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If you loved Truth & Beauty

Books like Truth & Beauty

If you loved Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it. Truth & Beauty is recommended on Bookspine by Diana Kimball.

No. 1

H is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

No. 2

Personal History

Katharine Graham

No. 3

American Ground

William Langewiesche

No. 4

Both Flesh and Not

David Foster Wallace

No. 5

Close to the Machine

Ellen Ullman

No. 6

Ghetto at the Center of the World

Gordon Mathews

No. 7

It’s Always Personal

Anne Kreamer

No. 8

Living Contradictions

Alison Jaggar

No. 9

Magic and Loss

Virginia Heffernan

No. 10

Mindstorms

Seymour A. Papert

No. 11

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark

Donald N. Thompson

No. 12

The Folded Clock

Heidi Julavits

No. 13

The Power of Glamour

Virginia Postrel

No. 14

This Child Will Be Great

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

No. 15

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

No. 16

Tenth of December

George Saunders

No. 17

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

No. 18

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

Robin Sloan

No. 19

Musashi

Eiji Yoshikawa

No. 20

The Last Samurai

Helen DeWitt

No. 21

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe