5 Top fiction books like A Night Without Stars by James Howe

Cover of A Night Without Stars by James Howe

A Night Without Stars

By: James Howe

3.97

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Maria Tirone is frightened. She's in the hospital, about to undergo open heart surgery. And no one—…

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Cover of Do Bananas Chew Gum? by Michael Garland, Jamie Gilson

1. Do Bananas Chew Gum?

By: Michael Garland , Jamie Gilson

3.75

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Sam acts like a smart aleck to keep from looking dumbSam Mott's made it most of the way through six… read more

Similar categories in Michael Garland's Do Bananas Chew Gum? book and James Howe's A Night Without Stars

  • young adult
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

2. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

By: Judy Blume

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are p… read more

Similar categories in Judy Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret book and James Howe's A Night Without Stars

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

3. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

By: Alfred Lansing

4.44

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, on… read more

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"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"[...] "Who the hell are you?" he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. "My name is Shackleton" he replied in a quiet voice."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looke…"

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Cover of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

4. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more

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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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5. Miss Benson's Beetle

By: Rachel Joyce

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

She's going too far to go it alone. It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and M… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Joyce's Miss Benson's Beetle book and James Howe's A Night Without Stars

  • fiction
"Just because you've never done something doesn't mean you can't start."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"But there were moments of joy. Even at its worst, life will offer such moments."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"History is not made up by events alone, but also by what lies between the lines."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"The truest friendships are those that allow us to step out of the confines of what we once were, and to realize instead what we might be."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

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6. The Social Graces

By: Renée Rosen

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The author of Park Avenue Summer throws back the curtain on one of the most remarkable feuds in his… read more

Similar categories in Renée Rosen's The Social Graces book and James Howe's A Night Without Stars

  • fiction
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7. A Night Without Stars

By: James Howe

3.97

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Maria Tirone is frightened. She's in the hospital, about to undergo open heart surgery. And no one—… read more

Similar categories in James Howe's A Night Without Stars book and James Howe's A Night Without Stars

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • young adult

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4.05

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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