15 Top fiction books like Now You Know by Michael Frayn

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Now You Know

By: Michael Frayn

3.00

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

The author of A Landing on the Sun presents a novel of sex, politics, and chicanery, with the story…

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1. The Blue Afternoon

By: William Boyd

3.78

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Boyd, the author of A Good Man in Africa and Brazzaville Beach, here gives us something entirely ne… read more

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"Love is not a feeling. It does not belong to that category of bodily experience which would include, for instance, pain."

-William Boyd, The Blue Afternoon

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2. Cocaine Nights

By: J.G. Ballard

4.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In the resort of Estrella de Mar, Charles Prentice has just arrived from London to save his brother… read more

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3. Tortilla Flat

By: John Steinbeck

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a ge… read more

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4. All We Shall Know

By: Donal Ryan

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He's seventeen, I… read more

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5. Canada

By: Richard Ford

3.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened l… read more

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6. Any Human Heart

By: William Boyd

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991,… read more

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7. Waiting for Sunrise

By: William Boyd

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Vienna. 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through t… read more

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8. My Name Is Lucy Barton

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The profound mother-daughter bond is explored through a mother's hospital visit to her estranged da… read more

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9. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more

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"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

10. Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)

By: S.J. Parris

3.55

Format: 288 pages,

Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page… read more

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11. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (Jeeves, #13)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.43

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Bertie Wooster vows that nothing will induce him to return to Totleigh Towers, lair of former magis… read more

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12. The Sportswriter

By: Richard Ford

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely … read more

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13. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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14. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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15. 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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16. Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

By: John Banville

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder.… read more

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"It's an actual fucking library, and there's a body in it!"

-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

"I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?"

-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

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17. Trespasses

By: Louise Kennedy

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more

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18. The Promise

By: Damon Galgut

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more

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"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

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19. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

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20. Trio

By: William Boyd

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Mart… read more

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"People come to us...us novelists...looking for information about all the other people in the world; what we're thinking, what we need, what we dream about, what we hate, what makes us tick.... People…"

-William Boyd, Trio

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21. Now You Know

By: Michael Frayn

3.00

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

The author of A Landing on the Sun presents a novel of sex, politics, and chicanery, with the story… read more

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