16 must-read fiction books like The Salt Fields by Stacy D. Flood

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The Salt Fields

By: Stacy D. Flood

4.09

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

On the day that Minister Peters boards a train from South Carolina heading north, he has nothing le…

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1. Bryony and Roses

By: T. Kingfisher

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Bryony and her sisters have come down in the world. Their merchant father died trying to reclaim hi… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Bryony and Roses book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Oh dear God, no, stop!" Fumblefoot gave her a reproachful look. Stop what? I have broken into an enchanted manor house and my pony has crapped on the floor. Oh God. -Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher"

-T. Kingfisher, Bryony and Roses

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2. Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

By: None , Velma Wallis

4.08

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of… read more

Similar categories in None's Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting."

-None, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

"Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world."

-None, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

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3. Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

By: Stephanie Storey

4.37

Format: None pages,

From 1501--1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. L… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Storey's Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. A Jest of God

By: Margaret Atwood , Margaret Laurence

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rac… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Atwood's A Jest of God book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • fiction

5. The Afflictions

By: Vikram Paralkar , None

2.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Shadowing an elderly librarian on his first day at the great Central Library, Maximo is thrilled to… read more

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6. Truth and Beauty

By: Ann Patchett

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writ… read more

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7. Ghost Summer

By: Tananarive Due

4.20

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, Amer… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's Ghost Summer book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • fiction
"Letitia knew words were only part of who people were, and usually the least important part."

-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

"She had learned long ago that the truth made people angry, and to speak of it was considered evil."

-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

"In a cold place, there's no such thing as today, just tomorrow. Will it snow tomorrow? Will it be sunny tomorrow?"

-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

"...you know everybody has a turn, and you just try to find something interesting every day to make you glad it hasn't happened yet."

-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

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8. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • audiobook
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9. Amelia's Shadow (Blaze Collection)

By: Marie Benedict

3.62

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

For pilot Ruth Nichols, a soaring rivalry with Amelia Earhart becomes a deep friendship in a short … read more

Similar categories in Marie Benedict's Amelia's Shadow (Blaze Collection) book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • historical
  • novella
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Out There

By: Kate Folk

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Ka… read more

Similar categories in Kate Folk's Out There book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Wrong Norma

By: Anne Carson

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more

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"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"

-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

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12. Nothing but the Rain

By: Naomi Salman

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle in Naomi Salman's d… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Salman's Nothing but the Rain book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • novella
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. When the Reckoning Comes

By: LaTanya McQueen

3.70

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

A haunting novel about a black woman who returns to her hometown for a plantation wedding and the h… read more

Similar categories in LaTanya McQueen's When the Reckoning Comes book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"What if we clamored and yelled, fought in every way we could? And what if we weren't alone? What if it was all of us together rising? Can you imagine it? Can you imagine what we could do?"

-LaTanya McQueen, When the Reckoning Comes

"Hush though, and listen. If you’re quiet, you can hear their whispers in the water calling to those left behind. Hush and you can hear them lurking, waiting for the day they can make their return."

-LaTanya McQueen, When the Reckoning Comes

"You’re a good girl. You’re so good, you’ve let the desire to be it overtake you. It’s defined who you are. …. You’ve always believed being this way was going to somehow save your life, but it’s stole…"

-LaTanya McQueen, When the Reckoning Comes

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14. The Wild Hunt

By: Emma Seckel

3.74

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

The islanders have only three rules: don’t stick your nose where it’s not wanted, don’t mention the… read more

Similar categories in Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You don’t sound happy, mo ghrád,"

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

"No matter how hard one tried, this island was not a place of leaving easily. It clung to a person like dew. He was still here, always still here"

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

"No matter how hard one tried, this island was not a place of leaving easily. It clung to a person like a dee. He was still here, always still here"

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

"She suspected that nobody still left on this island really deserved the blissful ignorance that was prerequisite to that slow and simple life anymore."

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

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15. Mother Swamp (A Point in Time, #7)

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.78

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

A fever dream of the past that ripples outward to the modern world, this powerful short story by tw… read more

Similar categories in Jesmyn Ward's Mother Swamp (A Point in Time, #7) book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • race
  • historical
  • novella
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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16. Heads of the Colored People

By: Nafissa Thompson-Spires

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, an… read more

Similar categories in Nafissa Thompson-Spires's Heads of the Colored People book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • race
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african american
  • audiobook
"As a funeral singer, she had more gigs than she wanted and paid for the fertility treatments on her own with the profits, though it seemed wrong to call them that."

-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People

"Marjorie was only thirty-seven, but she felt older than her peers; some of them would say she felt better than them, too. But that wasn't true. If anything, she felt inferior for all the many ways sh…"

-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People

"She did not want to be one of those people who went to therapy for the rest of their lives, blathering on about what "my therapist said" or "what we uncovered in therapy." It struck Marjorie that tho…"

-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People

"She knew that she should feel discontentment, connected to a large chain of disenfranchisement or systemic persecution--it's not that black death and the news of the world didn't touch her spirit--bu…"

-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People

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17. The Map of Salt and Stars

By: Zeyn Joukhadar

3.92

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Nour es una niña de once años cuyo padre acaba de morir. Su madre, cartógrafa que dibuja los mapas … read more

Similar categories in Zeyn Joukhadar's The Map of Salt and Stars book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Stories are powerful,"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"I don’t understand why we were shelled."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"The sea has a way of showing us ourselves,"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"The most important places on a map are the places we haven't been yet"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

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18. Barriers to Entry (Blaze Collection)

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.19

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive woman defies expectations to become the mother of forensic science in this absorbing… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's Barriers to Entry (Blaze Collection) book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story

By: Huda Fahmy

4.21

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Chaperones, suitors, and arranged marriages aren't only reserved for the heroines of a Jane Austen … read more

Similar categories in Huda Fahmy's That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • contemporary
"Her cat hotel did very well. LOL"

-Huda Fahmy, That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story

"Her daughter got married in pants. Lol"

-Huda Fahmy, That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story

"I find you. . . r citizenship very attractive. Lol"

-Huda Fahmy, That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story

"Yeah, I've been there. It had a funky smell and reminded me of a graveyard."

-Huda Fahmy, That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story

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20. The Act of Disappearing

By: Nathan Gower

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

"Hauntingly beautiful.” —Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Aven… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Gower's The Act of Disappearing book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. The Salt Fields

By: Stacy D. Flood

4.09

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

On the day that Minister Peters boards a train from South Carolina heading north, he has nothing le… read more

Similar categories in Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields book and Stacy D. Flood's The Salt Fields

  • race
  • historical
  • novella
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • african american
  • audiobook

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4.37

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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

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C.J. Leede

3.78

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Chuck Tingle

3.94

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3.86

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