17 must-read fiction books like In White Ink by Elske Rahill

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In White Ink

By: Elske Rahill

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

These remarkable stories are sustained by the experience of motherhood. They bring the psychologica…

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1. The Whale Rider

By: Witi Ihimaera

3.84

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duti… read more

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  • fiction
"Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

"This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

"Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

"Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

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2. Eureka Street

By: Robert McLiam Wilson

4.17

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

In a city blasted by years of force and fury, but momentarily stilled by a cease-fire, two unlikely… read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction
"All stories are love stories."

-Robert McLiam Wilson, Eureka Street

"The human route to sympathy or empathy is a clumsy one but it's all we've got. To understand the consequences of our actions we must exercise our imaginations."

-Robert McLiam Wilson, Eureka Street

"Mes rideaux sont ouverts et je regarde la nuit. Je viens de passer deux bonnes heures avec moi-même. Je ne me suis jamais senti moins seul. Il a plu et les gouttes d'eau sur les vitres brillent comme…"

-Robert McLiam Wilson, Eureka Street

"I turned on my heel and walked on. He had charm, sure, but it was so obscure. Before I got to the end of the street I heard him call after me. I stopped and turned round. He stood amidst a clutch of …"

-Robert McLiam Wilson, Eureka Street

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3. Brighton Rock

By: J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has kill… read more

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  • fiction
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4. The House on Mango Street

By: Sandra Cisneros

3.31

Format: None pages,

Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schoo… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. Cal

By: Bernard MacLaverty

3.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980's, Caltells the story of a young Catholic man living in a P… read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction

6. My Ántonia

By: Willa Cather

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant … read more

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  • fiction

7. The Neverending Story

By: Michael Ende , Roswitha Quadflieg , Ralph Manheim

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

This epic work of the imagination has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide since it… read more

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  • fiction
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8. The Mothers

By: Brit Bennett

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Luminous... engrossing and poignant, this is one not to miss." -People, … read more

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  • fiction

9. Sînt o babă comunistă!

By: Dan Lungu

3.97

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Romanul continua ,,experimentul de mentalitate" inceput de Dan Lungu cu Raiul gainilor- coborirea i… read more

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10. Sentimental Education

By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Robert Baldick

3.81

Format: 460 pages, Paperback

Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by… read more

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  • fiction
"Cheer up,' said the captain's son. 'Life is long, and we are young."

-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education

"A man so habituated to corruption that he would happily pay for the pleasure of selling himself."

-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education

"...I'm going to write a little novel entitled 'The History of the Idea of Justice' and won't it be funny!"

-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education

"It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."

-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education

11. Travels With My Aunt

By: Graham Greene

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

"I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..." Described by Graham Greene as "th… read more

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12. Kokoro

By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan

3.77

Format: None pages,

Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more

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13. Blood Orange

By: Harriet Tyce

3.86

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Harriet Tyce's debut thriller Blood Orange is a dark and addictive novel for readers who enjoyed Ap… read more

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  • fiction
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14. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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15. Platform Seven

By: Louise Doughty

3.52

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkw… read more

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  • fiction
"The dead don't bother haunting graveyards- they are the last place on earth they need to haunt. The living do that job for them with their messy combination of grief, desire, imagination. There is no…"

-Louise Doughty, Platform Seven

"It's a deal we all make, I remember thinking. What kind of life will I live with this person? All relationships are a balancing act, after all, each individual perched on either side of a seesaw. You…"

-Louise Doughty, Platform Seven

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16. This Much is True

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.09

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more

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"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

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17. Lily

By: Rose Tremain

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's … read more

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  • fiction
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18. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

By: Lisa See

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seve… read more

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  • fiction
"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

"The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

"It took me me many years to realize that my perceptions at this time was completely wrong."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

"You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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19. Lemon

By: Kwon Yeo-Sun

3.27

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, nineteen-year-old Kim H… read more

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  • fiction
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20. The Fire Starters

By: Jan Carson

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter might not be as harmless as she seems. Sammy Agne… read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction
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21. In White Ink

By: Elske Rahill

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

These remarkable stories are sustained by the experience of motherhood. They bring the psychologica… read more

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  • short stories
  • ireland
  • fiction

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4.17

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Bernard MacLaverty

3.00

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Claire Kilroy

4.10

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Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet

3.83

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Evelyn Waugh

3.76

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J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene

3.73

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Kingsley Amis , David Lodge

4.73

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