18 Best irish literature books like Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows by Sophie White

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Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows

By: Sophie White

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Nora Ephron meets Bram Stoker in Sophie White's vivid and ambitious literary non-fiction collection…

If you liked the irish literature plot in Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows by Sophie White , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. Monsters

By: Emerald Fennell

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found  A blackly comic tale about two children you would… read more

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2. 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

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  • feminism
  • short stories
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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3. How to Build a Boat

By: Elaine Feeney

3.78

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more

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  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • mental health
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

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4. Idol

By: Louise O'Neill

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'Follow your heart and speak your truth.'For Samantha Miller's young fans - her 'girls' - she's eve… read more

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  • irish literature
  • contemporary
"But she'd clawed her way out of addiction because she believed that she was destined for greater things than an undignified death slumped over a toilet cistern"

-Louise O'Neill, Idol

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5. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • 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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6. Breakdown

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more

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  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • mental health
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7. Love Me Tender

By: Constance Debré

3.87

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

« Je ne vois pas pourquoi l’amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autr… read more

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  • feminism
  • contemporary
"Je ne suis pas une mère. Bien sûr que non. Qui voudrait l'être ? A part celles qui ont tout raté. Qui ont tellement échoué dans tout qu'elles n'ont trouvé que ce statut pour se venger du monde. Il y …"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

"Je ne vois pas pourquoi l'amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autres amours. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas cesser de s'aimer. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas rompre. Je ne vo…"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

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8. Someone in the Attic

By: Andrea Mara

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From a #1 internationally bestselling author comes an atmospheric, chilling novel about a family wh… read more

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  • contemporary
"People trust people with dogs. They do. There’s an inherent belief that dog people are good people."

-Andrea Mara, Someone in the Attic

"They’re keen to help and intrigued too, she can see, in that way people are when there’s drama but no personal risk."

-Andrea Mara, Someone in the Attic

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9. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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10. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

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  • irish literature
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • ireland
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11. Aisling Ever After

By: Emer McLysaght

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Living in the Big Apple feels like a movie, especially when Aisling finds her ex-boyfriend John on … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • contemporary
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12. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • contemporary
"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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13. Snowflake

By: Louise Nealon

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely talented young Irish writer makes her literary debut with this powerful and haunting… read more

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  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • mental health
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14. The Forester's Daughter

By: Claire Keegan

4.07

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • contemporary
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15. Ruth & Pen

By: Emilie Pine

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Dublin, 7th October 2019. One day, one city, two women - Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • contemporary
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16. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • contemporary
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17. The Amusements

By: Aingeala Flannery

3.52

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season,… read more

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  • short stories
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • contemporary
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18. After the Silence

By: Louise O'Neill

3.81

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Nessa Crowley's murderer has been protected by silence for ten years. Until a team of documentary … read more

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  • feminism
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • contemporary
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19. There's Been a Little Incident

By: Alice Ryan

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

A witty and warm debut novel from a young Irish writer. A story of family, grief, and the ways we c… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • contemporary
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20. Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Hearts and Bones is a book about relationships. It explores what love does to us, and how we surviv… read more

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  • short stories
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • contemporary
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21. Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows

By: Sophie White

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Nora Ephron meets Bram Stoker in Sophie White's vivid and ambitious literary non-fiction collection… read more

Similar categories in Sophie White's Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows book and Sophie White's Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows

  • memoir
  • female authors
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature

18 best-selling contemporary books like Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows by Sophie White

Transform Your Habits

So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

Transform Your Habits

How to Build a Boat

Elaine Feeney

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Idol

Louise O'Neill

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Kala

Colin Walsh

3.99

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19 Top fiction books like Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth by Niamh Mulvey

Transform Your Habits

So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

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Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Watching Women & Girls

Danielle Pender

3.69

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Soldier Sailor

Claire Kilroy

4.10

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