18 must-read fiction books like A Bird in Winter by Louise Doughty

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A Bird in Winter

By: Louise Doughty

3.68

Format: None pages, ebook

Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, …

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1. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

Similar categories in Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of You Are Here by David Nicholls

2. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • british literature
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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3. A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan #11)

By: Jane Casey

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Every mother's worst nightmare . . . When nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one … read more

Similar categories in Jane Casey's A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan #11) book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. All of Us Are Broken

By: Fiona Cummins

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s been a long time since the Hardwicke family has been on holiday. But thirteen-year-old Galen h… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Cummins's All of Us Are Broken book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Water book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Earth book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

Similar categories in Rose Tremain's Absolutely and Forever book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • british literature
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8. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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9. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Faulks's The Seventh Son book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?

By: Nicci French

3.96

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families s… read more

Similar categories in Nicci French's Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. To the Dogs

By: Louise Welsh

3.71

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

A TIMES BEST NEW CRIME FICTION OF THE MONTHJim Brennan is flying high. Against all odds, he is a bi… read more

Similar categories in Louise Welsh's To the Dogs book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

By: Eleni Kyriacou

4.18

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023** THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. … read more

Similar categories in Eleni Kyriacou's The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. The House of Mirrors

By: Erin Kelly

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

One of them has killed before. One of them will kill again. In the sweltering summer of 1997, s… read more

Similar categories in Erin Kelly's The House of Mirrors book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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14. A Bird in Winter

By: Louise Doughty

3.68

Format: None pages, ebook

Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, … read more

Similar categories in Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Day One

By: Abigail Dean

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Marty seems to do no wrong. Trent can’t seem to get things right. When they are thrown together by … read more

Similar categories in Abigail Dean's Day One book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of What We Did In the Storm by Tina  Baker

16. What We Did In the Storm

By: Tina Baker

4.06

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Everyone brings their secrets to the island... On the beautiful and windswept island of Tresco, tw… read more

Similar categories in Tina Baker's What We Did In the Storm book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • thriller
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17. The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2)

By: Mark Billingham

4.41

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . . The second rip-roaring mystery from m… read more

Similar categories in Mark Billingham's The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2) book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Our Holiday by Louise Candlish

18. Our Holiday

By: Louise Candlish

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, twisty new thriller from the bestselling author of Our HouseTHERE’S TROUBLE IN PARADISE… read more

Similar categories in Louise Candlish's Our Holiday book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. The Murder Trail (Izzy Wilde #1)

By: D.G. Penny

3.29

Format: 462 pages, Kindle Edition

Can a rookie cop stop a serial killer before another life is lost? Three months after moving out o… read more

Similar categories in D.G. Penny's The Murder Trail (Izzy Wilde #1) book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

Cover of Gallows Wood (PC Lucy Halliday #1) by Louisa Scarr

20. Gallows Wood (PC Lucy Halliday #1)

By: Louisa Scarr

4.49

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

The signs are unmistakable. The dog halts, his nose up – nostrils quivering. Every inch of him is p… read more

Similar categories in Louisa Scarr's Gallows Wood (PC Lucy Halliday #1) book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Private Lessons  (Garibaldi #2) by Bernard O'Keeffe

21. Private Lessons (Garibaldi #2)

By: Bernard O'Keeffe

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Private tutoring is booming and someone's making a killing. An Autumnal Sunday morning, a hungover… read more

Similar categories in Bernard O'Keeffe's Private Lessons (Garibaldi #2) book and Louise Doughty's A Bird in Winter

11 Best contemporary books like A Bird in Winter by Louise Doughty

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

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Water

John Boyne

4.33

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Earth

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4.34

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The Dream Home

T.M. Logan

3.97

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Every Move You Make

C.L. Taylor

3.90

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Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?

Nicci French

3.96

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Claire Douglas

4.09

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