14 must-read fiction books like The Portable Steinbeck by John Steinbeck

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The Portable Steinbeck

By: John Steinbeck

4.22

Format: 692 pages, Paperback

He wrote about poor people struggling to survive and about dispossessed people grappling for a piec…

If you liked the fiction plot in The Portable Steinbeck by John Steinbeck , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

1. The Buddha in the Attic

By: Julie Otsuka

3.70

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy … read more

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  • fiction
"„Niekas nelaimi karo.Visi pralaimi"

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting."

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?"

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs."

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

Cover of The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2) by Tana French

2. The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)

By: Tana French

4.06

Format: 466 pages, Paperback

Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murd… read more

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  • fiction
"And then there’s its hair,"

-Tana French, The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)

"Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it."

-Tana French, The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)

"I loved him, you know,' she said. 'I would have loved him as hard as he'd let me, for the rest of my life."

-Tana French, The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)

"We’ve become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, we’re so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it."

-Tana French, The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)

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3. Breakfast of Champions

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Breakfast of Champions,one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore … read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction

4. Skinwalkers (Leaphorn & Chee, #7)

By: Tony Hillerman

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Navajo Tribal Police Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn investigate murders that lead the… read more

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5. Talking God (Leaphorn & Chee, #9)

By: Tony Hillerman

4.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

A grave robber and a corpse reunite Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee. As … read more

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6. When the Emperor Was Divine

By: Julie Otsuka

3.29

Format: None pages,

Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any… read more

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7. Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot, #7.5)

By: Agatha Christie , Charles Osborne

3.59

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Inventor Sir Claude Amory feels a bitter taste in the mouth, when the new formula for explosive mat… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"the truth is never horrible, only interesting."

-Agatha Christie, Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot, #7.5)

"Poirot thought it not quite professional to begin a routine working day before ten."

-Agatha Christie, Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot, #7.5)

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8. The Swimmers

By: Julie Otsuka

3.67

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine, a tour de… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brow…"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

"The pool is their sanctuary, their refuge, the one place on earth they can go to escape from their pain, for it is only down below in the waters that their symptoms begin to abate. "The moment I see …"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

Cover of Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24) by C.J. Box

9. Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

By: C.J. Box

4.36

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts—one animal, one human… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Storm Watch (Joe Pickett, #23) by C.J. Box

10. Storm Watch (Joe Pickett, #23)

By: C.J. Box

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret remote high-tech facili… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19) by William Kent Krueger

11. Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.21

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthi… read more

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  • fiction
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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
"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

Cover of The Longmire Defense (Walt Longmire, #19) by Craig Johnson

13. The Longmire Defense (Walt Longmire, #19)

By: Craig Johnson

4.57

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelat… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Shadows Reel (Joe Pickett, #22) by C.J. Box

14. Shadows Reel (Joe Pickett, #22)

By: C.J. Box

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett’s job has many times put his wife and daughters in harm’s way. Now … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Long Call (Two Rivers, #1) by Ann Cleeves

15. The Long Call (Two Rivers, #1)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.95

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outsi… read more

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  • fiction
"His thoughts were wheeling and dipping like the gulls over the estuary, groping for an explanation, feeling at last he was making sense of what lie behind Walden's death..."

-Ann Cleeves, The Long Call (Two Rivers, #1)

Cover of Sacred Clowns (Leaphorn & Chee, #11) by Tony Hillerman

16. Sacred Clowns (Leaphorn & Chee, #11)

By: Tony Hillerman

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

First there was the trouble at Saint Boneventure boarding school. A teacher is dead, a boy is missi… read more

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  • fiction
"In empty country everybody knew everything about everybody. One's inner thoughts seemed to transmit themselves through the clear, dry air without need for verbalizing."

-Tony Hillerman, Sacred Clowns (Leaphorn & Chee, #11)

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17. Every Living Thing (All Creatures Great and Small, #8)

By: James Herriot

4.49

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

For more than twenty years, James Herriot has captivated millions of readers and television viewers… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of The Portable Steinbeck by John Steinbeck

18. The Portable Steinbeck

By: John Steinbeck

4.22

Format: 692 pages, Paperback

He wrote about poor people struggling to survive and about dispossessed people grappling for a piec… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • novels

21 best-selling fiction books like Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

North Woods

Daniel Mason

4.15

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Tommy Orange

3.89

Transform Your Habits

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Rachel Khong

4.04

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