13 must-read literature books like Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge, Wanden Lafarge Gomez

Cover of Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge, Wanden Lafarge Gomez

Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story

By: Oliver La Farge , Wanden Lafarge Gomez

4.04

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Capturing the essence of the Southwest in 1915, Oliver La Farge's Pulitzer Prize-winning first nove…

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Cover of His Family by Ernest Poole

1. His Family

By: Ernest Poole

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this 1918 Pulitzer Prize winning story, widower Roger Gale struggles to deal with the way his ch… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Years of Grace

By: Margaret Ayer Barnes

3.70

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

She fought the battle of the generations victoriously because she understood both the years of grac… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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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  • classics
  • literature
  • westerns
  • 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
Cover of One of Ours by Willa Cather

5. One of Ours

By: Willa Cather

3.95

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

One of Ours is Willa Cather's 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the making of an American sol… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"As he looked out and saw the grey landscape through the gently falling snow, he could not help thinking how much better it would be if people could go to sleep like the fields; could be blanketed dow…"

-Willa Cather, One of Ours

"He is convinced that the people who might mean something to him will always misjudge him and pass him by. He is not so much afraid of loneliness as he is of accepting cheap substitutes; of making exc…"

-Willa Cather, One of Ours

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6. Scarlet Sister Mary

By: Julia Peterkin , A.J. Verdelle

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the Afri… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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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. 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
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. 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

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge, Wanden Lafarge Gomez

10. Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story

By: Oliver La Farge , Wanden Lafarge Gomez

4.04

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Capturing the essence of the Southwest in 1915, Oliver La Farge's Pulitzer Prize-winning first nove… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • westerns
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • native americans
Cover of In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow

11. 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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12. 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
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13. Alice Adams

By: Booth Tarkington

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Alice Adams, the daughter of middle-class parents, wants desperately to belong with the people of "… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Able McLaughlins (The McLaughlins, #1) by Margaret  Wilson

14. The Able McLaughlins (The McLaughlins, #1)

By: Margaret Wilson

3.65

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

This neglected novel tells the story of Wully McLaughlin coming home from the Civil War to find his… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

15. The Bridge of San Luis Rey

By: Thornton Wilder

5.00

Format: 36 pages,

Featuring a beautiful new cover and author biography, this novel, which brought Wilder his first Pu… read more

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16. 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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17. 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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18. So Big

By: Edna Ferber

4.07

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Author Edna Ferber described the story of So Big as being about a "material man, son of his earth-g… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I want you to see all kinds,"

-Edna Ferber, So Big

"Where are you going this hot day, Mis’ DeJong?"

-Edna Ferber, So Big

"You just go until you come to a closed door. And you say "Open Sesame!" and there you are."

-Edna Ferber, So Big

"About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad."

-Edna Ferber, So Big

19. 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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20. Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady

By: Louis Bromfield

4.14

Format: 438 pages,

Bromfield takes a close look at the Pentlands- a fictional rich family in New England- exposing the… read more

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21. Honey in the Horn

By: H.L. Davis

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Honey in the Horn is a novel about life in the homesteading days of Oregon, 1906-1908. It is about … read more

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Transform Your Habits

His Family

Ernest Poole

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Years of Grace

Margaret Ayer Barnes

3.70

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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The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

4.03

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Margaret Ayer Barnes

3.70

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John P. Marquand

0.00

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Conrad Richter

3.75

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