14 Best novels books like Fergus by Brian Moore

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Fergus

By: Brian Moore

3.15

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Fergus Fadden's future would seem to be with promise and possibility. He has a new love - the young…

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1. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor

4.17

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writer… read more

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"The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"We're all damned," she said, “but some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see. It’s a kind of salvation."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

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2. A Season in Sinji

By: J.L. Carr

3.77

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

A Season in Sinji recreates life on a wartime RAF flying boat station in an African backwater. The … read more

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3. An Artist of the Floating World

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.77

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art so… read more

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"An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

"Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something. #Page: 120"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

"Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

"At times it was almost as it had been years ago, when on a sunny day the family would sit there together exchanging relaxed, often vacuous talk."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

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4. The Night Watch

By: Sarah Waters

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN . Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, bl… read more

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5. 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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6. Love and Summer

By: William Trevor

3.87

Format: 260 pages,

In his characteristically masterly way, Trevor evokes the passions and frustrations of the people o… read more

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7. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more

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8. The Children Act

By: Ian McEwan

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A fiercely intelligent, well-respected High Court judge in London faces a morally ambiguous case wh… read more

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9. A Murder of Quality

By: John Le Carré

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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10. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

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11. The Butcher Boy

By: Patrick McCabe

3.43

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

"I was thinking how right ma was -- Mrs. Nugent all smiles when she met us and how are you getting … read more

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12. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

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13. Fingersmith

By: Sarah Waters

4.02

Format: 592 pages, ebook

Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raise… read more

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"You pearl!"

-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"PIGEON MY ARSE!"

-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"It's a curious, wanting thing."

-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you."

-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

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14. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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15. Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)

By: Pat Barker

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

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16. Surfacing

By: Margaret Atwood

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacingis the story of a talented woman artist… read more

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17. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more

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18. Amongst Women

By: John McGahern

3.00

Format: 81 pages,

Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla le… read more

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19. Enduring Love

By: Ian McEwan

3.64

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Joe planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside to celebrate his lover's return… read more

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"... her conviction that love that did not find its expression in a letter was not perfect."

-Ian McEwan, Enduring Love

"I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand."

-Ian McEwan, Enduring Love

"When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it."

-Ian McEwan, Enduring Love

"I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible."

-Ian McEwan, Enduring Love

20. Beyond Black

By: Hilary Mantel

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab b… read more

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21. Silverview

By: John Le Carré

3.66

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past s… read more

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"Sometimes the whole of marriage was a cover story."

-John Le Carré, Silverview

"Een radicaal is een radicaal. Het maakt niet uit of het een ex-communist is of een ex-wat dan ook. Het is en blijft dezelfde man. Je manier van denken verandert niet omdat die tot een andere conclusi…"

-John Le Carré, Silverview

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22. Haven

By: Emma Donoghue

3.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more

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"Fog makes an island of every man."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

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23. The Cockroach

By: Ian McEwan

3.26

Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition

That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself tr… read more

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24. From a Low and Quiet Sea

By: Donal Ryan

3.78

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John… read more

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"he waited for the water to carry him down, and fill him and slough his flesh and salt his guilty bones. But the water wouldn't take him."

-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea

"Trees live, like you and me, long lives, and they know things. They know the rule, the only one that's real and must be kept. What's the rule? You know. I've told you lots of times before. Be kind."

-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea

"I took to numbers, their definiteness, their unyielding natures: even when you chop a number down to a half or a tenth or a millionth or a billionth part of its former self it still exists, it’s stil…"

-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea

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25. A Little History of Poetry

By: John Carey

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one … read more

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"IM DYING PELASE - clare batt in year 6"

-John Carey, A Little History of Poetry

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26. Fergus

By: Brian Moore

3.15

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Fergus Fadden's future would seem to be with promise and possibility. He has a new love - the young… read more

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