21 Top fiction books like The Saint of Lost Things by Tish Delaney

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The Saint of Lost Things

By: Tish Delaney

3.97

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

>I had dreams once, but never for anything as extravagant as happiness. Still, Auntie Bell and me h…

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Cover of Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry

1. 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 Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

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

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se 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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2. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Water book and Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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3. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Earth book and Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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6. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney

7. How to Build a Boat

By: Elaine Feeney

3.78

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more

Similar categories in Elaine Feeney's How to Build a Boat book and Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

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8. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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9. 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 Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"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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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 Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville

11. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

Similar categories in Kate Grenville's Restless Dolly Maunder book and Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Service by Sarah Gilmartin

12. Service

By: Sarah Gilmartin

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Gilmartin's Service book and Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of The Polite Act of Drowning by Charleen Hurtubise

13. The Polite Act of Drowning

By: Charleen Hurtubise

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The luminous debut novel from one of Ireland's finest storytellers 'The Polite Act of Drowning is a… read more

Similar categories in Charleen Hurtubise's The Polite Act of Drowning book and Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • audiobook
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14. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

Similar categories in Caoilinn Hughes's The Alternatives book and Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of Falling Animals by Sheila  Armstrong

15. Falling Animals

By: Sheila Armstrong

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the las… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Armstrong's Falling Animals book and Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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16. Winter People

By: Gráinne Murphy

4.10

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Sis Cotter has lived her whole life in a small house by her beloved beach. Here, she grew up, reare… read more

Similar categories in Gráinne Murphy's Winter People book and Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of The Saint of Lost Things by Tish Delaney

17. The Saint of Lost Things

By: Tish Delaney

3.97

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

>I had dreams once, but never for anything as extravagant as happiness. Still, Auntie Bell and me h… read more

Similar categories in Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things book and Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • historical
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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18. The Poet

By: Louisa Reid

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Bright, promising Emma is entangled in a toxic romance with her former professor--and she's losing … read more

Similar categories in Louisa Reid's The Poet book and Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mental health
Cover of There's Been a Little Incident by Alice Ryan

19. There's Been a Little Incident

By: Alice Ryan

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

A witty and warm debut novel from a young Irish writer. A story of family, grief, and the ways we c… read more

Similar categories in Alice Ryan's There's Been a Little Incident book and Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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20. Duffy and Son

By: Damien Owens

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A heart-warming and hilarious novel about life, love, and the weight of all we leave unsaid, Duffy … read more

Similar categories in Damien Owens's Duffy and Son book and Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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21. 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 Tish Delaney's The Saint of Lost Things

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook

18 Top contemporary books like The Saint of Lost Things by Tish Delaney

Transform Your Habits

Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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Water

John Boyne

4.33

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Earth

John Boyne

4.34

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Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

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