13 best-selling ireland books like Lazy City by Rachel Connolly

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Lazy City

By: Rachel Connolly

3.53

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Following the death of her best friend, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast, a…

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1. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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2. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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3. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

Similar categories in Michael Magee's Close to Home book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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4. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Nothing Special

By: Nicole Flattery

3.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother … read more

Similar categories in Nicole Flattery's Nothing Special book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. This Plague of Souls

By: Mike McCormack

3.09

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

The follow-up to Booker-listed literary sensation Solar Bones is a terse metaphysical thriller, nam… read more

Similar categories in Mike McCormack's This Plague of Souls book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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7. 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

Similar categories in Colin Barrett's Wild Houses book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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8. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

Similar categories in Megan Nolan's Ordinary Human Failings book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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9. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • ireland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Kala

By: Colin Walsh

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more

Similar categories in Colin Walsh's Kala book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

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11. Breakdown

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Sweeney's Breakdown book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Lazy City by Rachel Connolly

12. Lazy City

By: Rachel Connolly

3.53

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Following the death of her best friend, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast, a… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Connolly's Lazy City book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • literature
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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13. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

Similar categories in Sinéad Gleeson's Hagstone book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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14. Spoilt Creatures

By: Amy Twigg

3.94

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. It was a place for women.… read more

Similar categories in Amy Twigg's Spoilt Creatures book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas

15. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's The Anthropologists book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin

16. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Amendments by Niamh Mulvey

17. The Amendments

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel abou… read more

Similar categories in Niamh Mulvey's The Amendments book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler

18. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan

19. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's Heart, Be at Peace book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

20. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Cover of Private Rites by Julia Armfield

21. 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

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

21 must-read fiction books like Lazy City by Rachel Connolly

Transform Your Habits

The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

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20 best-selling fiction books like Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan

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Earth

John Boyne

4.34

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Wild Houses

Colin Barrett

3.78

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The Heart in Winter

Kevin Barry

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Breakdown

Cathy Sweeney

3.81

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