be Different

    Today Will Be Different

    by Maria Semple

    entertainment, narrative

    Eleanor Flood, a middle-aged animator living in Seattle, starts her morning with a manifesto to be her best self: she will initiate sex with her husband, skip her shower, and avoid getting annoyed with her son.

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