7 must-read classics books like The Return of Lanny Budd (The Lanny Budd Novels #11) by Upton Sinclair

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The Return of Lanny Budd (The Lanny Budd Novels #11)

By: Upton Sinclair

4.35

Format: 733 pages, Kindle Edition

Presidential secret agent Lanny Budd is called back into action in post-war Germany as the Cold War…

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1. The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

By: Will Storr

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Will Storr was in the tropical north of Australia, excavating fossils with a celebrity creationist,… read more

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"Exposure to a mixed body of evidence made both sides even more convinced of the fundamental soundness of their original beliefs.' Confirmation bias is profoundly human and it is appalling. When new i…"

-Will Storr, The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

"It might weigh little over a kilogram but, taken on its own scale, the brain is unimaginably vast. One cubic millimetre contains between twenty and twenty-five thousand neurons. It has eighty-six bil…"

-Will Storr, The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

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2. Caleb's Crossing

By: Geraldine Brooks

3.85

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book. … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me."

-Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing

"I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved."

-Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing

"This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet."

-Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing

"You English palisade yourselves up behind 'must nots' and I commence to think it is a barren fortress in which you wall yourselves. - Caleb"

-Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing

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3. Caribbean

By: James A. Michener

3.97

Format: 896 pages, Paperback

In this acclaimed classic novel, James A. Michener sweeps readers off to the Caribbean, bringing to… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. 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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  • literature
  • fiction
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5. The Song of the Lark

By: Willa Cather , Doris Grumbach

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Perhaps Willa Cather's most autobiographical work, The Song of the Lark charts the story of a young… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. House Made of Dawn

By: N. Scott Momaday

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native Americ… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Keepers of the House

By: Shirley Ann Grau

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the Houseis Shirley Ann Grau's masterwork, a m… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Our Man in Havana

By: Graham Greene

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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9. 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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  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Spin (Spin, #1)

By: Robert Charles Wilson

3.66

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the… read more

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  • fiction
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11. The Power and the Glory

By: John Updike , Graham Greene

3.13

Format: 192 pages,

How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

13. The Rainbow

By: D.H. Lawrence , Daphne Merkin

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A controversial classic from D.H. Lawrence, the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Lush with religi… read more

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14. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

By: Robert Olen Butler

3.68

Format: None pages,

Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam … read more

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15. The Cater Street Hangman (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #1)

By: Anne Perry

4.14

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Careless of both murder and manners, Charlotte Ellison and her sister, two determinedly unconventio… read more

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16. A Question of Belief (Commissario Brunetti, #19)

By: Donna Leon

4.15

Format: None pages,

Donna Leon's best-selling series featuring the principled, warmhearted Venetian Commissario Guido B… read more

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17. The Girl Who Wrote in Silk

By: Kelli Estes

4.10

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

A historical novel inspired by true events, Kelli Estes's brilliant and atmospheric debut is a poig… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

18. The Murder Book (Alex Delaware, #16)

By: Jonathan Kellerman

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In seventeen consecutive bestselling novels, Jonathan Kellerman has distinguished himself as the ma… read more

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19. The Lantern's Dance (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #18)

By: Laurie R. King

4.41

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caugh… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. The Romantic

By: William Boyd

4.15

Format: 451 pages, Paperback

Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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22. The Cipher (Nina Guerrera, #1)

By: Isabella Maldonado

4.19

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

To a cunning serial killer, she was the one that got away. Until now… FBI Special Agent Nina Guerr… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Matterhorn (Mac Dekker, #1) by Christopher Reich

23. Matterhorn (Mac Dekker, #1)

By: Christopher Reich

4.26

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

A sudden family death and an old nemesis bring retired agent Mac Dekker in from the cold in this al… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31) by Donna Leon

24. Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)

By: Donna Leon

4.09

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly in… read more

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  • fiction
"He slowed his pace to hers, and they walked automatically, neither of them having to hesitate about where to turn or which bridge to take: the unconscious navigation of the average Venetian is surpas…"

-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)

"In Campo Manin, the bodies of dead shops lined the way to the canal. There was a dead Middle Eastern fast-food place, a dead sporting goods shop, a dead clothes shop with two dead mannequins in the w…"

-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)

"While del Balzo spoke, Brunetti turned off his ears and observed the speaking man, a habit he had developed during years of interrogating suspects, listening to witnesses, or sometimes hearing his ch…"

-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)

"Have you been reading the letters of Rosa Luxemburg again, Donatella?’ Brunetti asked in a normal voice. She laughed her bright laugh, a sound he delighted in hearing because to be thought clever or …"

-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)

Cover of The Atlas Maneuver (Cotton Malone, #18) by Steve Berry

25. The Atlas Maneuver (Cotton Malone, #18)

By: Steve Berry

4.28

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

From celebrated  New York Times  bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest Cotton Malone adve… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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26. So Shall You Reap

By: Donna Leon

4.07

Format: 262 pages, ebook

In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti… read more

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  • fiction
"Given Loreti's position in society, the press had followed, panting. But they were to be disappointed by the police's failure to find any sign of what the English call "foul play," and so the investi…"

-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap

"Brunetti, no fan of television, did occasionally watch nature documentaries, and so he was familiar with the pose cobras took when they were preparing to attack. They somehow managed to raise their h…"

-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap

Cover of The Deserter (Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor #1) by Nelson DeMille

27. The Deserter (Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor #1)

By: Nelson DeMille

4.07

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army’s elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, … read more

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  • fiction
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28. Stigmata

By: Colin Falconer

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Stigmata is an epic tale of heresy, courage, loyalty and loss set against the tumultuous crusades o… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"God chose Fabricia Bérenger during a lightning storm. With one thunderous touch of his finger, he sent her reeling."

-Colin Falconer, Stigmata

Cover of A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24) by Daniel Silva

29. A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24)

By: Daniel Silva

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve… Acclaimed #1 Ne… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Return of Lanny Budd (The Lanny Budd Novels #11) by Upton Sinclair

30. The Return of Lanny Budd (The Lanny Budd Novels #11)

By: Upton Sinclair

4.35

Format: 733 pages, Kindle Edition

Presidential secret agent Lanny Budd is called back into action in post-war Germany as the Cold War… read more

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24 must-read fiction books like The Return of Lanny Budd (The Lanny Budd Novels #11) by Upton Sinclair

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Geraldine Brooks

3.85

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James A. Michener

3.97

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Foreign Affairs

Alison Lurie

4.27

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Willa Cather , Doris Grumbach

3.84

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Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

C.J. Box

4.36

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Eruption

Michael Crichton

3.91

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Think Twice (Myron Bolitar, #12)

Harlan Coben

4.34

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The Ghost Orchid (Alex Delaware, #39)

Jonathan Kellerman

4.21

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