256 books
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24 voters
Iowa Books
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Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.85 — 126,523 ratings — published 2004
A Thousand Acres (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.83 — 72,902 ratings — published 1991
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.56 — 45,744 ratings — published 2013
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.88 — 62,905 ratings — published 2008
The Bridges of Madison County (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.72 — 107,738 ratings — published 1992
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.94 — 68,478 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 — 6,753 ratings — published 2007
Some Luck (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.63 — 20,799 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 — 50,277 ratings — published 2008
The Overnight Guest (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.02 — 160,665 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 — 12,477 ratings — published 2009
Grasshopper Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.64 — 19,030 ratings — published 2014
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,731 ratings — published 2011
Universal Harvester (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.17 — 20,041 ratings — published 2017
Shoeless Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,520 ratings — published 1982
Alice's Tulips (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,417 ratings — published 2000
The Late Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.34 — 8,976 ratings — published 2023
Arrowood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.76 — 8,490 ratings — published 2016
These Things Hidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.87 — 41,396 ratings — published 2011
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.10 — 17,629 ratings — published 1991
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,906 ratings — published 2009
One Breath Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.99 — 19,143 ratings — published 2012
Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.14 — 803 ratings — published 2008
Everything We Didn't Say (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.75 — 32,410 ratings — published 2021
This Is How I Lied (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.82 — 28,313 ratings — published 2020
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.38 — 164,974 ratings — published 2019
Kitchens of the Great Midwest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.81 — 53,371 ratings — published 2015
The Year We Left Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.39 — 6,706 ratings — published 2011
Moo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.47 — 8,607 ratings — published 1995
Before She Was Found (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.91 — 22,347 ratings — published 2019
Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,000 ratings — published 2000
Heartbreaker (Buchanan-Renard, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.07 — 29,437 ratings — published 2000
The Banned Books Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,348 ratings — published 2024
Stars Over Clear Lake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,227 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 — 478 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 — 1,897 ratings — published 2016
Bottomland (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,266 ratings — published 2016
The Magician's Lie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.67 — 12,402 ratings — published 2015
Midnight Assassin: A Murder In America's Heartland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,121 ratings — published 2005
The Oxford Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.16 — 783 ratings — published 2008
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.81 — 65,095 ratings — published 1989
Not a Sound (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.90 — 19,091 ratings — published 2017
Missing Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.77 — 14,636 ratings — published 2016
The Princesses of Iowa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,271 ratings — published 2012
The Stranger (Legacy of Love #7)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.08 — 815 ratings — published 2010
The Luck of the Buttons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.59 — 556 ratings — published 2011
“You know, if they ever gave a Nobel Prize for avoiding work, every year some white guy in Iowa would get a million bucks and a trip to Sweden.”
― Grasshopper Jungle
― Grasshopper Jungle
“I woke up finding the world I had known to be gone. Instead, the sky was glowing. I stood up. Nothing had happened to the child, I was as perfectly pregnant as before. The sky seemed to be full of glittering objects floating around, that on further inspection were glowing specs. There were no trees, no buffalo, just endless hills that seem to go on and on.”
― Discovering Time
― Discovering Time
















