15 best-selling fiction books like Mouthpieces by Eimear McBride

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Mouthpieces

By: Eimear McBride

3.44

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

From the author of 'A Girl is a Half-formed Thing' and 'The Lesser Bohemians', three short, sharp-w…

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1. Dora Bruder

By: Patrick Modiano , None

3.57

Format: 123 pages, Hardcover

Patrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal c… read more

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  • fiction
"But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain."

-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder

"Existen casualidades, encuentros y coincidencias que se ignorarán siempre…"

-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder

"El éxtasis no dura mucho, sin embargo. No tiene porvenir. Pronto nuestro impulso es frenado en seco."

-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder

"That is her secret. A poor and precious secret that not even the executioners, the decrees, the occupying authorities, the Depot, the barracks, the camps, History, time-everything that defiles and de…"

-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder

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2. Goblin Market

By: Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

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  • poetry
  • fiction

3. The Loser

By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio… read more

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  • fiction
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4. The Wonder

By: Emma Donoghue

3.64

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

The Irish Midlands, 1859. An English nurse, Lib Wright, is summoned to a tiny village to observe wh… read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction
"Kartais mokytojai išmoko daugiau, negu patys supranta."

-Emma Donoghue, The Wonder

"But was Anna nearer to starved or nearer to well? How to quantify the quality of being alive?"

-Emma Donoghue, The Wonder

"And why must it always be presumed that a woman's views are based on personal considerations?"

-Emma Donoghue, The Wonder

"Your body - every body is a marvel. A wonder of creation. [...] The day your first opened your eyes, Anna, God asked just one thing: that you live."

-Emma Donoghue, The Wonder

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5. Killing and Dying: Stories

By: Adrian Tomine

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." --Wired Killing and Dying is a stunning sho… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

6. Hot Milk

By: Deborah Levy

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Hardcover

Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother… read more

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  • fiction

7. The Magic Toyshop

By: Angela Carter

4.33

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her worl… read more

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8. Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine

By: Thom Jones

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Dilapidated fight arenas, Christmas in a psychiatric ward, chaotic emergency rooms - this is the wo… read more

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9. Blue Horses

By: Mary Oliver

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more

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10. Not I

By: Samuel Beckett

4.24

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

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11. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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  • short stories
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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12. Paradise

By: Edna O'Brien

3.44

Format: 62 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
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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13. 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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  • 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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14. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

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  • fiction
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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15. Checkout 19

By: Claire-Louise Bennett

3.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more

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  • fiction
"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

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16. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Forester's Daughter by Claire Keegan

17. 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
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
Cover of Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath

18. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

By: Sylvia Plath

3.98

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

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

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  • poetry
  • short stories
  • fiction
"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"

-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

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19. An Inventory of Losses

By: Judith Schalansky

3.36

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more

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  • short stories
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20. Mouthpieces

By: Eimear McBride

3.44

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

From the author of 'A Girl is a Half-formed Thing' and 'The Lesser Bohemians', three short, sharp-w… read more

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  • poetry
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • plays
Cover of Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia (Quarterly Essay #85) by Sarah Krasnostein

21. Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia (Quarterly Essay #85)

By: Sarah Krasnostein

4.16

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

Around one-fifth of Australians will suffer from mental illness in any given year. And the pandemic… read more

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7 best-selling short stories books like Mouthpieces by Eimear McBride

Transform Your Habits

Killing and Dying: Stories

Adrian Tomine

3.57

Transform Your Habits

So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

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Paradise

Edna O'Brien

3.44

Transform Your Habits

The Forester's Daughter

Claire Keegan

4.07

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25 Top audiobook books like Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia (Quarterly Essay #85) by Sarah Krasnostein

Transform Your Habits

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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Too Much Lip

Melissa Lucashenko

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Bodies of Light

Jennifer Down

4.29

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