American Ending
By: Mary Kay Zuravleff
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A woman growing up in a family of Russian immigrants in the 1910s seeks a thoroughly American life.…
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1. So Big
By: Edna Ferber
4.07
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Author Edna Ferber described the story of So Big as being about a "material man, son of his earth-g… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I want you to see all kinds,"-Edna Ferber, So Big
"Where are you going this hot day, Mis’ DeJong?"-Edna Ferber, So Big
"You just go until you come to a closed door. And you say "Open Sesame!" and there you are."-Edna Ferber, So Big
"About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad."-Edna Ferber, So Big
2. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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- historical
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
3. 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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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. 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
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. Finding Margaret Fuller
By: Allison Pataki
4.11
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller—America’s forgotten leading lady and the central… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. Do Tell
By: Lindsay Lynch
3.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
As character actress Edie O'Dare finishes the final year of her contract with FWM Studios, the cloc… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. 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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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. Help Wanted
By: Adelle Waldman
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
9. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
By: Rebecca Renner
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the… read more
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10. I Must Be Dreaming
By: Roz Chast
3.65
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more
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11. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
By: Geraldine DeRuiter
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more
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12. The Vaster Wilds
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
13. Mr. Texas
By: Lawrence Wright
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
A sharply drawn, page-turning send up of Texas politics—from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-sel… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
14. The Waters
By: Bonnie Jo Campbell
3.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the sou… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Maybe lions keep their promises not to eat your lambs just until they get hungry."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"This is a dog town. A dog gets forgiven for his crimes here. A cat has to pay the price for every transgression. Meow."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"Like any medicine, a tattoo would have its secondary side effect eventually--- might establish who you were or might transform you. Might even poison you."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"Titus is going to come milk Delilah after seven." There was a long silence before Herself said grimly, "Don't tell me I raised the kind of girl who waits for a man to milk her cow."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
15. Fair Rosaline
By: Natasha Solomons
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Was the greatest ever love story a lie? The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capule… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
16. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
17. The Turtle House
By: Amanda Churchill
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Minnie and her granddaughter Lia are unforgettable protagonists, whose grit and grace will inspire … read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th… read more
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- historical
"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"In an increasingly serious world, these young women had never been asked or expected to be serious. (p. 13)"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidd…"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
19. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
20. Touched
By: Walter Mosley
3.38
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Intergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosive standoffs between mostly good and nearly compl… read more
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- fiction
"It occurred to me, bowing there before my executioner, that ever since the beginning, life had not died. There was a spark somewhere a billion or more years ago and the flame of life had risen and ra…"-Walter Mosley, Touched
21. Organ Meats
By: K-Ming Chang
3.35
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Two girls are bound by red string and canine heritage in this vivid tale about female companionship… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
22. Medusa (The Myth of Monsters #1)
By: Katherine Marsh
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award finalist Katherine Percy Jackson meets The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Aca… read more
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- fiction
23. Ilium
By: Lea Carpenter
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap … read more
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- russia
- fiction
24. Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories
By: GennaRose Nethercott
3.76
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot : a collection of dark fairytales and fra… read more
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- fiction
25. The Dissident
By: Paul Goldberg
3.72
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks i… read more
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- historical
- russia
- fiction
- historical fiction
26. American Ending
By: Mary Kay Zuravleff
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A woman growing up in a family of Russian immigrants in the 1910s seeks a thoroughly American life.… read more
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- russia
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
27. Hestia Strikes a Match
By: Christine Grillo
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Christine Grillo's Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and … read more
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- fiction
"He suggested a date and a time, and I felt all the power sucked out of me, the power to resist, the power to think straight, the way an encounter with a parent can do. I entered the date on my calend…"-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match
"Sooner or later you realize that dating is performative. You have to perform how interesting you are. Perform how kind you are. Perform what an emotional grown-up you are. And then--it gets worse. Be…"-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match
28. American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden
By: Katie Rogers
3.62
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, paint… read more
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29. Candelaria
By: Melissa Lozada-Oliva
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Your granddaughters are lost, Candelaria. Bianca, the brainy archaeologist, had to forfeit her life… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
30. Swimming with Ghosts
By: Michelle Brafman
3.56
Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition
From the acclaimed author of Washing the Dead and Bertrand Court comes a satirical and chilling, ye… read more
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- fiction
31. American Arcadia
By: Laura Scalzo
4.63
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
New York City, 1985. The scaffolded and torchless Statue of Liberty is under reconstruction; the Tw… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
