12 Top classics books like A Bell for Adano by John Hersey

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A Bell for Adano

By: John Hersey

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople whe…

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1. The Yearling

By: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

4.03

Format: 513 pages, Paperback

No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Words began fights and words ended them."

-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

"I'm eating' it quick... but I'll remember it a long time."

-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

"He would be lonely all his life. But a man took it for his share and went on."

-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

"Well, son, you cain’t go thru life chunkin’ things at all the ugly women you meet."

-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

Cover of The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1) by A.B. Guthrie Jr.

2. The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)

By: A.B. Guthrie Jr.

4.01

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

A classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction. Origin… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He had lived a man's life, and now it was at an end, and what had he to show for it? Two horses and a few fixin's and a letter of credit for three hundred and forty-three dollars. That was all, unles…"

-A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)

Cover of The Way West (The Big Sky, #2) by A.B. Guthrie Jr.

3. The Way West (The Big Sky, #2)

By: A.B. Guthrie Jr.

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The sequel to The Big Sky, The Way West is the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the American West by… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2) by Booth Tarkington

4. The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2)

By: Booth Tarkington

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersonschronicl… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Late George Apley

By: John P. Marquand

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A modern classic restored to print -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that charts the diminishing … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. The Town

By: Conrad Richter

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1951 The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Tales of the South Pacific

By: James A. Michener

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Enter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the… read more

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  • classics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Bell for Adano by John Hersey

8. A Bell for Adano

By: John Hersey

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople whe… read more

Similar categories in John Hersey's A Bell for Adano book and John Hersey's A Bell for Adano

  • italy
  • classics
  • literature
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. In This Our Life

By: Ellen Glasgow

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This novel is an analytical study of the feeling of kinship as it is manifested in the Timberlake f… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Reivers

By: William Faulkner

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

11. A Fable

By: William Faulkner

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of… read more

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12. The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

By: Robert Lewis Taylor

4.22

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

Enjoyed by millions since its first publication in 1958 The Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters is the liv… read more

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13. Lamb in His Bosom

By: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese , Caroline Miller

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

In 1934, Caroline Miller's novel Lamb in His Bosom won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. It was th… read more

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14. A Summons to Memphis

By: Peter Taylor

4.04

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

One of the most celebrated novels of its time, the Pulitzer Prize winner A Summons to Memphisintrod… read more

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15. Now in November

By: Nancy Hoffman , Josephine Winslow Johnson

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) written when J… read more

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16. Journey in the Dark

By: None

3.27

Format: 64 pages,

In a sensitive and full dimensioned portrayal of American life, Martin Flavin has created a memorab… read more

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17. The Trees

By: Conrad Richter

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Trees is a moving novel of the beginning of the American trek to the west. Toward the close of … read more

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18. 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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19. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

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  • war
Cover of Dragon's Teeth (World's End Lanny Budd, #3) by Upton Sinclair

20. Dragon's Teeth (World's End Lanny Budd, #3)

By: Upton Sinclair

4.05

Format: 836 pages, Kindle Edition

Pulitzer Prize Winner: An American in Germany fights against the rising tide of Nazi terror in this… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens

21. Guard of Honor

By: James Gould Cozzens

3.48

Format: 614 pages, Hardcover

James Gould Cozzens was one of America's most famous writers after the Second World War. His Pulitz… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

12 must-read fiction books like A Bell for Adano by John Hersey

Transform Your Habits

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)

A.B. Guthrie Jr.

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Way West (The Big Sky, #2)

A.B. Guthrie Jr.

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2)

Booth Tarkington

3.76

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12 Best fiction books like In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow

Transform Your Habits

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Years of Grace

Margaret Ayer Barnes

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Late George Apley

John P. Marquand

0.00

Transform Your Habits

The Town

Conrad Richter

3.75

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