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Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.85 — 130,062 ratings — published 2004
A Thousand Acres (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.83 — 73,947 ratings — published 1991
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.56 — 46,342 ratings — published 2013
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.88 — 63,354 ratings — published 2008
The Bridges of Madison County (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.73 — 110,070 ratings — published 1992
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.94 — 69,123 ratings — published 2006
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,847 ratings — published 2007
Some Luck (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.63 — 21,055 ratings — published 2014
The Weight of Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.95 — 50,908 ratings — published 2008
The Overnight Guest (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.02 — 170,671 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 — 12,521 ratings — published 2009
Grasshopper Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.64 — 19,143 ratings — published 2014
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,908 ratings — published 2011
Shoeless Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.97 — 17,157 ratings — published 1982
The Late Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.33 — 9,232 ratings — published 2023
Universal Harvester (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.17 — 20,506 ratings — published 2017
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.10 — 17,811 ratings — published 1991
Alice's Tulips (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,474 ratings — published 2000
Arrowood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.76 — 8,606 ratings — published 2016
These Things Hidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.87 — 41,878 ratings — published 2011
One Breath Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.99 — 19,303 ratings — published 2012
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,943 ratings — published 2009
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.37 — 170,180 ratings — published 2019
Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.14 — 812 ratings — published 2008
Kitchens of the Great Midwest (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.81 — 54,320 ratings — published 2015
Everything We Didn't Say (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.74 — 32,944 ratings — published 2021
This Is How I Lied (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.82 — 29,311 ratings — published 2020
The Year We Left Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.39 — 6,727 ratings — published 2011
Moo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.47 — 8,670 ratings — published 1995
Before She Was Found (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.90 — 23,138 ratings — published 2019
Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,007 ratings — published 2000
Heartbreaker (Buchanan-Renard, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.07 — 29,695 ratings — published 2000
The Banned Books Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.71 — 8,933 ratings — published 2024
Stars Over Clear Lake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,339 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 — 487 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 — 1,926 ratings — published 2016
Bottomland (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,279 ratings — published 2016
The Magician's Lie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.66 — 12,433 ratings — published 2015
Midnight Assassin: A Murder In America's Heartland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,145 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 — 65,762 ratings — published 1989
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.47 — 9,951 ratings — published 2017
Not a Sound (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.90 — 19,861 ratings — published 2017
Missing Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as iowa)
avg rating 3.77 — 14,947 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 — 827 ratings — published 2010
“History is full of decapitations, and Iowa is no exception.”
― Grasshopper Jungle
― Grasshopper Jungle
“Yet isn't it all—all of it, every single episode and detail of the Clinton saga—exactly like that? And isn't some of it a little bit more serious? For Sen. Clinton, something is true if it validates the myth of her striving and her 'greatness' (her overweening ambition in other words) and only ceases to be true when it no longer serves that limitless purpose. And we are all supposed to applaud the skill and the bare-faced bravado with which this is done. In the New Hampshire primary in 1992, she knowingly lied about her husband's uncontainable sex life and put him eternally in her debt. This is now thought of, and referred to in print, purely as a smart move on her part. In the Iowa caucuses of 2008, he returns the favor by telling a huge lie about his own record on the war in Iraq, falsely asserting that he was opposed to the intervention from the very start. This is thought of, and referred to in print, as purely a tactical mistake on his part: trying too hard to help the spouse. The happy couple has now united on an equally mendacious account of what they thought about Iraq and when they thought it. What would it take to break this cheap little spell and make us wake up and inquire what on earth we are doing when we make the Clinton family drama—yet again—a central part of our own politics?”
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