9 best-selling contemporary books like Identity Crisis by Ben Elton

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Identity Crisis

By: Ben Elton

3.78

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage. A s…

"I threaten to kill lots of people. But it doesn’t actually mean that in a tweet.’ ‘Mean what?’ ‘Mean that you actually want to kill them. It’s more like “Oh, I disagree with you. Maybe you should think things through more"

-Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

"I threaten to kill lots of people. But it doesn’t actually mean that in a tweet.’ ‘Mean what?’ ‘Mean that you actually want to kill them. It’s more like “Oh, I disagree with you. Maybe you should think things through more"

-Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

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1. From the Edge: Australia's Lost Histories

By: Mark McKenna

4.13

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

In March 1797, five British sailors and 12 Bengali seamen struggled ashore after their longboat bro… read more

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2. Revenge

By: Stephen Fry

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

This brilliant recasting of the classic story The Count of Monte Cristocenters on Ned Maddstone, a … read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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3. The Business of Dying (Dennis Milne, #1)

By: Simon Kernick

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's a typical cold November night and Detective Sergeant Dennis Milne, a very atypical policeman, … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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4. Dear Fatty

By: Dawn French

4.21

Format: None pages,

Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, with a career spanning nearly thre… read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
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5. The Naked Civil Servant

By: Michael Holroyd , Quentin Crisp

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s In 1931, gay libe… read more

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6. Sanctuary

By: Judy Nunn

3.50

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In Judy Nunn's latest compelling novel, compassion meets bigotry, hatred meets love, and ultimately… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary

7. The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

By: Roddy Doyle

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Paula Spencer is a thirty-nine-year-old working-class woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after… read more

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8. A Tiny Bit Marvellous

By: Dawn French

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This is a poignant novel by Dawn French which is told through the eyes of a mother and her two teen… read more

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9. Elianne

By: Judy Nunn

3.94

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In the tough world of Queensland sugar mills, it's not only cane that is crushed ... In 1881 'Big J… read more

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10. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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11. Broken Light

By: Joanne Harris

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Bernie Moon is feeling invisible. She's given her life to other people - her husband, her son, her … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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13. Family Politics

By: John O'Farrell

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back i… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Liar

By: Stephen Fry

3.65

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comi… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be."

-Stephen Fry, The Liar

"It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive."

-Stephen Fry, The Liar

"Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn't. If it is a private place in which to shit, how is it not a private place in which to fellate?"

-Stephen Fry, The Liar

"I don't think we should be unafraid not to discuss the gay dialectic as an energy and the homophobic constraints that endorse its marginalisation as a functionally reactive discourse."

-Stephen Fry, The Liar

Cover of Identity Crisis by Ben Elton

15. Identity Crisis

By: Ben Elton

3.78

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage. A s… read more

Similar categories in Ben Elton's Identity Crisis book and Ben Elton's Identity Crisis

  • comedy
  • politics
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"I threaten to kill lots of people. But it doesn’t actually mean that in a tweet.’ ‘Mean what?’ ‘Mean that you actually want to kill them. It’s more like “Oh, I disagree with you. Maybe you should thi…"

-Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

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16. Drugs, Guns & Lies: My life as an undercover cop

By: Keith Banks

4.22

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

A story from the inside when Queensland had the most corrupt police force in the country. This is w… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. Mine

By: Susi Fox

3.66

Format: 464 pages, ebook

The baby in the nursery is not your baby. Waking up after an emergency caesarean, you demand to … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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18. The Survivors: Pandemic

By: Alex Burns

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

"I didn’t realise how much I would miss grocery shopping until it was gone." Life was pretty good. … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Curious Kidnapping of Nora W

By: Cate Green

4.10

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

I am the oldest person ever to have lived in this world. I am the one who lived through their monst… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Suicide Thursday

By: Will Carver

3.34

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

Eli Hagin can't finish anything. He hates his job, but can't seem to quit. He doesn't want to be… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. No Easy Deeds

By: Keith A. Pearson

4.77

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

No Easy Deeds is neither a time travel novel nor a rom-com, but it cleverly blends elements of both… read more

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4.29

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