21 Top fiction books like Tory Heaven or Thunder on the Right by Marghanita Laski

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Tory Heaven or Thunder on the Right

By: Marghanita Laski

4.14

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

Tory Heaven (1948) was Marghanita Laski's third book, another satire after both Love on the Super T…

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1. 4 3 2 1

By: Paul Auster

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Astonishing, a masterpiece, Paul Auster's greatest, most satisfying, most vivid and heartbreaking n… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. The World That Was Ours

By: Hilda Bernstein

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

"It reads like a thriller page after page. . . . The loveliest of Hilda Bernstein's works about the… read more

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  • classics
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3. Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles #3)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.66

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

In the third novel of England's Cazalet family, Elizabeth Howard moves through the dark, middle day… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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4. Earth and High Heaven

By: Gwethalyn Graham

3.50

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Earth and High Heaven is, simply, a drama of human relationships -- of two people in love who are c… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

5. Min kamp 3 (Min kamp #3)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

3.97

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

MIN KAMP 3 er en roman om barndom. En familie pa fire, mor, far og to drenge flytter til et hus i e… read more

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6. 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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  • 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

7. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page

By: John Fowles , G.B. Edwards

3.88

Format: 383 pages,

Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary c… read more

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8. The Making of a Marchioness, Part I and II (Emily Fox-Seton #1-2)

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

First published in 1901 as The Making of a Marchioness followed by its sequel The Methods of Lady W… read more

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9. Five Children and It (Five Children, #1)

By: E. Nesbit

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will … read more

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10. The Two Mrs. Abbotts (Miss Buncle, #3)

By: D.E. Stevenson

3.94

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

Mrs Abbott is flustered at the thought of putting up a lady from the Red Cross, but is happily surp… read more

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11. Flush

By: Virginia Woolf , None

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening p… read more

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12. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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13. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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14. 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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  • 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

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15. 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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  • 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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16. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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17. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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18. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. City of Stolen Magic

By: Nazneen Ahmed Pathak

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An action-packed, inclusive and breathtakingly magical middle-grade adventure, for fans of THE UNAD… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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22. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • fiction
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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23. Machines like Me

By: Ian McEwan

3.59

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing a… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
"Caen las hojas. Llega la primavera, y tu caída."

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

"could tell you similar stories of machine sadness."

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

"Nel suo sguardo, c'è un mondo d'amore. Amo il mondo!"

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

"But when you’ve lost a fortune, you don’t clean up the kitchen."

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

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24. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

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  • fiction
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25. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

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26. Heatwave

By: Victor Jestin

3.16

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, mesmerizing novel about a teenage boy on vacation who makes an irrevocable mistake and bec… read more

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  • fiction
"Elle ne m'aime pas. Elle ne m'aime plus. J'ai mis l'éternité dans deux heures qui n'étaient rien pour elle, elle est partie laver son linge et elle est revenue."

-Victor Jestin, Heatwave

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27. Walking Practice

By: Dolki Min

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more

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  • fiction
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

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28. French Exit

By: Patrick deWitt

3.55

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow an… read more

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  • fiction
"Oh, to be youngish and in love-ish!"

-Patrick deWitt, French Exit

"I've been neither lucky nor unlucky. I've been luckless - such a bore"

-Patrick deWitt, French Exit

"She studied her son with a melancholic endearment. “Did you drink to the brink of sound reasoning?"

-Patrick deWitt, French Exit

"She knew she was living improperly but hadn’t the strength to correct herself. She had twenty thousand euros left; she’d taken to flushing hundreds down the toilet each morning."

-Patrick deWitt, French Exit

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29. Out of the Window

By: Madeline Linford

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The compelling, thought-provoking story of Ursula, the daughter of a wealthy Mancunian family, who … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Tory Heaven or Thunder on the Right by Marghanita Laski

30. Tory Heaven or Thunder on the Right

By: Marghanita Laski

4.14

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

Tory Heaven (1948) was Marghanita Laski's third book, another satire after both Love on the Super T… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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