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Books set primarily in Minnesota, Wisconsin or Iowa

Minn. Wis. Iowa

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Python's Kiss

Stories

by Louise Erdrich

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories.

Saints of the Household

by Ari Tison

Hardcover: Mar 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town - beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer - that will take your breath away.

Life, and Death, and Giants

A Novel

by Ron Rindo

Hardcover: Sep 2025 | Paperback: Oct 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A remarkable child transforms a small, rural community―and soon the world.

Beta Vulgaris

A Novel

by Margie Sarsfield

Paperback: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A young woman's seasonal job working a sugar beet harvest takes a surreal turn in this surprising and vivid debut.

The Lost Wife

A novel

by Susanna Moore

Hardcover: Apr 2023 | Paperback: Aug 2024

Critics' Consensus:

From one of our most compelling and sensual writers comes a searing, immersive novel about a seminal and shameful moment in America's conquest of the West. Drawing partly from a true story, it brings to life a devastating Native American revolt and ...

His Name Is George Floyd

One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

by Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa

Hardcover: May 2022 | Paperback: May 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy - from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, ...

The Sentence

by Louise Erdrich

Hardcover: Nov 2021 | Paperback: Sep 2022

Critics' Consensus:

In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.

The Family Chao

A Novel

by Lan Samantha Chang

Hardcover: Feb 2022 | Paperback: Aug 2022

Critics' Consensus:

An acclaimed storyteller returns with "a gorgeous and gripping literary mystery" that explores "family, betrayal, passion, race, culture and the American Dream" (Jean Kwok).

Brood

by Jackie Polzin

Hardcover: Mar 2021 | Paperback: Jul 2022

Critics' Consensus:

An exquisite new literary voice - wryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational, in the vein of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Strout - depicts one woman's attempt to keep her four chickens alive while reflecting on a recent loss.

Lightning Strike

Cork O'Connor Mystery Series #18

by William Kent Krueger

Hardcover: Aug 2021 | Paperback: Jul 2022

Critics' Consensus:

The author of the instant New York Times bestseller This Tender Land returns with a powerful prequel to his acclaimed Cork O'Connor series - a book about fathers and sons, long-simmering conflicts in a small Minnesota town, and the events that echo ...

In the Dream House

by Carmen Maria Machado

Hardcover: Nov 2019 | Paperback: Dec 2020

Critics' Consensus:

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties.

We Contain Multitudes

by Sarah Henstra

Hardcover: May 2019 | Paperback: May 2020

Critics' Consensus:

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets I'll Give You the Sun in an exhilarating and emotional novel about the growing relationship between two teens boys, told through the letters they write to one another.

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