8 must-read contemporary books like Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

By: Roddy Doyle

3.50

Format: 0 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen." Irish Paddy rampages throu…

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1. The Finkler Question

By: Howard Jacobson

2.83

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a pop… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It's never over till it's over with a friend."

-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question

"So many unhappy women out there. Such a sea of female misery."

-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question

"At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them."

-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question

"At any age there is future one doesn't have. Never enough life when you are happy, that was the thing. Never so much bliss that you can't take a little more."

-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question

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2. The Gathering

By: Anne Enright

3.13

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voice… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking"

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

"I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped."

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

"the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next."

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

"Jej błękit zajął miejsce w szarych zakamarkach jego mózgu i pozostał tam do końca życia"

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

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3. To the Wedding

By: John Berger

4.03

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger gives a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and eroti… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Oscar and Lucinda

By: Peter Carey

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions be… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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5. Something to Answer For

By: P.H. Newby

4.88

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

P. H. Newby's seventeenth novel Something To Answer Forwas assured of a place in literary history w… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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6. The Light of Day

By: Graham Swift

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

On the anniversary of a life-shattering event, George Webb, a former policeman turned private detec… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. How Late it Was, How Late

By: James Kelman

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

One Sunday morning in Glasgow, shoplifting ex-con Sammy awakens in an alley, wearing another man's … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

8. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

By: Roddy Doyle

3.50

Format: 0 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen." Irish Paddy rampages throu… read more

Similar categories in Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha book and Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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9. G.

By: John Berger

3.89

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

In this luminous novel -- winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize -- John Berger relates the s… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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10. About Looking

By: John Berger

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence an… read more

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11. Vernon God Little

By: D.B.C. Pierre

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQmagazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of V… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

12. Amsterdam

By: Ian McEwan

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay th… read more

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13. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

By: John Berger

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry … read more

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14. The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)

By: Pat Barker

4.24

Format: 200 pages,

Winner of the Booker Prize, The Ghost Roadis the brilliant conclusion to Pat Barker's World War I f… read more

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15. In a Free State

By: V.S. Naipaul

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. … read more

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16. Staying On

By: Paul Scott

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a C… read more

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17. Two Lives

By: William Trevor

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

William Trevor's astonishing range as a writer--his humor, subtlety, and compassionate grasp of hum… read more

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18. Last Orders

By: Graham Swift

3.82

Format: 287 pages,

Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to h… read more

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19. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"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

Cover of The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou by Eleni Kyriacou

20. The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

By: Eleni Kyriacou

4.18

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023** THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. … read more

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  • fiction
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21. Remember, Mr Sharma: A BBC2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

By: A.P. Firdaus

4.03

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Delhi, 1997: It is India's fiftieth year of independence, the year of Hindu nationalists and atomic… read more

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  • fiction

13 Top fiction books like Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

Transform Your Habits

The Finkler Question

Howard Jacobson

2.83

Transform Your Habits

The Gathering

Anne Enright

3.13

Transform Your Habits

To the Wedding

John Berger

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey

4.75

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27 Best fiction books like Remember, Mr Sharma: A BBC2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick by A.P. Firdaus

Transform Your Habits

The Light of Day

Graham Swift

3.09

Transform Your Habits

Any Human Heart

William Boyd

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Roddy Doyle

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Dance Tree

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.90

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