14 Top classics books like So Big by Edna Ferber

Cover of So Big by Edna Ferber

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…

"I want you to see all kinds,"

-Edna Ferber, So Big

"I want you to see all kinds,"

-Edna Ferber, So Big

"Where are you going this hot day, Mis’ DeJong?"

-Edna Ferber, So Big

"Where are you going this hot day, Mis’ DeJong?"

-Edna Ferber, So Big

If you liked the classics plot in So Big by Edna Ferber , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of His Family by Ernest Poole

1. 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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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
Cover of Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes

2. 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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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
Cover of The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2) by Booth Tarkington

3. 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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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
Cover of One of Ours by Willa Cather

4. 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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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"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

Cover of The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand

5. 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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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
Cover of Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin, A.J. Verdelle

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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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. 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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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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8. 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
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge, Wanden Lafarge Gomez

9. 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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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. 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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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
Cover of Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

11. 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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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

12. 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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Cover of The Able McLaughlins (The McLaughlins, #1) by Margaret  Wilson

13. 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
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels

14. 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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15. 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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Cover of So Big by Edna Ferber

16. 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

Similar categories in Edna Ferber's So Big book and Edna Ferber's So Big

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
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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

17. 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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18. 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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19. 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 Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

20. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
Cover of Dragon's Teeth (World's End Lanny Budd, #3) by Upton Sinclair

21. 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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  • novels

15 Best fiction books like So Big by Edna Ferber

Transform Your Habits

His Family

Ernest Poole

3.67

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Years of Grace

Margaret Ayer Barnes

3.70

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Booth Tarkington

3.76

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One of Ours

Willa Cather

3.95

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Wednesday's Child: Stories

Yiyun Li

3.75

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Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

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4.54

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Daniel Mason

4.15

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