9 Top contemporary books like The Little Snake by A.L. Kennedy

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The Little Snake

By: A.L. Kennedy

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and flutterin…

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1. Alma y la isla

By: Mónica Rodríguez , Ester García

4.03

Format: 117 pages, Hardcover

Alma ha llegado del mar. Otto no entiende su idioma y, desde que está en su casa y le ha tenido que… read more

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2. Death Of A Hollow Man (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #2)

By: Caroline Graham

3.88

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Actors do love their dramas, and the members of the Causton Amateur Dramatic Society are no excepti… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Graham's Death Of A Hollow Man (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #2) book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. All My Friends are Superheroes

By: Andrew Kaufman

4.32

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

All Tom's friends really are superheroes. There's the Ear, the Spooner, the Impossible Man. Tom eve… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Kaufman's All My Friends are Superheroes book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • adult
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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4. Casting the Runes

By: M.R. James

4.29

Format: None pages,

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  • fiction
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5. Offshore

By: Penelope Fitzgerald

3.91

Format: 736 pages,

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found  On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a m… read more

Similar categories in Penelope Fitzgerald's Offshore book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

By: Matsuo Bashō , Lucien Stryk

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and … read more

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  • fiction

7. Death In Disguise (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #3)

By: Caroline Graham

3.92

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton Dando with splendid fodder f… read more

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8. Engleby

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Bestselling British author Sebastian Faulks reinvents the unreliable narrator with his singular, ha… read more

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9. The Book of Embraces

By: Eduardo Galeano , Mark Schafer , Cedric Belfrage

3.51

Format: None pages,

Parable, paradox, anecdote, dream, and autobiography blend into an exuberant world view and affirma… read more

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10. Acting Class

By: Nick Drnaso

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker-nominated graphic novel Sabrina."Every single p… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.04

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the … read more

Similar categories in Sathnam Sanghera's Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • audiobook
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12. Once More Upon a Time

By: Roshani Chokshi

3.69

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a dream, there was a prince named Ambrose and a princess named Imelda who loved each oth… read more

Similar categories in Roshani Chokshi's Once More Upon a Time book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Once upon a time, there was a king and queen in a land called Love's Keep who once loved one another, but alas, no more."

-Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

"His father had taught him distance. If he could want so little, then very little could hurt him. If he learned early that everything could be taken away, then he would be attached to nothing but the …"

-Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

"What are you thinking about?" Ambrose did not hesitate. "You." "What about me?" "The things I've learned about you," he said openly. "Such as?" "For one, you make a terrible statue---" "I shall mourn…"

-Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

"The bed tensed. It knew. The mattress folded sharply inward, and Ambrose gasped for air. This was it. He was going to die. Trapped in a bed that was quite possibly trying to eat him and without havin…"

-Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

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13. Paper Cup

By: Karen Campbell

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What if going back means you could begin again? Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly ne… read more

Similar categories in Karen Campbell's Paper Cup book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. El verano en que llegaron los lobos

By: Patricia García-Rojo Cantón

4.04

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Es difícil encajar en un pueblo de pájaros cuando eres un ciervo. El verano que vi luces en la isla… read more

Similar categories in Patricia García-Rojo Cantón's El verano en que llegaron los lobos book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • fantasy
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15. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

By: Natalie Haynes

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Haynes's Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • adult
  • audiobook
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

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16. Hex

By: Jenni Fagan

3.85

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more

Similar categories in Jenni Fagan's Hex book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

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17. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

4.36

Format: 256 pages, ebook

This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and … read more

Similar categories in Tyson Yunkaporta's Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • audiobook
"The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity."

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Guilt is like any other energy: you can't accumulate it or keep it because it makes you sick and disrupts the system you live in - you have to let it go. Face the truth, make amends and let it go."

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Engaging with them (malignant narcissists) alone is futile - never wrestle a pig, as the old saying goes; you both end up covered in shit, and the pig likes it. The fundamental rules of human interac…"

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Understanding your own culture and the ways it interacts with others, particularly the power dynamics of it, is far more appreciated. My reading of Germane Greer when I was a young lad was a lot more…"

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

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18. Blossomise

By: Simon Armitage

4.22

Format: 63 pages, Hardcover

Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its mela… read more

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19. Neon Roses

By: Rachel Dawson

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Eluned Hughes is stuck. It's 1984 in a valley in south Wales: the miners' strike is ravaging her co… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Dawson's Neon Roses book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music

By: Archie Roach

4.63

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07S8QVZR5 A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen… read more

Similar categories in Archie Roach's Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • audiobook
Cover of Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup

21. Latitudes of Longing

By: Shubhangi Swarup

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, lyrical debut about the love and longing between humanity and the earth itself, by a ma… read more

Similar categories in Shubhangi Swarup's Latitudes of Longing book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
"What is the purpose of belief if even god can't put the world back the way you worshipped it ?"

-Shubhangi Swarup, Latitudes of Longing

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22. The Little Snake

By: A.L. Kennedy

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and flutterin… read more

Similar categories in A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • magical realism
  • childrens
  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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23. The Bookshop Woman

By: Nanako Hanada

3.60

Format: 204 pages, ebook

A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurf… read more

Similar categories in Nanako Hanada's The Bookshop Woman book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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24. Three Fires

By: Denise Mina

3.73

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanitie… read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's Three Fires book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Savage Her Reply

By: Deirdre Sullivan

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A dark, feminist retelling of The Children of Lir told in Sullivan's hypnotic prose. A retelling of… read more

Similar categories in Deirdre Sullivan's Savage Her Reply book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Stories vary, throat to throat, and heart to foolish heart, but mine belongs to me as much as them. So here I am, I will begin again. I will remember."

-Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

"Perhaps I am a dark, unpleasant creature. But I am my own creature. I am mine, my feet on the earth and the water in my soul and fire in my heart. And when all is taken from me I will still have my a…"

-Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

Cover of Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever by Gavin Edwards

26. Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever

By: Gavin Edwards

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

A pop culture celebration of Fred Rogers and the enduring legacy of his beloved, award-winning PBS … read more

Similar categories in Gavin Edwards's Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • audiobook
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27. The Starlet and the Spy

By: Ji-min Lee

3.14

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Historical fiction, based on true events, about two women who seem the most unlikely to ever meet: … read more

Similar categories in Ji-min Lee's The Starlet and the Spy book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. The Wild Laughter

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.83

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

It's 2008, and the Celtic Tiger has left devastation in its wake. Brothers Hart and Cormac Black ar… read more

Similar categories in Caoilinn Hughes's The Wild Laughter book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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29. Mostly Hero

By: Anna Burns

3.51

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

Femme is under a magic spell to kill her lover, Hero. Hero is on a mission to discover if Femme’s G… read more

Similar categories in Anna Burns's Mostly Hero book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Theft of an Idol (Eye of Isis #3) by Dana Stabenow

30. Theft of an Idol (Eye of Isis #3)

By: Dana Stabenow

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When Cleopatra's most beloved actress disappears, her new Eye of Isis must solve a case that will l… read more

Similar categories in Dana Stabenow's Theft of an Idol (Eye of Isis #3) book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • audiobook
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31. Dark Truths (Will Traynor #1)

By: A.J. Cross

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Outstanding... Cross, herself a forensic psychologist, plays fair with the reader right up to the s… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Cross's Dark Truths (Will Traynor #1) book and A.L. Kennedy's The Little Snake

  • fiction
  • audiobook

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Death Of A Hollow Man (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #2)

Caroline Graham

3.88

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All My Friends are Superheroes

Andrew Kaufman

4.32

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Casting the Runes

M.R. James

4.29

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Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald

3.91

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The Finkler Question

Howard Jacobson

2.83

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Penelope Lively

3.38

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John Banville , J.G. Farrell

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