9 must-read novels books like Properties of Thirst by Marianne Wiggins

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Properties of Thirst

By: Marianne Wiggins

4.17

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

A National Bestseller A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 Fifteen years after the publication of Evi…

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1. Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away

By: Christie Watson

4.01

Format: 217 pages,

Set in the Niger Delta, Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away is the witty and beautifully written story of one f… read more

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2. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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3. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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4. The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese

4.45

Format: 724 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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5. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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6. The Trackers

By: Charles Frazier

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."

-Charles Frazier, The Trackers

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7. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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8. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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9. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Horse

By: Geraldine Brooks

4.27

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I don't rightly know who was my great-grandfather, much less his father. How come you know that about a horse?"

-Geraldine Brooks, Horse

"She felt a little clandestine, as if she were ten years old again, sneaking a dead rat past her mother so she could articulate a Rattus norvegicus domestica for her bedroom display."

-Geraldine Brooks, Horse

"You have to know that bigots are unwittingly handing you an edge. By thinking you're lesser than they are, they underestimate you. Lean on that. Learn to use it, and you'll get the upper hand."

-Geraldine Brooks, Horse

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11. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Marianne Wiggins's Properties of Thirst

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

Cover of Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) by Colm Tóibín

13. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Marianne Wiggins's Properties of Thirst

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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15. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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16. Good Night, Irene

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

4.14

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chron… read more

Similar categories in Luis Alberto Urrea's Good Night, Irene book and Marianne Wiggins's Properties of Thirst

  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women ho…"

-Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene

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17. Properties of Thirst

By: Marianne Wiggins

4.17

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

A National Bestseller A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 Fifteen years after the publication of Evi… read more

Similar categories in Marianne Wiggins's Properties of Thirst book and Marianne Wiggins's Properties of Thirst

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Small Mercies

By: Dennis Lehane

4.29

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Fellowship Point

By: Alice Elliott Dark

4.07

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I had been judicious in my warnings and instructions, phrasing them so as not to scare her, or inhibit her. I'm determined not to teach her to fear everything, as we were taught, or that manners are …"

-Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point

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20. Mercury Pictures Presents

By: Anthony Marra

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's It… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Being broken delicately is what I call being whole."

-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

"Your father is the worst thing that's ever happened to me," her mother said. "He also happens to be the love of my life."

-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

"Artie had named the canary Charles Lindbergh, on account of it being an excellent aviator but otherwise a real piece of work."

-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

"Vincenzo told him he was naïve, but was it naïve to believe documentary photography could serve as an antidote to the propaganda poisoning the body politic?"

-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

Cover of El murmullo del agua: Fuentes, jardines y divinidades acuáticas by María Belmonte

21. El murmullo del agua: Fuentes, jardines y divinidades acuáticas

By: María Belmonte

4.25

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

«Con los años he llegado a descubrir que las fuentes son lugares mágicos y liminales a los que hay … read more

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19 Best fiction books like Properties of Thirst by Marianne Wiggins

Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The River We Remember

William Kent Krueger

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

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20 Best fiction books like Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

Transform Your Habits

Wednesday's Child: Stories

Yiyun Li

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

North Woods

Daniel Mason

4.15

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