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10 best books like House of Sand and Fog (Andre Dubus III): Lord of the Flies, The Handmaid's Tale, White Oleander, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, Gap Creek, The Rapture of Canaan, Jewel, My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath, The Fall of the Athenian Empire, Mother of Pearl

Lord of the Flies
AuthorWilliam Golding
ISBN0140283331
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing,...
The Handmaid's Tale
AuthorMargaret Atwood
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant,...
White Oleander
AuthorJanet Fitch
ISBN0316182540
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes--each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its...
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
AuthorPearl Cleage
Acclaimed Playwright, essayist and columnist Pearl Cleage breaks new ground in African American women's literature--with a debut novel that sings and crackles with life-affirming energy as it moves the reader to laughter and tears.

As a girl growing up in Idlewild, Michigan, Ava Johnson...
Gap Creek
AuthorRobert Morgan
ISBN0743203631
Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will...
The Rapture of Canaan
AuthorSheri Reynolds
ISBN0425162443
Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1997: Members of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Almighty Baptizing Wind spend their days and nights serving the Lord and waiting for the Rapture--that moment just before the Second Coming of Christ when the saved will be lifted bodily to heaven and the damned...
Jewel
AuthorBret Lott
ISBN0671042572
2.5

I started this book years ago during my "Read every single book from Oprah's book club" stage. Looking back now I realize that I really enjoyed some of them but I didn't finish quite a few of them. I picked this one up a few weeks ago, skimming through it to refresh my memory as best I could and then...
My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath
AuthorSeymour M. Hersh
ISBN0394714504
Investigative journalist Hersh made one of his earliest splashes documenting the My Lai atrocity at the height of the Vietnam War; this short, angry book summarizes his research and findings. Unfortunately for modern readers, it's a leftist polemic that spends as much time trashing the American...
The Fall of the Athenian Empire
AuthorDonald Kagan
ISBN0801499844
In the fourth and final volume of his magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the period from the destruction of Athens' Sicilian expedition in September of 413 B.C. to the Athenian surrender to Sparta in the spring of 404 B.C. Through his study of this last decade of the war,...
Mother of Pearl
AuthorMelinda Haynes
ISBN0671774670
Capturing all the rueful irony and racial ambivalence of small-town Mississippi in the late 1950s, Melinda Haynes' celebrated novel is a wholly unforgettable exploration of family, identity, and redemption. Mother of Pearl revolves around twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew...
Vinegar Hill
AuthorA. Manette Ansay
ISBN0060897848
In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field,...
The Book of Ruth
AuthorJane Hamilton
ISBN0385265700
I am really surprised by all of the negative reviews of this book. I think it is so strange that the characters are discounted as "white trash", their story thus, uninteresting or too dreary. While the story is by no means a happy one it is highly engrossing and worth telling. Hamilton's narrator Ruth is...
A Virtuous Woman
AuthorKaye Gibbons
ISBN0375703063
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked...
River, Cross My Heart
AuthorBreena Clarke
ISBN0316899984
The acclaimed bestseller--a selection of Oprah's Book Club--that brings vividly to life the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, circa 1925, and a community reeling from a young girl's tragic death.




River, Cross My Heart marks the debut of a wonderfully gifted new storyteller...
Songs in Ordinary Time
AuthorMary McGarry Morris
ISBN0140244824
Songs in Ordinary Time is set in the summer of 1960 - the last of quiet times and America's innocence. It centers on Marie Fermoyle, a strong but vulnerable woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for the dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen...
The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book
AuthorBill Cosby
ISBN0590956175
[Scholastic Readers Level 3]

This easy-to-read story about friendship by comedian and storyteller Bill Cosby is now a Scholastic Reader!
Little Bill and his friends LOVE the TV show Space Explorers. And so when the new Space Explorers video game comes out, they each want a copy.
But...
Drowning Ruth
AuthorChristina Schwarz
ISBN0345439104
In the winter of 1919, a young mother named Mathilda Neumann drowns beneath the ice of a rural Wisconsin lake. The shock of her death dramatically changes the lives of her daughter, troubled sister, and husband. . . . Told in the voices of several of the main characters and skipping back and forth in time,...
Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals
AuthorAnne Collet
ISBN1571312447
Tales about the author's encounters with cetaceans and pinnipeds. While stories of this ilk have the potential to veer off into "new agey" territory, these absolutely do not. Collet is a marine biologist and in addition to describing various events in straightforward terms, she also uses her book...
Goldilocks & Three Bears: Bears Should Share!
AuthorAlvin Granowsky
ISBN0811466345
-- The non-traditional version is told through the eyes of the other characters, stimulating critical thought in young readers.
-- Flip-book format physically mimics the "two sides of the story", allowing easy comparisons.
-- Full-color artwork is executed in two distinct styles.
--...
The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life
AuthorSteven Pressfield
ISBN0553813072
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'A marvellous, life-affirming book' Mark McCormack

'Golf and mysticism...a dazzler and a thought-provoker' Los Angeles Times

'Good stuff...a philosophical fantasy imagined on a golf course, heavy with fog, storm, fireworks and the howling winds...
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