11 best-selling fiction books like Boston: A Documentary Novel of the Sacco Vanzetti Case by Upton Sinclair

Cover of Boston: A Documentary Novel of the Sacco Vanzetti Case by Upton Sinclair

Boston: A Documentary Novel of the Sacco Vanzetti Case

By: Upton Sinclair

4.08

Format: 799 pages, Hardcover

A Boston dowager becomes involved in the social upheaval generated by the trial of Nicola Sacco and…

If you liked the fiction plot in Boston: A Documentary Novel of the Sacco Vanzetti Case by Upton Sinclair , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Matthew Sweet

1. The Woman in White

By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet

4.01

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • historical fiction
"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

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2. Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir

By: Irvin D. Yalom

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself on the couch in a lapidary memoi… read more

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3. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

By: Laura Spinney

3.91

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–… read more

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4. The Gilded Age

By: Mark Twain , Charles Dudley Warner

3.53

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Arguably the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and th… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile."

-Mark Twain, The Gilded Age

"A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man."

-Mark Twain, The Gilded Age

"No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its exec…"

-Mark Twain, The Gilded Age

"Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society w…"

-Mark Twain, The Gilded Age

Cover of Rainbow's End (Felse, #13) by Ellis Peters

5. Rainbow's End (Felse, #13)

By: Ellis Peters

3.96

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

The sleepy village of Middlehope is suddenly jerked into life by nouveau riche antiques magnate Art… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Mr. Nice

By: Howard Marks

3.60

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and owned 25 companies throughout… read more

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7. Arrowsmith

By: E.L. Doctorow , Sinclair Lewis

3.63

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Originally published in 1925, after three years of anticipation, the book follows the life of Marti… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Waking Lions

By: Sondra Silverston , Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

3.80

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Eitan Green is a good man. He saves lives. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road in his … read more

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"The distance between a hungry person and a sated one is greater than the distance between here and the moon."

-Sondra Silverston, Waking Lions

"He didn't want her to be a saint. All he wanted was for her to be human (and it never occurred to him that there are times when being human is a privilege)."

-Sondra Silverston, Waking Lions

"Children are more resilient than we think. Their bones are more flexible than adults' bones. Evolution did that to protect them from the blows they were going to receive."

-Sondra Silverston, Waking Lions

"She knew she hadn't answered his question but preferred not answering to lying. She'd rather raise him with questions that remain open than in a world filled with false answers."

-Sondra Silverston, Waking Lions

9. The Other Einstein

By: Marie Benedict

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

A vivid and mesmerizing novel about the extraordinary woman who married and worked with one of the … read more

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10. Altes Land

By: Dörte Hansen

4.20

Format: None pages,

Zwei Frauen, ein altes Haus und eine Art von Familie Das ,,Polackenkind" ist die funfjahrige Vera a… read more

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11. All the King's Men

By: Robert Penn Warren

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

More than just a classic political novel, Warren's tale of power and corruption in the Depression-e… read more

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12. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A nineteenth-century American travels back… read more

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13. The Dead Zone

By: Stephen King

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] -  Johnny, the small boy who skated at br… read more

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14. Korku

By: Stefan Zweig , İlknur İgan

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rahat ve korunakli bir yasam suren saygin bir kadin, sekiz yillik evliliginden sikilmis, burjuva du… read more

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15. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Cover of Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24) by Lee Child

16. Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

By: Lee Child

3.96

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

“This is a random universe,” Reacher says. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.” Th… read more

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  • fiction
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17. Hell of a Book

By: Jason Mott

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In Hell of a Book, an African-American author sets out on a cross-country book tour to promote his … read more

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  • fiction
"Because God needs the little people more than he needs anyone"

-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book

"The modern author is only as important as their search results."

-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book

"From his perspective, Daddy Henry was a nice enough collection of wrinkles."

-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book

"I know all the smells: humidity, pine trees, thinly veiled racism. It’s what home feels like for me."

-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book

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18. Assembly

By: Natasha Brown

3.84

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Ho… read more

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"I traded in my life for a sliver of middle-class comfort. For a future."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Explain air. Convince a sceptic. Prove it's there. Prove what cant be seen."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Because they watch (us). They're taught how to, from school. They are taught to view our bodies (selves) as objects."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Everything now is profit. I am what we’ve always been to the empire: pure, fucking profit. A natural resource to exploit and exploit, denigrate, and exploit."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

Cover of The Lobotomist's Wife by Samantha Greene Woodruff

19. The Lobotomist's Wife

By: Samantha Greene Woodruff

4.04

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthralling historical novel of a compassionate and relentless woman, a cutting-edge breakthroug… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. The Twilight World

By: Werner Herzog

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. A Children's Bible

By: Lydia Millet

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their… read more

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"The nuclear threat. So quaint."

-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible

"Once we lived in a summer country."

-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible

"I felt an itch and thought, Is there a tick crawling on me? Right this minute? Burrowing into my skin? And then I thought, Wait. Forget the tick. Why are we always complaining? We get to be alive."

-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible

"If you could be nothing, you could also be everything. Once my molecules had dispersed, I would be here forever. Free. Part of the timeless. The sky and the ocean would also be me. Molecules never di…"

-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible

Cover of Boston: A Documentary Novel of the Sacco Vanzetti Case by Upton Sinclair

22. Boston: A Documentary Novel of the Sacco Vanzetti Case

By: Upton Sinclair

4.08

Format: 799 pages, Hardcover

A Boston dowager becomes involved in the social upheaval generated by the trial of Nicola Sacco and… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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3.96

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