Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck
By: William Souder
4.09
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A resonant biography of America’s most celebrated novelist of the Great Depression. The first fu…
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1. The Pastures of Heaven
By: John Steinbeck
4.08
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on … read more
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2. Cup of Gold
By: John Steinbeck , Susan F. Beegel
3.43
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, r… read more
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"But don't you see that I must go, for it seems that I am cut in half and only one part of me here. The other piece is over the sea, calling and calling me to come and be whole."-John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold
"Why are you making no more songs?' I said to him in a tone like that. 'Why are you making no more songs?' 'I have grown to be a man. Only children make songs -- children and idiots."-John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold
"It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so endlessly, should be not even a good farmer. Sometimes he imagined he understood too many things ev…"-John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold
"There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning and a will overpowering to journey outward and outw…"-John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold
3. The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath
By: John Steinbeck , Charles Wollenberg
3.92
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his … read more
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"The new migrants from the dust bowl are here to stay. They are the vest American stock, intelligent, resourceful; and, if given a chance, socially responsible. To attempt to force them into a peonage…"-John Steinbeck, The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath
4. The Moon Is Down
By: John Steinbeck
3.93
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The … read more
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"The fool supply was controlled..."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"We have taken on a job, haven’t we?"-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"The flies have conquered the flypaper."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"...rose like cream to the top of milk."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
5. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
By: John Steinbeck
4.06
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more
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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
6. The Winter of Our Discontent
By: John Steinbeck , Susan Shillinglaw
4.01
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store … read more
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"Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?"-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"If you want to keep a friend, never test him."-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms."-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody."-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
7. The Log from the Sea of Cortez
By: John Steinbeck , Richard Astro
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An alternate edition can be found here. In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his grea… read more
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
"Ideas are not dangerous unless they find seeding place in some earth more profound than the mind."-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
"One who was born by the ocean or has associated with it cannot ever be quite content away from it for very long"-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
"The paradoxes are becoming so great that leaders of people must be less and less intelligent to stand their own leadership."-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
8. To a God Unknown
By: John Steinbeck , Robert DeMott
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne … read more
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"He's eating God the way a bear eats meat against the winter."-John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown
"مرگ حتی هنگامیکه میدانیم باید بیاید ما را به وحشت میاندازد."-John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown
"ما همه او را دوست داشتیم، اما میان محبت و تنفر فاصله اندکی وجود دارد."-John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown
"These were words to clothe a naked thing, and the thing is ridiculous in clothes."-John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown
9. Tortilla Flat
By: John Steinbeck
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a ge… read more
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10. Whose Names Are Unknown
By: Sanora Babb , Lawrence R. Rodgers
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Originally written and slated for publication in 1939, this long-forgotten masterpiece was shelved … read more
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11. The Red Pony
By: John Steinbeck
3.48
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father's California ranch. He is thrilled when his father gives him … read more
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"It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division."-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
"On the fences the shiny blackbirds with red epaulets clicked their dry call. The meadowlarks sang like water, and the wild doves, concealed among the bursting leaves of the oaks, made a sound of rest…"-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
"At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?" Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the Salinas Valley." The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. "Did you ever go into the …"-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
"The grandfather was dresses in a black broadcloth suit and he wore kid congress gaiters and a black tie on a short, hard collar. He carried his black slouch hat in his hand. His white beard was cropp…"-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
12. Travels with Charley: In Search of America
By: John Steinbeck
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more
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13. America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
By: John Steinbeck , Susan Shillinglaw , Jackson J. Benson
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved aut… read more
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14. Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
By: John Steinbeck
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
Each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writi… read more
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15. The Long Valley
By: John Steinbeck
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This classic collection of short stories serves as the ideal introduction to Steinbeck's work. Set … read more
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16. East of Eden
By: John Steinbeck
4.42
Format: 601 pages, Paperback
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed … read more
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"All great and precious things are lonely."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"No one who is young is ever going to be old."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"A man without words is a man without thought."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
17. In Dubious Battle
By: John Steinbeck , None
3.71
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
This 1936 novel--set in the California apple country--portrays a strike by migrant workers that met… read more
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18. The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
By: Bob Drury , Tom Clavin
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER An astonishing untold story of the American West The great Sioux warrior-s… read more
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19. Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
By: John Steinbeck , Robert DeMott
4.11
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesda… read more
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"Und keine Frau lässt sich gern vom Mittelpunkt der Bühne verdrängen, schon gar nicht durch einen Tintenfisch."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
"The doctrine of our time is that man can't get along without a whole hell of a lot of stuff. You may not be preaching it, but you're living treason."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
"Auf dem Kopf hatte er einen Strohhut mit zwei Löchern in der Krempe, die vermuten ließen, dass der Hut ehemals die Kopfbedeckung eines Pferes gewesen war."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
20. The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President
By: Edward F. O'Keefe
4.25
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A spirited and poignant family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was… read more
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21. Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck
By: William Souder
4.09
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A resonant biography of America’s most celebrated novelist of the Great Depression. The first fu… read more
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- writing
- books about books
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