Only Killers and Thieves (Billy McBride #1)
By: Paul Howarth
4.04
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Two adolescent brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of po…
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1. Iza's Ballad
By: Magda Szabó , George Szirtes
4.31
Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition
When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in the… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Niçin sevilen varlıkların yitirilmesi gerekiyor?"-Magda Szabó, Iza's Ballad
"She didn’t really like classical music and there was no Vince to whisper in her ear and tell her what was beautiful about it. His descriptions were so clear. Handel was all scarlet ostrich feathers a…"-Magda Szabó, Iza's Ballad
2. The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo--and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation
By: James Donovan
4.03
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The gripping and definitive chronicle of the iconic battle that inspired a nation--a sweeping saga … read more
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- westerns
- historical
- audiobook
3. Dodgers
By: Bill Beverly
3.86
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Dodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price,… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
4. Don't Skip Out on Me
By: Willy Vlautin
4.13
Format: 304 pages, ebook
From award-winning author Willy Vlautin, comes this moving novel about a young ranch hand who goes … read more
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- literary fiction
- westerns
- coming of age
- fiction
- audiobook
"Mr. Reese had told him that life, at its core, was a cruel burden because we had the knowledge that we were born to die. We were born with innocent eyes and those eyes had to see pain and death and d…"-Willy Vlautin, Don't Skip Out on Me
5. Provinces of Night
By: William Gay
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. Paradise Sky
By: Joe R. Lansdale
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
A Library JournalBest Book of 2015! A rollicking novel about Nat Love, an African-American cowboy w… read more
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- westerns
- historical
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
7. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
By: John Vaillant
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest… read more
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8. The Son
By: Philipp Meyer
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic, multigenerational saga of pow… read more
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- literary fiction
- westerns
- historical
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
9. Out of the Deep I Cry (Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries, #3)
By: Julia Spencer-Fleming
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
On April 1, 1930, Jonathan Ketchem's wife Jane walked from her house to the police department to as… read more
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10. Hard Rain Falling
By: None , Don Carpenter
4.14
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more
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- mystery
- literary fiction
- fiction
"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"-None, Hard Rain Falling
11. Purgatory Ridge (Cork O'Connor, #3)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.17
Format: 428 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Winner of the prestigious Loft-McKnight Fiction Award and the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, W… read more
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- mystery
- thriller
- fiction
- audiobook
12. Desperation Road
By: Michael Farris Smith
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"An elegantly written, perfectly-paced novel about a man and woman indelibly marked by violence" (R… read more
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13. The North Water
By: Ian McGuire
3.98
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arcti… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
"The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone?"-Ian McGuire, The North Water
"Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do."-Ian McGuire, The North Water
"Cleverness, he thinks, will get you nowhere; it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth."-Ian McGuire, The North Water
"Death, he believes, is a kind of making, a kind of building up. What was one thing, he thinks, is become something else."-Ian McGuire, The North Water
14. Agent 6 (Leo Demidov, #3)
By: Tom Rob Smith
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Tom Rob Smith--the bestselling, award-winning author of Child 44, and one of the most critically-ac… read more
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15. Hocus Pocus
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author of Timequake, this "irresistible" novel (Cleveland Plain Dealer) tells the story of… read more
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16. Nothing but the Bones
By: Brian Panowich
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
With lyrical prose and hard-hitting depictions of the hardscrabble life in the rural south, Brian P… read more
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- mystery
- thriller
- fiction
- audiobook
17. Chenneville
By: Paulette Jiles
4.13
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more
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- westerns
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
18. Lowdown Road
By: Scott Von Doviak
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
19. The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West
By: Chris Wimmer
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of the "Legends of the Old West" podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narrati… read more
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- westerns
- historical
- audiobook
20. Ridgeline
By: Michael Punke
4.28
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
The thrilling, long-awaited return of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant. … read more
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- westerns
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
21. The White Girl
By: Tony Birch
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"A profound allegory of good and evil, and a deep exploration of human interaction, black and white… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- australia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
22. Queenpin
By: Megan Abbott
3.75
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken under the wing of t… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
23. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past
By: Brett Popplewell
4.31
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
Into the Wild meets Born to Run meets The Stranger in the Woods in a fascinating true story of… read more
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- audiobook
24. August
By: Callan Wink
3.67
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
A boy coming of age in a part of the country that's being left behind is at the heart of this dazzl… read more
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- westerns
- coming of age
- fiction
- audiobook
25. Game of Edges: The Analytics Revolution and the Future of Professional Sports
By: Bruce Schoenfeld
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The story of how a new generation of tech-savvy franchise owners is reshaping every aspect of profe… read more
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- audiobook
26. Whiskey When We're Dry
By: John Larison
4.05
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her f… read more
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- westerns
- historical
- coming of age
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Tea has a manner of setting the world right."-John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry
"Ain't nothing more natural than a girl on a pony."-John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry
"...they think a man is made real by the violence he wields."-John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry
"If you got a ma looking out for you, all you got to do is grow up."-John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry
27. The German Heiress
By: Anika Scott
3.73
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
For readers of The Alice Network and The Lost Girls of Paris, an immersive, heart-pounding debut ab… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
28. Only Killers and Thieves (Billy McBride #1)
By: Paul Howarth
4.04
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Two adolescent brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of po… read more
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- westerns
- historical
- coming of age
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- australia
- audiobook
29. The Abstainer
By: Ian McGuire
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An Irishman in nineteenth-century England is forced to take sides when his nephew joins the bloody … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"Midnight."-Ian McGuire, The Abstainer
30. Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times
By: Mark Leibovich
3.68
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Town, an equally merciless probing of America… read more
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- audiobook
"Football is the “secret vice"-Mark Leibovich, Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times
"Brady has compared playing football with “getting into a car crash every Sunday—a scheduled car crash."-Mark Leibovich, Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times
"The worst thing about pro football is that a lot of it has nothing to do with football. It has so much business and hair spray crusted over it: so many sideshows and expert panels “breaking things do…"-Mark Leibovich, Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times
31. Pilgrims
By: Matthew Kneale
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The year 1289. A rich farmer fears he'll go to hell for cheating his neighbours. His wife wants pil… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
