14 must-read fiction books like The Bitterness of Olives by Andrew Brown

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The Bitterness of Olives

By: Andrew Brown

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

‘Why can you not be friends anymore?’ It was the story of his country, he supposed. Perhaps they…

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1. Next of Kin

By: John Boyne

4.07

Format: 50 pages, Hardcover

John Boyne has been heralded as “one of the most imaginative and adventurous of the young Irish n… read more

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2. The Half-life of Hannah

By: Nick Alexander

4.54

Format: 608 pages, Kindle Edition

Exciting new drama from Nick Alexander, author of the number one hit The Case Of The Missing Boyfri… read more

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3. 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

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"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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4. Crooked Seeds

By: Karen Jennings

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and darin… read more

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5. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

By: Shubnum Khan

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more

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"It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"The end always returns to the beginning; the circle always seeks to be whole, and so when the end comes for Meena Begum, she is remembering the river and the way it runs through the village like a pe…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

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6. 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

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7. 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

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8. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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9. The Year of the Locust

By: Terry Hayes

3.57

Format: 652 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Utterly gripping, elegantly written... most definitely worth the wait’ Observer'Ticks all the boxe… read more

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10. Children of Sugarcane

By: Joanne Joseph

4.49

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

"Shanti is a heroine that the reader will not easily forget. The story that is told here is worth n… read more

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11. A Bird in Winter

By: Louise Doughty

3.68

Format: None pages, ebook

Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, … read more

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12. Leo (Bennie Griessel, #8) (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Deon Meyer

4.41

Format: 552 pages, Kindle Edition

’n Student se dood in die berg by Stellenbosch lyk verdag. ’n Oud-recce vermoor as ’n boodskap. ’n … read more

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13. Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End

By: Darrel Bristow-Bovey

4.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of Endurance briefly swept the anxiety and rancor of 2022 from the headlines of the w… read more

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14. A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine

By: Andrew Harding

4.33

Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition

The Russians are invading. But the locals have a plan. It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roa… read more

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15. The Woman at the Wheel

By: Penny Haw

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Inspiring historical fiction based on the real life of Bertha Benz, whose husband built the first p… read more

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16. The Bitterness of Olives

By: Andrew Brown

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

‘Why can you not be friends anymore?’ It was the story of his country, he supposed. Perhaps they… read more

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17. Daisy de Melker: Hiding among killers in the City of Gold

By: Ted Botha

4.14

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Mother. Nurse. Gold-digger. Cause célèbre. When Daisy de Melker stood trial in 1932, accused of poi… read more

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18. Prescription: Ice Cream: A Doctor's Journey to Discover What Matters

By: Alastair Mcalpine

4.40

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2018, Alastair McAlpine, a palliative paediatrician in Cape Town, decided to share some inspirin… read more

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19. Love and Fury: A Memoir

By: Margie Orford

4.57

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Love and Fury traces a woman's fierce love and righteous rage, unravelling entanglements that are a… read more

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20. Lost Property

By: Megan Choritz

4.36

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

One morning Laine wakes up to discover that the man she's been married to for 15 years has been sec… read more

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21. Place

By: Justin Fox

4.50

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Place is a moving love letter to South Africa, merging literature and land­scape, and taking the re… read more

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21 Top fiction books like The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan

Transform Your Habits

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Katherine Arden

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Shubnum Khan

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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