Books like The Great Alone
In 1974, Ernt Allbright, a former prisoner of war who came home from Vietnam a volatile man, moves his wife Cora and thirteen-year-old daughter Leni to a remote corner of Alaska, where the first summer is golden and the winter that follows tests everything.
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The Women
A sheltered Southern California nursing student follows her brother to Vietnam as an Army nurse in 1966 and comes home to a country that refuses to acknowledge women served there.
Bastard Out of Carolina
Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright grows up among the hard-drinking, fiercely loyal Boatwright clan of Greenville, South Carolina, while her mother's new husband turns her childhood into a fight to survive.
Into the Wild
In 1992 Chris McCandless, a gifted young college graduate, gave away his savings, walked into the Alaskan wilderness to live off the land and was found dead months later, and Jon Krakauer reconstructs why.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Mariam, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy man, and Laila, a teacher's daughter from Kabul, are married a generation apart to the same brutal man, and as Afghanistan falls apart around them, they become each other's only ally.
The Four Winds
In 1934, as drought and dust storms ruin the Texas Panhandle farm she has worked for years, Elsa Martinelli must choose between staying with the land and taking her two children west to California, where the promise of work is not what it seems.
The Siege
In Leningrad in the autumn of 1941, as the German army closes its ring around the city, Anna Levin, a young artist, keeps her widowed father and her small brother alive through the first winter of the siege.
Salt to the Sea
In the winter of 1945, as the Soviet army closes in on East Prussia, four young people, a Lithuanian nurse, a Prussian forger, a Polish teenager and a German sailor with delusions of grandeur, converge on the port where the Wilhelm Gustloff waits to carry refugees west.
A Town Like Alice
Jean Paget, who survived a forced march across Malaya as a prisoner of the Japanese, uses an unexpected inheritance to repay the village that took her group in, and to learn the fate of the Australian soldier who helped them.
The Way West
In 1845 a wagon train sets out from Independence, Missouri, along the Oregon Trail, guided by the mountain man Dick Summers.
Hatchet
Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is the only passenger on a small plane to his father's oil site in the Canadian wilderness when the pilot dies of a heart attack, and after the crash he has nothing to survive with but a hatchet.
It Ends with Us
Lily Bloom has left her small Maine town to open a flower shop in Boston, where she falls for Ryle Kincaid, a confident neurosurgeon, just as Atlas Corrigan, the first boy she ever loved, comes back into her life.
Dominicana
In 1965 Ana Canción, fifteen, is married off by her family to Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, and taken from the Dominican countryside to an apartment in Washington Heights, so that the rest of them can follow.