15 Top fiction books like The House Next to the Factory by Sonal Kohli

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The House Next to the Factory

By: Sonal Kohli

3.62

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime A Book of the Year for The Hindu, Hindustan Times, The Wire and More…

If you liked the fiction plot in The House Next to the Factory by Sonal Kohli , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier, Julie Myerson

1. Frenchman's Creek

By: Daphne du Maurier , Julie Myerson

3.98

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Bored and restless in London's Restoration Court, Lady Dona escapes into the British countryside wi… read more

Similar categories in Daphne du Maurier's Frenchman's Creek book and Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You have no hobby then?" "Moths interest me, my lady."

-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

"I am notorious," said Dona, "for making unfortunate remarks."

-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

"—in reality it was escape she wanted, escape from her own self—"

-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

"I had become like a prisoner in chains, and the dungeon was deep."

-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

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2. Mr Norris Changes Trains

By: Christopher Isherwood

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship … read more

Similar categories in Christopher Isherwood's Mr Norris Changes Trains book and Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory

  • fiction
Cover of People Who Knew Me by Kim Hooper

3. People Who Knew Me

By: Kim Hooper

2.00

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Everything was fine fourteen years after she left New York. Until suddenly, one day, it wasn't. Emi… read more

Similar categories in Kim Hooper's People Who Knew Me book and Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory

  • fiction
Cover of The Go-Between by Colm Tóibín, L.P. Hartley

4. The Go-Between

By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley

3.99

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's The Go-Between book and Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

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5. The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Alderman's The Future book and Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory

  • fiction
"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

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6. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

Similar categories in Priscilla Morris's Black Butterflies book and Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Book of Everlasting Things by Aanchal Malhotra

7. The Book of Everlasting Things

By: Aanchal Malhotra

4.16

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perf… read more

Similar categories in Aanchal Malhotra's The Book of Everlasting Things book and Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory

  • india
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Old Haunts (Fairlight Moderns) by Allan Radcliffe

8. The Old Haunts (Fairlight Moderns)

By: Allan Radcliffe

3.92

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In spare, evocative prose, Allan Radcliffe tells a wistful coming-of-age story and paints a tender … read more

Similar categories in Allan Radcliffe's The Old Haunts (Fairlight Moderns) book and Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory

  • fiction
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9. Scenes from a Childhood

By: Jon Fosse

3.67

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

One of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, Jon Fosse is famed for the minimalist and … read more

Similar categories in Jon Fosse's Scenes from a Childhood book and Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory

  • short stories
  • fiction
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10. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory

  • fiction
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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11. The Happy Couple

By: Naoise Dolan

3.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more

Similar categories in Naoise Dolan's The Happy Couple book and Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory

  • fiction
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

Cover of Cloistered: My Years as a Nun by Catherine Coldstream

12. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

By: Catherine Coldstream

3.71

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Coldstream's Cloistered: My Years as a Nun book and Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory

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13. Factory Girls

By: Michelle Gallen

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Gallen's Factory Girls book and Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I guess failure is like posh,' Maeve said. 'Relative."

-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls

"No matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman."

-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls

Cover of James and John: A True Story of Prejudice and Murder by Chris Bryant

14. James and John: A True Story of Prejudice and Murder

By: Chris Bryant

3.94

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

They had nothing to expect from the mercy of the crown; their doom was sealed; no plea could be urg… read more

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15. The Blue Book of Nebo

By: Manon Steffan Ros

4.16

Format: 156 pages, ebook

Prize-winner in three categories of the 2019 Wales Book of the Year Award, The Blue Book of Nebo p… read more

Similar categories in Manon Steffan Ros's The Blue Book of Nebo book and Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory

  • fiction
"Diuen que els vincles de sang no es tornen mai aigua, però els veu que l'aigua es pot tornar sang."

-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo

"La humanitat és una cosa espectacular, tan preparada per estimar sense conviccions, sense complexos."

-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo

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16. A Year to Change Your Mind: Ideas from the Therapy Room to Help You Live Better

By: Lucy Maddox

3.68

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

'Twelve months' worth of smart self-help from someone you'd want on your team in a crisis ... genui… read more

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Cover of Lallan Sweets by Srishti Chaudhary

17. Lallan Sweets

By: Srishti Chaudhary

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Family Drama(40 percent), Love Story( 30 percent), Heart Warming( 100 percent) It is 1995. Tara … read more

Similar categories in Srishti Chaudhary's Lallan Sweets book and Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory

  • india
  • fiction
Cover of The House Next to the Factory by Sonal  Kohli

18. The House Next to the Factory

By: Sonal Kohli

3.62

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime A Book of the Year for The Hindu, Hindustan Times, The Wire and More… read more

Similar categories in Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory book and Sonal Kohli's The House Next to the Factory

  • short stories
  • india
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. How to be Happy

By: Ruskin Bond

4.35

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

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20. The Jewel of Nisawa : The Coward & The Sword Book 2

By: JUGAL HANSRAJ

4.20

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

None read more

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3.55

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