The World Played Chess
By: Robert Dugoni
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer mone…
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1. 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
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- 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
2. 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
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
3. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
4. Go as a River
By: Shelley Read
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Women endure. That’s what we do."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
5. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
By: Lisa See
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
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- adult
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- audiobook
6. The River We Remember
By: William Kent Krueger
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
7. Only the Beautiful
By: Susan Meissner
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune th… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
8. 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
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
9. A Calamity of Souls
By: David Baldacci
4.53
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo … read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
10. The Little Liar
By: Mitch Albom
4.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel that moves from a coastal Gree… read more
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- historical
- war
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- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Dead men tell no lies, but their truths must be unearthed."-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar
"But the lies you tell by daylight leave you lonesome in the dark."-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar
"The sad thing is, by the time you share what a loved one wants to hear, they no longer want to hear it."-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar
"...a lie told once is easy to expose, but a lie told a thousand times can look like the truth. And destroy the world."-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar
11. 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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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
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- audiobook
12. Where Butterflies Wander
By: Suzanne Redfearn
4.47
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of In an Instant comes the moving story of a family grappling with grie… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
13. Crow Mary
By: Kathleen Grissom
4.33
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Ev… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
14. West With Giraffes
By: Lynda Rutledge
4.36
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headline… read more
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- coming of age
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Destiny is a mobile thing — that every choice you make, along with every choice made around you, can cause it to spin this way and that, offering destinies galore."-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes
"Problem was, whenever I locked eyes with an animal I felt something more soulful than I ever felt from the humans I knew, and what I saw in that sprawled giraffe’s eye made me ache to the bone."-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes
"People look at you peculiar if you talk about the feeling you got for animals, saying animals have no souls, no sense of good or bad, no value up next to humans," he said. "I don't know about that. S…"-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes
15. Don’t Forget to Write
By: Sara Goodman Confino
4.50
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- book club
- audiobook
16. The World Played Chess
By: Robert Dugoni
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer mone… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- historical
- war
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
17. Mockingbird Summer
By: Lynda Rutledge
4.25
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
A powerful and emotional coming-of-age novel set amid the turmoil and profound changes of the 1960s… read more
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- coming of age
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
18. Shelterwood
By: Lisa Wingate
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
19. All the Glimmering Stars
By: Mark T. Sullivan
4.66
Format: 475 pages, Kindle Edition
Inspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in … read more
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- historical
- war
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- historical fiction
- book club
- audiobook
20. All the Colors of the Dark
By: Chris Whitaker
4.44
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
21. The Briar Club
By: Kate Quinn
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
- adult
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"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club
"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club
"Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you …"-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club
"Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old rob…"-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club
