The Iowa Writers' Workshop

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Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,250 ratings
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories 4.17 avg rating — 48,598 ratings
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A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Acres 3.82 avg rating — 71,369 ratings
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The Cider House Rules
The Cider House Rules 4.17 avg rating — 192,664 ratings
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Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories 4.22 avg rating — 21,771 ratings
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The World According to Garp
The World According to Garp 4.11 avg rating — 235,958 ratings
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Crossing to Safety
Crossing to Safety 4.16 avg rating — 49,592 ratings
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Prayer for Owen Meany 4.24 avg rating — 332,379 ratings
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Angle of Repose
Angle of Repose 4.24 avg rating — 61,305 ratings
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The Hotel New Hampshire
The Hotel New Hampshire 3.93 avg rating — 67,947 ratings
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Gilead (Gilead, #1)
Gilead (Gilead, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 121,014 ratings
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The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating — 40,389 ratings
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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose 4.27 avg rating — 3,843 ratings
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Moo
Moo 3.47 avg rating — 8,498 ratings
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Bel Canto
Bel Canto 3.94 avg rating — 312,358 ratings
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain
The Big Rock Candy Mountain 4.19 avg rating — 8,821 ratings
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The Tortilla Curtain
The Tortilla Curtain 3.66 avg rating — 34,022 ratings
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Wise Blood
Wise Blood 3.82 avg rating — 36,559 ratings
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The Sportswriter (Frank Bascombe, #1)
The Sportswriter (Frank Bascombe, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 19,930 ratings
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The Patron Saint of Liars
The Patron Saint of Liars 3.90 avg rating — 65,268 ratings
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Shoeless Joe
Shoeless Joe 3.97 avg rating — 16,194 ratings
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State of Wonder
State of Wonder 3.90 avg rating — 197,552 ratings
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Horse Heaven
Horse Heaven 3.89 avg rating — 5,442 ratings
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The Hours
The Hours 3.96 avg rating — 146,852 ratings
25.
The Sagas of Icelanders
The Sagas of Icelanders 4.31 avg rating — 4,176 ratings
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The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street 3.69 avg rating — 222,929 ratings
27.
Independence Day.
Independence Day. 3.86 avg rating — 16,625 ratings
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77 Dream Songs
77 Dream Songs 4.04 avg rating — 1,148 ratings
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The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life 4.19 avg rating — 2,100 ratings
30.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love 4.02 avg rating — 74,790 ratings
31.
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories 4.41 avg rating — 22,205 ratings
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Grendel
Grendel 3.69 avg rating — 41,617 ratings
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All the King's Men
All the King's Men 4.09 avg rating — 65,738 ratings
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie 3.51 avg rating — 40,907 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
Cutting for Stone 4.33 avg rating — 417,359 ratings
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Land of Marvels
Land of Marvels 3.24 avg rating — 764 ratings
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Remembering Laughter
Remembering Laughter 3.83 avg rating — 1,980 ratings
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The Imaginary Girlfriend
The Imaginary Girlfriend 3.44 avg rating — 2,734 ratings
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Rock Springs
Rock Springs 4.06 avg rating — 5,688 ratings
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Cathedral
Cathedral 4.24 avg rating — 38,961 ratings
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The Magician's Assistant
The Magician's Assistant 3.73 avg rating — 48,948 ratings
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Recapitulation
Recapitulation 3.87 avg rating — 1,567 ratings
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The Ultimate Good Luck
The Ultimate Good Luck 3.37 avg rating — 708 ratings
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The Spectator Bird
The Spectator Bird really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8,581 ratings
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Wildlife
Wildlife 3.72 avg rating — 4,374 ratings
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All the Little Live Things
All the Little Live Things 4.13 avg rating — 4,152 ratings
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Autobiography of a Face
Autobiography of a Face 3.97 avg rating — 29,612 ratings
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The Palace Thief
The Palace Thief 3.83 avg rating — 2,243 ratings
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A Shooting Star
A Shooting Star 3.37 avg rating — 622 ratings
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Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.21 avg rating — 914 ratings
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Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs 4.10 avg rating — 2,000 ratings
52.
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West 4.05 avg rating — 4,163 ratings
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A Son of the Circus
A Son of the Circus 3.67 avg rating — 21,095 ratings
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Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories
Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories 4.14 avg rating — 3,215 ratings
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Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose
Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose 4.05 avg rating — 3,111 ratings
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Short Cuts: Selected Stories
Short Cuts: Selected Stories 4.10 avg rating — 6,807 ratings
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Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works 4.49 avg rating — 3,440 ratings
58.
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? 4.19 avg rating — 19,015 ratings
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The Turk and My Mother
The Turk and My Mother 3.49 avg rating — 394 ratings
60.
The Violent Bear It Away
The Violent Bear It Away 4.07 avg rating — 15,072 ratings
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The Middleman and Other Stories
The Middleman and Other Stories 3.59 avg rating — 642 ratings
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The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor 4.47 avg rating — 2,091 ratings
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens 3.84 avg rating — 714 ratings
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Caramelo
Caramelo 3.93 avg rating — 12,985 ratings
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American Pastoral
American Pastoral 3.95 avg rating — 86,066 ratings
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Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1) 4.12 avg rating — 7,406 ratings
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Put Them Through the Maze: The Secrets of How to Write the Ultimate Novel
Put Them Through the Maze: The Secrets of How to Write the Ultimate Novel 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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We the Animals
We the Animals 3.73 avg rating — 25,949 ratings
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Father's Day
Father's Day 3.91 avg rating — 1,024 ratings
67.
Such a Fun Age
Such a Fun Age 3.78 avg rating — 565,628 ratings
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Groundskeeping
Groundskeeping
by: Lee Cole
3.57 avg rating — 7,815 ratings
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After the Plague: Stories
After the Plague: Stories 3.86 avg rating — 1,645 ratings
72.
Miss New India
Miss New India 2.92 avg rating — 1,316 ratings
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The Most Fun We Ever Had
The Most Fun We Ever Had 3.91 avg rating — 132,323 ratings
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Hope
Hope 3.64 avg rating — 2,654 ratings
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The Luminaries
The Luminaries 3.75 avg rating — 84,460 ratings
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Blue River
Blue River 3.52 avg rating — 417 ratings
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Descent of Man
Descent of Man 3.92 avg rating — 762 ratings
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Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland
Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland 4.04 avg rating — 220 ratings
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The Covenant of Water
The Covenant of Water 4.42 avg rating — 280,420 ratings
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Spartina
Spartina 3.80 avg rating — 2,348 ratings
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The Hippie Handbook: How to Tie-Dye a T-Shirt, Flash a Peace Sign, and Other Essential Skills for the Carefree Life
The Hippie Handbook: How to Tie-Dye a T-Shirt, Flash a Peace Sign, and Other Essential Skills for the Carefree Life 3.85 avg rating — 196 ratings
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The Family Chao
The Family Chao 3.35 avg rating — 10,064 ratings
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Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror
Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror 3.58 avg rating — 575 ratings
84.
The Confessions of Max Tivoli
The Confessions of Max Tivoli 3.69 avg rating — 7,624 ratings
84.
Some Luck (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #1)
Some Luck (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #1) 3.63 avg rating — 20,470 ratings
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Dharma Girl: A Road Trip Across the American Generations
Dharma Girl: A Road Trip Across the American Generations 3.56 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Women With Men: 3 Stories
Women With Men: 3 Stories 3.64 avg rating — 1,889 ratings
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The Lecturer's Tale
The Lecturer's Tale 3.47 avg rating — 954 ratings
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The Story of a Marriage
The Story of a Marriage 3.64 avg rating — 8,733 ratings
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The Book of Unknown Americans
The Book of Unknown Americans 3.89 avg rating — 45,527 ratings
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Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture
Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture 3.77 avg rating — 376 ratings
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A Multitude of Sins
A Multitude of Sins 3.76 avg rating — 1,601 ratings
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The World in Half
The World in Half 3.69 avg rating — 1,138 ratings
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Come Together, Fall Apart
Come Together, Fall Apart 3.90 avg rating — 428 ratings
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The Illusion of Separateness
The Illusion of Separateness 3.98 avg rating — 5,251 ratings
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Wolf Willow
Wolf Willow 3.97 avg rating — 964 ratings
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The Lay of the Land (Frank Bascombe, #3)
The Lay of the Land (Frank Bascombe, #3) 3.92 avg rating — 4,803 ratings
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Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry
Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry 3.98 avg rating — 1,110 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
Cutting for Stone 4.33 avg rating — 417,359 ratings
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