24 Top fiction books like Loving ways by Maurice Gee

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Loving ways

By: Maurice Gee

3.82

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

May, David and Alan Macpherson have the same father but different mothers, and their paths in life …

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1. Bridge of Clay

By: Markus Zusak

3.80

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. … read more

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"It was a Sunday, an arsonist sunrise."

-Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay

"Writing is always difficult, but easier with something to say."

-Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay

"There were reasons to leave, and reasons to stay, and all of it was the same."

-Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay

"There was rain like a ghost you could walk through. Almost dry when it hit the ground."

-Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay

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2. There but for the

By: Ali Smith

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There but for the is the sparkling satirical novel by bestselling Ali Smith 'There once was a man w… read more

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3. The Soldier's Return

By: Melvyn Bragg

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

When Sam Richardson returns in 1946 from the "Forgotten War" in Burma to his hometown in northern E… read more

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4. Sing, Unburied, Sing

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.81

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2017 A searing and profound Southern odyssey. In Jesm… read more

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5. Our Man in Havana

By: Graham Greene

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more

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6. Autumn

By: Ali Smith

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning auth… read more

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7. The Antipodeans

By: Greg McGee

3.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Beginning with the return to Venice of an old man determined to confront his past, The Antipodeans … read more

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8. Paris

By: Edward Rutherfurd

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling epic portrait of Paris that leaps th… read more

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9. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more

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10. When Will There Be Good News? (Jackson Brodie, #3)

By: Kate Atkinson

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Three lives come together in unexpected and thrilling ways in Kate Atkinson's When Will There Be Go… read more

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11. Mister Pip

By: Lloyd Jones

3.11

Format: 216 pages,

In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent sto… read more

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12. The Blue Between Sky and Water

By: Susan Abulhawa

4.15

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of Mornings in Jenin, a novel about four generations of… read more

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13. The Master Butchers Singing Club

By: Louise Erdrich

3.48

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and … read more

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14. Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

By: Kate Atkinson

3.80

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

In #1 of series, Jackson Brodie PI follows three 30-years cold, unconnected Cambridge family cases:… read more

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"The only time you were safe was when you were dead."

-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

"How do you know he's dead?' 'Because he's not breathing"

-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

"It would be like a Hardy novel, before it all goes wrong."

-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

"What a fantastic form of avoidance being a bride of Christ was."

-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

15. Daughter Buffalo

By: Janet Frame

3.43

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989, Janet Frame has long been admired … read more

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16. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

By: Fergus W. Hume

3.74

Format: 646 pages,

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, the best selling mystery of the nineteenth century. When a man is foun… read more

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17. The Midwich Cuckoos

By: John Wyndham

3.91

Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant… read more

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"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that."

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, wom…"

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

18. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

By: Mindy Kaling

3.92

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster … read more

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19. The Librarianist

By: Patrick deWitt

3.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more

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20. Lessons

By: Ian McEwan

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more

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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

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21. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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22. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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23. Shrines of Gaiety

By: Kate Atkinson

3.85

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more

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"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

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24. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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25. The Trees

By: Percival Everett

4.06

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more

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"Unknown Male is a name,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."

-Percival Everett, The Trees

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26. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

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27. The Axeman's Carnival

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more

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28. Winter Time

By: Laurence Fearnley

3.69

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

‘The SUV advanced, without slowing as it passed; the driver probably didn’t even register him. Rola… read more

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29. Kāwai For Such A Time As This

By: Monty Soutar

4.16

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it’s never… read more

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30. Loving ways

By: Maurice Gee

3.82

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

May, David and Alan Macpherson have the same father but different mothers, and their paths in life … read more

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31. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

By: Mick Herron

4.00

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more

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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

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3.83

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3.85

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