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20 Best Thanksgiving Books of All Time for Adults

Whether plane, train, or automobile, we’ve selected a few Thanksgiving-themed books—some short, some long and historical, some just plain crazy—that are all…
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Every family has its dysfunction. But the Olsons, at the core of Easter Island author Jennifer Vanderbes’s stewing drama that unfolds over Thanksgiving, take it to another level. We’re talking secrets, tensions, suburban privilege. It’s only after an unforeseen mishap that their world collides with residents of a housing project, making for a clashing of cultures that ends with quite the climax. Thanksgiving Readings, Thanksgiving Books, Thanksgiving Traditions, Grandparents Diy, Janet Evanovich, Hometown Heroes, Dark Comedy, Louisa May Alcott, Slow Burn
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Strangers at the Feast by Jennifer Vanderbes
Every family has its dysfunction. But the Olsons, at the core of Easter Island author Jennifer Vanderbes’s stewing drama that unfolds over Thanksgiving, take it to another level. We’re talking secrets, tensions, suburban privilege. It’s only after an unforeseen mishap that their world collides with residents of a housing project, making for a clashing of cultures that ends with quite the climax.
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20 Best Thanksgiving Books of All Time for Adults
Opposites attract in Anne Tyler’s 1985 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. When protagonist Macon Leary, a grief-stricken travel writer who hates travel, meets Muriel, a dog trainer who is too interesting to ignore, his life of solitude is turned upside down. Complete with a slow-roasted turkey on T-Day, this is one kooky love story that will make smile through the tears. Book Lists, Book Club Books, Books To Read, Book Clubs, Fiction And Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, Literary Characters, Anne Tyler Books
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The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Opposites attract in Anne Tyler’s 1985 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. When protagonist Macon Leary, a grief-stricken travel writer who hates travel, meets Muriel, a dog trainer who is too interesting to ignore, his life of solitude is turned upside down. Complete with a slow-roasted turkey on T-Day, this is one kooky love story that will make smile through the tears.
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20 Best Thanksgiving Books of All Time for Adults
Harriet Beecher Stowe, the abolitionist and author probably most known for her Uncle Tom’s Cabin, gives readers a glimpse into a 19th-century Thanksgiving in a New England village just after the Revolutionary War. And all we can say is: pies. There are lots of pies. Westminster School, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Crimean War, British Soldier, Oldtown, Photo Caption
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Oldtown Folks by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe, the abolitionist and author probably most known for her Uncle Tom’s Cabin, gives readers a glimpse into a 19th-century Thanksgiving in a New England village just after the Revolutionary War. And all we can say is: pies. There are lots of pies.
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20 Best Thanksgiving Books of All Time for Adults
OK, “book is better than the movie” people. You’ve most likely gotten the story about two upper middle class, Connecticut families in crisis over Thanksgiving from Ang Lee’s atmospheric adaptation, but have you ever actually gone straight to the source? As in, the acerbic written original from award-winning novelist Rick Moody? Book Set, Book Series, Lauren Groff, Michael Morris, 70s Nostalgia, Ang Lee, Ice Storm, Truman Capote
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The Ice Storm by Rick Moody
OK, “book is better than the movie” people. You’ve most likely gotten the story about two upper middle class, Connecticut families in crisis over Thanksgiving from Ang Lee’s atmospheric adaptation, but have you ever actually gone straight to the source? As in, the acerbic written original from award-winning novelist Rick Moody?
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Oprah
20 Best Thanksgiving Books of All Time for Adults
When all else fails, get out the Ouija board. That’s what the Baird College misfits in Alexandra Sokoloff’s supernatural thriller do over Thanksgiving weekend. Opposed to retreating home for the holiday—each for their very own secretive reason—the newfound allies who think they’re the only five students left on campus learn they might not be alone after all. This one gives off those nostalgic R. L. Stine vibes. Supernatural Thrillers, Bram Stoker, First Novel, Ghost Stories, Book Themes, Oprah, Holiday Travel
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The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff
When all else fails, get out the Ouija board. That’s what the Baird College misfits in Alexandra Sokoloff’s supernatural thriller do over Thanksgiving weekend. Opposed to retreating home for the holiday—each for their very own secretive reason—the newfound allies who think they’re the only five students left on campus learn they might not be alone after all. This one gives off those nostalgic R. L. Stine vibes.
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Oprah
20 Best Thanksgiving Books of All Time for Adults
Spend Thanksgiving giving thanks to the most imporant person in your life: YOU. One way to live your best life is to get in touch with your inner purpose. And Oprah Winfrey’s latest book is here to help you find it. Over the course of 10 chapters, the icon shares personal stories and lessons while also mapping out a route to finding not just success, but significance. Elizabeth Gilbert, Lin Manuel, Ellen Degeneres, Jay Z, Oprah Winfrey Books, Oprah Winfrey Show, New Books, Good Books
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Spend Thanksgiving giving thanks to the most imporant person in your life: YOU. One way to live your best life is to get in touch with your inner purpose. And Oprah Winfrey’s latest book is here to help you find it. Over the course of 10 chapters, the icon shares personal stories and lessons while also mapping out a route to finding not just success, but significance.
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20 Best Thanksgiving Books of All Time for Adults
Set in Point Royal, Virginia, Richard Bausch’s novel celebrates the time-honored tradition of showing gratitude for family and community on the late-November holiday. The story pivots around two families and their affectionately labeled “crazies,” who are reluctantly thrust together on Thanksgiving night, and eventually all the more thankful for it. Virginia, Night Novel, Double Bind, Harper's Magazine, Old Mother, The Strip, The New Yorker
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Thanksgiving Night by Richard Bausch
Set in Point Royal, Virginia, Richard Bausch’s novel celebrates the time-honored tradition of showing gratitude for family and community on the late-November holiday. The story pivots around two families and their affectionately labeled “crazies,” who are reluctantly thrust together on Thanksgiving night, and eventually all the more thankful for it.
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20 Best Thanksgiving Books of All Time for Adults
New York Times best-selling author Anne Tyler’s thirtysomething antihero, Barnaby Gaitlin, is a mess. He’s divorced, he doesn’t see his daughter, he moves the elderly’s belongings for cash, and Thanksgiving is a disaster. But he’s trying. Tyler lends Barnaby her masterful attention to the ways of a shrewd yet sympathetic world. And it all makes for the dose of humanity this holiday deserves. Family Photo Album, Family Photos, Communication Problems, Old Folks, Dubious, Ex Wives
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Old Folks
Dubious
Ex Wives
A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
New York Times best-selling author Anne Tyler’s thirtysomething antihero, Barnaby Gaitlin, is a mess. He’s divorced, he doesn’t see his daughter, he moves the elderly’s belongings for cash, and Thanksgiving is a disaster. But he’s trying. Tyler lends Barnaby her masterful attention to the ways of a shrewd yet sympathetic world. And it all makes for the dose of humanity this holiday deserves.
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20 Best Thanksgiving Books of All Time for Adults
After reading Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s seminal novella, The Yellow Wallpaper (also included in this collective work), flip to another of her pertinent, turn-of-the-century stories illustrating early feminism: Three Thanksgivings. The story follows Mrs. Morrison through a predicament that reflects where women were culturally at the time: She can either sell her house or marry its landlord and live in it as his servant. Gilman, Step Kids, Digital Library, Latest Books, Novella
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Three Thanksgivings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
After reading Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s seminal novella, The Yellow Wallpaper (also included in this collective work), flip to another of her pertinent, turn-of-the-century stories illustrating early feminism: Three Thanksgivings. The story follows Mrs. Morrison through a predicament that reflects where women were culturally at the time: She can either sell her house or marry its landlord and live in it as his servant.
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Oprah
20 Best Thanksgiving Books of All Time for Adults
So Louisa May Alcott’s old-fashioned holiday short story about the Bassett family may not even be able to compete with the March sisters novel you know and adore, but luckily, it doesn’t have to. There’s room on your digital shelf for both Alcott’s seminal coming-of-age novel and her heartwarming tale about an impoverished family determined to get Thanksgiving dinner on the table. Thanksgiving Unit Study, Thanksgiving Activities, November Pictures, Read Aloud Revival, Classic Literature, Stories For Kids, Used Books
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An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott
So Louisa May Alcott’s old-fashioned holiday short story about the Bassett family may not even be able to compete with the March sisters novel you know and adore, but luckily, it doesn’t have to. There’s room on your digital shelf for both Alcott’s seminal coming-of-age novel and her heartwarming tale about an impoverished family determined to get Thanksgiving dinner on the table.
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Oprah
20 Best Thanksgiving Books of All Time for Adults
Yes, this is technically a cookbook—a massive cookbook, actually, of 600 recipes. They range from Pueblo tamales in Santa Fe to heirloom dumplings in Virginia, collected by New York Times food writer Molly O’Neill on a cross-country road trip visiting families from coast to coast. But it’s SO much more than that. A tasty portrait of cultures and cuisines, One Big Table celebrates the diverse bounty that is the very thing we celebrate this time of year: American cuisine. Cross Country Road Trip
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One Big Table by Molly O’Neill
Yes, this is technically a cookbook—a massive cookbook, actually, of 600 recipes. They range from Pueblo tamales in Santa Fe to heirloom dumplings in Virginia, collected by New York Times food writer Molly O’Neill on a cross-country road trip visiting families from coast to coast. But it’s SO much more than that. A tasty portrait of cultures and cuisines, One Big Table celebrates the diverse bounty that is the very thing we celebrate this time of year: American cuisine.
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Oprah
20 Best Thanksgiving Books of All Time for Adults
Have little ones? In the crowded space that is children’s literature, if there’s one thing you don’t want to skip over, it’s Maureen Sullivan’s dog’s-eye-view picture-book odyssey through New York City, with saturated illustrations by Alison Josephs. Read aloud to your bits as Carlos the French bulldog heads from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to Grand Central Station, spotting acts of kindness from his ankle-high perspective all along the way. Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Thanksgiving Stories, French Bulldog Names, French Bulldogs, 12th Book, Funny Stories, Read Aloud, Nursery Rhymes
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Funny Stories
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Ankle Soup by Maureen Sullivan
Have little ones? In the crowded space that is children’s literature, if there’s one thing you don’t want to skip over, it’s Maureen Sullivan’s dog’s-eye-view picture-book odyssey through New York City, with saturated illustrations by Alison Josephs. Read aloud to your bits as Carlos the French bulldog heads from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to Grand Central Station, spotting acts of kindness from his ankle-high perspective all along the way.
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Oprah
20 Best Thanksgiving Books of All Time for Adults
A satirical war drama debut from author Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk juxtaposes the realities of war abroad with those at home. Over the course Thanksgiving Day, Billy Lynn, one of the surviving soldiers from the Bravo Squad who’s been invited to take a bow at the Dallas Cowboys halftime show, revels, mourns, and comes to grips with a nation’s fumbled priorities. Date, Billy Lynn, Brief Encounter, Summer Books, National Book Award, This Is A Book, Insurgent
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
A satirical war drama debut from author Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk juxtaposes the realities of war abroad with those at home. Over the course Thanksgiving Day, Billy Lynn, one of the surviving soldiers from the Bravo Squad who’s been invited to take a bow at the Dallas Cowboys halftime show, revels, mourns, and comes to grips with a nation’s fumbled priorities.
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20 Best Thanksgiving Books of All Time for Adults
You may have to dig through F. Scott Fitzgerald’s scribbles originally published by Esquire magazine way back in 1936, but once you find the three-page recipe and cultural reference spread that is “Turkey Remains and How to Inter Them with Numerous Scarce Recipes,” you will be thankful you ever attempted the hunt. Prepare: There’s even a turkey cocktail recipe. Seo And Sem, Scott Wilson, F Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Best Book Covers, Book Annotation, Book Covers
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The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
You may have to dig through F. Scott Fitzgerald’s scribbles originally published by Esquire magazine way back in 1936, but once you find the three-page recipe and cultural reference spread that is “Turkey Remains and How to Inter Them with Numerous Scarce Recipes,” you will be thankful you ever attempted the hunt. Prepare: There’s even a turkey cocktail recipe.
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Oprah
20 Best Thanksgiving Books of All Time for Adults
If the season is about being grateful, then we are grateful to the legendary French chef who created this whimsical menu diary. With it, you can turn every meal into a story by while also flipping through illustrations crafted by the toque himself. One of Oprah’s Favorite Things last year, we’ll let her explain it further: Menus “lets you chronicle every time you’ve broken bread and who you shared it with. Merci, Jacques!” Hostess Gifts, Holiday Gifts, Valentine Day Gifts, Valentines, Christmas Presents, Vigan, Jacque Pepin, Earth Book
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Earth Book
Menus by Jacques Pépin
If the season is about being grateful, then we are grateful to the legendary French chef who created this whimsical menu diary. With it, you can turn every meal into a story by while also flipping through illustrations crafted by the toque himself. One of Oprah’s Favorite Things last year, we’ll let her explain it further: Menus “lets you chronicle every time you’ve broken bread and who you shared it with. Merci, Jacques!”
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20 Best Thanksgiving Books of All Time for Adults