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Miracles on Maple Hill

Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen

1956 ★ 4.0

John Brown's Body

Stephen Vincent, Benet, Stephen Vincent Benét

1927

A Bright Shining Lie

Neil Sheehan

1988 ★ 5.0

Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel

2012 ★ 4.1

The trumpeter of Krakow

Eric Philbrook Kelly

1942

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Various Narrators, Johnathan McClain, Dwight Bacquie et al.

2014 ★ 4.4

Saint Joan

George Bernard Shaw

1924

The dragon waiting

John M. Ford

1983

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor

1976 ★ 4.2

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

2011 ★ 4.3

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie

1981 ★ 3.9

A Mercy

Toni Morrison, Jordi Fibla Feito

2008 ★ 4.0

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

1989 ★ 4.2

True History of the Kelly Gang

Peter Carey

2002

The Looming Tower

Lawrence Wright

2006 ★ 4.3

Hitty, her first hundred years

Rachel Field

1929 ★ 3.7

Locomotive

Brian Floca

2013

Freedom from fear

David M. Kennedy

1999

Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald

1979

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

1986

Olio

Tyehimba Jess

2016

A Pale View of Hills

Kazuo Ishiguro

1982 ★ 4.3

The matchlock gun

Paul Lantz, Walter D. Edmonds

1941 ★ 2.3

The Second World War

Winston S. Churchill

1948 ★ 3.8

A history of the English-speaking peoples

Winston S. Churchill, Jeffrey Webb, CHURCHILL et al.

1956 ★ 3.6

The swerve

Stephen Greenblatt

2011 ★ 4.4

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

2009 ★ 4.0

Beloved

Toni Morrison

1987 ★ 3.9

Kira-kira

Cynthia Kadohata

2004 ★ 4.0

Subtle Is the Lord

Abraham Pais

1982

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