26 best-selling fiction books like Gathering Evidence by Martin MacInnes

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Gathering Evidence

By: Martin MacInnes

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is heating up, species are dying out, and data collection is thriving. Shel Murray, a …

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1. Venus as a Boy

By: None

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Drinking late one night in an East End club, a writer is approached by Pascal, the friend of a man … read more

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2. Cold People

By: Tom Rob Smith

3.52

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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  • fiction
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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4. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • fiction
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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5. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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  • fiction
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6. The Western Wind

By: Samantha Harvey

3.41

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"She paused; her speech was ever thus. Spirals of deepening particulars, then pauses when she saw she'd strayed from the point."

-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind

"But it’s our nature to deny what frightens us, and it’s not wicked or dull. Isn’t there always a bright, willing part of us that keeps hoping that what we know isn’t true?"

-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind

"Why can't time go backwards as well as forward? If time's not a river but a circle, and if you can travel round a circle one way or another and end up where you started, why can't it go this way and …"

-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind

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7. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

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  • fiction
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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8. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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9. Wilding

By: Isabella Tree

4.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more

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  • environment
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

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10. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

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  • fiction
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11. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • fiction
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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12. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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  • fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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13. Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more

Similar categories in Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz book and Martin MacInnes's Gathering Evidence

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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14. Termush

By: Sven Holm

3.31

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"

-Sven Holm, Termush

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15. A Better World

By: Sarah Langan

3.63

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The author of Good Neighbors, “one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American sub… read more

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  • mystery
  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Red River Seven

By: A.J. Ryan

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Seven strangers. One mission. Infinite horror. A man awakes on a boat at sea with no memory of w… read more

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  • mystery
  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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18. Artificial Wisdom

By: Thomas R. Weaver

4.09

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

It’s 2050, a decade after a heatwave that killed four hundred million across the Persian Gulf, incl… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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19. What I'd Rather Not Think About

By: Jente Posthuma

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more

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  • fiction
"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

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20. The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1)

By: Dinuka McKenzie

3.90

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

A loving husband lost to devastating summer floods. A teenage girl injured during a robbery. Two se… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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21. Gathering Evidence

By: Martin MacInnes

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is heating up, species are dying out, and data collection is thriving. Shel Murray, a … read more

Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's Gathering Evidence book and Martin MacInnes's Gathering Evidence

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • environment
  • science fiction
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22. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

By: Katherine Rundell

4.42

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more

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  • environment
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

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23. Dead Happy (HappyHead, #2)

By: Josh Silver

4.44

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Friends. Welcome to Elmhallow. Seb, along with a select group of participants, finds himself washed… read more

Similar categories in Josh Silver's Dead Happy (HappyHead, #2) book and Martin MacInnes's Gathering Evidence

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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24. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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25. The Collector

By: Laura Kat Young

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A frightening dystopian horror novel where grief is forbidden and purged from the mind – a nightmar… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. Tomorrow's Children

By: Daniel Polansky

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From Hugo Award nominated author comes a high-octane post-apocalyptic romp set in the ruins of Manh… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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27. Consumed (Dr. Cooper Allen, #2)

By: Greg Buchanan

3.31

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

A slick, smart, stylish - and shocking - thriller from one of the most exciting new voices in crime… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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28. The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

By: Ken Smith

4.23

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Could you leave behind the bustle of modern society and spend your days immersed in nature? In The … read more

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29. What Survives

By: M. Amelia Eikli

4.46

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

After a devastating global pandemic, the world has gone quiet. She hasn’t seen another living soul … read more

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  • fiction
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30. Not Alone

By: Sarah K Jackson

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

None read more

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31. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

9 Best mystery books like Gathering Evidence by Martin MacInnes

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Samantha Harvey

3.41

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Colin Barrett

3.78

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Francis Spufford

4.03

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A Better World

Sarah Langan

3.63

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Cold People

Tom Rob Smith

3.52

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K.J. Parker

4.24

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

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