A Shout in the Ruins
By: Kevin Powers
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond, this novel by the award-winning author o…
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1. The Secret Chord
By: Geraldine Brooks
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Peeling away the myth to bring the Old Testament's King David to life in Second Iron Age Israel, Br… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
2. The Known World
By: Edward P. Jones
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known Worldis a daring and ambitious work by… read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. Quiet Dell
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of America's most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers, a chilling, spectacularly ri… read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. Doc
By: Mary Doria Russell
3.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hop… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. A River Runs Through It
By: Norman Maclean , Barry Moser
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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6. 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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7. The Heretic's Daughter
By: Kathleen Kent
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Mass… read more
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8. The Art of Mending
By: Elizabeth Berg
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
It begins with the sudden revelation of astonishing secrets--secrets that have shaped the personali… read more
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9. The Hundred-Year House
By: Rebecca Makkai
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Meet the Devohrs: Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents' wealth but nevertheless … read more
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10. Coincidence
By: John Ironmonger
3.94
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Thirty years ago, on the date in June known as Midsummer's Day, a young girl is mysteriously orphan… read more
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11. Lighthouse Island
By: Paulette Jiles
3.92
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of the highly praised novels The Color of Lightning, Stormy Weather, and Ene… read more
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12. The Last Ranger
By:
None
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Paper Cage
By: Tom Baragwanath
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This prizewinning debut from New Zealand novelist Tom Baragwanath is both a nail-biting thrill-ride… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
14. 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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- historical
- civil war
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
15. 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
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
16. Fire Exit
By: Morgan Talty
3.79
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more
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- audiobook
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
17. Ozark Dogs
By: Eli Cranor
3.72
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In this Southern thriller, two families grapple with the aftermath of a murder in their small Arkan… read more
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- southern
- fiction
- audiobook
18. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
19. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- audiobook
20. The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan
By: Elliot Ackerman
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate… read more
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- war
- audiobook
21. The Morningside
By: Téa Obreht
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- audiobook
22. Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship
By: Kayleen Schaefer
3.46
Format: 7 pages, Audiobook
From Girls to Parks and Recreation to Bridesmaids, the female friendship has taken an undeniable fr… read more
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- audiobook
23. The Great Reclamation
By: Rachel Heng
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood l… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"You know. You cannot just–" Ah Boon stopped. *Walk in here and ask me to open myself up all over again*, he thought, but he did not say (Heng 253)."-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"He wished for the noise of the pile driver, the clattering of the conveyor belt. He wished for something to prove that life had changed. But it was as if nothing had changed, nothing would ever chang…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"But as the old body of his father's boat thudded over the dull brown waves, the smell of fish pursuing him always, he saw the city, gleaming and spotless, rising as if dormant from the sea. Sparkling…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"Now a silent rule had been broken. The possibility of a real conversation loomed—the unspoken envy and resentment that had simmered all these years, the fact that yes, every morning since she had fal…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
24. The Fields (Riley Fisher, #1)
By: Erin Young
3.54
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young's The Fields… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
25. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
By: Catherine Coldstream
3.71
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more
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- audiobook
26. The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel
By: Denise Mina
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Philip Marlowe is on the hunt for a missing heiress in L.A. —and up against a rival PI—in this smar… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
27. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
28. A Double Life
By: Flynn Berry
3.43
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
“A thrilling page-turner.” —Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train “Breathtaking . . . A… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
29. The Glassmaker
By: Tracy Chevalier
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
30. A Shout in the Ruins
By: Kevin Powers
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond, this novel by the award-winning author o… read more
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- historical
- civil war
- american civil war
- war
- southern
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
31. Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
By: John Sedgwick
3.86
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
“Riveting...Engrossing...Mr. Sedgwick’s subtitle calls the Cherokee story an ‘American Epic,’ and i… read more
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- civil war
- war
