Books like Paradise Reclaimed
Steinar, a poor, upright Icelandic farmer, gives his daughter's beloved pony to the King of Denmark and later leaves his family to follow a Mormon missionary to Utah.
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The Atom Station
Ugla, a country girl from the north, comes to Reykjavík to work as a maid in the house of a member of parliament, just as Iceland argues over selling the Americans a base.
Only Yesterday
Isaac Kumer, a young idealist from Galicia, arrives in Ottoman Palestine in the early 1900s to work the land and ends up a house painter caught between secular Jaffa and religious Jerusalem.
Under the Glacier
A young emissary from the bishop is sent to a remote parish beneath Snæfellsjökull, where the pastor no longer holds services and strange guests gather for something no one will explain.
Jerusalem
A revival movement splits a farming parish in Dalarna, and a group of villagers sells their ancestral farms to follow its preacher to a religious colony in Jerusalem.
The Women at the Pump
In a small Norwegian coastal town, the gossip at the pump follows Oliver, a sailor who came home crippled, and everyone else whose business is everyone's business.
Charlotte Löwensköld
In 1830s Värmland, the lively Charlotte Löwensköld is engaged to her cousin Karl-Artur, a fiercely pious young clergyman, and one careless remark about money sets both their lives on a different course.
Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry, a hard-drinking, womanising college football hero, is pushed into the ministry and finds that preaching suits his appetites.
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
Stories of the Jewish villages of old Poland, among them Gimpel the baker, the butt of every joke in town, who chooses to believe whatever he is told.
Penguin Island
A short-sighted abbot mistakes a colony of great auks for people and baptises them, and heaven has to turn them into humans; their history then follows France's from Charlemagne to the Dreyfus affair.
Main Street
Carol Milford, a young, idealistic librarian from St Paul, marries a small-town doctor and moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, determined to bring culture and reform to its one dusty Main Street.
The Late George Apley
A satirical memoir of George Apley, a Boston Brahmin, put together from his letters by an admiring family friend.
The Collected Stories
Forty-seven stories Singer chose himself, from the demons and holy fools of the old Polish shtetl to the survivors living out their lives in Manhattan and Miami.