10 best-selling british literature books like The Halt During the Chase by Rosemary Tonks

Cover of The Halt During the Chase by Rosemary Tonks

The Halt During the Chase

By: Rosemary Tonks

3.61

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Sophie—a clever and charming young woman—is trying to get out from under her mother’s thumb. She’s …

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Cover of The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Klara Glowczewska, Andrzej Szczypiorski

1. The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman

By: Klara Glowczewska , Andrzej Szczypiorski

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow, possesses two attributes… read more

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Cover of A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Seamus Heaney, Darcy O'Brien

2. A Way of Life, Like Any Other

By: Seamus Heaney , Darcy O'Brien

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Cover of Ex-wife by Ursula Parrott

3. Ex-wife

By: Ursula Parrott

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Don't Look at Me Like That by Diana Athill

4. Don't Look at Me Like That

By: Diana Athill

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

It is the 1950s in England, where well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectabl… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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5. First Love

By: Gwendoline Riley

4.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

From "one of Britain's most original young writers" (The Observer), a blistering account of a marri… read more

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  • fiction
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6. Talk

By: Stephen Koch , Linda Rosenkrantz

4.33

Format: 25 pages, Paperback

Friendships are built on chatter, on gossip, on revelations--on talk. Over the course of the summer… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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7. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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8. Wednesday's Child: Stories

By: Yiyun Li

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Leaving by Roxana Robinson

9. Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson

3.87

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

Cover of The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer  Croft

10. The Extinction of Irena Rey

By: Jennifer Croft

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more

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"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

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11. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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12. Earth Angel

By: Madeline Cash

4.05

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

13. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more

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  • fiction
"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

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14. The Road from Belhaven

By: Margot Livesey

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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16. Eastbound

By: Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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17. A Little Luck

By: Claudia Piñeiro

4.29

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

After twenty years, a woman returns to the suburban Argentina she had fled to escape a dreadful acc… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo."

-Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck

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18. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

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  • fiction
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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19. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of The Fraud by Zadie Smith

20. 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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  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature
"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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21. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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22. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • british literature
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

Cover of Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt

23. Loved and Missed

By: Susie Boyt

4.30

Format: None pages, None

Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, … read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
"I wanted it to be true so much it was true. Sometimes in life you have to let your heart and bones off the hook of yourself."

-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed

"I thought of him as a long-lost relation. A sailor coming into port- agitated, sweat on his brow- who needed somewhere calm to lay his head. He was good company. And it was hard for me to feel I was …"

-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed

"You ever wish that you’d . . . ’ I waited for more, but her question politely disintegrated. But then, although no more words were forthcoming, she tilted her head slightly and suddenly what she’d as…"

-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed

"Jean’s capacity to bounce back in life always impressed me. The way she held herself in high regard. It was a form of personal, almost bodily optimism, you could say. Integrity that went deep and was…"

-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed

Cover of My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley

24. My Phantoms

By: Gwendoline Riley

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more

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  • fiction
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Cover of The Children's Bach by Helen Garner

25. The Children's Bach

By: Helen Garner

3.53

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Book of Love by Kelly Link

26. The Book of Love

By: Kelly Link

3.50

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of If I Let You Go by Charlotte Levin

27. If I Let You Go

By: Charlotte Levin

3.52

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

*RICHARD and JUDY Book Club pick 2023* If I Let You Go by Charlotte Levin is a deeply moving and… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner

28. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

By: Isabel Waidner

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee

29. Pomegranate

By: Helen Elaine Lee

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gripping and powerful novel of healing, redemption, and love, following a queer Black woman who w… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Halt During the Chase by Rosemary Tonks

30. The Halt During the Chase

By: Rosemary Tonks

3.61

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Sophie—a clever and charming young woman—is trying to get out from under her mother’s thumb. She’s … read more

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Cover of What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11) by Alan Bradley

31. What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11)

By: Alan Bradley

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the absence of adult supervision, Flavia has taken on the mentorship of her “pestilent” younger … read more

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  • british literature

31 best-selling fiction books like The Halt During the Chase by Rosemary Tonks

Transform Your Habits

The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman

Klara Glowczewska , Andrzej Szczypiorski

4.33

Transform Your Habits

A Way of Life, Like Any Other

Seamus Heaney , Darcy O'Brien

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Ex-wife

Ursula Parrott

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Don't Look at Me Like That

Diana Athill

4.03

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21 must-read fiction books like Day by Michael Cunningham

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Leaving

Roxana Robinson

3.87

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