64 books
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8 voters
Iowa Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,204
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.85 — 127,618 ratings — published 2004
A Thousand Acres (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.83 — 73,219 ratings — published 1991
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.56 — 45,929 ratings — published 2013
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.88 — 63,072 ratings — published 2008
The Bridges of Madison County (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.72 — 108,401 ratings — published 1992
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.94 — 68,703 ratings — published 2006
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,777 ratings — published 2007
Some Luck (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.63 — 20,888 ratings — published 2014
The Weight of Silence: A Stunning Debut Novel of Domestic Suspense and Missing Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.95 — 50,483 ratings — published 2008
The Overnight Guest (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.02 — 165,200 ratings — published 2022
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.38 — 12,491 ratings — published 2009
Grasshopper Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.64 — 19,068 ratings — published 2014
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,782 ratings — published 2011
Shoeless Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,924 ratings — published 1982
Universal Harvester (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.17 — 20,190 ratings — published 2017
Alice's Tulips (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,435 ratings — published 2000
The Late Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.33 — 9,052 ratings — published 2023
Arrowood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.76 — 8,528 ratings — published 2016
These Things Hidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.87 — 41,547 ratings — published 2011
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,693 ratings — published 1991
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,911 ratings — published 2009
One Breath Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.99 — 19,187 ratings — published 2012
Kitchens of the Great Midwest (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.81 — 53,681 ratings — published 2015
Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.14 — 805 ratings — published 2008
Everything We Didn't Say (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.75 — 32,568 ratings — published 2021
This Is How I Lied (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.82 — 28,672 ratings — published 2020
The Year We Left Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.39 — 6,708 ratings — published 2011
Moo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.47 — 8,625 ratings — published 1995
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.38 — 166,635 ratings — published 2019
Before She Was Found (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.91 — 22,582 ratings — published 2019
Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,003 ratings — published 2000
Heartbreaker (Buchanan-Renard, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.07 — 29,500 ratings — published 2000
The Banned Books Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.71 — 8,523 ratings — published 2024
Stars Over Clear Lake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,254 ratings — published 2017
Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.10 — 483 ratings — published 2018
The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,904 ratings — published 2016
Bottomland (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,271 ratings — published 2016
The Magician's Lie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.66 — 12,414 ratings — published 2015
Midnight Assassin: A Murder In America's Heartland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,128 ratings — published 2005
The Oxford Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.16 — 782 ratings — published 2008
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.81 — 65,310 ratings — published 1989
Not a Sound (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.90 — 19,322 ratings — published 2017
Missing Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.77 — 14,749 ratings — published 2016
The Princesses of Iowa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,272 ratings — published 2012
The Stranger (Legacy of Love #7)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.08 — 822 ratings — published 2010
The Luck of the Buttons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.59 — 556 ratings — published 2011
“History is full of decapitations, and Iowa is no exception.”
― Grasshopper Jungle
― Grasshopper Jungle
“I once heard a tobacco-chewing hog farmer say that, in Iowa, folks like to spread out their children like dog shit on a dance floor.”
― Grasshopper Jungle
― Grasshopper Jungle
















