Books Set in Iowa

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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World 3.87 avg rating — 62,011 ratings
2.
Shoeless Joe
Shoeless Joe 3.97 avg rating — 16,195 ratings
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A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Acres 3.82 avg rating — 71,375 ratings
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The Bridges of Madison County
The Bridges of Madison County 3.71 avg rating — 104,280 ratings
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Stars Over Clear Lake
Stars Over Clear Lake 4.11 avg rating — 2,061 ratings
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
What's Eating Gilbert Grape 4.10 avg rating — 17,239 ratings
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The Weight of Silence
The Weight of Silence 3.95 avg rating — 49,141 ratings
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Gilead (Gilead, #1)
Gilead (Gilead, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 121,030 ratings
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Alice's Tulips
Alice's Tulips 3.82 avg rating — 4,331 ratings
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend 3.56 avg rating — 44,717 ratings
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The Happy Valley Mystery (Trixie Belden, #9)
The Happy Valley Mystery (Trixie Belden, #9) 4.14 avg rating — 2,793 ratings
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Some Luck (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #1)
Some Luck (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #1) 3.63 avg rating — 20,471 ratings
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An Ocean in Iowa
An Ocean in Iowa 3.43 avg rating — 829 ratings
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Lila (Gilead, #3)
Lila (Gilead, #3) 3.95 avg rating — 35,156 ratings
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Squashed
Squashed 3.80 avg rating — 2,388 ratings
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One Breath Away
One Breath Away 3.99 avg rating — 18,856 ratings
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid 3.94 avg rating — 67,459 ratings
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H is for Hawkeye: An Iowa Alphabet (Discover America State By State Alphabet Series)
H is for Hawkeye: An Iowa Alphabet (Discover America State By State Alphabet Series) 3.91 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Grasshopper Jungle
Grasshopper Jungle 3.64 avg rating — 18,794 ratings
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Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 26,374 ratings
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression 3.73 avg rating — 6,485 ratings
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The Music Man
The Music Man 3.88 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Early Warning (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #2)
Early Warning (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #2) 3.85 avg rating — 7,718 ratings
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The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship 3.38 avg rating — 12,368 ratings
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Home (Gilead, #2)
Home (Gilead, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 29,641 ratings
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Golden Age (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga #3)
Golden Age (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga #3) 3.80 avg rating — 4,782 ratings
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The Lincoln Myth (Cotton Malone, #9)
The Lincoln Myth (Cotton Malone, #9) 3.89 avg rating — 14,348 ratings
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Sleeping with the Enemy
Sleeping with the Enemy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,185 ratings
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Little Mercies
Little Mercies 4.05 avg rating — 18,678 ratings
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Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland
Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland 3.52 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
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Universal Harvester
Universal Harvester 3.18 avg rating — 19,301 ratings
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Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous
Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous 3.57 avg rating — 2,435 ratings
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This Is How I Lied
This Is How I Lied 3.82 avg rating — 26,084 ratings
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A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
by: Lee Child
4.06 avg rating — 88,133 ratings
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These Things Hidden
These Things Hidden 3.88 avg rating — 40,459 ratings
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State Fair (Bur Oak Book)
State Fair (Bur Oak Book) 3.42 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Vast Fields of Ordinary
The Vast Fields of Ordinary
by: Nick Burd
3.93 avg rating — 10,712 ratings
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The Snows
The Snows 3.83 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Water-Method Man
The Water-Method Man 3.38 avg rating — 13,147 ratings
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Eleven Days
Eleven Days 3.86 avg rating — 1,804 ratings
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Love Finds You in Homestead, Iowa
Love Finds You in Homestead, Iowa 4.07 avg rating — 792 ratings
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If You're Reading This
If You're Reading This 4.06 avg rating — 1,561 ratings
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The Princess in the Pigpen
The Princess in the Pigpen 3.84 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Blue Jasmine
Blue Jasmine 3.88 avg rating — 613 ratings
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Dead of Night (Doc Ford Mystery, #12)
Dead of Night (Doc Ford Mystery, #12) 3.98 avg rating — 2,425 ratings
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Jack (Gilead, #4)
Jack (Gilead, #4) 3.86 avg rating — 9,833 ratings
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The Cooking School Murders (Eugenia Potter, #1)
The Cooking School Murders (Eugenia Potter, #1) 3.53 avg rating — 388 ratings
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Arrowood
Arrowood 3.76 avg rating — 8,319 ratings
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Stumptown Kid
Stumptown Kid 3.99 avg rating — 317 ratings
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Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi
Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi 3.97 avg rating — 808 ratings
51.
Mary Ingalls on Her Own
Mary Ingalls on Her Own 4.29 avg rating — 2,215 ratings
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Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun (Calamity Jayne, #3)
Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun (Calamity Jayne, #3) 3.97 avg rating — 894 ratings
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Heartbreaker (Buchanan-Renard, #1)
Heartbreaker (Buchanan-Renard, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 29,029 ratings
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The Luck of the Buttons
The Luck of the Buttons 3.59 avg rating — 553 ratings
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The Overnight Guest
The Overnight Guest 4.03 avg rating — 133,065 ratings
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Old Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Lost Little House Years
Old Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Lost Little House Years 4.05 avg rating — 5,543 ratings
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The Big Thaw
The Big Thaw 3.95 avg rating — 665 ratings
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The Growing Season
The Growing Season liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Before She Was Found
Before She Was Found 3.91 avg rating — 21,006 ratings
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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery 3.47 avg rating — 9,171 ratings
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Here Lies Linc
Here Lies Linc
by: Delia Ray
3.93 avg rating — 444 ratings
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Heritage of Darkness (Chloe Ellefson Mystery #4)
Heritage of Darkness (Chloe Ellefson Mystery #4) 4.04 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend
Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend 3.25 avg rating — 3,783 ratings
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Harmony
Harmony really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Hot Rod
Hot Rod 3.88 avg rating — 195 ratings
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The Case of Nikki Pagan
The Case of Nikki Pagan 4.27 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Never on Sundays
Never on Sundays 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Dead Vault
Dead Vault really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bottomland
Bottomland 3.67 avg rating — 1,239 ratings
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Last Act: The Stage Is Set For Murder
Last Act: The Stage Is Set For Murder 3.75 avg rating — 2,762 ratings
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North of Grand (Detective Red Shaw #2)
North of Grand (Detective Red Shaw #2) 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Farm Boy, City Girl: From Gene to Miss Gina
Farm Boy, City Girl: From Gene to Miss Gina 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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An Iowa Farm Boy's Odyssey: Priest, Parent, Professor
An Iowa Farm Boy's Odyssey: Priest, Parent, Professor it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Sugarcoated (Hot Cakes, #1)
Sugarcoated (Hot Cakes, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 3,058 ratings
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The Princesses of Iowa
The Princesses of Iowa 3.67 avg rating — 2,271 ratings
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Spirit Lake
Spirit Lake 4.13 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Schoolhouse On The Prairie (Cover-to-cover Books: Historical Moments)
Schoolhouse On The Prairie (Cover-to-cover Books: Historical Moments) 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Dear Librarian
Dear Librarian 4.50 avg rating — 1,542 ratings
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To Catch a Storm
To Catch a Storm 3.82 avg rating — 1,178 ratings
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Meet Me Under the Mistletoe (Starlight Christmas #1; Christmas Holiday Extravaganza)
Meet Me Under the Mistletoe (Starlight Christmas #1; Christmas Holiday Extravaganza) 4.39 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Beneath the Night Tree (Threads of Change #3)
Beneath the Night Tree (Threads of Change #3) 4.08 avg rating — 855 ratings
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Where Courage Began: Velma's Story
Where Courage Began: Velma's Story 4.20 avg rating — 1,438 ratings
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The Book of Famous Iowans: A Novel
The Book of Famous Iowans: A Novel 3.34 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Disenchanted (Fey Creations, #1)
Disenchanted (Fey Creations, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Blood Solutions (Detective Red Shaw #1)
Blood Solutions (Detective Red Shaw #1) 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Scowler
Scowler 3.50 avg rating — 1,613 ratings
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Kim/Kimi
Kim/Kimi 3.34 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Growing Up Amish
Growing Up Amish 3.40 avg rating — 13,518 ratings
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Death by Discount: A Mara Gilgannon Mystery (Mara Gilgannon Mysteries, #1)
Death by Discount: A Mara Gilgannon Mystery (Mara Gilgannon Mysteries, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Merit Badge Murder (Merry Wrath Mysteries, #1)
Merit Badge Murder (Merry Wrath Mysteries, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 2,919 ratings
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Summer Snow (Threads of Change #2)
Summer Snow (Threads of Change #2) 3.96 avg rating — 852 ratings
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Heading for Home: My Journey from Little League to Hollywood
Heading for Home: My Journey from Little League to Hollywood 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Deadland's Harvest (Deadland Saga, #2)
Deadland's Harvest (Deadland Saga, #2) 4.24 avg rating — 1,026 ratings
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You'll Never Know
You'll Never Know 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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FAITH and “LITTLE SPACE GRACE”
FAITH and “LITTLE SPACE GRACE” 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
92.
Dubuque, Iowa (Then and Now)
Dubuque, Iowa (Then and Now) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Murder by Mascot: A Mara Gilgannon Mystery (Mara Gilgannnon Mysteries, #2)
Murder by Mascot: A Mara Gilgannon Mystery (Mara Gilgannnon Mysteries, #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings
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All Roads Lead Home (Bellingwood, #1)
All Roads Lead Home (Bellingwood, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 2,052 ratings
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After the Leaves Fall (Threads of Change #1)
After the Leaves Fall (Threads of Change #1) 3.63 avg rating — 2,482 ratings
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Sweet Eyes
Sweet Eyes 3.78 avg rating — 79 ratings
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