14 Top fiction books like The Reservoir Tapes by Jon McGregor

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The Reservoir Tapes

By: Jon McGregor

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The Reservoir Tapes returns to the extraordinary territory of Jon McGregor's Man Booker Prize-longl…

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1. Silver Hair: Say Goodbye to the Dye and Let Your Natural Light Shine: A Handbook

By: Lorraine Massey , Michele Bender

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

DISCOVER THE POWER of Silver Whether you’re naturally graying, weaning yourself off the dye, or cov… read more

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2. So Much for That Winter

By: Misha Hoekstra , Dorthe Nors

3.51

Format: 178 pages, ebook

Dorthe Nors follows up her acclaimed story collection Karate Chopwith a pair of novellas that playf… read more

Similar categories in Misha Hoekstra's So Much for That Winter book and Jon McGregor's The Reservoir Tapes

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards

By: Kristopher Jansma

2.50

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

An inventive and witty debut about a young man's quest to become a writer and the misadventures in … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Widow: Stories

By: Michelle Latiolais

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Michelle Latiolais's Widow: Stories book and Jon McGregor's The Reservoir Tapes

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction

5. Familiar

By: J. Robert Lennon

4.58

Format: 226 pages,

A haunting, enigmatic novel about a woman who is given a second chance--and isn't sure whether she … read more

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6. Blood Salt Water (Alex Morrow, #5)

By: Denise Mina

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Salt water lifts blood. Only salt water. Loch Lomond is a mile deep but the woman's body surfaced a… read more

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7. How Literature Saved My Life

By: David Shields

4.05

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

Blending confessional criticism and anthropological autobiography, Shields explores the power of li… read more

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8. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • crime
  • 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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9. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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10. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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11. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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12. Wandering through Life: A Memoir

By: Donna Leon

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Theinternationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells herown adventurous life… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford

13. Light Perpetual

By: Francis Spufford

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the critically acclaimed and award‑winning author of Golden Hill, an “extraordinary…symphonic…… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie, #15) by Alexander McCall Smith

14. The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie, #15)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this latest installment of the beloved Isabel Dalhousie series, Isabel finds herself navigating … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency by Malcolm W. Nance

15. They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

By: Malcolm W. Nance

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, USA TODAY AND GREAT LAKES INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLER ASSOCIATI… read more

Similar categories in Malcolm W. Nance's They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency book and Jon McGregor's The Reservoir Tapes

  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. The (Other) You

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we’d chosen a different path, from a mas… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's The (Other) You book and Jon McGregor's The Reservoir Tapes

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

By: Emil Ferris

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

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18. 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

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  • 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

Cover of Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something like Grace by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

19. Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something like Grace

By: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, chronicling the customs… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something like Grace book and Jon McGregor's The Reservoir Tapes

  • audiobook
Cover of The Reservoir Tapes by Jon McGregor

20. The Reservoir Tapes

By: Jon McGregor

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The Reservoir Tapes returns to the extraordinary territory of Jon McGregor's Man Booker Prize-longl… read more

Similar categories in Jon McGregor's The Reservoir Tapes book and Jon McGregor's The Reservoir Tapes

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. The Accident on the A35 (Georges Gorski, #2)

By: Graeme Macrae Burnet

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The methodical but troubled Chief Inspector Georges Gorski visits the wife of a lawyer killed in a … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The real measure of 'truth' in any novel is not whether the characters, places and events portrayed exist beyond the pages of the book, but, rather, whether they seem authentic to us as readers. When…"

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, The Accident on the A35 (Georges Gorski, #2)

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So Much for That Winter

Misha Hoekstra , Dorthe Nors

3.51

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Kristopher Jansma

2.50

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Colin Barrett

3.78

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Starve Acre

Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

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Barbara Pym

3.90

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Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery)

Marcia Muller

3.57

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Anne Hillerman

4.29

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Jennifer Chiaverini

4.11

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