20 must-read literary fiction books like King of Rabbits by Karla Neblett

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King of Rabbits

By: Karla Neblett

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut about the magic and confusion of childhood. A beautiful, painful, at times funny n…

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1. Tin Man

By: Sarah Winman

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is almost a love story. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a… read more

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2. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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4. A Keeper

By: Graham Norton

3.99

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

When Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, she’s focused only on saying good… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I've always found there are far fewer answers than there are questions."

-Graham Norton, A Keeper

"The dead don't vanish, they leave a negative of themselves stamped on the world."

-Graham Norton, A Keeper

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5. Profile K

By: Helen Sarah Fields

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

He’s going to kill you. He just doesn’t know it yet. There’s something wrong with me. For years I’v… read more

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  • fiction
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6. All My Mothers

By: Joanna Glen

4.44

Format: 400 pages, ebook

From the author of the Costa shortlisted debut, The Other Half of Augusta Hope, comes the story of … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What the hell is a man if he can’t cry for his son?"

-Joanna Glen, All My Mothers

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7. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold

By: Sam Knight

3.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more

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9. All the Little Bird-Hearts

By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

3.80

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. The Wrong Sister

By: Claire Douglas

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Tasha has always felt in the shadow of her older sister, Alice. Their lifestyles couldn't be more d… read more

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  • fiction
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12. The Burning Chambers (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #1)

By: Kate Mosse

3.97

Format: 605 pages, Kindle Edition

Carcassonne 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father’s book… read more

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  • fiction
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13. River East, River West

By: Aube Rey Lescure

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

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14. Rosewater

By: Liv Little

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age comes a deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Sunburn

By: Chloe Michelle Howarth

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

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16. Kala

By: Colin Walsh

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

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17. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

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"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

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19. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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20. The Trees

By: Percival Everett

4.06

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Unknown Male is a name,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."

-Percival Everett, The Trees

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21. The Good Thieves

By: Katherine Rundell

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“A dazzling tale of wild hope, lingering grief, admirable self-sufficiency, and intergenerational a… read more

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  • fiction
"It is difficult to sleep when you are besieged by hope."

-Katherine Rundell, The Good Thieves

"He was not tall or broad, but when he grinned it was so vivid that he appeared to take up most of the street and at least half the sky."

-Katherine Rundell, The Good Thieves

"To throw the knife would be death...She wanted nothing to do with death--nothing to do with finality, with endings, with the dark of it. She hated the man more than she hated any living thing, but he…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Good Thieves

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22. On the Savage Side

By: Tiffany McDaniel

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Six women--mothers, daughters, sisters--gone missing. When the first is found floating dead in the … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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23. The Glutton

By: A.K. Blakemore

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Outrun: A Memoir by Amy Liptrot

24. The Outrun: A Memoir

By: Amy Liptrot

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more

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"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"

-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir

Cover of This Is How You Remember It by Catherine Prasifka

25. This Is How You Remember It

By: Catherine Prasifka

4.11

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you sp… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Learning to Think: A Memoir of Faith, Superstition, and the Courage to Ask Questions by Tracy King

26. Learning to Think: A Memoir of Faith, Superstition, and the Courage to Ask Questions

By: Tracy King

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in 1980s Birmingham, England, a piercing memoir about the liberating power of a scientific view… read more

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27. Duck Feet

By: Ely Percy

4.52

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

'Duck Feet' is a coming-of-age novel, set in the mid-noughties in Renfrew and Paisley, Scotland. D… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. Four Seasons in Japan

By: Nick Bradley

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Without losing to the rain,’ Ayako quoted the Miyazawa Kenji poem. ‘Without losing to the wind."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"You don’t have to, though,’ his friend said, with a tilt of his head. ‘You can do whatever you like, man. It’s your life. Don’t live it for other people."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"But the important thing is that you turn up, you get out your pen, and you draw one small thing, one line at a time. That’s how you achieve something big."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"I remember looking out into that dark night sky, and I remember feeling something I hadn’t in a long time – I want to live. Having found myself that close to death, I suddenly knew that I wasn’t read…"

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

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29. And So I Roar

By: Abi Daré

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, heartwrenching new novel from Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl w… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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30. What a Way to Go

By: Bella Mackie

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

One wealth-obsessed man – who is also dead. One status-obsessed woman – who is the perfect acces… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. King of Rabbits

By: Karla Neblett

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut about the magic and confusion of childhood. A beautiful, painful, at times funny n… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

26 must-read fiction books like King of Rabbits by Karla Neblett

Transform Your Habits

Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

In Memoriam

Alice Winn

4.53

Transform Your Habits

A Keeper

Graham Norton

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Profile K

Helen Sarah Fields

4.22

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

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In Memoriam

Alice Winn

4.53

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Children of Paradise

Camilla Grudova

3.49

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