590 books
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260 voters
Midwest Books
Showing 1-50 of 5,012
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.84 — 146,988 ratings — published 1918
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.85 — 123,757 ratings — published 2004
Kitchens of the Great Midwest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.81 — 52,820 ratings — published 2015
The Lager Queen of Minnesota (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.01 — 47,222 ratings — published 2019
Winesburg, Ohio (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.84 — 36,825 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 — 753,726 ratings — published 2003
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.35 — 241,417 ratings — published 1965
This Tender Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.39 — 218,488 ratings — published 2019
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,418,490 ratings — published 2012
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.09 — 724,267 ratings — published 1966
A Thousand Acres (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.82 — 72,188 ratings — published 1991
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,304,448 ratings — published 2017
Tom Lake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.93 — 487,037 ratings — published 2023
O Pioneers! (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.90 — 58,339 ratings — published 1913
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.94 — 833,316 ratings — published 2009
Ordinary Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.27 — 191,994 ratings — published 2013
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.21 — 284,883 ratings — published 1932
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.07 — 607,396 ratings — published 2014
Peace Like a River (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.03 — 101,056 ratings — published 2001
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,253,223 ratings — published 2012
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.04 — 661,941 ratings — published 2002
Funny Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,237,944 ratings — published 2024
Beach Read (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,607,006 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 — 500,530 ratings — published 2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.47 — 112,990 ratings — published 2016
Main Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,846 ratings — published 1920
The Art of Fielding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.99 — 115,758 ratings — published 2011
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.13 — 297,827 ratings — published 1970
Virgil Wander (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,416 ratings — published 2018
The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.84 — 197,280 ratings — published 2001
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.61 — 30,709 ratings — published 2023
The Lincoln Highway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.22 — 308,801 ratings — published 2021
Shotgun Lovesongs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.79 — 19,533 ratings — published 2014
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.83 — 608,201 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 — 16,481 ratings — published 2018
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,371 ratings — published 2017
Orphan Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.20 — 462,322 ratings — published 2013
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.78 — 408,728 ratings — published 1993
Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.21 — 301,436 ratings — published 1935
Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.04 — 79,381 ratings — published 1999
So Long, See You Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.87 — 16,257 ratings — published 1980
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.66 — 105,388 ratings — published 2008
Universal Harvester (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.17 — 19,730 ratings — published 2017
Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.79 — 174,826 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 — 47,034 ratings — published 2023
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.31 — 199,043 ratings — published 2021
Real Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.78 — 37,130 ratings — published 2020
Blankets (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.06 — 125,059 ratings — published 2003
Driftless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,102 ratings — published 2008
“Closing his eyes, he held her tightly and sifted place in a general southerly direction, pushing to the farthest limits his diminished power could carry him. The moment he rematerialized, he instantly sifted again, arms locked around her.
Railroad track. Sift. Grocery store. Keep moving. Roof of a house. Sift. Cornfield. Sift. Cornfield. Sift. Cornfield. Sift. Cornfield. Bloody Midwest. Sift.”
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Railroad track. Sift. Grocery store. Keep moving. Roof of a house. Sift. Cornfield. Sift. Cornfield. Sift. Cornfield. Sift. Cornfield. Bloody Midwest. Sift.”
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“It's the Cuyahoga River that puts the cleave in Cleveland, separating East from Midwest, integration from segregation, a place that sees itself as America's westernmost Eastern city from a place that sees itself as the easternmost midwestern city. The rest of the country sees it as neither, though it must be said that the rest of the country is perversely wont to misunderstand Cleveland.”
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