Little Beauties

9 best books like Little Beauties (Kim Addonizio): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Smart Women, Joan: The Mysterious Life of the Heretic Who Became a Saint, Biloxi, Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race, What Was Mine, The Boys Omnibus Vol. 3, The Boys Omnibus Vol. 2, The Boys Omnibus, Vol. 1

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Author	Olga Tokarczuk
ISBN	0525541330

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...

Smart Women

Author	Judy Blume
ISBN	0425206556

I read this in one go on a plane and, while its light, airy feel--a mix of very 80s melodrama and romance--was soothing when cooped up with complete strangers for 10 hours, it was also very annoying and trying. The main reason: I didn't really like any of the characters.

Like nearly every other...

Joan: The Mysterious Life of the Heretic Who Became a Saint

Author	Donald Spoto
ISBN	0060815175

During the tumultuous Hundred Years' War between England and France, a teenage peasant girl followed her heart and helped save a nation. A vision from God, received in her parents' garden, instructed her to take up arms and help restore the kingdom of France. Without consulting her family, Joan left...

Biloxi

Author	Mary Miller
ISBN	1631492160

Mary Miller seizes the mantle of southern literature with this wry tale of middle age and the unexpected turns a life can take.

Like her predecessors Ann Beattie and Raymond Carver, Mary Miller brings an essential voice to her generation. Building on her critically acclaimed novel, The Last...

Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race

Author	Debby Irving
ISBN	0991331311

Waking Up White is the book Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her sometimes cringe-worthy struggle to understand racism and racial tensions, she offers a fresh perspective on bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance. As Irving unpacks her own long-held beliefs about...

What Was Mine

Author	Helen Klein Ross
ISBN	1476732353

Simply told but deeply affecting, in the bestselling tradition of Alice McDermott and Tom Perrotta, this urgent novel unravels the heartrending yet unsentimental tale of a woman who kidnaps a baby in a superstore—and gets away with it for twenty-one years.

Lucy Wakefield is a seemingly...

The Boys Omnibus Vol. 3

Author	Garth Ennis
ISBN	1524110035

Includes both volumes 5 & 6 of this acclaimed series in one volume.

An evil so profound it threatens all mankind! The mightiest heroes on the planet uniting to defend us all! A secret crisis of such utter finality that a countdown to civil or infinite war seems unavoidable! But have you ever...

The Boys Omnibus Vol. 2

Author	Garth Ennis
ISBN	1524109703

Contains, The Boys Volume 3: Good for the Soul & The Boys Volume 4: We Wanna Go Now.

In The Boys, Vol. 3: Good for the Soul, everyone has something to get off their chest: Frenchie and the Female are up to something nasty with the Mafia, Mother's Milk goes to see his mom, Annie January wants a word...

The Boys Omnibus, Vol. 1

Author	Garth Ennis
ISBN	1606904183

In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone's got to make sure the "supes" don't get out of line. And someone will! Billy Butcher, Wee Hughie, Mother's Milk, The Frenchman, and The Female are The Boys: A CIA-backed team of very dangerous people,...