26 must-read fiction books like Conditions of Faith by Alex Miller

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Conditions of Faith

By: Alex Miller

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

""There is a moment in our lives when we must decide which world we belong to. The world of our dre…

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Cover of Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3) by Ann Cleeves

1. Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

An island shrouded in mist and a community with secrets buried in the past . . . When a young archa… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

By: Holly Ringland

4.75

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic story … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Luminaries

By: Eleanor Catton

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels

4. Queenmaker: A Novel of King David's Queen

By: India Edghill

4.12

Format: 176 pages,

For over forty years, Michal lived and reigned in David's court. She was the beautiful and proud da… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Conditions of Faith

By: Alex Miller

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

""There is a moment in our lives when we must decide which world we belong to. The world of our dre… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • france
  • australia
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook

6. The Amateur Marriage

By: Anne Tyler

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

From the inimitable Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons comes a rich and compelling … read more

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7. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more

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8. 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
  • audiobook
"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

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9. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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12. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. All That's Left Unsaid

By: Tracey Lien

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

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14. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here

By: Heather Rose

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from t… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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15. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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16. Bodies of Light

By: Jennifer Down

4.29

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The Sydney of this time was a different place to the honeymoon city I'd visited with Damien. That one was the crescent of the bridge, the rolling waves beneath the ferry, the shaded streets in The Ro…"

-Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light

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17. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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18. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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19. The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.01

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Ann Cleeves― New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, b… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. 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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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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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21. Love & Virtue

By: Diana Reid

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Feminism, power and sex play out through the eyes of young Australian uni students in a contemporar… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Its feminism operated on the level of ‘Women in Medicine’ and ‘Women in Finance’ discussion panels, always conducted in a tone of revolutionary awe, as if any combination of women and profession were…"

-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

"I just don't want to mediate my whole identity through social media.' Eve resumed the vigorous hair brushing. 'I think photos should be a stolen moment in time. Not this thing on your phone: this way…"

-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

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22. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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23. Return to Valetto

By: Dominic Smith

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A captivating and moving new novel from the international bestselling author of The Last Painting o… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Susan is the opposite,"

-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto

"The bell ringer’s green walnut liqueur was famous in Valetto for its ability to strip paint and dignity."

-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto

"I read aloud from my phone. “‘A cappuccino with low-quality milk … the only good things is the kindness of the bartenders…’"

-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto

"Was this where my fascination for documented history came from? From a family so afraid of earthly erasure that they couldn’t discard the transcript of ordering two pounds of prosciutto on June 15, 1…"

-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto

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24. The Bookseller at the End of the World

By: Ruth Shaw

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more

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  • audiobook
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."

-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World

Cover of My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7) by Marian Keyes

25. My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)

By: Marian Keyes

4.02

Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition

The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes. A… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Lying Beside You (Cyrus Haven, #3) by Michael Robotham

26. Lying Beside You (Cyrus Haven, #3)

By: Michael Robotham

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in Robotham’s latest page-turning, psychological thriller in thi… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. Seven Sisters

By: Katherine Kovacic

3.92

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Men get away with murder all the time. Now it's our turn ... A twisty, intriguing crime novel for f… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. Sisters Under the Rising Sun

By: Heather Morris

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. Best of Friends

By: Kamila Shamsie

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Home Fire comes the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendsh… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Perhaps friendship was not only about what you said to each other, but also about what you didn't"

-Kamila Shamsie, Best of Friends

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30. The One and Only Dolly Jamieson

By: Lisa Ireland

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The One and Only Dolly Jamieson is a compelling feel-good novel featuring a proud and gutsy heroine… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. Salonika Burning

By: Gail Jones

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Greece, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war. … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • novels

7 Best novels books like Conditions of Faith by Alex Miller

Transform Your Habits

The Luminaries

Eleanor Catton

3.67

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Conditions of Faith

Alex Miller

3.33

Transform Your Habits

Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Cold Enough for Snow

Jessica Au

3.73

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20 best-selling fiction books like Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3) by Ann Cleeves

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The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway, #3)

Elly Griffiths

3.76

Transform Your Habits

A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway, #4)

Elly Griffiths

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

Elly Griffiths

4.01

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Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

Ann Cleeves

3.97

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