6 Top novels books like Bird Life by Anna Smaill

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Bird Life

By: Anna Smaill

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration…

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1. The Extinction of Irena Rey

By: Jennifer Croft

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Croft's The Extinction of Irena Rey book and Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

Cover of Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

2. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • audiobook
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3. 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

Similar categories in Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional book and Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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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 Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Pearl

By: Siân Hughes

3.91

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A haunting debut novel inspired by the medieval poem of the same name Marianne is eight years ol… read more

Similar categories in Siân Hughes's Pearl book and Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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6. Return to Blood (Hana Westerman Thriller, #2)

By: Michael Bennett

3.94

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Better the Blood, the gripping second novel in a crime series starring Māori det… read more

Similar categories in Michael Bennett's Return to Blood (Hana Westerman Thriller, #2) book and Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

Similar categories in Emily Perkins's Lioness book and Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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8. 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 Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts by Josie Shapiro

9. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

Similar categories in Josie Shapiro's Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts book and Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • mental health
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10. Amma

By: Saraid de Silva

4.45

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Three generations. Three continents. Three sexualities. 1951. Singapore. Ten-year-old Josep… read more

Similar categories in Saraid de Silva's Amma book and Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. The Bone Tree

By: Airana Ngarewa

3.71

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

After the death of both parents, Kauri and Black must find a way to survive in a world that doesn't… read more

Similar categories in Airana Ngarewa's The Bone Tree book and Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • fiction
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12. The Deck

By: Fiona Farrell

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

What is the point of inventing stories when reality eclipses imagination? A little way off in the f… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Bird Life by Anna Smaill

13. Bird Life

By: Anna Smaill

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration… read more

Similar categories in Anna Smaill's Bird Life book and Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • animals
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • japan
  • audiobook
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14. 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

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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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15. 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 Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of The Vanishing Point by Andrea Hotere

16. The Vanishing Point

By: Andrea Hotere

3.43

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A dazzling and spellbinding debut about a mysterious painting, the secrets it keeps, and the two wo… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Hotere's The Vanishing Point book and Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Waters

By: Carl Nixon

3.77

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

One family. Forty years. The Waters kids ― practical, athletic Mark; the physically beautiful drea… read more

Similar categories in Carl Nixon's The Waters book and Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • fiction
Cover of Thunderhead by Miranda Darling

18. Thunderhead

By: Miranda Darling

3.62

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman’s struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway beg… read more

Similar categories in Miranda Darling's Thunderhead book and Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Call by Gavin Strawhan

19. The Call

By: Gavin Strawhan

3.84

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Allen & Unwin Fiction Prize 2023A brilliant debut crime novel centred on a 501 deport… read more

Similar categories in Gavin Strawhan's The Call book and Anna Smaill's Bird Life

  • audiobook
Cover of On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother by Ineke Meredith

20. On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother

By: Ineke Meredith

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Stories of life, death and bravery by a Kiwi female general surgeon. The world of surgery is str… read more

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17 must-read fiction books like Bird Life by Anna Smaill

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The Extinction of Irena Rey

Jennifer Croft

3.26

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Charlotte Wood

3.68

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So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

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Siân Hughes

3.91

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Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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John Boyne

4.33

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4.34

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Fiona McIntosh

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