90 books
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9 voters
Midwest Books
Showing 1-50 of 4,917
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.84 — 146,198 ratings — published 1918
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.85 — 122,686 ratings — published 2004
Kitchens of the Great Midwest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.81 — 52,518 ratings — published 2015
The Lager Queen of Minnesota (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.01 — 46,901 ratings — published 2019
Winesburg, Ohio (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.84 — 36,644 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 — 748,729 ratings — published 2003
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.35 — 233,734 ratings — published 1965
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,398,031 ratings — published 2012
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.09 — 719,265 ratings — published 1966
This Tender Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.39 — 215,792 ratings — published 2019
A Thousand Acres (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.82 — 71,909 ratings — published 1991
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,296,878 ratings — published 2017
Tom Lake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.94 — 475,081 ratings — published 2023
O Pioneers! (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.90 — 57,968 ratings — published 1913
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.94 — 828,475 ratings — published 2009
Ordinary Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.27 — 189,468 ratings — published 2013
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.21 — 283,661 ratings — published 1932
Peace Like a River (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.03 — 100,349 ratings — published 2001
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.07 — 601,243 ratings — published 2014
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,248,852 ratings — published 2012
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.04 — 660,262 ratings — published 2002
Funny Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,204,441 ratings — published 2024
Beach Read (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,583,714 ratings — published 2020
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.47 — 111,859 ratings — published 2016
Main Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,771 ratings — published 1920
The Art of Fielding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.99 — 115,526 ratings — published 2011
Virgil Wander (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,199 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.84 — 496,511 ratings — published 2016
The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.84 — 196,215 ratings — published 2001
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.61 — 30,269 ratings — published 2023
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.13 — 294,204 ratings — published 1970
Shotgun Lovesongs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.79 — 19,428 ratings — published 2014
The Lincoln Highway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.22 — 305,527 ratings — published 2021
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.83 — 604,903 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 — 16,402 ratings — published 2018
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,247 ratings — published 2017
Orphan Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.20 — 460,965 ratings — published 2013
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.78 — 404,368 ratings — published 1993
Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.21 — 300,607 ratings — published 1935
Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.04 — 78,911 ratings — published 1999
So Long, See You Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.88 — 15,566 ratings — published 1980
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.66 — 104,933 ratings — published 2008
Universal Harvester (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.18 — 19,593 ratings — published 2017
Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.79 — 174,340 ratings — published 2010
Real Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.78 — 36,893 ratings — published 2020
Blankets (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.06 — 124,504 ratings — published 2003
Driftless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,075 ratings — published 2008
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as midwest)
avg rating 4.36 — 45,719 ratings — published 2023
The Sentence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as midwest)
avg rating 3.93 — 81,283 ratings — published 2021
“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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“Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.”
― Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
― Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories













