12 best-selling fiction books like Dante's Indiana by Randy Boyagoda

Cover of Dante's Indiana by Randy Boyagoda

Dante's Indiana

By: Randy Boyagoda

3.41

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A Divine Comedy of our times.--John Irving, author of The World According to Garp This book is a…

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1. Nathan Coulter

By: Wendell Berry

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Nathan Coulter begins Wendell Berry's sequence of novels about the citizens of Port William, Kentuc… read more

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  • fiction
"Oh Lord, make us able To eat all that's on this table, And if there's some we haven't got Bring it to us while it's hot"

-Wendell Berry, Nathan Coulter

"Tobacco,' Jig said. 'I used to raise tobacco once. But I quit. I was plowing one morning, and the Lord said, "Jig, how'd you like for your daughter to smoke?" And I said, "I wouldn't like it, Lord. I…"

-Wendell Berry, Nathan Coulter

Cover of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash a Revolution in Your Life In Christ by Peter Scazzero

2. Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash a Revolution in Your Life In Christ

By: Peter Scazzero

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

What Are You Missing? Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: you can't be spiritually mature while re… read more

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3. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more

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  • fiction
"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

4. Death Comes for the Archbishop

By: Willa Cather

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more

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5. Lila (Gilead, #3)

By: Marilynne Robinson

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an … read more

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6. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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7. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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8. Everything Sad Is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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9. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more

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"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

Cover of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin  Kobes Du Mez

10. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

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11. King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

4.67

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more

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12. Haven

By: Emma Donoghue

3.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
"Fog makes an island of every man."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

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13. Liberation Day

By: George Saunders

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

Cover of The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez

14. The Vulnerables

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

Cover of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon

15. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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Cover of Last Call at the Nightingale (Nightingale Mysteries, #1) by Katharine Schellman

16. Last Call at the Nightingale (Nightingale Mysteries, #1)

By: Katharine Schellman

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

First in a captivating Jazz age mystery series from author Katharine Schellman, Last Call at the Ni… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Last Chairlift by John Irving

17. The Last Chairlift

By: John Irving

3.44

Format: 889 pages, Hardcover

John Irving, one of the world’s greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years—a g… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Reading Genesis

By: Marilynne Robinson

4.10

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more

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Cover of Moon Knight by Lemire & Smallwood by Jeff Lemire

19. Moon Knight by Lemire & Smallwood

By: Jeff Lemire

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Marc Spector (A.K.A. Moon Knight/Jake Lockley/Steven Grant) has been fighting criminals and keeping… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Index of Self-Destructive Acts by Christopher R. Beha

20. The Index of Self-Destructive Acts

By: Christopher R. Beha

4.07

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

The day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for The Interviewer, a street-corner preacher dec… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Dante's Indiana by Randy Boyagoda

21. Dante's Indiana

By: Randy Boyagoda

3.41

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A Divine Comedy of our times.--John Irving, author of The World According to Garp This book is a… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary

6 Top contemporary books like Dante's Indiana by Randy Boyagoda

Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Everything Sad Is Untrue

Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Liberation Day

George Saunders

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Vulnerables

Sigrid Nunez

3.61

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7 must-read fantasy books like Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1) by C.S. Lewis

Transform Your Habits

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton

2.67

Transform Your Habits

Phantastes

George MacDonald

3.48

Transform Your Habits

On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)

Andrew Peterson

4.33

The Warden and the Wolf King (The Wingfeather Saga #4)

None , Andrew Peterson

3.90

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