13 Best fiction books like Decima (AFR) (Afrikaans Edition) by Eben Venter

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Decima (AFR) (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Eben Venter

4.19

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

In die Oos-Kaapse veld maak ’n skrywer haar in sy verbeelding Vir Decima – ’n formidabele swartren…

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1. Devil's Peak (Benny Griessel, #1)

By: Deon Meyer

4.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From rising South African thriller writer Deon Meyer, a gripping suspense novel about revenge, forg… read more

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2. False River

By: Dominique Botha

2.88

Format: 29 pages, ebook

"You are too close to the water," Paul whispered. "There are barbels in the mud. They will wake up … read more

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3. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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4. The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese

4.45

Format: 724 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more

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5. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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6. 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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7. 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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8. A Terrible Kindness

By: Jo Browning Wroe

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more

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9. Dwelm (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Rudie van Rensburg

4.32

Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition

Twee gewese speurders word koelbloedig langs ’n plaasdam afgemaai . . . En Kassie en Rooi moet die … read more

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10. Siembamba (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Madelein Rust

4.22

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Mindie Rochebrandt en haar tweelingsuster, Mandelien, is beide swanger met hul eersteling. Ná ’n on… read more

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11. Al wat tel (Ami Prinsloo, #3)

By: Irma Venter

4.51

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Toe Ami hoor dat 'n man voor haar gim geskiet is, weet sy daar is moeilikheid. En die feit dat die … read more

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12. Kwaaiwater (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Irna van Zyl

3.88

Format: 469 pages, Kindle Edition

Die grootste uitdaging van haar loopbaan wag op speuradjudant Storm van der Merwe. Die kusdorp Herm… read more

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13. Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom

By: André de Ruyter

4.56

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

André de Ruyter’s explosive account of his three years as CEO of Eskom, where he dealt with corrupt… read more

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14. The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club

By: Faith Hogan

4.17

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Three women. Three different stages of life. United by one thing: the chance to start again. 'Up… read more

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15. 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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16. Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

By: Annabel Abbs

3.92

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor’s A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, … read more

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"God, I think blasphemously, is in a sip of coffee."

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"I can feel Mother's furious eyes upon me, but the tug of the kitchen is stronger: my new books, the fresh perch gleaming in the larder, the trugs of field mushrooms and damsons and pippin apples stil…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"The smell of bruised apples reaches me of a sudden. And in that moment I am back in Miss Eliza's kitchen, rich with cooking odors: the nutty smell of roasting coffee berries, the syrupy scent of frui…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"But then, one bright morning, I walked out through woods of pine and birch. Foxgloves and wild clematis and briar roses were bursting from the earth. Birdsong shook the air. Swifts snipped at the sky…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

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17. 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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18. Dorado

By: Tom Dreyer

3.54

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Ná sy pa se dood ervaar Gilbert du Toit eienaardige visioene: kontoerlyne van lig en vlietende skol… read more

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"I’m not too sure what to make of a pink dinosaur myself."

-Tom Dreyer, Dorado

" It’s not death one should be afraid of, Gilbert had thought. It’s the wrong kind of life. "

-Tom Dreyer, Dorado

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19. 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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20. Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Anchien Troskie

4.37

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

Mia Steyn is nog bloedjonk wanneer haar broer haar een laatmiddag by ’n losieshuis in Bloemfontein,… read more

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21. Laaste kans (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Marita van der Vyver

3.87

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

’n Groep vriende kom die eerste keer in vyf-en-twintig jaar bymekaar om Adriaan se verjaardag te vi… read more

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22. Lokval (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Bettina Wyngaard

3.97

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

Nicci de Wee hou haar lyf deesdae privaat speurder. Maar wat as sy ’n kans kry om die skurke wat To… read more

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23. Gebeente (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Etienne van Heerden

4.56

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Met ’n onverwagte trein kom Magistraat Imker Goedeman aan op Gebeente, ’n klein dorpie op die Verge… read more

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24. Decima (AFR) (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Eben Venter

4.19

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

In die Oos-Kaapse veld maak ’n skrywer haar in sy verbeelding Vir Decima – ’n formidabele swartren… read more

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25. Geheim van die gruwelsand

By: Zirk van den Berg

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Moordenaars. Afpersers. Nazi’s in die Namib. En dis by verre nie die ergste waarmee die diamantsmok… read more

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26. Onder 'n bloedrooi hemel: Liefde en geweld in Suid-Afrika: 'n Memoir (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Annemarié van Niekerk

4.53

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

Die skrywer woon in Den Haag, maar kom terug Suid-Afrika toe vir die begrafnis van haar vriend, Rub… read more

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27. Of Fathers and Fugitives

By: S.J. Naudé

3.68

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

Daniel is a journalist, moving between London and Cape Town, until his elderly and demented father … read more

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28. Amma (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Charmaine Africa

4.25

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Amma is die verhaal van Charmaine Africa wat grootword in Bishop Lavis teen die agtergrond van apar… read more

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29. Gebooie (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Rudie van Rensburg

4.54

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

’n Reeksmoordenaar maai bekendes op ’n streep af. En Kassie en Rooi moet hom vastrek. Maar dit is m… read more

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30. Om alleen te gaan

By: Nicole Jaekel Strauss

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Die verhaal van Cato van Johannesburg, wat in haar middeljare op ’n hartsreis na die Nyl gaan ná ’n… read more

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31. Sagie is (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Jan Van Tonder

4.39

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

 Dis vier jaar ná Sagie se pa die boeldouser gehuur het. Sagie het opgehou met sy bouery. Deesdae h… 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

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Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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