7 must-read historical fiction books like The Blizzard Party by Jack Livings

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The Blizzard Party

By: Jack Livings

3.15

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A panoramic novel set in New York City during the catastrophic blizzard of February 1978 On the…

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1. The Line Becomes A River

By: Francisco Cantú

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Every day, a ceaseless flow of men, women and children push their way north, in scorched summer hea… read more

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2. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

By: Anthony Marra

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decid… read more

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3. Universal Harvester

By: John Darnielle

4.04

Format: None pages,

Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at… read more

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4. The Tiger's Wife

By: Téa Obreht

3.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Tea Obreht, the youngest of The N… read more

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5. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • historical
  • adult
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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6. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

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  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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7. The Great Transition

By: Nick Fuller Googins

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Station Eleven and The Ministry for the Future, this richly imaginative, immersive, and… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"What it came down to was saving each other’s butts."

-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

"Inside every battery is a piece of a storm when you think about it"

-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

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8. Bath Haus

By: P.J. Vernon

3.76

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Oliver Park, a young recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriet… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga, #1) by Cadwell Turnbull

9. No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga, #1)

By: Cadwell Turnbull

3.45

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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10. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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11. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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12. Very Cold People

By: Sarah Manguso

3.38

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

No-one is watching Ruth. She, however, watches everyone and everything, and waits, growing up on th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
"I like to visit with the exhausted girl who once was me"

-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People

"My life felt unreal and I felt half-invested. I felt indistinct, like someone else's dream."

-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People

"I thought I'd die of it, but I didn't die. You can learn to eat violence. There is pleasure in not resisting. I dedicated myself to teaching my bully just how much a person can consume."

-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People

"In fourth grade we played hard. The fifth-grade girls played four square, too, but they didn't jeer at each other when they played, and they hit the ball gently from square to square. Their slowness …"

-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People

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13. O Caledonia

By: Elspeth Barker

3.98

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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14. The Sentence

By: Louise Erdrich

3.95

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The Sentence asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small in… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain."

-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

"A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages a…"

-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

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15. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

By: Michael Schulman

4.09

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
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16. Poor Deer

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • novels
"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

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17. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

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  • adult
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

Cover of In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child by Kim Cross

18. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

By: Kim Cross

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more

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  • mystery
  • adult
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19. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

Cover of Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper

20. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

By: Anderson Cooper

3.77

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more

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  • new york
  • historical
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21. We Burn Daylight

By: Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of star-crossed lovers set in a doomsday cult on the Texas prairie that asks: what wo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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22. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

Cover of Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice  Wong

23. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

By: Alice Wong

4.25

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more

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Cover of Objects of Desire: Stories by Clare Sestanovich

24. Objects of Desire: Stories

By: Clare Sestanovich

3.34

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Eleven stories that lay bare the beauties and ironies of contemporary life--a debut of sly and disa… read more

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  • new york
  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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25. The Gifted School

By: Bruce Holsinger

3.71

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Smart and juicy, a compulsively readable novel about a group of friends and families that is nearly… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • novels
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26. Secrets of Happiness

By: Joan Silber

3.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When a man discovers his father in New York has long had another, secret, family—a wife and two kid… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Gothic: An Illustrated History by Roger Luckhurst

27. Gothic: An Illustrated History

By: Roger Luckhurst

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, li… read more

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Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

28. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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  • new york
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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29. The Second Coming

By: Garth Risk Hallberg

3.03

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A luminous new novel from the best-selling author of City on Fire , plunging us deep into the lives… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Blizzard Party by Jack Livings

30. The Blizzard Party

By: Jack Livings

3.15

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A panoramic novel set in New York City during the catastrophic blizzard of February 1978 On the… read more

Similar categories in Jack Livings's The Blizzard Party book and Jack Livings's The Blizzard Party

  • new york
  • literary fiction
  • unfinished
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of Model Citizen: A Memoir by Joshua Mohr

31. Model Citizen: A Memoir

By: Joshua Mohr

4.30

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The intimate, gorgeous, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr--writer, father, alcoholic, addict … read more

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P.J. Vernon

3.76

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