14 must-read fiction books like The wild cherry tree by H.E. Bates

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The wild cherry tree

By: H.E. Bates

3.83

Format: 219 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1968, The Wild Cherry Tree is a late collection of ten tales including comic vig…

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Cover of Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1) by Colm Tóibín

1. Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.72

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and… read more

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  • fiction
"Some people are nice and if you talk to them properly, they can be even nicer."

-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

"And she wondered then if she herself were the problem reading malice into motives when there was none intended"

-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

"It struck her that he might have told no one, not even his brothers, how he felt, and she thought how lonely that might have been for him."

-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

"She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make her think for a while that is must be the prospect of home."

-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

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2. New Boy

By: Tracy Chevalier

3.49

Format: 188 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring comes the fifth installment… read more

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  • fiction
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3. Jacob's Room

By: Virginia Woolf

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive yo… read more

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  • fiction
"One must love everything."

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

"Marvelous are the innocent. "

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

"But language is wine upon his lips"

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

"It is no use trying to sum people up."

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

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4. Ms Ice Sandwich

By: Mieko Kawakami , Louise Heal Kawai

3.78

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

A quixotic and funny tale about first love – from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author. Ms Ice San… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

5. The Testament of Mary

By: Colm Tóibín

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Provocative, haunting, and indelible, Colm Toibin's portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary old… read more

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6. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

By: Yukio Mishima , John Nathan

3.85

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the… read more

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"إن الخطر، هو الحياة"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"حتى وإن أبحرت سنوات عديدة، لن تعتاد يوماً على العواصف، وفي كل مرة تتساءل إن كنت ستودع الحياة"."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

7. Ever After

By: Graham Swift

3.93

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Dazzling in its structure and shattering in its emotional force, Graham Swift's Ever Afterspans two… read more

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8. The Silent Companions

By: Laura Purcell

4.46

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country e… read more

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9. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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10. 84, Charing Cross Road

By: Helene Hanff

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more

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11. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

By: Edwin A. Abbott , Banesh Hoffmann

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertai… read more

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12. The Greengage Summer

By: Rumer Godden

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by … read more

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13. Some Tame Gazelle

By: Barbara Pym

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

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14. Shubeik Lubeik

By: Deena Mohamed

4.50

Format: 528 pages, ebook

A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel by Renée Nault

15. The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel

By: Renée Nault

4.21

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us. Offred is a Handmaid in… read more

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  • fiction
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16. The Woman in the Purple Skirt

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling, prizewinning novel of obsession and psychological intrigue about two enigmatic unmar… read more

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  • fiction
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17. Miss Benson's Beetle

By: Rachel Joyce

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

She's going too far to go it alone. It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and M… read more

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  • fiction
"Just because you've never done something doesn't mean you can't start."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"But there were moments of joy. Even at its worst, life will offer such moments."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"History is not made up by events alone, but also by what lies between the lines."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"The truest friendships are those that allow us to step out of the confines of what we once were, and to realize instead what we might be."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

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18. Diary of a Void

By: Emi Yagi

3.51

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at … read more

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  • fiction
"Having a baby isn't easy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's been two thousand years, and it's the same old story, right?"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"I'm always so alone. I guess I should be used to it by now. That's the way it is from the moment we come into this world, but I'm still not used to it - how alone we all are."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Until they arrived, while everyone else was transitioning to winter, putting on coats and sweaters, I was going to stick with my summer dress and my usual work blazer. Dressed in the dazzling flowers…"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

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19. The Manningtree Witches

By: A.K. Blakemore

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the res… read more

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  • fiction
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-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin.To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin. To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"My imps need no doors, sir. They go where I tell them. Through any crack, be it as narrow as a nun's or wide as your wife's."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

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20. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

By: Eric Idle

3.90

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

We know him best for his unforgettable roles on Monty Python - from the Flying Circus to The Meanin… read more

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"Laughter is the only sane response to pathological lying."

-Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

"I have British teeth. They are like British politics: they go in all directions at once."

-Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

"If one of the best ways to appreciate life is to have an unhappy childhood, I was very fortunate."

-Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

"Once you’re in the circus you’re all in the circus, and of course it turns out that they are real people too."

-Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

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21. The Forester's Daughter

By: Claire Keegan

4.07

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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22. Sincerity

By: Carol Ann Duffy

3.70

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy returns with  Sincerity , her last full collection as Poet Laureate, … read more

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23. The Photographer

By: E.S. Blake

4.08

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

When tragedy strikes, photographer Charles Franklin turns his back on family portraiture and descen… read more

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24. A Midsummer Nights Dream In Plain and Simple English

By: BookCaps

3.99

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A Midsummer's Night Dream is one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies--so why aren't you laughing… read more

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25. The wild cherry tree

By: H.E. Bates

3.83

Format: 219 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1968, The Wild Cherry Tree is a late collection of ten tales including comic vig… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

15 best-selling fiction books like The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel by Renée Nault

Transform Your Habits

Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation

Ray Bradbury , Tim Hamilton

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Through the Woods

Emily Carroll

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)

Alice Oseman

4.49

Transform Your Habits

The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel

Renée Nault

4.21

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