10 Top book club books like Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

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Flight Behavior

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.81

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a d…

"She would die of him or be cured."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

"For scientists, reality is not optional."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

"I never learn anything from listening to myself."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

"Be sweet and carry a sharp knife, was her motto."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

If you liked the book club plot in Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. State of Wonder

By: Ann Patchett

3.90

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual tra… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's State of Wonder book and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • book club
  • audiobook
"One must not be shy where language is concerned."

-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

"Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand."

-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

"In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant."

-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

"It was not as natural as it appeared. It was more like milking a cow, easy as long as someone else was doing it."

-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

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2. Flight Behavior

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.81

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a d… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior book and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • climate change
  • novels
  • book club
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"She would die of him or be cured."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

"For scientists, reality is not optional."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

"I never learn anything from listening to myself."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

"Be sweet and carry a sharp knife, was her motto."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

Cover of Cutting for Stone by Abraham   Verghese

3. Cutting for Stone

By: Abraham Verghese

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable journey into one man's remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimac… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone book and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior

  • book club
  • fiction

4. The Patron Saint of Liars

By: Ann Patchett

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Since her first publication in 1992, celebrated novelist Ann Patchett has crafted a number of elega… read more

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5. Bel Canto

By: Ann Patchett

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

In an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor o… read more

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6. Commonwealth

By: Ann Patchett

4.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed, bestselling author - winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize - tells t… read more

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7. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior

  • adult fiction
  • book club
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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8. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Cover of The Covenant of Water by Abraham   Verghese

10. The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese

4.45

Format: 724 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Verghese's The Covenant of Water book and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • book club
  • audiobook
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11. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of North Woods by Daniel       Mason

12. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • nature
  • audiobook
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13. Horse

By: Geraldine Brooks

4.27

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American… read more

Similar categories in Geraldine Brooks's Horse book and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior

  • literary fiction
  • book club
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I don't rightly know who was my great-grandfather, much less his father. How come you know that about a horse?"

-Geraldine Brooks, Horse

"She felt a little clandestine, as if she were ten years old again, sneaking a dead rat past her mother so she could articulate a Rattus norvegicus domestica for her bedroom display."

-Geraldine Brooks, Horse

"You have to know that bigots are unwittingly handing you an edge. By thinking you're lesser than they are, they underestimate you. Lean on that. Learn to use it, and you'll get the upper hand."

-Geraldine Brooks, Horse

Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

14. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

15. Remarkably Bright Creatures

By: Shelby Van Pelt

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

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16. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

Similar categories in Paul Murray's The Bee Sting book and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • book club
  • audiobook
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

Cover of Wszystko mam bardziej. Życie w spektrum autyzmu by Jacek Hołub

17. Wszystko mam bardziej. Życie w spektrum autyzmu

By: Jacek Hołub

4.10

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

O tym, dlaczego dorośli decydują się na diagnozę, dlaczego autyzm to nie zawsze supermoce, o codzie… read more

Similar categories in Jacek Hołub's Wszystko mam bardziej. Życie w spektrum autyzmu book and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior

  • audiobook
Cover of Szept by Weronika Mathia

18. Szept

By: Weronika Mathia

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

By poznać prawdę, stań na brzegu jeziora i wsłuchaj się w jego... szept. Iława. Na brzegu jezior… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Należy do mnie by Anna H. Niemczynow

19. Należy do mnie

By: Anna H. Niemczynow

4.25

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Starannie wyreżyserowany dramat psychologiczny. Helena, była primabalerina, dla rodziny zrezygno… read more

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Cover of Alchemia. Powieść biograficzna o Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie by Katarzyna Zyskowska

20. Alchemia. Powieść biograficzna o Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie

By: Katarzyna Zyskowska

4.53

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Porywająca historia dwóch wielkich romansów Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie. Żony, matki, namiętnej kochan… read more

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Cover of Trzcinowisko (Detektyw Aleksander Zamojski, #1) by Kinga Wójcik

21. Trzcinowisko (Detektyw Aleksander Zamojski, #1)

By: Kinga Wójcik

3.93

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

Jak daleko jesteśmy gotowi się posunąć, aby chronić swoich bliskich i ich dobre imię? We wrześni… read more

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13 must-read fiction books like Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

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State of Wonder

Ann Patchett

3.90

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Flight Behavior

Barbara Kingsolver

3.81

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Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

4.21

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

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James

Percival Everett

4.54

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North Woods

Daniel Mason

4.15

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Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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