12 Best thriller books like The Trout by Peter Cunningham

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The Trout

By: Peter Cunningham

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alex and Kay began their relationship many years ago in Ireland where Alex was destined to become a…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Trout by Peter Cunningham , here is a list of 12 books like this:

1. Cloudstreet

By: Tim Winton

3.93

Format: 512 pages,

Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australian… read more

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2. Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

By: Candice Millard

3.55

Format: None pages, Paperback

From New York Timesbestselling author of Destiny of the Republicand The River of Doubt, a thrilling… read more

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3. The Wreckage

By: Michael Crummey

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Having achieved considerable success with his first novel, River Thieves, Michael Crummey has writt… read more

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4. Stones from the River

By: Ursula Hegi

2.83

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Floating in My Mother's Palmcomes a stunning nov… read more

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5. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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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

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • ireland
  • audiobook
"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. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Water book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Earth book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

By: Ben Macintyre

4.16

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small … read more

Similar categories in Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"...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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11. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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13. The Night Watchman

By: Louise Erdrich

4.10

Format: 464 pages, ebook

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather … read more

Similar categories in Louise Erdrich's The Night Watchman book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"But every so often the government remembered about Indians and when they did they always tried to solve Indians, thought Thomas. They solve us by getting rid of us. And do they tell us when they plan…"

-Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman

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14. Run Time

By: Catherine Ryan Howard

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Movie-making can be murder. The project Final Draft, a psychological horror. Promising Young Th… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Ryan Howard's Run Time book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"I had really begun to understand why people overeat. It isn't what they eat, it's why they eat it: because when you feel literally full from food, it's a brief respite from feeling figuratively empty…"

-Catherine Ryan Howard, Run Time

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15. A Bakery in Paris

By: Aimie K. Runyan

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating historical novel set in nineteent… read more

Similar categories in Aimie K. Runyan's A Bakery in Paris book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Idol

By: Louise O'Neill

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'Follow your heart and speak your truth.'For Samantha Miller's young fans - her 'girls' - she's eve… read more

Similar categories in Louise O'Neill's Idol book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"But she'd clawed her way out of addiction because she believed that she was destined for greater things than an undignified death slumped over a toilet cistern"

-Louise O'Neill, Idol

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17. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

Similar categories in Joseph O'Connor's My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • ireland
  • audiobook
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

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18. Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?

By: Nicci French

3.96

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families s… read more

Similar categories in Nicci French's Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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19. The Castaways

By: Lucy Clarke

3.97

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A SECRET BEACH. A HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME. WISH YOU WERE HERE? THINK AGAIN… It should be like an… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Clarke's The Castaways book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"For so long I believed that I should only feel pleasure when I no longer feel all the other things: the sadness, the loss, the fear. But emotions don't come parcelled neatly. They're shaken together …"

-Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

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20. The Book of Beginnings

By: Sally Page

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more

Similar categories in Sally Page's The Book of Beginnings book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Breathe: A Life in Flow

By: Rickson Gracie

4.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

*An instant  New York Times  bestseller, USA Today  bestseller, and Wall Street Journal  bestseller… read more

Similar categories in Rickson Gracie's Breathe: A Life in Flow book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • audiobook
"Shattering disappointments require you to be radically honest with yourself, a process that can be painful but is absolutely necessary."

-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow

"If I'm fighting for money, I'll stop hitting you when you or the referee asks me to. If we are fighting for honor, I'll stop hitting you when I feel like it."

-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow

"Today, 98 percent of MMA fans have never stepped into the cage, or even onto the mat, much less felt their noses break or tendons pop. Their relationship with violence is virtual. MMA is just somethi…"

-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow

"Today, it is possible to get a Jiu Jitsu black belt without knowing self-defense or even getting into a real fight. This was impossible during the 1970s and 1980s. Because my father and uncle loudly …"

-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow

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22. The Nice Guy

By: Sarah A. Denzil

3.71

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

Laura thought she’d found the one nice guy in New York City. When Ethan saves her from a crushin… read more

Similar categories in Sarah A. Denzil's The Nice Guy book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Afterlife by Julia Alvarez

23. Afterlife

By: Julia Alvarez

3.70

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the T… read more

Similar categories in Julia Alvarez's Afterlife book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. The Pull of the Stars

By: Emma Donoghue

3.96

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospita… read more

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's The Pull of the Stars book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • audiobook
"Guilt was the sooty air we breathed these days."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

"I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

"I seem to have stumbled onto love, like a pothole in the night."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

"Neither of us mentioned the kissing, so as not to burst the bubble by touching it. So as not to think about what it meant for the two of us to kiss."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

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25. The Institution

By: Helen Sarah Fields

3.97

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

To beat them, she’ll have to join them… On a locked ward in the world’s highest-security prison … read more

Similar categories in Helen Sarah Fields's The Institution book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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26. The Witch Elm

By: Tana French

3.57

Format: 528 pages, ebook

Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • ireland
  • audiobook
"Once the fear took hold, I was fucked. I'd never known anything like it could exist: all-consuming, ravenous, a whirling black vortex that sucked me under so completely and mercilessly that it truly …"

-Tana French, The Witch Elm

"The wych elm's whole crown was gone, only the trunk left, thick stubs of branches poking out obscenely. It should have looked pathetic, but instead it had a new, condensed force: some great malformed…"

-Tana French, The Witch Elm

"Then all the sharp intricate peaks on the monitor smoothed out to clean straight lines and my father made a terrible growling sound, but even without any of that I would have known, because the air a…"

-Tana French, The Witch Elm

"Once the fear took hold, I was fucked. I'd never known anything like it could exist: all-consuming, ravenous, a whirling black vortex that sucked me under so completely and mercilessly that it truly …"

-Tana French, The Witch Elm

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27. Familia

By: Lauren E. Rico

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

What if your most basic beliefs about your life were suddenly revealed to be a lie? In this compell… read more

Similar categories in Lauren E. Rico's Familia book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend by Adam Shoalts

28. The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

By: Adam Shoalts

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traver… read more

Similar categories in Adam Shoalts's The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • canada
  • audiobook
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29. Within These Wicked Walls

By: Lauren Blackwood

3.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What the heart desires, the house destroys... Andromeda is a debtera—an exorcist hired to cleans… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Blackwood's Within These Wicked Walls book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Pride and arrogance were fools, but knowing your ability wasn't."

-Lauren Blackwood, Within These Wicked Walls

"I choose to be thankful for what little that I have. And I choose to hope."

-Lauren Blackwood, Within These Wicked Walls

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30. The Locked Attic

By: B.P. Walter

3.18

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s something in my neighbour’s attic. Something steeped in shadows. A secret to everyone… read more

Similar categories in B.P. Walter's The Locked Attic book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. The Trout

By: Peter Cunningham

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alex and Kay began their relationship many years ago in Ireland where Alex was destined to become a… read more

Similar categories in Peter Cunningham's The Trout book and Peter Cunningham's The Trout

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • ireland
  • audiobook

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4.33

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3.90

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Caroline O'Donoghue

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3.48

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