5 Top novels books like The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey

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The Labyrinth

By: Amanda Lohrey

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for a monstrous act of revenge. Trapped in her …

"Exhausted, I go to bed early again and for the first time in a long while sleep an unbroken sleep that lasts until dawn. When I wake my body is soft; it feels as if in my dreamless state I have known mercy, showered in unearned grace"

-Amanda Lohrey, The Labyrinth

"Exhausted, I go to bed early again and for the first time in a long while sleep an unbroken sleep that lasts until dawn. When I wake my body is soft; it feels as if in my dreamless state I have known mercy, showered in unearned grace"

-Amanda Lohrey, The Labyrinth

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Cover of The First Stone: Some Questions of Sex and Power by Helen Garner

1. The First Stone: Some Questions of Sex and Power

By: Helen Garner

4.27

Format: 24 pages,

In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming… read more

Similar categories in Helen Garner's The First Stone: Some Questions of Sex and Power book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • womens
  • australia
Cover of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran

2. 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

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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3. 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
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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4. Devotion

By: Hannah Kent

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Prussia, 1836. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Kent's Devotion book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other."

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

"Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find…"

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

Cover of The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey

5. The Labyrinth

By: Amanda Lohrey

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for a monstrous act of revenge. Trapped in her … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • book club
  • tasmania
"Exhausted, I go to bed early again and for the first time in a long while sleep an unbroken sleep that lasts until dawn. When I wake my body is soft; it feels as if in my dreamless state I have known…"

-Amanda Lohrey, The Labyrinth

Cover of Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

6. 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

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • womens
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko

7. Too Much Lip

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.06

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Wise-cracking Ke… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Heather Rose's Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • australia
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • book club
  • audiobook
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9. 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

Similar categories in Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • book club
  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in Jennifer Down's Bodies of Light book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • 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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11. 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
  • contemporary
  • 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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12. 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

Similar categories in Robbie Arnott's Limberlost book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • tasmania
  • book club
  • 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

Cover of Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko

13. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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14. Women & Children

By: Tony Birch

4.22

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more

Similar categories in Tony Birch's Women & Children book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • novels
  • australia
  • book club
  • fiction
Cover of Days of Innocence and Wonder by Lucy Treloar

15. Days of Innocence and Wonder

By: Lucy Treloar

3.71

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

When someone is taken away, what is left behind? All her life, Till has lived in the shadow of t… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Treloar's Days of Innocence and Wonder book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas

16. The In-Between

By: Christos Tsiolkas

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap … read more

Similar categories in Christos Tsiolkas's The In-Between book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There was respite in history. The beligerence and intolerance of the contemporary age was of no consequence to the past. And there was no shouting."

-Christos Tsiolkas, The In-Between

Cover of After Story by Larissa Behrendt

17. After Story

By: Larissa Behrendt

4.07

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered… read more

Similar categories in Larissa Behrendt's After Story book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of The Angry Women's Choir by Meg Bignell

18. The Angry Women's Choir

By: Meg Bignell

4.07

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more

Similar categories in Meg Bignell's The Angry Women's Choir book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • tasmania
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall

19. The Hummingbird Effect

By: Kate Mildenhall

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Hospital

By: Sanya Rushdi

3.70

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

A strong and courageous novel that deftly tackles psychosis. In Melbourne, Australia, a woman in h… read more

Similar categories in Sanya Rushdi's Hospital book and Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth

  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary

17 best-selling fiction books like The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey

Transform Your Habits

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Devotion

Hannah Kent

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Labyrinth

Amanda Lohrey

3.85

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19 Best fiction books like Days of Innocence and Wonder by Lucy Treloar

Transform Your Habits

Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

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Edenglassie

Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

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Women & Children

Tony Birch

4.22

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Days of Innocence and Wonder

Lucy Treloar

3.71

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