21 Best fiction books like Of Fathers and Fugitives by S.J. Naudé

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Of Fathers and Fugitives

By: S.J. Naudé

3.68

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

Daniel is a journalist, moving between London and Cape Town, until his elderly and demented father …

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1. Next of Kin

By: John Boyne

4.07

Format: 50 pages, Hardcover

John Boyne has been heralded as “one of the most imaginative and adventurous of the young Irish n… read more

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  • fiction
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2. A Single Man

By: Christopher Isherwood

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving p… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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3. Don't Look at Me Like That

By: Diana Athill

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

It is the 1950s in England, where well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectabl… read more

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  • fiction

4. Kamphoer

By: None

3.95

Format: 253 pages,

Dit is die Eerste Wereldoorlog. In 'n Britse militere hospitaal staan Susan Nell voor die deur van … read more

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5. Vernon Subutex, 2 (Vernon Subutex, #2)

By: Virginie Despentes

3.10

Format: None pages,

QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more

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6. 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

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  • fiction
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7. Ce que je sais de toi

By: Éric Chacour

4.43

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Dans le Caire des années 1980, un jeune médecin suit un destin tracé pour lui. Entre son dispensair… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Le jour, ses mains en prolongement des tiennes sur le corps des patients. La nuit, son corps en prolongement du tien sous tes mains impatientes."

-Éric Chacour, Ce que je sais de toi

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8. Eastbound

By: Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more

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  • fiction
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9. The Promise

By: Damon Galgut

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more

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  • africa
  • south africa
  • fiction
"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

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10. Bloedsomer (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Sidney Gilroy

4.09

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

Petunia Moraleng, voormalige stasiebevelvoerder op Parys, is haar rang kwyt en oorgeplaas Mooibaai … read more

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11. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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12. What I'd Rather Not Think About

By: Jente Posthuma

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

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13. Blue Ruin

By: Hari Kunzru

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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14. 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Marguerite, a beautiful woman, has disappeared from her small town in Upstate New York. But is foul… read more

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  • fiction
"Inhabiting a female body is such a feat for me, like squeezing into a costume that includes a perfectly fitted face mask through which it is quite a feat to breathe..."

-Joyce Carol Oates, 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister

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15. Short War

By: Lily Meyer

4.41

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Told in three distinct voices, Short War brings together a rapturous teenage love story set in Chil… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Borgo Sud

By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

È il momento più buio della notte, quello che precede l'alba, quando Adriana tempesta alla porta co… read more

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  • fiction
"My mother was always unpredictable. She had unexpected kindness, then shut herself in again. I knew those attentions and their intermittence. I tried to win them, but it wasn't for merit or guilt tha…"

-Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Borgo Sud

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17. Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters

By: Maria José Silveira

4.07

Format: 360 pages, ebook

Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters tells the story of Brazil through the histories of a… read more

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  • fiction
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18. The Son of Man

By: Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

3.71

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the “extraordinary” Animalia ( Sunday Times ), winner of the Republic of Conscio… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Ons skulde (Afrikaans Edition)

By: P. P. Fourie

4.19

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

Emma reis na Clarens om haar man se as te strooi. Terwyl sy by tante Vera tuisgaan, daag ’n geheims… read more

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20. Laaste kans (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Marita van der Vyver

3.87

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

’n Groep vriende kom die eerste keer in vyf-en-twintig jaar bymekaar om Adriaan se verjaardag te vi… read more

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21. All Your Children, Scattered

By: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

4.15

Format: 192 pages, ebook

WINNER OF THE PRIX ETHIOPHILE, THE PRIX DES RACINES ET DES MOTS, AND THE PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS D… read more

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  • africa
  • fiction
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22. Role Play

By: Clara Drummond

3.48

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Role Play is a fresh satire narrated by a wealthy young woman in Rio on the verge of a class-consci… read more

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  • fiction
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23. Of Fathers and Fugitives

By: S.J. Naudé

3.68

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

Daniel is a journalist, moving between London and Cape Town, until his elderly and demented father … read more

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  • africa
  • south africa
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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24. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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25. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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  • fiction
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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26. Voorouer. Pelgrim. Berg. (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Ingrid Winterbach

3.74

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

’n Vrou, Katerina Steenkamp, haar oog ferm op die berg, gaan op ’n aanlyn dating site en ontmoet me… read more

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27. Gebooie (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Rudie van Rensburg

4.54

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

’n Reeksmoordenaar maai bekendes op ’n streep af. En Kassie en Rooi moet hom vastrek. Maar dit is m… read more

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28. On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice

By: Adam Kirsch

4.24

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment. Sin… read more

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29. Onder water

By: Henda Olivier

4.13

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

Rebekkah Keller was ’n tiener toe haar pa oorlede is. Om aan die knaende verdriet te ontsnap begin … read more

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30. Heks

By: Dibi Breytenbach

4.25

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Die verteller in Heks vind haar toevlug in sprokies en mites. Terwyl die wêreld die oorlog in Oekra… read more

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31. Immigrant City

By: David Bezmozgis

3.43

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Award-winning author David Bezmozgis’s first story collection in more than a decade, hailed by the … read more

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  • fiction

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