8 best-selling literary fiction books like The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash

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The Last Ballad

By: Wiley Cash

4.67

Format: 121 pages, ebook

The author of the celebrated bestseller A Land More Kind Than Homereturns with this eagerly awaited…

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1. One Foot in Eden

By: Ron Rash

4.13

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

Will Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Ma niente è solido e duraturo. Le nostre vite si reggono su fondamenta instabili. Non è necessario leggere i libri di storia per scoprirlo. Ti basta conoscere la storia della tua vita."

-Ron Rash, One Foot in Eden

"But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life."

-Ron Rash, One Foot in Eden

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2. The Weight of This World

By: David Joy

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as "a s… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's The Weight of This World book and Wiley Cash's The Last Ballad

  • southern
  • fiction
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3. The Way Life Should Be

By: Christina Baker Kline

3.10

Format: 151 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author o… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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4. The Last Ballad

By: Wiley Cash

4.67

Format: 121 pages, ebook

The author of the celebrated bestseller A Land More Kind Than Homereturns with this eagerly awaited… read more

Similar categories in Wiley Cash's The Last Ballad book and Wiley Cash's The Last Ballad

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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5. The Cove

By: Ron Rash

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

This lyrical, heart-rending tale, as mesmerizing as its award-winning predecessor Serena, shows onc… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Serena

By: Ron Rash

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

A New York Timesbestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Serena by award-winning author Ron Rash… read more

Similar categories in Ron Rash's Serena book and Wiley Cash's The Last Ballad

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult

7. Burnt Mountain

By: Anne Rivers Siddons

4.05

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most acclaimed writers comes this dramatic tale of a well-born Southern woman whose… read more

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8. The Forsaken (Quinn Colson, #4)

By: Ace Atkins

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary new novel in New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins' acclaimed series about… read more

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9. Saints at the River

By: Ron Rash

4.41

Format: None pages,

When a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy, th… read more

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10. The World Made Straight

By: Ron Rash

4.41

Format: None pages,

Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders into the woods onto private property outside his … read more

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11. Desperation Road

By: Michael Farris Smith

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"An elegantly written, perfectly-paced novel about a man and woman indelibly marked by violence" (R… read more

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12. Above the Waterfall

By: Ron Rash

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Les, a long-time sheriff nearing retirement, contends with the ravages of poverty and crystal meth … read more

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13. Burning Bright

By: Ron Rash

4.46

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestselling and award-winning author Ron Rash is "a storyteller of the highest rank" … read more

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14. Oral History

By: Lee Smith

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When Jennifer, a college student, returns to her childhood home of Hoot Owl Holler with a tape reco… read more

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15. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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16. The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty

By: Susan Page

4.11

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-apprecia… read more

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  • historical
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17. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Those We Thought We Knew

By: David Joy

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Still Glides the Stream

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.15

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

When Will Hastie finally decides to retire from the military and return home to Scotland, he intend… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Even As We Breathe

By: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Even As We Breathe introduces the reader to twenty-year-old Cowney Sequoyah and the mountains of we… read more

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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. A Year of Last Things: Poems

By: Michael Ondaatje

3.61

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began h… read more

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11 must-read fiction books like The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash

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4.25

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The Way Life Should Be

Christina Baker Kline

3.10

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The Last Ballad

Wiley Cash

4.67

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All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby

4.24

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Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

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4.29

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