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Minnesota Books
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Ordinary Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.27 — 194,083 ratings — published 2013
The Lager Queen of Minnesota (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.01 — 47,432 ratings — published 2019
Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
by (shelved 121 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.98 — 57,215 ratings — published 1998
This Tender Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.39 — 220,680 ratings — published 2019
The Sentence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.93 — 84,051 ratings — published 2021
The River We Remember (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.25 — 105,265 ratings — published 2023
Boundary Waters (Cork O'Connor, #2)
by (shelved 83 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.11 — 33,107 ratings — published 1999
Kitchens of the Great Midwest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.81 — 53,016 ratings — published 2015
The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert, #1; Detective Max Rupert, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.09 — 203,056 ratings — published 2014
Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
by (shelved 68 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,068,113 ratings — published 2024
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.61 — 31,013 ratings — published 2023
Orphan Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.20 — 463,974 ratings — published 2013
Purgatory Ridge (Cork O'Connor, #3)
by (shelved 59 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.18 — 25,613 ratings — published 2001
Blood Hollow (Cork O'Connor, #4)
by (shelved 56 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,108 ratings — published 2004
Thunder Bay (Cork O'Connor, #7)
by (shelved 53 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,908 ratings — published 2007
Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.25 — 843,185 ratings — published 2022
Virgil Wander (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,589 ratings — published 2018
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.68 — 71,891 ratings — published 2000
Peace Like a River (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.03 — 101,573 ratings — published 2001
Red Knife (Cork O'Connor, #8)
by (shelved 47 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.12 — 16,113 ratings — published 2008
Mercy Falls (Cork O'Connor, #5)
by (shelved 46 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,223 ratings — published 2005
History of Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.40 — 29,417 ratings — published 2017
Main Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,898 ratings — published 1920
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
by (shelved 44 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.23 — 107,418 ratings — published 1937
Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)
by (shelved 43 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.26 — 31,556 ratings — published 2021
Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,761 ratings — published 2017
The Seed Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.26 — 24,249 ratings — published 2021
Northwest Angle (Cork O'Connor, #11)
by (shelved 42 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.25 — 16,414 ratings — published 2011
A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,291 ratings — published 2016
Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.80 — 175,238 ratings — published 2010
Vermilion Drift (Cork O'Connor, #10)
by (shelved 40 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.23 — 15,326 ratings — published 2010
Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.76 — 496,597 ratings — published 2009
The Good Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.80 — 279,526 ratings — published 2014
Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.11 — 94,255 ratings — published 1989
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,612 ratings — published 2008
The Night Watchman (ebook)
by (shelved 37 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.08 — 93,757 ratings — published 2020
Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #18)
by (shelved 36 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,295 ratings — published 2022
Future Home of the Living God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.61 — 29,410 ratings — published 2017
Heaven's Keep (Cork O'Connor, #9)
by (shelved 36 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,826 ratings — published
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,707 ratings — published 2006
Trickster's Point (Cork O'Connor, #12)
by (shelved 35 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,838 ratings — published 2012
Say You'll Remember Me (Say You'll Remember Me, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.01 — 480,787 ratings — published 2025
Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.30 — 823,358 ratings — published 2023
The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,122,182 ratings — published 2019
Copper River (Cork O'Connor, #6)
by (shelved 33 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,272 ratings — published 2006
Gone to Dust (Nils Shapiro, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,953 ratings — published 2017
Windigo Island (Cork O'Connor, #14)
by (shelved 32 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,756 ratings — published 2014
Tamarack County (Cork O'Connor, #13)
by (shelved 32 times as minnesota)
avg rating 4.18 — 14,856 ratings — published 2013
Lake Wobegon Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.64 — 8,473 ratings — published 1985
In the Lake of the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as minnesota)
avg rating 3.76 — 24,298 ratings — published 1994
“Father and son grinned at each other.
His father took off his hat. His forehead was white, his hair
coppery.
"So how's the rat race, son?"
"Not so bad," Walter said.
His father paused a moment. "Any ... decisions yet?" his
father said.
Walter swallowed. He looked off toward town. "About ..
a major, you mean?" Walter said.
His father waited.
"Well," Walter said. His mouth went dry. He· swallowed
twice. "Well," he said, "I think I'm going to major in English."
His father pursed his lips. He pulled off his work gloves one
finger at a time. "English," he said.
"English," Walter nodded.
His father squinted. "Son, we already know English.”
― A Gravestone Made of Wheat
His father took off his hat. His forehead was white, his hair
coppery.
"So how's the rat race, son?"
"Not so bad," Walter said.
His father paused a moment. "Any ... decisions yet?" his
father said.
Walter swallowed. He looked off toward town. "About ..
a major, you mean?" Walter said.
His father waited.
"Well," Walter said. His mouth went dry. He· swallowed
twice. "Well," he said, "I think I'm going to major in English."
His father pursed his lips. He pulled off his work gloves one
finger at a time. "English," he said.
"English," Walter nodded.
His father squinted. "Son, we already know English.”
― A Gravestone Made of Wheat












