13 best-selling novels books like The Voids by Ryan O’Connor

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The Voids

By: Ryan O’Connor

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

‘After a couple of weeks, I found myself standing outside the voids in the middle of the night list…

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1. Poverty Safari

By: Darren McGarvey

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more

Similar categories in Darren McGarvey's Poverty Safari book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • poverty
  • scotland
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2. Marabou Stork Nightmares

By: Irvine Welsh

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed author of the cult classics Trainspottingand The Acid House, Irvine Welsh has been ha… read more

Similar categories in Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • novels
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. The Cutting Room

By: Louise Welsh

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Rilke, a dissolute and promiscuous auctioneer, comes across a collection of highly disturbing … read more

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4. Case Study

By: Graeme Macrae Burnet

3.60

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting … read more

Similar categories in Graeme Macrae Burnet's Case Study book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Forget about meaning’, he said. ‘Life’s not about meaning, it’s about experience."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"Her handbag, he said, was found on the scene. I made a mental note to carry out a thorough spring clean of contents of my own bag before throwing myself in front of any trains."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

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5. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

Similar categories in Max Porter's Shy book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

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6. 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 Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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7. There Are More Things

By: Yara Rodrigues Fowler

4.03

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

Born to a well-known political family in Olinda, Brazil, Catarina grows up in the shadow of her dea… read more

Similar categories in Yara Rodrigues Fowler's There Are More Things book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Meantime

By: Frankie Boyle

3.54

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more

Similar categories in Frankie Boyle's Meantime book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • novels
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Second Cut

By: Louise Welsh

3.96

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable.… read more

Similar categories in Louise Welsh's The Second Cut book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • audiobook
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Scabby Queen

By: Kirstin Innes

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - one-hit-wonder, political activist, lif… read more

Similar categories in Kirstin Innes's Scabby Queen book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • literary fiction
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"At what point did the policeman stop? When he put his cock in? Whose was the sperm that had fathered her child? Was that erection, that constant need to get her knickers off all part of the performan…"

-Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen

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11. 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 Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"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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12. Squeaky Clean (Squeaky Clean, #1)

By: Callum McSorley

4.10

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Half the Glasgow polis think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just think she's a fuck-up. … read more

Similar categories in Callum McSorley's Squeaky Clean (Squeaky Clean, #1) book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • novels
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Hare House

By: Sally Hinchcliffe

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Sally Hinchcliffe’s Hare House is a modern-day witch story, perfect for fans of Pine and The Loney.… read more

Similar categories in Sally Hinchcliffe's Hare House book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • audiobook
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We soon fell silent too, and above and around us came the murmur of all the countless branches; a distant sort of a noise, ungraspable yet pervasive, like voices in another room."

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

"It was then, as I hesitated, that the head stepped in and said, 'We don't want a witch hunt'. I looked from one to another of them, and then back to her. Three very different women but in each of the…"

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

"It's not a simple matter. You can drain the water or grit the ice, or move the wall. It makes no difference in the end. It's just a bad spot here, and always has been. A crossroads. The place where t…"

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

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14. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's In Ascension book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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15. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

Similar categories in Carys Davies's Clear book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • literary fiction
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. Room to Dream

By: David Lynch

4.33

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In this memoir, David Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking fi… read more

Similar categories in David Lynch's Room to Dream book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • audiobook
"Ultimately, each life is a mystery until we each solve the mystery, and that's where we are all headed whether we know it or not."

-David Lynch, Room to Dream

"I don't know how I got to that thing of not caring what other people think, but it's a good thing. The thing is, you fall in love with ideas and it's like falling in love with a girl. It could be a g…"

-David Lynch, Room to Dream

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18. O Brother

By: John Niven

4.64

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

John Niven’s little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes… read more

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  • audiobook
"My mother can hold her own where foreign words are involved. The simple duo-syllable 'croissant' comes out variously as 'craw-sank', 'crass-ant', or 'crah-sint', the word seeming to have no business …"

-John Niven, O Brother

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19. The Young Team

By: Graeme Armstrong

4.49

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife cult… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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20. The Long Knives

By: Irvine Welsh

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Justice can be a blunt instrument "Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Medi… read more

Similar categories in Irvine Welsh's The Long Knives book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"We're all confused youths, pal. We just get better at covering it up."

-Irvine Welsh, The Long Knives

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21. Hex

By: Jenni Fagan

3.85

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more

Similar categories in Jenni Fagan's Hex book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • scotland
  • fiction
"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

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22. 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 Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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23. Boy Friends

By: Michael Pedersen

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland’s brightest y… read more

Similar categories in Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • audiobook
  • scotland
  • contemporary
"Ever feel like you were fated to be friends with someone? An alchemy in your meeting, instant fondness - part chemical, part kismet. This is how I've felt about every friend I've fallen in love with …"

-Michael Pedersen, Boy Friends

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24. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

By: Katherine Rundell

4.42

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • audiobook
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

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25. Luckenbooth

By: Jenni Fagan

3.33

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The devil's daughter rows to Edinburgh in a coffin, to work as maid for the Minister of Culture, a … read more

Similar categories in Jenni Fagan's Luckenbooth book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • literary fiction
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Life is so much more than we can manage it to be, it is so much more sudden than we are able to understand."

-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth

"My ma said: only love a man who reads books and understands them properly. If they don't read books don't go their bed. Ever!"

-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth

"Such is the way. It’s like a disease. Love: 80 per cent proof. Risk of death if you drink it. Can send you mad, bad, blind and delirious."

-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth

"There is cheering out on the street. There is dancing. People meet and fall in love. Scuffles break out. They drink far too much. All of life is happening."

-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth

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26. Wivenhoe

By: Samuel Fisher

3.19

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Never thought he would miss the mud: the gleaming, slickness of it. The slap and suck at the turnin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"It was a time in her life when she would seek out mirrors whenever she cried, finding comfort in being a witness to her own grief. A time from which every memory has a strange timeless lucidity."

-Samuel Fisher, Wivenhoe

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27. The Pharmacist

By: Rachelle Atalla

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the end, very few people made it to the bunker. Now they wait there for the outside world to hea… read more

Similar categories in Rachelle Atalla's The Pharmacist book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • audiobook
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. The Voids

By: Ryan O’Connor

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

‘After a couple of weeks, I found myself standing outside the voids in the middle of the night list… read more

Similar categories in Ryan O’Connor's The Voids book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • literary fiction
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • poverty
  • novels
  • audiobook
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29. Let’s Pretend

By: Laura Vaughan

3.36

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When you fake it for a living, the truth is hard to find... Former child star Lily Thane is now … read more

Similar categories in Laura Vaughan's Let’s Pretend book and Ryan O’Connor's The Voids

  • contemporary
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30. The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. Barrowbeck

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

For centuries, the inhabitants of Barrowbeck, a remote valley on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border, h… read more

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  • fiction

24 must-read fiction books like The Voids by Ryan O’Connor

Transform Your Habits

Marabou Stork Nightmares

Irvine Welsh

4.23

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Case Study

Graeme Macrae Burnet

3.60

Transform Your Habits

Shy

Max Porter

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

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12 must-read fiction books like The Long Knives by Irvine Welsh

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The Long Drop

Denise Mina

3.39

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A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)

Ian Rankin

4.20

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Meantime

Frankie Boyle

3.54

Transform Your Habits

The Second Cut

Louise Welsh

3.96

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