20 Top fiction books like The Schoolhouse by Sophie Ward

Cover of The Schoolhouse by Sophie  Ward

The Schoolhouse

By: Sophie Ward

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the Booker Prize-longlisted author of Love and Other Thought Experiments comes a masterful and…

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Cover of The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

1. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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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 Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"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. Radical Love

By: Neil Blackmore

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to England, 1809. London is a violent, intolerant city, exhausted by years of war, beset by… read more

Similar categories in Neil Blackmore's Radical Love book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
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4. All the Little Bird-Hearts

By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

3.80

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life… read more

Similar categories in Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow's All the Little Bird-Hearts book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. 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 Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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6. 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 Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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

Cover of The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks

7. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Faulks's The Seventh Son book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. 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 Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"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 I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait

9. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Wait's I’m Sorry You Feel That Way book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The House of Mirrors by Erin Kelly

10. The House of Mirrors

By: Erin Kelly

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

One of them has killed before. One of them will kill again. In the sweltering summer of 1997, s… read more

Similar categories in Erin Kelly's The House of Mirrors book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. A Lesson in Cruelty

By: Harriet Tyce

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

WHAT PRICE WOULD YOU PAY FOR THE PERFECT LIFE? They say you can't always get what you want. But … read more

Similar categories in Harriet Tyce's A Lesson in Cruelty book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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12. Deadly Animals

By: Marie Tierney

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Finding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. In this chilling debut mystery… read more

Similar categories in Marie Tierney's Deadly Animals book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Day One by Abigail Dean

13. Day One

By: Abigail Dean

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Marty seems to do no wrong. Trent can’t seem to get things right. When they are thrown together by … read more

Similar categories in Abigail Dean's Day One book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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14. The Memory of Animals

By: Claire Fuller

3.61

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange, and Un… read more

Similar categories in Claire Fuller's The Memory of Animals book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Humans are useless at learning from their mistakes. We just have to keep making new plans."

-Claire Fuller, The Memory of Animals

Cover of Ginger and Me by Elissa Soave

15. Ginger and Me

By: Elissa Soave

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The debut novel from the winner of the Primadonna Prize. Wendy is nineteen and living alone.All… read more

Similar categories in Elissa Soave's Ginger and Me book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Cuckoo in the Nest by Fran  Hill

16. Cuckoo in the Nest

By: Fran Hill

4.36

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s the heatwave summer of 1976 and 14-year-old would be poet Jackie Chadwick is newly fostered by… read more

Similar categories in Fran Hill's Cuckoo in the Nest book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Schoolhouse by Sophie  Ward

17. The Schoolhouse

By: Sophie Ward

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the Booker Prize-longlisted author of Love and Other Thought Experiments comes a masterful and… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • crime
  • queer
Cover of Thirsty Animals by Rachelle Atalla

18. Thirsty Animals

By: Rachelle Atalla

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is running out of water. Aida is forced back home to live on the farm with her mum. Fo… read more

Similar categories in Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • fiction
Cover of This Is Fine by Poorna Bell

19. This Is Fine

By: Poorna Bell

4.26

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

It might not be the stuff of dreams, but Padma and Wallace have spent ten years building a relation… read more

Similar categories in Poorna Bell's This Is Fine book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Plaything by Bea Setton

20. Plaything

By: Bea Setton

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A tense and compulsive novel of unnatural fixation Anna is smart. Smarter than you, probably. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Bea Setton's Plaything book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Orange Room: A deeply relatable story of self-discovery and self-worth by Rosie Price

21. The Orange Room: A deeply relatable story of self-discovery and self-worth

By: Rosie Price

4.15

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

Can we live fully when we are too afraid to be seen? This is the moving story of a young woman who … read more

Similar categories in Rosie Price's The Orange Room: A deeply relatable story of self-discovery and self-worth book and Sophie Ward's The Schoolhouse

  • contemporary

8 Top crime books like The Schoolhouse by Sophie Ward

Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Kala

Colin Walsh

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The House of Mirrors

Erin Kelly

4.08

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21 Top fiction books like Cuckoo in the Nest by Fran Hill

Transform Your Habits

Life, Death and Vanilla Slices

Jenny Eclair

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Transform Your Habits

This Could Be Everything

Eva Rice

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Invisible Women’s Club

Helen Paris

4.07

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