10 Best novels books like The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

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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 …

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1. The Fixer

By: Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Safran Foer

3.98

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

A classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The Fixer (1966)… read more

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"In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams."

-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

"Where to look if you've lost your mind?"

-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

"I fix what's broken - except in the heart."

-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

"Charity you can give even when you haven't got."

-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

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

2. 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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Cover of Advise and Consent (Advise and Consent, #1) by Allen Drury

3. Advise and Consent (Advise and Consent, #1)

By: Allen Drury

4.11

Format: None pages,

ADVISE AND CONSENT is a study of political animals in their natural habitat and is universally reco… read more

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4. 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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5. The Caine Mutiny

By: Herman Wouk

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novel that inspired the now-classic film The Caine Mutinyand the hit Broadway play The Caine Mu… read more

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  • literature
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6. 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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7. 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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8. The Reivers

By: William Faulkner

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car … read more

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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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  • african american

12. 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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13. 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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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. Andersonville

By: MacKinlay Kantor

4.23

Format: 690 pages, Paperback

The 1956 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration … read more

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16. 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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17. The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

By: Joyce Carol Oates , Jean Stafford

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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18. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)

By: Anthony Powell

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more

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19. The Edge of Sadness

By: Edwin O'Connor , Amy Welborn , Ron Hansen

4.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A realistic Christian novel of hope in a non-Christian age."--New England Quarterly "A deeply felt… read more

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20. 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

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21. 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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12 Top fiction books like The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

Transform Your Habits

The Fixer

Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Safran Foer

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Way West (The Big Sky, #2)

A.B. Guthrie Jr.

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Advise and Consent (Advise and Consent, #1)

Allen Drury

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Town

Conrad Richter

3.75

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13 must-read fiction books like Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser

Transform Your Habits

The Fixer

Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Safran Foer

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2)

Booth Tarkington

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom #4)

John Updike

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Foreign Affairs

Alison Lurie

4.27

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