21 must-read fiction books like Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey

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Remote Sympathy

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.31

Format: 526 pages, Hardcover

Moving away from Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had fear…

If you liked the fiction plot in Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • war
  • fiction
"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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2. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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3. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Water book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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4. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Earth book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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5. 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

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"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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6. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

Similar categories in Megan Nolan's Ordinary Human Failings book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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7. Remote Sympathy

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.31

Format: 526 pages, Hardcover

Moving away from Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had fear… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • historical
  • war
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • holocaust
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8. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

Similar categories in V.V. Ganeshananthan's Brotherless Night book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

Similar categories in Kate Grenville's Restless Dolly Maunder book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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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11. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

Similar categories in Emily Perkins's Lioness book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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12. Flamingo

By: Rachel Elliott

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A novel of love, homelessness, and learning to be fearless In the garden, there were three flami… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Elliott's Flamingo book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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13. The Exhibitionist

By: Charlotte Mendelson

3.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The longer the marriage, the harder truth becomes . . . Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for … read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

Similar categories in Josie Shapiro's Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • fiction
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15. The Bread the Devil Knead

By: Lisa Allen-Agostini

4.03

Format: 277 pages, ebook

Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a bout… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Allen-Agostini's The Bread the Devil Knead book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"And what is love? I human, I have feelings. I with the man. Of course I love him. Yet, the way he love me does make me hate myself."

-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead

"Is not that I vain. I does think of it as an investment. If you had a nice car, ent you would take care of it? Depreciation is a hell of a thing."

-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead

"Tell the truth, I was fed up with the house, fed up with the licks. Fed up with Leo and him blaming me for everything. But you ever find yourself down in a canal? It hard to climb out by yourself."

-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead

"But people does get on like if you, as a woman who have no man, you not good enough, like you's not a real woman. So if is either stay with a asshole or have no man at all, I rather stay with a assho…"

-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead

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16. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

Similar categories in Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Popisho

By: Leone Ross

3.82

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A sensual novel, Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are bro… read more

Similar categories in Leone Ross's Popisho book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

"If a man want cook, he hire one, nah? Or do it himself, if he have a mind."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

"He sought out cold waterfalls, small thick forests, and thought about nothing at all."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

"Butterflies were like alcohol. The heat of a good wine in a burnt orange butterfly. The cool swallow of rare ship-bought vodka in clear, white and blue beauties."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

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18. Audition

By: Pip Adam

3.64

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room… read more

Similar categories in Pip Adam's Audition book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • fiction
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19. Careless

By: Kirsty Capes

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes it's easy to fall between the cracks... At 3.04pm on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess f… read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Capes's Careless book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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20. Salt Lick

By: Lulu Allison

3.66

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Food production has moved overseas. The countryside is empty and once again wild. The rural economy… read more

Similar categories in Lulu Allison's Salt Lick book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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21. Creatures of Passage

By: Morowa Yejide

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Yejidé’s novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington,… read more

Similar categories in Morowa Yejide's Creatures of Passage book and Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The Conundrum of Three. It's the mind seeking the memory of a body long gone, and the body withdrawing from the mind and the spirit, and the spirit chasing the echo of the other two"

-Morowa Yejide, Creatures of Passage

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