11 Top american books like The Able McLaughlins (The McLaughlins, #1) by Margaret Wilson

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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…

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1. The Yearling

By: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

4.03

Format: 513 pages, Paperback

No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
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  • historical fiction
"Words began fights and words ended them."

-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

"I'm eating' it quick... but I'll remember it a long time."

-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

"He would be lonely all his life. But a man took it for his share and went on."

-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

"Well, son, you cain’t go thru life chunkin’ things at all the ugly women you meet."

-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

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2. 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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3. 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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Cover of The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1) by A.B. Guthrie Jr.

4. The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)

By: A.B. Guthrie Jr.

4.01

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

A classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction. Origin… read more

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"He had lived a man's life, and now it was at an end, and what had he to show for it? Two horses and a few fixin's and a letter of credit for three hundred and forty-three dollars. That was all, unles…"

-A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)

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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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"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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8. The Late George Apley

By: John P. Marquand

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A modern classic restored to print -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that charts the diminishing … read more

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9. The Town

By: Conrad Richter

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1951 The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of … read more

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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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
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  • historical fiction
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13. 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
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Cover of Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge, Wanden Lafarge Gomez

14. 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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15. 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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16. The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more

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17. 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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18. The Store

By: T.S. Stribling

3.50

Format: None pages,

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1933, The Store is the second novel of Stribling's monumental trilogy… read more

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19. 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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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • civil war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
  • womens
  • novels

20. 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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21. 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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22. The Confessions of Nat Turner

By: William Styron

3.95

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader … read more

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23. 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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24. 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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"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

25. 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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26. 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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27. Journey in the Dark

By: None

3.27

Format: 64 pages,

In a sensitive and full dimensioned portrayal of American life, Martin Flavin has created a memorab… read more

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28. 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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29. 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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Cover of Dragon's Teeth (World's End Lanny Budd, #3) by Upton Sinclair

30. Dragon's Teeth (World's End Lanny Budd, #3)

By: Upton Sinclair

4.05

Format: 836 pages, Kindle Edition

Pulitzer Prize Winner: An American in Germany fights against the rising tide of Nazi terror in this… read more

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31. Guard of Honor

By: James Gould Cozzens

3.48

Format: 614 pages, Hardcover

James Gould Cozzens was one of America's most famous writers after the Second World War. His Pulitz… read more

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22 Best fiction books like The Able McLaughlins (The McLaughlins, #1) by Margaret Wilson

Transform Your Habits

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

4.03

Transform Your Habits

His Family

Ernest Poole

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Years of Grace

Margaret Ayer Barnes

3.70

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The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)

A.B. Guthrie Jr.

4.01

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

4.03

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Years of Grace

Margaret Ayer Barnes

3.70

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The Late George Apley

John P. Marquand

0.00

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Conrad Richter

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