10 must-read fiction books like The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson

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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…

"It's never over till it's over with a friend."

-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question

"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

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

-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question

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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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"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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"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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4. The Inheritance of Loss

By: Kiran Desai

4.32

Format: 632 pages,

Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in o… read more

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5. 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
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6. 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

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7. Hotel du Lac

By: Anita Brookner

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more

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8. Moon Tiger

By: Penelope Lively

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more

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"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."

-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"

-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."

-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."

-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

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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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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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12. 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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13. Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth, #1)

By: William Golding

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the cabin of an ancient, stinking warship bound for Australia, a man writes a journal to enterta… 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. 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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17. The Sea

By: John Banville

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville i… read more

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18. True History of the Kelly Gang

By: Peter Carey

3.87

Format: 334 pages,

"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dea… read more

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19. Heat and Dust

By: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize Set in colonial India during the 1920s, H… read more

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20. The Narrow Road to the Deep North

By: Richard Flanagan

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. Richard Flana… read more

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21. A Brief History of Seven Killings

By: Marlon James

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Wome… read more

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