Breathing Lessons
By: Anne Tyler
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Breathing Lessonsis the wonderfully moving and surprising story of Ira and Maggie Moran. She's impe…
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1. A Thousand Acres
By: Jane Smiley
3.82
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm—one of the largest in Zeb… read more
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"Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"I had a burden lift off me that I hadn't even felt the heaviness of until then, and it was the burden of having to wait and see what was going to happen."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
2. Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom #4)
By: John Updike
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-bas… read more
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3. Foreign Affairs
By: Alison Lurie
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in … read more
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- literary fiction
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4. Independence Day
By: Richard Ford
3.51
Format: 178 pages,
A visionary account of American life--and the long-awaited sequel to one of the most celebrated nov… read more
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- american
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5. 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
- literary fiction
- american
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6. 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
- literary fiction
- american
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7. Breathing Lessons
By: Anne Tyler
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Breathing Lessonsis the wonderfully moving and surprising story of Ira and Maggie Moran. She's impe… read more
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- contemporary
- novels
8. Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)
By: John Updike
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Ten years after RABBIT REDUX, Harry Angstrom has com… read more
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9. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
By: Oscar Hijuelos
3.84
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
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10. A Fable
By: William Faulkner
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of… read more
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11. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
By: Robert Olen Butler
3.68
Format: None pages,
Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam … read more
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12. A Summons to Memphis
By: Peter Taylor
4.04
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
One of the most celebrated novels of its time, the Pulitzer Prize winner A Summons to Memphisintrod… read more
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13. The Stone Diaries
By: Carol Shields
3.89
Format: 361 pages, Paperback
The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy St… read more
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"From surfeit to loss is a short line."-Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
"Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground."-Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
"It was as though she had veered, accidentally, into her own life."-Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
"A bedjacket speaks of desperation, and what it says is: toodle-oo."-Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
14. Elbow Room
By: James Alan McPherson
3.37
Format: 414 pages,
A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive … read more
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15. Eden Close
By: Anita Shreve
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
A compelling tale of edgy, small-town emotions, lingering obsession, and romantic salvation. Andrew… 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. Empire Falls
By: Richard Russo
3.57
Format: 10 pages, Paperback
Richard Russo--from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man--has demonstrated a p… read more
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18. 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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"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
19. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
By: Steven Millhauser
3.56
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In th… read more
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"Martin thought of the iron El trestles winding and stretching across the city, of department store windows and hotel lobbies, of electric elevators and street-car ads, of the city pressing its way no…"-Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
20. Melissa
By: Taylor Caldwell
3.93
Format: 616 pages, Kindle Edition
A tale of romantic intrigue in the gothic tradition of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre (The New Yor… read more
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21. Minus Me
By: Mameve Medwed
3.41
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Her life turned upside down by a grim diagnosis, a small-town Maine woman sets about writing a "How… read more
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