28 must-read fiction books like The Geometer Lobachevsky by Adrian Duncan

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The Geometer Lobachevsky

By: Adrian Duncan

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Nikolai Lobachevsky is hired to survey land in the Irish Midlands in 1950 when he is summoned back …

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1. The Gallows Pole

By: Benjamin Myers

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

"The Gallows Pole may well turn out to be 2017's His Bloody Project. It's a windswept, brutal tale … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Walk the Blue Fields: Stories

By: Claire Keegan

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

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  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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4. Antarctica

By: Claire Keegan

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

5. 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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6. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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7. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

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8. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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9. The New Life

By: Tom Crewe

3.77

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Science requires a rational audience."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"True development does not respect comfort."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

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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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"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. This Plague of Souls

By: Mike McCormack

3.09

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

The follow-up to Booker-listed literary sensation Solar Bones is a terse metaphysical thriller, nam… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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12. How to Build a Boat

By: Elaine Feeney

3.78

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

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13. All the Little Bird-Hearts

By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

3.80

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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14. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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15. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"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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16. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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17. Trespasses

By: Louise Kennedy

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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18. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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19. All Down Darkness Wide

By: Seán Hewitt

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more

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"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

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20. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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21. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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22. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"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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23. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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24. These Days

By: Lucy Caldwell

3.71

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war -- so … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark    O'Connell

25. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

By: Mark O'Connell

3.74

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Held by Anne   Michaels

26. 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
  • historical fiction
"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

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27. Ancestry

By: Simon Mawer

4.02

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

Beginning with his great-great-grandfather Abraham Block, acclaimed novelist Simon Mawer sifts thro… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Amusements by Aingeala Flannery

28. The Amusements

By: Aingeala Flannery

3.52

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season,… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry

29. The Chosen

By: Elizabeth Lowry

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Who pays the price of a writer's fame One Wednesday morning in November 1912, the aging Thomas H… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Geometer Lobachevsky by Adrian Duncan

30. The Geometer Lobachevsky

By: Adrian Duncan

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Nikolai Lobachevsky is hired to survey land in the Irish Midlands in 1950 when he is summoned back … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • russia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • book club
  • irish literature
  • ireland
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31. Habitat

By: Catriona Shine

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Habitat follows seven neighbours over the course of a surreal and life-changing week as their mid-c… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • irish literature
  • fiction

18 Best novels books like The Geometer Lobachevsky by Adrian Duncan

Transform Your Habits

The Gallows Pole

Benjamin Myers

3.00

Transform Your Habits

A Month in the Country

J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Shy

Max Porter

3.63

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21 must-read fiction books like Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

Transform Your Habits

If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

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