Browsing Books by Books Like Let the Great World Spin

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (2012)
Presents a candid and personal account that explores what matters to middle-aged women and how they ...

The Twelve (2012)
Survivors of a government-induced apocalypse endure their violent and disease-stricken world while p...

Unfinished Desires (2009)
Sparking enthusiasm for a play about the founding of their North Carolina mountains Catholic girls' ...

The Widower's Tale (2010)
Enjoying an active but lonely rural life, 70-year-old Percy haplessly allows a progressive preschool...

The Burgess Boys (2013)
Catalyzed by a nephew's thoughtless prank, a pair of brothers confront painful psychological issues ...

The Snow Child (2012)
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. ...

The Lace Reader (2008)
Having left her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, fifteen years ago under troubling circumstances, p...

Bad Things Happen (2009)
In the aftermath of a mystery magazine publisher's untimely murder, Ann Arbor detective Elizabeth Wa...

The Red House (2012)
A tale told from rotating viewpoints traces seven days of bitterly comic family dynamics and confron...

We Are Not Ourselves (2014)
Raised by her Irish immigrant parents in a 1940s Queens apartment where alcohol and company combine ...

Life After Life (2013)
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, U...

A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010)
Working side-by-side for a record label, former punk rocker Bennie Salazar and the passionate Sasha ...

Transatlantic (2013)
A tale spanning 150 years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Fred...

The Secret Life of Bees (2003)
After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in...

The Unnamed (2010)
He was going to lose the house and everything in it. The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots ha...

The Cove (2012)
Living deep within a cove in the Appalachians of North Carolina during World War I, Laurel Shelton f...