27 must-read fiction books like Spies in Canaan by David Park

Spies in Canaan

By: David Park

3.84

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protecti…

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1. Dear Mr. M

By: Herman Koch

3.50

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

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  • fiction
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2. 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
  • 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

3. The Prussian Officer

By: D.H. Lawrence

4.00

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, p… read more

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4. Harvey

By: Mary Chase

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

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5. Last Orders

By: Graham Swift

3.82

Format: 287 pages,

Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to h… read more

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6. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • war
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"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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7. 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
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de 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

Cover of Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1) by David McCloskey

8. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

By: David McCloskey

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright

9. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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10. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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11. 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
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • historical 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
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"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. 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
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain

14. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. 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
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

By: John Banville

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel … read more

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  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan

17. The Queen of Dirt Island

By: Donal Ryan

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"Happiness was a strange notion, something that was wrapped neatly, and packed into the closing scenes of television shows and daytime films, sharply relieved on the screen, but blurry in real life, a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother had walked her to the classroom door and Mammy had cried a bit and Granny had told her to cop on and Nana then had told Granny to cop on herself and t…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"She felt sad in that moment for anyone in the world who didn’t have a mother like hers. A mother who was standing now above her quarry like a prizefighter in a swell of victory, looking slowly left a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

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

18. 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

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  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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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19. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of April in Spain (Quirke, #8) by John Banville

20. April in Spain (Quirke, #8)

By: John Banville

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish … read more

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  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. Kala

By: Colin Walsh

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

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22. The Colony

By: Audrey Magee

4.11

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. 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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  • war
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. This Lovely City

By: Louise Hare

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar Lond… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. The Art of Falling

By: Danielle McLaughlin

3.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this "delicate slow burn of a novel" (Jan Carson), a woman's marriage and career are threatened … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • irish literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley

26. The Half Life of Valery K

By: Natasha Pulley

4.20

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set i… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Guilt like that, it's a sort of arrogance, you know? An assumption that everything is your own fault when that's clearly absurd."

-Natasha Pulley, The Half Life of Valery K

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27. The Slowworm's Song

By: Andrew Miller

4.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An innocent-looking letter drops on to the doormat in Stephen Rose's Somerset home like an unexplod… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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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
  • irish literature
  • fiction
Cover of There's Been a Little Incident by Alice Ryan

29. There's Been a Little Incident

By: Alice Ryan

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

A witty and warm debut novel from a young Irish writer. A story of family, grief, and the ways we c… read more

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  • irish literature
  • fiction

30. Spies in Canaan

By: David Park

3.84

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protecti… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • irish literature
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31. An Ark of Light

By: Dermot Bolger

3.82

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

There is one thing you must never lose sight of. No matter what life deals you, promise me that you… read more

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3.85

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