21 Top fiction books like Dinner Party: A Tragedy by Sarah Gilmartin

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Dinner Party: A Tragedy

By: Sarah Gilmartin

3.40

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

To mark the anniversary of a death in the family, Kate meticulously plans a dinner party - from the…

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1. 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

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Sarah Gilmartin's Dinner Party: A Tragedy

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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2. The Island of Longing

By: Anne Griffin

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

One unremarkable afternoon, Rosie watched, from her bedroom window, her daughter Saoirse come up th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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3. Breakdown

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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4. This Family

By: Kate Sawyer

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • drama
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5. The Lodgers

By: Eithne Shortall

4.03

Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition

An uplifting and heart-warming tale of friendship, community and a mystery package… One house. T… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Falling Animals

By: Sheila Armstrong

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the las… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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7. 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

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Sarah Gilmartin's Dinner Party: A Tragedy

  • literary fiction
  • 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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8. 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
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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9. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Sarah Gilmartin's Dinner Party: A Tragedy

  • fiction
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10. I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

By: Laura Dockrill

4.06

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Ella and Lowe are teenagers when they first meet. For her, it’s love at first sight. But it’s safes… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Probably Nothing

By: Lauren Bravo

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Bryony doesn’t mind being single. Which is why she doesn’t understand why she keeps seeing (ok, sle… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Dinner Party: A Tragedy

By: Sarah Gilmartin

3.40

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

To mark the anniversary of a death in the family, Kate meticulously plans a dinner party - from the… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Gilmartin's Dinner Party: A Tragedy book and Sarah Gilmartin's Dinner Party: A Tragedy

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • novels
  • did not finish
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • drama
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15. Greener

By: Gráinne Murphy

3.75

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

'A thoughtful meditation on what happens to old friendships when you make yourself a new life. Insi… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • fiction
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16. The Amendments

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel abou… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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17. Girls

By: Kirsty Capes

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The Couples

By: Lauren MacKenzie

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Eva looked out of the window of the charmingly crumbling guest house and thought she might be sick.… read more

Similar categories in Lauren MacKenzie's The Couples book and Sarah Gilmartin's Dinner Party: A Tragedy

  • novels
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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20. What a Way to Go

By: Bella Mackie

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

One wealth-obsessed man – who is also dead. One status-obsessed woman – who is the perfect acces… read more

Similar categories in Bella Mackie's What a Way to Go book and Sarah Gilmartin's Dinner Party: A Tragedy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Wife

By: Charlotte Mendelson

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is a beautifully observed and coruscating novel about the joys of passi… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Mendelson's Wife book and Sarah Gilmartin's Dinner Party: A Tragedy

  • fiction
  • contemporary

18 must-read contemporary books like Dinner Party: A Tragedy by Sarah Gilmartin

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Claire Kilroy

4.10

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The Island of Longing

Anne Griffin

4.15

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Breakdown

Cathy Sweeney

3.81

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This Family

Kate Sawyer

3.83

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The Last Word

Elly Griffiths

3.92

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Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Elizabeth Strout

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4.07

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