29 books
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2 voters
Iowa Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,082
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.85 — 122,827 ratings — published 2004
A Thousand Acres (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.82 — 71,954 ratings — published 1991
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.56 — 45,167 ratings — published 2013
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.87 — 62,324 ratings — published 2008
The Bridges of Madison County (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.71 — 105,580 ratings — published 1992
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.73 — 6,638 ratings — published 2007
Some Luck (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.63 — 20,560 ratings — published 2014
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.94 — 67,814 ratings — published 2006
The Weight of Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.95 — 49,585 ratings — published 2008
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.38 — 12,406 ratings — published 2009
The Overnight Guest (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.02 — 139,436 ratings — published 2022
Grasshopper Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.64 — 18,855 ratings — published 2014
Universal Harvester (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.18 — 19,624 ratings — published 2017
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,503 ratings — published 2011
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.10 — 17,384 ratings — published 1991
Shoeless Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,331 ratings — published 1982
Alice's Tulips (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,372 ratings — published 2000
The Late Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.34 — 8,677 ratings — published 2023
Arrowood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.76 — 8,392 ratings — published 2016
These Things Hidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,817 ratings — published 2011
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,871 ratings — published 2009
One Breath Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,962 ratings — published 2012
Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.14 — 797 ratings — published 2008
Kitchens of the Great Midwest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.81 — 52,551 ratings — published 2015
The Year We Left Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.39 — 6,691 ratings — published 2011
Moo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.47 — 8,540 ratings — published 1995
Everything We Didn't Say (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.75 — 31,501 ratings — published 2021
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.39 — 157,382 ratings — published 2019
Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.79 — 987 ratings — published 2000
Stars Over Clear Lake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,126 ratings — published 2017
This Is How I Lied (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.82 — 26,904 ratings — published 2020
Before She Was Found (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.91 — 21,466 ratings — published 2019
The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,870 ratings — published 2016
Bottomland (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,254 ratings — published 2016
The Magician's Lie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.67 — 12,361 ratings — published 2015
The Oxford Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.16 — 781 ratings — published 2008
Heartbreaker (Buchanan-Renard, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.07 — 29,193 ratings — published 2000
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.81 — 64,246 ratings — published 1989
The Banned Books Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,665 ratings — published 2024
Not a Sound (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.90 — 18,277 ratings — published 2017
Missing Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.77 — 14,244 ratings — published 2016
The Princesses of Iowa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,273 ratings — published 2012
The Stranger (Legacy of Love #7)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.07 — 801 ratings — published 2010
Midnight Assassin: A Murder In America's Heartland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,096 ratings — published 2005
The Luck of the Buttons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.59 — 553 ratings — published 2011
The Sunshine Girls (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,062 ratings — published 2022
“Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as treating the Congress of the United States like 'a plantation,' adding in a significant tone of voice that 'you know what I mean ...'
She did not repeat this trope, for some reason, when addressing the electors of Iowa or New Hampshire. She's willing to ring the other bell, though, if it suits her. But when an actual African-American challenger comes along, she rather tends to pout and wince at his presumption (or did until recently).”
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She did not repeat this trope, for some reason, when addressing the electors of Iowa or New Hampshire. She's willing to ring the other bell, though, if it suits her. But when an actual African-American challenger comes along, she rather tends to pout and wince at his presumption (or did until recently).”
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“History is full of decapitations, and Iowa is no exception.”
― Grasshopper Jungle
― Grasshopper Jungle
















