If you liked the mystery plot in The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins , here is a list of 9 books like this:
1. The Deposition of Father McGreevy
By: Brian O'Doherty
3.43
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In a London pub in the 1950s, editor William Maginn is intrigued by a reference to the reputedly sh… read more
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- literary fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
2. The Hand That First Held Mine
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.04
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, an… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"There on the landing sits the typewriter. It is clogged with dust, the ribbon dried and flimsy. Looking at it gives Felix a feeling close to vertigo. He realises he can replicate in his head the exac…"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine
"The women we become after children, she typed, then stopped to adjust the angle of the paper....We change shape, she continued, we buy low-heeled shoes, we cut off our long hair, We begin to carry in…"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine
3. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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- mystery
- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
4. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
5. A Year of Marvellous Ways
By: Sarah Winman
3.87
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Cornwall, 1947. Marvellous Ways is a ninety-year-old woman who's lived alone in a remote creek for … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"He dived into a bottomless pit of sleep"-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways
"You have to risk failure to become excellent."-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways
"There was no point in tears outliving eyes, so she let them fall."-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways
"Coming back from the dead is not quite the same as coming back to life."-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways
6. The Driver's Seat
By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark
3.61
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more
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- mystery
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
7. How It All Began
By: Penelope Lively
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
When Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord P… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
8. Our Fathers
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
First Canadian publication of the powerful debut novel from the author of Be Near Me. Finalist for … read more
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- literary fiction
- ireland
- fiction
9. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
10. Things We Lost in the Fire
By: Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell
4.06
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling au… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"El problema es que no nos creen."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Hace años que Lala decidió ser mujer y brasileña, pero había nacido varón y uruguayo."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Me acuerdo de la risa de mi madre, de lo joven que era esa tarde de verano, del olor a champú de limón de su pelo y de la carcajada de chicle de menta."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Apagábamos las luces y jugábamos en la oscuridad con inciensos encendidos; parecían luciérnagas y a mí me hacían llorar, me hacían acordar a una casa de tejas con parque lejos de la ciudad, una casa …"-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
11. The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pre… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
12. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
By: David Mitchell
3.50
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
In 1799, Jacob de Zoet disembarks on the tiny island of Dejima, the Dutch East India Company's remo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
Similar categories in Michael Collins's The Keepers of Truth book and Michael Collins's The Keepers of Truth
- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
- ireland
- irish literature
14. Dirty Havana Trilogy
By: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez , Natasha Wimmer
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
For the last four decades, Fidel Castro's communist Cuba has survived a harsh economic blockade. In… read more
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15. A Fraction of the Whole
By: Steve Toltz
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An irreverent comic adventure, spanning three continents, about a father and son against each other… read more
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16. The Door
By: Magda Szabó , Len Rix
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a f… read more
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17. Disgrace
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more
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18. The Good Terrorist
By: Doris Lessing
3.68
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down, that was different from simply being jobless."-Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist
"كانت التوجّهات التي تمَّ اختيارها هي : √ الأولى ، مشكلة البطالة - التي لابدّ مِن استثمارها. √ الثانية ، كراهية الشعب البريطاني عامةً لسياسة الحكومة حول التسلُّح النووي. √ الثالثة ، رفض الشعب البريطاني الناشئ…"-Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist
19. Elmet
By: Fiona Mozley
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Fresh and distinctive writing from an exciting new voice in fiction - Sally Rooney meets Sarah Perr… read more
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20. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
By: John Updike
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
"You were never in Texas,"-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you’re going before you go there."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
21. Case Study
By: Graeme Macrae Burnet
3.60
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting … read more
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- mystery
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Forget about meaning’, he said. ‘Life’s not about meaning, it’s about experience."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"Her handbag, he said, was found on the scene. I made a mental note to carry out a thorough spring clean of contents of my own bag before throwing myself in front of any trains."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
22. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
23. Found
By: Erin Kinsley
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
When 11 year old Evan vanishes without trace, his parents are plunged into their worst nightmare. … read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
24. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
25. Her Pretty Face
By: Robyn Harding
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Frances Metcalfe is struggling to stay afloat. A stay-at-home mom whose troubled son is her full-ti… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
26. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
27. Free Love
By: Tessa Hadley
3.55
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past comes a compulsive new novel about one … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
28. 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
- mystery
- crime
- ireland
- irish literature
"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
29. The Arrangement
By: Robyn Harding
3.73
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Natalie, a young art student in New York City, is struggling to pay her bills when a friend makes a… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
30. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
By: Peter Frankopan
3.94
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more
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