8 Top novels books like Dawson's Fall: A Novel by Roxana Robinson

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Dawson's Fall: A Novel

By: Roxana Robinson

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoning In Dawson's Fall, a…

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1. Foreign Affairs

By: Alison Lurie

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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2. True North

By: Jim Harrison

4.32

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

True North is the story of a family torn apart and a man engaged in profound reckoning with the dam… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Leaving Berlin

By: Joseph Kanon

3.43

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

New York Times Notable Book * NPR Best Books 2015 * Wall Street JournalBest Books of 2015 The accla… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. Out of the Easy

By: Ruta Sepetys

3.00

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With characters as captivating as those in her internationally bestselling novel Between Shades of … read more

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5. Whistling Past the Graveyard

By: Susan Crandall

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Hardcover

The summer of 1963 begins like any other for nine-year-old Starla Claudelle. Born to teenage parent… read more

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6. Icy Sparks

By: Gwyn Hyman Rubio

3.78

Format: None pages,

Icy Sparks is the sad, funny and transcendent tale of a young girl growing up in the mountains of E… read more

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7. Somebody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

4.27

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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8. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

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9. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

By: Stephanie Land

3.62

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more

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10. The Magician

By: Colm Tóibín

4.02

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, whe… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"...it is a grubby business writing novels. Composers can think about God and the ineffable. We have to imagine the buttons on a coat. [Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

"The Nazis, he realized, were not like the poets of the Munich Revolution. They were street fighters who had taken power without losing their sway over the streets. They managed to be both government …"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

"He [Thomas Mann] remembered this Beethoven quartet [his op. 132] as being sad, sometimes mournful. What was surprising now was that, while the undertone was melancholy, the way the instruments stoppe…"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

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11. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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12. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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13. 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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  • adult fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Welcome Home, Stranger

By: Kate Christensen

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growin… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
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15. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

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"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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16. All the Children Are Home

By: Patry Francis

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A sweeping saga in the vein of Ask Again, Yes following a foster family through almost a decade of … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"First of all, Ma never wanted to take credit for anything. She wanted the glory--and everything else--to go to us. And second--she's more a part of it than I like to admit. Yeah, I did the work, but …"

-Patry Francis, All the Children Are Home

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17. The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By: Julia Alvarez

3.68

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Fellowship Point

By: Alice Elliott Dark

4.07

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I had been judicious in my warnings and instructions, phrasing them so as not to scare her, or inhibit her. I'm determined not to teach her to fear everything, as we were taught, or that manners are …"

-Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point

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19. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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20. Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

By: Mitchell S. Jackson

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying, dazzlingly written reckoning and an essential addition to the national conversatio… read more

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21. Dawson's Fall: A Novel

By: Roxana Robinson

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoning In Dawson's Fall, a… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • civil war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels

13 must-read fiction books like Dawson's Fall: A Novel by Roxana Robinson

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4.27

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4.32

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3.43

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Richard Russo

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Ruha Benjamin

4.47

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