15 Best fiction books like The Republic of Trees by Sam Taylor

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The Republic of Trees

By: Sam Taylor

3.29

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

This dark fable tells the story of four English children who run away to the French countryside to …

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Cover of Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor

1. Star of the Sea

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea set… read more

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  • fiction
"Boredom is a bit of a bore, to say the least."

-Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea

"Everything is in the way the material is composed."

-Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea

"Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name."

-Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea

"It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends."

-Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea

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2. The Reader

By: Bernhard Schlink , Carol Brown Janeway

3.78

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing nov… read more

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  • fiction
"There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does."

-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

"I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers."

-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

"But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her."

-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

"The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?"

-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

Cover of Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, James Grauerholz

3. Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more

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  • fiction
"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

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4. The Green Mile

By: Stephen King

4.20

Format: 42 pages,

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers a… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. We Need to Talk About Kevin

By: Lionel Shriver

4.08

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry.Eva never really wanted to be a m… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"He wasn't mad, he was sad."

-Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

"A boy is a dangerous animal."

-Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

"My own apathy is bone chilling."

-Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

"Beware of what "everybody says"."

-Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

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6. Utopia

By: Paul Turner , Thomas More

3.55

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more

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  • dystopia
  • fiction
"The change of the word does not alter the matter"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."

-Paul Turner, Utopia

7. Go Set a Watchman

By: Harper Lee

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning… read more

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8. On Beauty

By: Zadie Smith

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-s… read more

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9. Black Dogs

By: Ian McEwan

4.75

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogsis the intimate stor… read more

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10. Fatherland

By: Robert Harris

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country i… read more

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11. Delta of Venus

By: Anaïs Nin

4.14

Format: None pages,

In Delta of VenusAnais Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination pos… read more

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12. Catch-22

By: Joseph Heller

3.99

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature a… read more

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  • fiction
"Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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13. The Comfort Book

By: Matt Haig

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Librar… read more

Similar categories in Matt Haig's The Comfort Book book and Sam Taylor's The Republic of Trees

"Time disproves the lies depression tells."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Check your emotional armour is actually protecting you, and not so heavy you can't move."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Language gives us the power to voice our experience, to reconnect with the world, and to change our own and other people's lives"

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Continually looking for the meaning of life is like looking for the meaning of toast. It is sometimes better just to eat the toast."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

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14. The Familiars

By: Stacey Halls

3.88

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies h… read more

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  • fiction
"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Respect is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

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15. Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more

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  • fiction
"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"There is no time machine except the human being."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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16. 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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  • fiction
Cover of The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

17. The Mercies

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

4.01

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village s… read more

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  • fiction
"Handsome man, as these Scots often seem to be…"

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

"It is written, and once written, things aren’t easily forgotten."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

"…she isn’t sure a life spent here is worthy of the label of living."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

"This is your land?' 'No.' The girl's tone was firm as her gaze. 'We only lived here."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

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18. A Clockwork Orange

By: Anthony Burgess

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Te… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange book and Sam Taylor's The Republic of Trees

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
"I was cured all right."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"I was always on my oddy knocky."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Civilised my syphilised yarbles."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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19. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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20. How to Stop Time

By: Matt Haig

3.83

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

"She smiled a soft, troubled smile and I felt the whole world slipping away, and I wanted to slip w… read more

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  • fiction
"The past is never gone. It just hides."

-Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

"Are you someone who watches life, or someone who participates?"

-Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

"Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in the memory as the wish to forget it."

-Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

"Truth is a straight line you sometimes need to curve, you should know that by now."

-Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

Cover of The Republic of Trees by Sam Taylor

21. The Republic of Trees

By: Sam Taylor

3.29

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

This dark fable tells the story of four English children who run away to the French countryside to … read more

Similar categories in Sam Taylor's The Republic of Trees book and Sam Taylor's The Republic of Trees

  • coming of age
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller

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