7 best-selling fiction books like Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton

Cover of Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton

Black Oxen

By: Gertrude Atherton

3.25

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Black Oxen is a novel written by Gertrude Atherton, first published in 1923. The story revolves aro…

If you liked the fiction plot in Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1) by Robert Cormier

1. The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

By: Robert Cormier

3.49

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

Jerry Renault ponders the question on the poster in his locker: Do I dare disturb the universe? Ref… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"They murdered him."

-Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

"They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too."

-Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

"He closed the locker quickly so no one would see the damage. For some reason, he felt ashamed."

-Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

"Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus."

-Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

Cover of Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1) by Jodi Taylor

2. Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)

By: Jodi Taylor

3.88

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

"History is just one damned thing after another." Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Ma… read more

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  • romance
  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Your primary survival strategy will always be running away."

-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)

"He had fallen for Cal like a sperm-whale failing to clear the Grand Canyon on a bicycle."

-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)

"The eyes of the world are fixed on Mars at the moment, sir. Everywhere I look the arts are being shunted aside for technology. It's not necessarily a bad thing but, maybe in some small way, this coul…"

-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)

3. National Avenue (The Growth Trilogy, #3)

By: Booth Tarkington

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

These three novels trace the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three ge… read more

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4. H is for Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more

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5. Herland

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Ann J. Lane

3.68

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

An all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male exp… read more

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6. Johnny Tremain

By: Lynd Ward , Esther Forbes

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Johnny Tremain, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in the danger and excitement of 1775 B… read more

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7. Pale Horse, Pale Rider

By: Katherine Anne Porter

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1939, these three short novels secured the author's reputation as a master of sh… read more

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8. Seven-Day Magic (Tales of Magic, #7)

By: Edward Eager , N.M. Bodecker

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

A seven-day book of magic proves to be fractious for five children, who must learn the book's rules… read more

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Cover of The Bad Seed (The Food Group #1) by Jory John

9. The Bad Seed (The Food Group #1)

By: Jory John

4.33

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a book about a bad seed. A baaaaaaaaaad seed. How bad? Do you really want to know? He has a… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

10. Oona Out of Order

By: Margarita Montimore

3.86

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

A remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in the moment, even i… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"You weren't adding chaos to my life. You were adding color."

-Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

"Dogs and books, two excellent defenses against solitude and despair."

-Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

"being able to buy anything put a spotlight on the things that couldn’t be bought (lost friendship, lost love, lost time)"

-Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

"Her next leap would always hover over the horizon waiting to wisp her away. In some cases waiting to grant a wish from years ago."

-Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

Cover of The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding: a Hercule Poirot Short Story (Hercule Poirot, #SS-26) by Agatha Christie

11. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding: a Hercule Poirot Short Story (Hercule Poirot, #SS-26)

By: Agatha Christie

4.12

Format: 55 pages, Kindle Edition

Asked to investigate an incident that needs to be dealt with discretion, Poirot reluctantly agrees … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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12. The Light Pirate

By: Lily Brooks-Dalton

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous chil… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Someone will be left behind; this is what love costs."

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

"These women haven't shared their genes, but they have given freely of their memories. Their ideas. Their skills. There is more than one kind of legacy."

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

"After all this time, the aches have grown softer but also deeper. They both know the looping shape of pain--it changes and quiets but never ends. There is a strange comfort in its constancy. Memories…"

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

Cover of Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton

13. Black Oxen

By: Gertrude Atherton

3.25

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Black Oxen is a novel written by Gertrude Atherton, first published in 1923. The story revolves aro… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • american
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction

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Eric Carle

4.33

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4.29

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