9 best-selling novels books like Tobacco Road (Brown Thrasher Books) by Lewis Nordan, Erskine Caldwell

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Tobacco Road (Brown Thrasher Books)

By: Lewis Nordan , Erskine Caldwell

4.38

Format: None pages,

Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Roadwas f…

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1. The Naked and the Dead

By: Norman Mailer

3.95

Format: 721 pages, Paperback

Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead rece… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get."

-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

"Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken."

-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

"It was probably a damn sight easier than getting rid of a woman who had found something in him that he didn't have or he didn't care to give."

-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

"No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-of-the-society. He is that way because he is having problems of adjustment. It is because he is a Tex…"

-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

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2. Elmer Gantry

By: Sinclair Lewis

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when … read more

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  • classics
  • literature
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  • historical fiction
  • novels
"He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason"

-Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry

"And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology."

-Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry

"They were obsessed by the gaffer in Terra Haute who got converted every single night in the meetings. He may have been insane and he may have been a plain drunk."

-Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry

"sinclair "They were obsessed by the gaffer in Terra Haute who got converted every single night in the meetings. He may have been insane and he may have been a plain drunk."

-Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry

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3. The Ginger Man

By: J.P. Donleavy

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is … read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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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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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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5. The Old Wives' Tale

By: Arnold Bennett

3.23

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

H.G. Wells described The Old Wives' Tale as "by far the finest long novel written in English and in… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels

6. Under the Net

By: Iris Murdoch

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and s… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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7. Deliverance

By: James Dickey

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In t… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
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8. Tobacco Road (Brown Thrasher Books)

By: Lewis Nordan , Erskine Caldwell

4.38

Format: None pages,

Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Roadwas f… read more

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  • classics
  • novels
  • literature
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • southern gothic
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9. The Postman Always Rings Twice

By: James M. Cain

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's Th… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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10. Loving

By: Henry Green

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of his most admired works, Lovingdescribes life above and below stairs in an Irish country hous… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels

11. Manhattan Transfer

By: John Dos Passos

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transferis an "expressionistic … read more

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12. Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond… read more

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13. The Angry Wife

By: Pearl S. Buck

3.78

Format: None pages,

Indonesian edition Dua kakak-beradik, dua istri, dua dunia... Tom dan Pierce Delaney sama-sama ikut… read more

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14. The Way of All Flesh

By: Samuel Butler

3.71

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Fleshis regarded b… read more

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15. Winesburg, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

2.96

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life… read more

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16. Ironweed

By: William Kennedy

3.68

Format: 336 pages,

Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he… read more

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17. Whispering Winds of Appalachia

By: John Ellington

4.46

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

Life-long friendships, class differences, terrible mistakes, and the beauty of unspoiled nature ar… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Coming Apart: A Novel of the Great Depression (Ava and Claire Book 1) by Karen Heenan

18. Coming Apart: A Novel of the Great Depression (Ava and Claire Book 1)

By: Karen Heenan

4.63

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

No one knows you like a sister. Ava has always been poor, so she doesn't think the Great Depress… read more

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  • historical fiction
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19. Out of the Dust

By: Joyce E. Patterson

4.24

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

Two of America’s worst economic disasters occurred during the same period. One was the crash of the… read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of A Grave Every Mile (Ghosts Along the Oregon Trail Book 1) by David Fitz-Gerald

20. A Grave Every Mile (Ghosts Along the Oregon Trail Book 1)

By: David Fitz-Gerald

4.30

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Embark on a harrowing trek across the rugged American frontier in 1850. Your wagon awaits, and the … read more

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  • historical fiction
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21. The Melody of the Mulberries (Big Creek)

By: Tonya Jewel Blessing

4.20

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

This Appalachian Big Creek sequel is set in West Virginia, during the 1920s, where granny witches a… read more

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11 must-read fiction books like Tobacco Road (Brown Thrasher Books) by Lewis Nordan, Erskine Caldwell

Transform Your Habits

The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Elmer Gantry

Sinclair Lewis

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Ginger Man

J.P. Donleavy

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2)

Booth Tarkington

3.76

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12 Best fiction books like Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

Transform Your Habits

The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Pastures of Heaven

John Steinbeck

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Elmer Gantry

Sinclair Lewis

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Gilded Age

Mark Twain , Charles Dudley Warner

3.53

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