Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
by Allan Gurganus | 
The Amalgamation Polka
by Stephen Wright | 
Redemption Falls
by Joseph O'Connor | 
The Night Inspector
by Frederick Busch | 
Nowhere Else on Earth
by Josephine Humphreys | 
Woe to Live On
by Daniel Woodrell | 
High Hearts
by Rita Mae Brown | 
Legacy
by James A. Michener | 
Cloudsplitter
by Russell Banks | 
In the Distance
by Hernan Diaz | 
The Rich Are Different
by Susan Howatch |
Grace
by Natashia Deon | 
Days Without End
by Sebastian Barry | 
Theory of War
by Joan Brady | 
Ingenious Pain
by Andrew Miller | 
March
by Geraldine Brooks | 
Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan | 
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth | 
The Sandcastle Girls
by Chris Bohjalian | 
The March
by E. L. Doctorow |
A rich and masterful novel about love and the question of race in post-Civil War America; Spanning the post-Civil War era to the edge of the Great Depression in the Fall is an extraordinary epic of three generations of an American family, the dark secrets that blister at its core, and the transcendent bonds between men and women that fuel their lives over the course of six decades. In the twilight of the Civil War, a Union soldier named Norman Pelham is found battle-wounded and near death by Leah, a slave running from a different hell. After Leah nurses him back to health, Norman brings her to his family homestead in Vermont as his wife, and there they begin a family that will be shaped by their passionate devotion to each other and its consequences.