5 must-read fiction books like Hope in the Desperate Hour by David Adams Richards

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Hope in the Desperate Hour

By: David Adams Richards

3.41

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Set in a small town in New Brunswick, this intricate, multi-layered novel revolves around the haple…

If you liked the fiction plot in Hope in the Desperate Hour by David Adams Richards , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. The High Mountains of Portugal

By: Yann Martel

2.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomas discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of a… read more

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2. A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #12)

By: Louise Penny

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerfu… read more

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3. Sweet Land Stories

By: E.L. Doctorow

3.82

Format: 384 pages,

One of America's premier writers, the bestselling author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Da… read more

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4. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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5. 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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"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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6. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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7. State of Terror

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.09

Format: 495 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thril… read more

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8. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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9. Hope in the Desperate Hour

By: David Adams Richards

3.41

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Set in a small town in New Brunswick, this intricate, multi-layered novel revolves around the haple… read more

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Transform Your Habits

The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

Louise Penny

4.07

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The Hangman (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6.5)

Louise Penny

3.81

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Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

Louise Penny

4.36

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Louise Penny

3.61

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