26 must-read fiction books like Revenge, Murder in Three Parts by S.L. Lim

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Revenge, Murder in Three Parts

By: S.L. Lim

3.39

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

‘Before I go into my grave,’ she says out loud, ‘I will kill that man.’ A brilliant new novel from…

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1. Bryony and Roses

By: T. Kingfisher

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Bryony and her sisters have come down in the world. Their merchant father died trying to reclaim hi… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Oh dear God, no, stop!" Fumblefoot gave her a reproachful look. Stop what? I have broken into an enchanted manor house and my pony has crapped on the floor. Oh God. -Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher"

-T. Kingfisher, Bryony and Roses

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2. Hot and Badgered (Honey Badger Chronicles, #1)

By: Shelly Laurenston

4.17

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s not every day that a beautiful naked woman falls out of the sky and lands face-first on grizzl… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Everything makes me nervous."

-Shelly Laurenston, Hot and Badgered (Honey Badger Chronicles, #1)

"Now can I go in and kill everybody?"

-Shelly Laurenston, Hot and Badgered (Honey Badger Chronicles, #1)

"Dear God, Max! What happened to your face?"

-Shelly Laurenston, Hot and Badgered (Honey Badger Chronicles, #1)

"You can’t give wild animals food and then take it away."

-Shelly Laurenston, Hot and Badgered (Honey Badger Chronicles, #1)

3. Tulip Fever

By: Deborah Moggach

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

A tale of art, beauty, lust, greed, deception and retribution -- set in a refined society ablaze wi… read more

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4. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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5. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

By: Shehan Karunatilaka

3.92

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Even suicide requires perseverance."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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6. 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

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  • feminism
  • audiobook
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7. All That's Left Unsaid

By: Tracey Lien

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

Cover of Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All by Hannah Ferguson

8. Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All

By: Hannah Ferguson

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from die… read more

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  • feminism
  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2) by Chris Hammer

9. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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10. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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11. One Hundred Days

By: Alice Pung

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One day, a boy in a nice silver car gives sixteen-year-old Karuna a ride. So Karuna returns the fav… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"They couldn't see that the bigger I got, the smaller I became, and they didn't understand that once the baby came, I would be gone."

-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days

"I'm keeping this record to let you know that it wasn't always that way. That you were once mine, and when I looked in your dark eyes, you made me very happy."

-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days

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12. Safe Haven

By: Shankari Chandran

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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13. Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr

14. Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

By: David Marr

4.39

Format: 596 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars David Marr was shocked… read more

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  • australia
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15. Second Place

By: Rachel Cusk

3.68

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed s… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards."

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

"Muutoksen ja toiston kaava on niin tiukasti yhteydessä tietynlaiseen harmoniaan elämässä, ja vapauden harjoittaminen on alisteista sille aivan kuin opinkappaleelle. Muutoksia täytyy annostella kohtuu…"

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

"Joskus minun vain täytyy saada puhua jotta tuntisin itseni todelliseksi, ja toivoisin että sinäkin puhuisit minulle." Hän makasi vaiti pimeässä ja tuijotti kattoon. Sitten hän sanoi: "Minusta tuntuu …"

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

"It struck me how the human capacity for receptivity is a kind of birthright, an asset given to us in the moment of our creation by which we are intended to regulate the currency of our souls. Unless …"

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

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16. A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing

By: Jessie Tu

3.19

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. The Space Between

By: Michelle Andrews

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the creators of the hit podcast Shameless: relatable ruminations on the mess, the madness and … read more

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  • feminism
  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of Trust (Martin Scarsden, #3) by Chris Hammer

18. Trust (Martin Scarsden, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.05

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

He violated her past and haunts her present. Now he's threatening their future. She breathes deep… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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19. The Other Bridget

By: Rachael Johns

4.16

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A feelgood romantic comedy by Australia's bestselling romance writer, ideal for fans of Emily Henry… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. The Hummingbird Effect

By: Kate Mildenhall

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Diary of a Void

By: Emi Yagi

3.51

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Having a baby isn't easy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's been two thousand years, and it's the same old story, right?"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"I'm always so alone. I guess I should be used to it by now. That's the way it is from the moment we come into this world, but I'm still not used to it - how alone we all are."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Until they arrived, while everyone else was transitioning to winter, putting on coats and sweaters, I was going to stick with my summer dress and my usual work blazer. Dressed in the dazzling flowers…"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

Cover of The Ruin (Cormac Reilly, #1) by Dervla McTiernan

22. The Ruin (Cormac Reilly, #1)

By: Dervla McTiernan

3.95

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

It's been twenty years since Cormac Reilly discovered the body of Hilaria Blake in her crumbling Ge… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

23. Dust Child

By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

Cover of The Cryptic Clue (The Tea Ladies, #2) by Amanda  Hampson

24. The Cryptic Clue (The Tea Ladies, #2)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Look who's back in hot water! The highly anticipated new novel in The Tea Ladies cosy crime series,… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. The Family Doctor

By: Debra Oswald

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Paula is a dedicated suburban GP, who is devastated by the murder of a friend and her children by t… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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26. Love and Other Puzzles

By: Kimberley Allsopp

3.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Following the clues doesn't always lead you where you might expect ... A witty, warm-hearted an… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4) by Sarah   Bailey

27. Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4)

By: Sarah Bailey

3.91

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

DS Gemma Woodstock returns to Smithson in a mysterious new thriller from the bestselling author of … read more

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  • thriller
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Crushing by Genevieve Novak

28. Crushing

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Gettin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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29. Sunbathing

By: Isobel Beech

4.05

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Revenge, Murder in Three Parts by S.L. Lim

30. Revenge, Murder in Three Parts

By: S.L. Lim

3.39

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

‘Before I go into my grave,’ she says out loud, ‘I will kill that man.’ A brilliant new novel from… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • thriller
  • queer
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31. My Darling from the Lions

By: Rachel Long

3.78

Format: None pages, None

Described as a narrative collection in three parts, My Darling from the Lions “threads experiences … read more

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  • feminism
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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