11 Top novels books like The Paper Man by Billy O'Callaghan

Cover of The Paper Man by Billy O'Callaghan

The Paper Man

By: Billy O'Callaghan

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

**A BOOK OF 2023 IN IRISH TIMES, RTÉ GUIDE AND SUNDAY INDEPENDENT** An unforgettable and sweepin…

If you liked the novels plot in The Paper Man by Billy O'Callaghan , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry

1. 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

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"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

Cover of The Caretaker by Ron Rash

2. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

Similar categories in Ron Rash's The Caretaker book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • literary fiction
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
Cover of Close to Home by Michael  Magee

3. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

Similar categories in Michael Magee's Close to Home book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan

4. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
Cover of Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) by Colm Tóibín

5. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney

6. How to Build a Boat

By: Elaine Feeney

3.78

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

Cover of Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy

7. 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 Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"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

Cover of Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan

8. 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 Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"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

Cover of The Island of Longing by Anne  Griffin

9. The Island of Longing

By: Anne Griffin

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

One unremarkable afternoon, Rosie watched, from her bedroom window, her daughter Saoirse come up th… read more

Similar categories in Anne Griffin's The Island of Longing book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

10. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Barry's The Heart in Winter book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

Cover of The Paper Man by Billy O'Callaghan

11. The Paper Man

By: Billy O'Callaghan

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

**A BOOK OF 2023 IN IRISH TIMES, RTÉ GUIDE AND SUNDAY INDEPENDENT** An unforgettable and sweepin… read more

Similar categories in Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • literary fiction
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Breakdown by Cathy Sweeney

12. Breakdown

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Sweeney's Breakdown book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Coast Road by Alan Murrin

13. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

Similar categories in Alan Murrin's The Coast Road book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of There's Something I Have to Tell You by Michelle McDonagh

14. There's Something I Have to Tell You

By: Michelle McDonagh

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

HOME IS WHERE THE SECRETS ARE BURIED When two bodies are found on Glenbeg Farm, the local commun… read more

Similar categories in Michelle McDonagh's There's Something I Have to Tell You book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes

15. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

Similar categories in Caoilinn Hughes's The Alternatives book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of The Horse by Willy Vlautin

16. The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more

Similar categories in Willy Vlautin's The Horse book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin by Katja Oskamp

17. Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin

By: Katja Oskamp

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Katja Oskamp ist Mitte vierzig, als ihr das Leben fad wird. Das Kind ist aus dem Haus, der Mann ist… read more

Similar categories in Katja Oskamp's Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"One of the women was a blonde from Eastern Europe who wore sweaters interwoven with gold. She had the loveliest uniform out of all of us, a tunic with a cinched waist and diagonally arranged buttons.…"

-Katja Oskamp, Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin

Cover of Falling Animals by Sheila  Armstrong

18. Falling Animals

By: Sheila Armstrong

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the las… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Armstrong's Falling Animals book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Lazy City by Rachel Connolly

19. Lazy City

By: Rachel Connolly

3.53

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Following the death of her best friend, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast, a… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Connolly's Lazy City book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Birthday Girl (Mallory Dawson Crime Thrillers, #1) by Sarah  Ward

20. The Birthday Girl (Mallory Dawson Crime Thrillers, #1)

By: Sarah Ward

3.83

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to Eldey, an island with deadly secrets. Mona is a carefree artist, staying at The Clois… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ward's The Birthday Girl (Mallory Dawson Crime Thrillers, #1) book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • fiction
Cover of Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan

21. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's Heart, Be at Peace book and Billy O'Callaghan's The Paper Man

  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction

21 best-selling fiction books like The Paper Man by Billy O'Callaghan

Transform Your Habits

Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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The Caretaker

Ron Rash

4.20

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Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

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So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

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21 Top fiction books like Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy

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The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

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The Maiden

Kate Foster

4.05

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Enter Ghost

Isabella Hammad

4.09

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Wild Houses

Colin Barrett

3.78

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