17 books
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7 voters
Midwest Books
Showing 1-50 of 5,012
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.84 — 146,946 ratings — published 1918
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.85 — 123,681 ratings — published 2004
Kitchens of the Great Midwest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.81 — 52,806 ratings — published 2015
The Lager Queen of Minnesota (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.01 — 47,209 ratings — published 2019
Winesburg, Ohio (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.84 — 36,812 ratings — published 1919
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.00 — 753,411 ratings — published 2003
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.35 — 240,925 ratings — published 1965
This Tender Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.39 — 218,360 ratings — published 2019
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,417,193 ratings — published 2012
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.09 — 723,956 ratings — published 1966
A Thousand Acres (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.82 — 72,171 ratings — published 1991
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,304,004 ratings — published 2017
Tom Lake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.93 — 486,348 ratings — published 2023
O Pioneers! (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.90 — 58,321 ratings — published 1913
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.94 — 832,994 ratings — published 2009
Ordinary Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.27 — 191,875 ratings — published 2013
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.21 — 284,585 ratings — published 1932
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.07 — 607,005 ratings — published 2014
Peace Like a River (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.03 — 101,018 ratings — published 2001
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,252,920 ratings — published 2012
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.04 — 661,847 ratings — published 2002
Funny Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,236,043 ratings — published 2024
Beach Read (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,605,593 ratings — published 2020
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.84 — 500,273 ratings — published 2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.47 — 112,927 ratings — published 2016
Main Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,839 ratings — published 1920
The Art of Fielding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.99 — 115,738 ratings — published 2011
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.13 — 297,633 ratings — published 1970
Virgil Wander (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,410 ratings — published 2018
The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.84 — 197,213 ratings — published 2001
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.61 — 30,686 ratings — published 2023
The Lincoln Highway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.22 — 308,632 ratings — published 2021
Shotgun Lovesongs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.79 — 19,528 ratings — published 2014
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.83 — 608,035 ratings — published 2014
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,478 ratings — published 2018
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,361 ratings — published 2017
Orphan Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.20 — 462,265 ratings — published 2013
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.78 — 408,461 ratings — published 1993
Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.21 — 301,387 ratings — published 1935
Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.04 — 79,359 ratings — published 1999
So Long, See You Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.87 — 16,210 ratings — published 1980
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.66 — 105,357 ratings — published 2008
Universal Harvester (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.17 — 19,728 ratings — published 2017
Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.79 — 174,779 ratings — published 2010
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.35 — 46,954 ratings — published 2023
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.31 — 198,738 ratings — published 2021
Real Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.78 — 37,110 ratings — published 2020
Blankets (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.06 — 125,012 ratings — published 2003
Driftless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,102 ratings — published 2008
“[...] grew up here, in what show business people, which now includes our best-known politicians and so-called journalists, often call 'flyover country.' We are somewhere between television cameras in Washington DC, and New York, and Los Angeles. Please join me in saying to the undersides of their airplanes, 'Go to hell.”
― If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
― If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
“He hated winter. The same gray sky lay on the ground, day after day, gray as industrial smoke, and in the sky the ground floated like a street that's been salted, and his closets were cold, holes wore through his pockets, and he was lonely, indoors and out, with a loneliness like the loneliness of overshoes or someone else's cough.”
― In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
― In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories













