18 best-selling fiction books like Apeirogon by Colum McCann

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Apeirogon

By: Colum McCann

4.25

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an ep…

"We are running from our pain to our pain."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"We are running from our pain to our pain."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"We have words but sometimes they're not enough."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"We have words but sometimes they're not enough."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

If you liked the fiction plot in Apeirogon by Colum McCann , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Trust

By: Hernan Diaz

3.83

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 21 minutes From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends co… read more

Similar categories in Hernan Diaz's Trust book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

Cover of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

2. Small Things Like These

By: Claire Keegan

4.18

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

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3. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • literary fiction
  • war
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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4. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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5. Chi dice e chi tace

By: Chiara Valerio

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Scauri, affacciato sul Tirreno, è l’ultimo paese del Lazio, un posto né bello né brutto, con una su… read more

Similar categories in Chiara Valerio's Chi dice e chi tace book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of The Covenant of Water by Abraham   Verghese

6. The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese

4.45

Format: 724 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Verghese's The Covenant of Water book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of L'età fragile by Donatella Di Pietrantonio

7. L'età fragile

By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

Format: 192 pages, ebook

Non esiste un'età senza paura. Siamo fragili sempre, da genitori e da figli, quando bisogna ricostr… read more

Similar categories in Donatella Di Pietrantonio's L'età fragile book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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9. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

Similar categories in Tan Twan Eng's The House of Doors book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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10. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • historical
  • audiobook
Cover of North Woods by Daniel       Mason

11. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

12. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) by Colm Tóibín

13. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

Similar categories in Paul Murray's The Bee Sting book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

Cover of Table for Two by Amor Towles

15. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

Similar categories in Amor Towles's Table for Two book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

Cover of The Fraud by Zadie Smith

16. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

Similar categories in Zadie Smith's The Fraud book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

Cover of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall

17. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • politics
  • war
  • israel
  • audiobook
Cover of Adelaida by Adrián N. Bravi

18. Adelaida

By: Adrián N. Bravi

3.51

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Una donna, un’artista, una madre. Adelaida Gigli è stata una delle figure femminili più sorprendent… read more

Similar categories in Adrián N. Bravi's Adelaida book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • audiobook
Cover of Aggiustare l'universo by Raffaella Romagnolo

19. Aggiustare l'universo

By: Raffaella Romagnolo

3.99

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

Ottobre 1945. L'anno scolastico inizia in ritardo. È il primo dell'Italia liberata e non è semplice… read more

Similar categories in Raffaella Romagnolo's Aggiustare l'universo book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Apeirogon by Colum McCann

20. Apeirogon

By: Colum McCann

4.25

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an ep… read more

Similar categories in Colum McCann's Apeirogon book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • literary fiction
  • israel
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"We are running from our pain to our pain."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"We have words but sometimes they're not enough."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"When you divide death by life you find a circle."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"He had learned that the cure for fate was patience."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

Cover of Slow Brewing Tea (Slow Brewing Tea Series) by Randy Loubier

21. Slow Brewing Tea (Slow Brewing Tea Series)

By: Randy Loubier

3.30

Format: 613 pages, Kindle Edition

“Insightful, moving, and at times deeply profound, this book will have you turning each page in ant… read more

Similar categories in Randy Loubier's Slow Brewing Tea (Slow Brewing Tea Series) book and Colum McCann's Apeirogon

  • novels
  • fiction
"God knows far more about living a life of joy and blessings than we do."

-Randy Loubier, Slow Brewing Tea (Slow Brewing Tea Series)

"Believing doesn't make God real. Unbelief doesn't make Him disappear. Your opinion doesn’t change reality."

-Randy Loubier, Slow Brewing Tea (Slow Brewing Tea Series)

"If you can't prove your freedom in the nanosecond before you spilled rage out of your lips, you have proven your bondage."

-Randy Loubier, Slow Brewing Tea (Slow Brewing Tea Series)

"I considered myself a Christian. But looking back on it, I guess I was more of a Kluggist. I was klugging my own spirituality. It was years before I would find out how dangerous that was."

-Randy Loubier, Slow Brewing Tea (Slow Brewing Tea Series)

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Paul Lynch

4.10

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3.85

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3.77

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3.73

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4.22

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3.83

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4.18

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