3.94 avg rating — 26,995 ratings

"A young woman is accused of murder. We hear the story of the death from four witnesses: an Italian physician intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; the son of an alleged Royalist traitor; a master cryptographer who has worked for both Cromwell and the king; and a renowned Oxford antiquarian. Each tells his own version of what happened. Only one reveals the extraordinary truth."

4.01 avg rating — 266,212 ratings

"Six different "nested" stories across time and space that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant post-apocalyptic future"

4.11 avg rating — 789,432 ratings

"The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil."