6 must-read thriller books like Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor

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Lean Fall Stand

By: Jon McGregor

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of Reservoir 13, this thrilling new novel of an Antarct…

If you liked the thriller plot in Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Antarctica

By: Claire Keegan

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

2. The Report

By: Jessica Francis Kane

3.71

Format: 32 pages,

A stunning first novel that is an evocative reimagining of a World War II civilian disaster On a Ma… read more

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3. 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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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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4. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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5. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • novels
"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

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6. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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7. Treacle Walker

By: Alan Garner

3.13

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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8. Lean Fall Stand

By: Jon McGregor

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of Reservoir 13, this thrilling new novel of an Antarct… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • thriller
  • novels
  • audiobook
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9. Unsettled Ground

By: Claire Fuller

3.78

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • audiobook
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10. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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11. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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12. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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13. The Perfect Golden Circle

By: Benjamin Myers

3.92

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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14. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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15. The Fell

By: Sarah Moss

3.63

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. K… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Life, then, to be lived, somehow."

-Sarah Moss, The Fell

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16. The Homes

By: J.B. Mylet

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

There were good people in The Homes. But there were also some very, very bad ones... A thousand … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. No Secrets

By: David Jackson

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

THEY ALL BELIEVE HIM THEY BELIEVE HIS LIES. SHE KNOWS THE TRUTH. You can't lie to Izzy Lambert.… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Burntcoat

By: Sarah Hall

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying novel of mortality, passion, and human connection, set against the backdrop of a de… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I have this feeling - of being unplugged and too far from the socket and what remains is a red warning bar."

-Sarah Hall, Burntcoat

"I did not contact my father. He had another family; he was a stranger. I'd been raised, capably and neglectfully, by a borrowed woman and her shadow. I lay on Naomi's bed in the empty cottage, comfor…"

-Sarah Hall, Burntcoat

"There's blindness to new lovers. They exist in the rare atmosphere of their own colony, trusting by sense and feel, creatures consuming each other, building shelters with their hopes. Other worlds ce…"

-Sarah Hall, Burntcoat

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19. These Streets

By: Luan Goldie

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Nightingale Point, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, comes a new tho… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. The Last Good Man

By: Thomas McMullan

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Duncan Peck has travelled alone to Dartmoor in search of his cousin. He has come from the city, whe… read more

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  • fiction
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21. My Lovely Daughter

By: R.P. Bolton

3.75

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

My precious daughter. You have no idea how dangerous the world is. No idea of the horrors I’ve shie… read more

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  • thriller

19 best-selling fiction books like Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor

Transform Your Habits

Antarctica

Claire Keegan

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Case Study

Graeme Macrae Burnet

3.60

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18 best-selling fiction books like Bournville by Jonathan Coe

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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