5 best-selling mystery books like My Name Is Yip by Paddy Crewe

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My Name Is Yip

By: Paddy Crewe

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A bold, revisionist take on the Western novel set in the Georgia gold rush, for readers of Charles …

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1. A Year of Marvellous Ways

By: Sarah Winman

3.87

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Cornwall, 1947. Marvellous Ways is a ninety-year-old woman who's lived alone in a remote creek for … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Winman's A Year of Marvellous Ways book and Paddy Crewe's My Name Is Yip

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He dived into a bottomless pit of sleep"

-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

"You have to risk failure to become excellent."

-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

"There was no point in tears outliving eyes, so she let them fall."

-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

"Coming back from the dead is not quite the same as coming back to life."

-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

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2. The Long Song

By: Andrea Levy

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

Man Booker Prize Nominee (2010) You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book,… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Levy's The Long Song book and Paddy Crewe's My Name Is Yip

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. A Star Called Henry

By: Roddy Doyle

4.11

Format: 96 pages,

Born at the beginning of the twentieth century, Henry Smart lives through the evolution of modern I… read more

Similar categories in Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry book and Paddy Crewe's My Name Is Yip

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty

By: Sebastian Barry

4.15

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicleas "the finest book to come out of Europe this year," The Wher… read more

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5. The Slaves of Solitude

By: David Lodge , Patrick Hamilton

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has beco… read more

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6. Capital

By: John Lanchester

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Celebrated novelist John Lanchester (author of The Debt to Pleasure) returns with an epic novel tha… read more

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7. 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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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se 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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8. The Romantic

By: William Boyd

4.15

Format: 451 pages, Paperback

Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more

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  • adventure
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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10. The New Life

By: Tom Crewe

3.77

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more

Similar categories in Tom Crewe's The New Life book and Paddy Crewe's My Name Is Yip

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Science requires a rational audience."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"True development does not respect comfort."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

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11. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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12. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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  • adventure
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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13. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

By: Victoria Mackenzie

3.85

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"

-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

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14. These Days

By: Lucy Caldwell

3.71

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war -- so … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Saltblood

By: Francesca De Tores

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mot… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • adventure
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16. The Haven

By: Amanda Jennings

3.80

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

A dark and glittering literary psychological thriller for fans of Will Dean and Lucy Atkins from th… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. The House of Sorrowing Stars

By: Beth Cartwright

3.82

Format: 395 pages, ebook

How do you heal a broken house? First you unlock its secrets. Alone on an island, surrounded by … read more

Similar categories in Beth Cartwright's The House of Sorrowing Stars book and Paddy Crewe's My Name Is Yip

  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"All stories deserve to be finished. And once you begin, you must continue until you reach the end."

-Beth Cartwright, The House of Sorrowing Stars

"A book is an invitation into another person's world - real or imagined- so how can you be a trespasser when you have been invited in?"

-Beth Cartwright, The House of Sorrowing Stars

"You do not have to agree, but you cannot blame someone for not wanting to feel their pain. Grief is being lost in familiar places. It is not seasonal. It doesn't bloom brightly in the sunshine, and w…"

-Beth Cartwright, The House of Sorrowing Stars

"Of course I will - my name is not a secret. I am Eloura; I am a book-weaver, a story-spinner, a protector, a collector and a brewer of fine tea. I navigate vast stretches of water to find my way onto…"

-Beth Cartwright, The House of Sorrowing Stars

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18. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Reservoir Tapes by Jon McGregor

19. The Reservoir Tapes

By: Jon McGregor

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The Reservoir Tapes returns to the extraordinary territory of Jon McGregor's Man Booker Prize-longl… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of My Name Is Yip by Paddy Crewe

20. My Name Is Yip

By: Paddy Crewe

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A bold, revisionist take on the Western novel set in the Georgia gold rush, for readers of Charles … read more

Similar categories in Paddy Crewe's My Name Is Yip book and Paddy Crewe's My Name Is Yip

  • american
  • adventure
  • westerns
  • historical
  • coming of age
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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21. Gabriel's Moon

By: William Boyd

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

18 must-read fiction books like My Name Is Yip by Paddy Crewe

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Sarah Winman

3.87

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Andrea Levy

4.00

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Roddy Doyle

4.11

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Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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Misha Hoekstra , Dorthe Nors

3.51

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Kristopher Jansma

2.50

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Widow: Stories

Michelle Latiolais

3.50

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Colin Barrett

3.78

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