5 best-selling nonfiction books like May the Lord in His Mercy Be Kind to Belfast by Tony Parker

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May the Lord in His Mercy Be Kind to Belfast

By: Tony Parker

4.40

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

Captures the lives and experiences of the people of Belfast, including priests, politicians, Cathol…

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1. The Unconsoled

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.58

Format: 535 pages, Paperback

Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he c… read more

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"Leave us, you were always on the outside of our love."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

"One should not, in any case, attempt to make a virtue out of one's limitations."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

"It's nonsense to believe people go on loving each other regardless of what happens."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

"It had occurred to me to follow her through into the next room, visitors or no visitors, and bring her back for a talk. But in the end I had decided in favour of waiting where I was for her return. S…"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

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2. Endless Night

By: Agatha Christie

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

Strapped by a chauffeur's wages, Michael Rogers' want of a better life seems out of reach. Especial… read more

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3. The Buried Giant

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.58

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's… read more

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"Are you still there, Axl?"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

"The Giant, once buried, now stirs."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

"The Giant, once well buried, now stirs."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

"A wound that healed slowly, but heal it did."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

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4. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more

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5. Death and the Penguin

By: Andrey Kurkov , George Bird

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefe… read more

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6. Wool (Wool, #1)

By: Hugh Howey

4.16

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Thousands of them have lived underground. They've lived there so long, there are only legends about… read more

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7. Egenmäktigt förfarande

By: Lena Andersson

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover

Ester Nilsson ar 31. Hon ar poet och essaist och en fornuftig manniska i en fornuftig relation. En … read more

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8. Foster

By: Claire Keegan

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when s… read more

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9. Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1)

By: Lian Hearn

2.83

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale flo… read more

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10. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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11. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

By: Huw Lemmey

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more

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  • politics
  • adult
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

By: Naomi Alderman

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery’s legendary detective Jane M… read more

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  • adult
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13. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 336 pages, ebook

With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has g… read more

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  • adult
"The gendered expectations of parenting were dissolving, but even though women could be found working in creches now, there was still an enormous difference between the person who produced an egg and …"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"In traditional Aeluon culture, a mother was not a parent. Parents were men and shon. Parents went to school for it. Parents were the people who actually raised children, not those who had done the ea…"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"Then, what is your reason?' 'I don't know!' Pei rubbed her face in frustration. 'There is no reason why I don't want to do this! I'm healthy! I'm clearly capable! Everybody I know who's ever gone to …"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"Just because there’s no one living on a planet does not mean it’s yours for the taking. Do you not see how dangerous that mindset is? Do you not think that treating the galaxy as if it is something t…"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

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14. Winter (Seasonal, #2)

By: Ali Smith

3.82

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith’s essential Seasonal Quartet—from the Baileys Prize-winning,… read more

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  • politics
"Everywhere’s a here, isn’t it?"

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?"

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"Mind and matter are mysterious and, when they come together, bounteous."

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"You can’t expect to live in the world like the world’s your private myth."

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

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15. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.02

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more

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"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

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16. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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  • adult
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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17. Jag for ner till bror (Jana Kippo, #1)

By: Karin Smirnoff

4.11

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

I Smalånger är det mesta som vanligt. Maria har hittats död. Hennes bror håller på att supa ihjäl s… read more

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  • adult
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18. Vi for upp med mor (Jana Kippo, #2)

By: Karin Smirnoff

4.18

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Modren har dött och vill begravas i sin hemby Kukkojärvi i norra Norrbotten. Tvillingarna jana och … read more

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  • religion
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19. Liberation Day

By: George Saunders

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more

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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

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20. Venomous Lumpsucker

By: Ned Beauman

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more

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  • adult
"I can’t believe this!"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

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21. Löpa varg

By: Kerstin Ekman

3.97

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Då kom han ut. Han gjorde det med en självklarhet som var lätt att begripa; den här världen var ju … read more

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22. The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic wr… read more

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  • adult
"Why are Georgette Heyer's covers so naff? When you think of all the exciting things that happen - abductions, false identities, wild horseback chases - the front of the book nearly always shows a wom…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

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23. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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24. Jenny Hill

By: Minna Rytisalo

3.56

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Mäen Jenni on tavallinen, eronnut nainen. Hänen sisällään säihkyy kuitenkin Jenny Hill, joka uskalt… read more

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25. Panza de burro

By: Andrea Abreu López

3.80

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

«Reconozco que al principio, cuando Panza de burro solo había crecido unos capitulitos, pensé que s… read more

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"A la altura del cruce vi la forma del cuerpo de Isora al final del camino. Era verla allá, al final de la carretera, justo en el rasante, donde el camino se volvía casi vertical, y me golpeaba una al…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

"Y ya las ranitas del estanque en el que ya nadie nadaba empezaban a cantar y parecía como una canción antigua, una canción que venía de siglos atrás, de cuando Isora y yo todavía no éramos amigas per…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

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26. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

By: Shon Faye

4.55

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

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27. Suntio

By: Antti Hurskainen

3.71

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Turtola työskentelee suntiona pienessä maalaisseurakunnassa. Hän sahaa, haravoi, rukoilee ja saatta… read more

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28. 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

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  • nonfiction
"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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29. Tuhkaksi tekemisen taika

By: Miira Luhtavaara

3.24

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

Ada ja Hans rakastuvat, noin vain. Syntyy perhe, jo- hon kuuluu rakastuneiden lisäksi Hansin vauva,… read more

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30. May the Lord in His Mercy Be Kind to Belfast

By: Tony Parker

4.40

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

Captures the lives and experiences of the people of Belfast, including priests, politicians, Cathol… read more

Similar categories in Tony Parker's May the Lord in His Mercy Be Kind to Belfast book and Tony Parker's May the Lord in His Mercy Be Kind to Belfast

  • history
  • politics
  • adult
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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31. 56, oletan

By: Alexandra Salmela

3.06

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

Uudenvuoden ilotulitusten paukkuessa nainen istuu rikkoutuneessa junassa sydän murskana. Siitä etee… read more

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8 must-read adult books like May the Lord in His Mercy Be Kind to Belfast by Tony Parker

Transform Your Habits

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Huw Lemmey

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

Naomi Alderman

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

Becky Chambers

4.41

Transform Your Habits

So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

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Hot Milk

Deborah Levy

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Winter (Seasonal, #2)

Ali Smith

3.82

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