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The Endless Forest by Sara Donati
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWith a master storyteller’s skill and a historian’s precision, Sara Donati has delighted readers and critics alike with her bestselling novels of the nineteenth-century New York frontier. Now she brings us The Endless Forest, set in the remote village of Paradise, where the Bonner family that readers first met in Into the Wilderness make their home... -
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Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"This is a book about Heaven," says Jayber Crow, "but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell." It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber... -
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Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 40 ratings"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass." So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially American poem in all our national literature... -
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A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing," to the last, "I am haunted by waters," "A River Runs Through It" is an American classic...Categorized as:
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![In the Distance by Hernan Diaz]()
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA young Swedish boy finds himself penniless and alone in California. He travels east in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great push to the west. Driven back over and over again on his journey through vast expanses, Håkan meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend... -
![The Moonspinners by Mary Stewart]()
The Moonspinners by Mary Stewart
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsYoung, beautiful, and adventurous Nicola Ferris loves her life as a secretary at the British Embassy on the lush island of Crete. Then on her day off, she links up with two hiking companions who have inadvertently stumbledupon a scene of blood vengeance. And suddenly the life Nicola adores is in danger of coming to an abrupt, brutal, and terrifying end . -
![And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier]()
And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA CBC Canada Reads 2015 Selection!Finalist for the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English TranslationTom and Charlie have decided to live out the remainder of their lives on their own terms, hidden away in a remote forest, their only connection to the outside world a couple of pot growers who deliver whatever they can’t eke out for themselves.But one summer two women arrive... -
![On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin]()
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLewis and Benjamin Jones, identical twins, were born with the century on a farm on the English-Welsh border. For eighty years they live on the farm--sharing the same clothes, tilling the same soil, sleeping in the same bed. Their lives and the lives of their neighbors--farmers, drovers, clergymen, traders, coffin-makers--are only obliquely touched by the chaos of twentieth-century progress... -
![The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer by Brian Bates]()
The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer by Brian Bates
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSent on a mission deep into the forests of pagan Anglo-Saxon England, Wat Brand, a Christian scribe, suddenly finds his vision of the world turned upside down. The familiar English countryside is not what it seems: threatening spirits, birds of omen and plants of power lurk in this landscape of fallen terrors and mysterious forces... -
![Gardens in the Dunes by Leslie Marmon Silko]()
Gardens in the Dunes by Leslie Marmon Silko
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA sweeping, multifaceted tale of a young Native American pulled between the cherished traditions of a heritage on the brink of extinction and an encroaching white culture, Gardens in the Dunes is the powerful story of one woman’s quest to reconcile two worlds that are diametrically opposed...Categorized as:
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Flatlands by Sue Hubbard
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA moving tale of unlikely friendship and the beauty of nature, set in the wild wetland landscape of the English Fens during World War IIPerfect for fans of Atonement , this gorgeous coming of age explores the connection between Philip, a conscientious objector, and Freda, a young London evacuee housed by a cruel familyFreda is a twelve-year-old evacuee from East London, who has been sent away at...Categorized as:
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Waterland by Graham Swift
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSet in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy... -
![Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, Денис Джонсон]()
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, Денис Джонсон
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDenis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century---an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world... -
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An Imaginative Experience: A Novel by Mary Wesley
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the author of A Sensible Life comes a tale of unforgettable strength--of grief, release, comic fatalism, and love. A woman leaps from a London train to save a sheep stranded near the tracks. As the other passengers look on in horror and embarrassment, a fellow-traveler sees in her face the anguish for the husband and child she has just lost... -
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![Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Harding, John Lee]()
Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Harding, John Lee
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 1616, an English whaling ship heads home, leaving one sailor behind, Thomas Cave, who has made a bet with the rest of the crew that he can spend a winter on this Arctic islandalone... -
![Pan by Knut Hamsun]()
Pan by Knut Hamsun
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsLieutenant Thomas Glahn, a hunter and ex-military man, lives alone in a hut in the forest with his faithful dog Aesop. Upon meeting Edvarda, the daughter of a merchant in a nearby town, they are both strongly attracted to each other, but neither understands the other's love... -
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The Martian in the Wood by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStephen Baxter's The Martian in the Wood, a Tor.com Original In the aftermath of the First Martian War, in the interim between it and what was to come later, England seemed to once again become a green and peaceful place, if one haunted by the terrible events in Surrey that had happened in those early years of the century. Although people hoped and prayed peace had come, they were wrong... -
![Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1) by R.A. Robinson]()
Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1) by R.A. Robinson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands in his way... -
![Black Sun: A Novel by Edward Abbey]()
Black Sun: A Novel by Edward Abbey
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNow in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, the timeless novel that chronicles a reckless romance in the wilderness, from Edward Abbey, one of America’s foremost defenders of the natural environment. Black Sun is a bittersweet love story involving an iconoclastic forest ranger and a freckle-faced “American princess” half his age... -
![Master of the Moor by Ruth Rendell]()
Master of the Moor by Ruth Rendell
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a second murder captures his imagination in an unpredictable and fascinating way . . -
![Thursbitch by Alan Garner]()
Thursbitch by Alan Garner
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHere John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755.The print of a woman's shoe was found by his side in the snow where he lay dead. This enigmatic memorial stone, high on the bank of a prehistoric Pennine track in Cheshire, is a mystery that lives on in the hill farms today. John Turner was a packman... -
![A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart]()
A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the author of the best-selling, award-winning The Stone Carvers and The Underpainter comes a new novel that explores love, loss, and the transitory nature of place. After Jerome, a young artist on a remote island retreat, discovers Andrew Woodman s dead body frozen in the ice, he meets the elderly man s former lover, Sylvia, who is curious about the circumstances surrounding Andrew s death... -
![Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown]()
Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this captivating dual narrative novel, a modern-day woman finds inspiration in hidden notes left by her home’s previous owner, a quintessential 1950s housewife... -
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Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe extraordinary author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons returns with a dazzling new novel of suspense and love set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s... -
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![Walden Two by B.F. Skinner]()
Walden Two by B.F. Skinner
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThis fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct... -
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Beast by Paul Kingsnorth
Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe stunning new novel from the prizewinning author of The WakeBeast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on an empty moor in the west of England. What he has left behind we don’t yet know... -
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Pythagoras' Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery by Arturo Sangalli
Rated: 2.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These questions are the inspiration for the mathematical mystery novel Pythagoras' Revenge... -
![The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds]()
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
Rated: 3.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBased on real events in Epping Forest on the edge of London around 1840, The Quickening Maze centres on the first incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare. After years struggling with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, Clare finds himself in High Beach Private Asylum - an institution run on reformist principles which would later become known as occupational therapy... -
![The Sister by Poppy Adams]()
The Sister by Poppy Adams
Rated: 3.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom her lookout in the crumbling mansion that was her childhood home, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to arrive. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left nearly fifty years ago; the reclusive Ginny has rarely ventured out, retreating into the precise routines that define her days, carrying on her father’s solitary work studying moths... -
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The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan, Шарлотта Роган
Rated: 3.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying Grace Winter and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize is over capacity. For any to live, some must die...
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