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Minnesota Books
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Ordinary Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.27 — 197,193 ratings — published 2013
The Lager Queen of Minnesota (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.01 — 47,711 ratings — published 2019
Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
by (shelved 121 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.98 — 58,076 ratings — published 1998
This Tender Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.39 — 223,618 ratings — published 2019
The Sentence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.92 — 84,830 ratings — published 2021
The River We Remember (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.24 — 106,986 ratings — published 2023
Boundary Waters (Cork O'Connor, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.11 — 33,675 ratings — published 1999
Kitchens of the Great Midwest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.81 — 53,257 ratings — published 2015
The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert, #1; Detective Max Rupert, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.09 — 210,038 ratings — published 2014
Orphan Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.20 — 465,986 ratings — published 2013
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.61 — 31,445 ratings — published 2023
Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
by (shelved 67 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,100,659 ratings — published 2024
Purgatory Ridge (Cork O'Connor, #3)
by (shelved 60 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.18 — 26,073 ratings — published 2001
Blood Hollow (Cork O'Connor, #4)
by (shelved 56 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,499 ratings — published 2004
Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.25 — 878,153 ratings — published 2022
Thunder Bay (Cork O'Connor, #7)
by (shelved 53 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,265 ratings — published 2007
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.68 — 72,517 ratings — published 2000
Virgil Wander (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,835 ratings — published 2018
Peace Like a River (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.03 — 102,544 ratings — published 2001
Red Knife (Cork O'Connor, #8)
by (shelved 47 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.12 — 16,450 ratings — published 2008
History of Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.40 — 29,479 ratings — published 2017
Mercy Falls (Cork O'Connor, #5)
by (shelved 46 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,541 ratings — published 2005
Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)
by (shelved 44 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.26 — 31,920 ratings — published 2021
Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.71 — 8,955 ratings — published 2017
Main Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,967 ratings — published 1920
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
by (shelved 44 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.23 — 107,904 ratings — published 1937
Northwest Angle (Cork O'Connor, #11)
by (shelved 43 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.25 — 16,703 ratings — published 2011
The Seed Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.26 — 24,809 ratings — published 2021
A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,290 ratings — published 2016
Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.80 — 175,793 ratings — published 2010
Vermilion Drift (Cork O'Connor, #10)
by (shelved 40 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.23 — 15,594 ratings — published 2010
Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.76 — 497,421 ratings — published 2009
Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.11 — 94,808 ratings — published 1989
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,666 ratings — published 2008
Future Home of the Living God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.61 — 29,600 ratings — published 2017
The Good Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.80 — 283,165 ratings — published 2014
The Night Watchman (ebook)
by (shelved 37 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.08 — 95,426 ratings — published 2020
Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #18)
by (shelved 36 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,627 ratings — published 2022
Heaven's Keep (Cork O'Connor, #9)
by (shelved 36 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.24 — 17,142 ratings — published 2009
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,750 ratings — published 2006
Trickster's Point (Cork O'Connor, #12)
by (shelved 35 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.20 — 15,112 ratings — published 2012
Say You'll Remember Me (Say You'll Remember Me, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.01 — 528,011 ratings — published 2025
Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.29 — 853,791 ratings — published 2023
The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,137,931 ratings — published 2019
Copper River (Cork O'Connor, #6)
by (shelved 33 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,616 ratings — published 2006
In the Lake of the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.76 — 24,454 ratings — published 1994
Windigo Island (Cork O'Connor, #14)
by (shelved 32 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.16 — 14,005 ratings — published 2014
Tamarack County (Cork O'Connor, #13)
by (shelved 32 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.18 — 15,111 ratings — published 2013
Lake Wobegon Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.64 — 8,525 ratings — published 1985
Gone to Dust (Nils Shapiro, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,020 ratings — published 2017
“Two- to four-finger waves are commonly used between fast-moving vehicles, but the nicely executed single-finger wave is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. To me, it perfectly sums up the Minnesota character that I love so much. The finger wave from the steering wheel: when you get it right, you'll know you've arrived and you don't ever have to leave again if you don't want to.”
― How to Talk Minnesotan: A Visitor's Guide
― How to Talk Minnesotan: A Visitor's Guide
“Today I am an unemployed writer living as a recluse in the great Northwoods.”
― The UnPeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness
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