15 Top fiction books like The Sunken Road by Ciaran McMenamin

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The Sunken Road

By: Ciaran McMenamin

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'Tremendous' William Boyd A powerful and gripping novel about love, loyalty and obsession set duri…

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1. The Spinning Heart

By: Donal Ryan

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As v… read more

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  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction

2. A History of Loneliness

By: John Boyne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When h… read more

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3. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and Ciaran McMenamin's The Sunken Road

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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4. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

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5. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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6. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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7. 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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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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8. 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

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day book and Ciaran McMenamin's The Sunken Road

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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9. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) by Joseph O'Connor

10. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

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  • historical
  • ireland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

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11. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

Similar categories in Rory Carroll's There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History book and Ciaran McMenamin's The Sunken Road

  • historical
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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12. There's Something I Have to Tell You

By: Michelle McDonagh

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

HOME IS WHERE THE SECRETS ARE BURIED When two bodies are found on Glenbeg Farm, the local commun… read more

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  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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13. The Mess We’re In

By: Annie Macmanus

3.40

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready. It’s the turn of the millennium and, la… read more

Similar categories in Annie Macmanus's The Mess We’re In book and Ciaran McMenamin's The Sunken Road

  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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14. The Fortune Men

By: Nadifa Mohamed

3.80

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart ... about the unjust… read more

Similar categories in Nadifa Mohamed's The Fortune Men book and Ciaran McMenamin's The Sunken Road

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir

By: Séamas O'Reilly

4.13

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

A heart-warming and hilarious family memoir of growing up as one of eleven children raised by a sin… read more

Similar categories in Séamas O'Reilly's Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir book and Ciaran McMenamin's The Sunken Road

  • ireland
  • irish literature
"Ann was as steady as rain and implacable as taxes. The kind of strong rooted Donegal woman you could imagine blithely tutting if her hair caught fire."

-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir

"It was this story, delivered in Robert's signature south Derry monotone, that had my dad in literal and figurative stitches in the amputation ward. Despite being a Catholic who loved and admired Pope…"

-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir

"It seems blasphemous that my mother's death even existed in the same reality as those moments that subsequently came to define my youth; taking the long way home from Nixon's Corner so I could listen…"

-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir

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16. Walking with Ghosts

By: Gabriel Byrne

4.11

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

As a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel Byrne sought refuge in a world of ima… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Byrne's Walking with Ghosts book and Ciaran McMenamin's The Sunken Road

  • ireland
  • irish literature
"So the days passed into weeks and the weeks into months, and gradually she too faded until many years later when I came across a photograph of us together on a hillside in Greece, our only holiday. A…"

-Gabriel Byrne, Walking with Ghosts

Cover of On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath – By The People Who Were There by Julieann Campbell

17. On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath – By The People Who Were There

By: Julieann Campbell

4.54

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The first ever complete oral history of one of the darkest episodes in modern Irish history *** I… read more

Similar categories in Julieann Campbell's On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath – By The People Who Were There book and Ciaran McMenamin's The Sunken Road

  • historical
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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18. The Pages

By: Hugo Hamilton

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An entirely original novel in which a book--Joseph Roth's masterpiece Rebellion--narrates its own a… read more

Similar categories in Hugo Hamilton's The Pages book and Ciaran McMenamin's The Sunken Road

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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19. The Sunken Road

By: Ciaran McMenamin

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'Tremendous' William Boyd A powerful and gripping novel about love, loyalty and obsession set duri… read more

Similar categories in Ciaran McMenamin's The Sunken Road book and Ciaran McMenamin's The Sunken Road

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan

20. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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21. The Women Behind the Door

By: Roddy Doyle

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle’s spectacular return to his iconic character, Paula Spencer, whom h… read more

Similar categories in Roddy Doyle's The Women Behind the Door book and Ciaran McMenamin's The Sunken Road

  • ireland
  • fiction

5 Top novels books like The Sunken Road by Ciaran McMenamin

Transform Your Habits

The Spinning Heart

Donal Ryan

4.27

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Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

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There's Something I Have to Tell You

Michelle McDonagh

4.04

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The Mess We’re In

Annie Macmanus

3.40

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20 Best fiction books like The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan

Transform Your Habits

That They May Face The Rising Sun

John McGahern

3.77

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The Spinning Heart

Donal Ryan

4.27

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Antarctica

Claire Keegan

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

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