What I Lived For

9 best books like What I Lived For (Joyce Carol Oates): The World That We Knew, This Tender Land, The Dutch House, The Water Dancer, Akin, Nothing to See Here, Olive, Again, Trinity, Infinite Home

The World That We Knew
AuthorAlice Hoffman
ISBN1501137573
In 1941, during humanity’s darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman.

In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows...
This Tender Land
AuthorWilliam Kent Krueger
ISBN1476749299
For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, a magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace.

1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds...
The Dutch House
AuthorAnn Patchett
ISBN0062963678
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant...
The Water Dancer
AuthorTa-Nehisi Coates
ISBN0399590595
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme:...
Akin
AuthorEmma Donoghue
ISBN0316491993
A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets in the next masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author Emma Donoghue.

Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor...
Nothing to See Here
AuthorKevin Wilson
ISBN0062913484
Kevin Wilson’s best book yet—a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with remarkable and disturbing abilities

Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school....
Olive, Again
AuthorElizabeth Strout
ISBN0812996542
The iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but also the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses...
Trinity
AuthorLeon Uris
ISBN0060827882
Leon Uris’s beloved Irish classic, available in Avon mass market.

From the acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, QB VII, Topaz, and other beloved classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure that captures the "terrible...
Infinite Home
AuthorKathleen Alcott
ISBN1594633630
A beautifully wrought story of an ad hoc family and the crisis they must overcome together.

Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter. Crippled in various ways—in spirit, in mind, in body,...
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