Standalone Novels #4 by William Kent Krueger The River We Remember is a standalone novel by William Kent Krueger set in a small Minnesota town in the 1950s, where the apparent murder of a wealthy landowner unsettles a community already…
Standalone Novels #3 by William Kent Krueger This Tender Land is a historical novel by William Kent Krueger set during the Great Depression, following four orphaned children as they flee a harsh school in Minnesota and head downriver in search…
Standalone Novels #2 by William Kent Krueger Ordinary Grace is a standalone novel by William Kent Krueger, set in the summer of 1961 in the small town of New Bremen, Minnesota. Told through the memory of thirteen-year-old Frank Drum, it…
Standalone Novels #7 by Wally Lamb The River Is Waiting follows Corby Ledbetter, a young father whose life is already under strain from job loss, new parenthood, and a secret dependence on alcohol and pills when he causes a tragedy…
Standalone Novels #6 by Wally Lamb I’ll Take You There returns to Felix Funicello, the same character introduced in Wishin’ and Hopin’, but this time he is an adult looking back while also being pulled into an unusual collision between…
Standalone Novels #5 by Wally Lamb We Are Water centers on Annie Oh, an artist in Connecticut whose family is thrown into upheaval when, after a long marriage to psychologist Orion Oh, she leaves him and prepares to marry Viveca,…
Standalone Novels #3 by Wally Lamb The Hour I First Believed follows Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, whose lives are shattered after Maureen survives the Columbine High School shooting. What begins as the story of a marriage already carrying…
Standalone Novels #2 by Wally Lamb I Know This Much Is True follows Dominick Birdsey, whose life is inseparable from that of his identical twin brother Thomas, a man living with paranoid schizophrenia. When Thomas commits a shocking public act,…
Standalone Novels #1 by Wally Lamb She’s Come Undone follows Dolores Price from childhood into adulthood as she tries to make sense of a life marked by family upheaval, isolation, and painful emotional setbacks. Told in Dolores’s own voice, the…