15 Top fiction books like Breakdown by Cathy Sweeney

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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…

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1. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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2. 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
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • 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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3. The Playdate: A startling and deliciously pitch-dark story from leafy suburbia

By: Clara Dillon

3.88

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

'A riveting tale … gripping’ The Irish Independent‘An incredibly gripping and entertaining page-tur… read more

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4. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • literature
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • irish literature
  • ireland
  • audiobook
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5. Someone in the Attic

By: Andrea Mara

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From a #1 internationally bestselling author comes an atmospheric, chilling novel about a family wh… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"People trust people with dogs. They do. There’s an inherent belief that dog people are good people."

-Andrea Mara, Someone in the Attic

"They’re keen to help and intrigued too, she can see, in that way people are when there’s drama but no personal risk."

-Andrea Mara, Someone in the Attic

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6. Somebody Knows

By: Michelle McDonagh

4.16

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

: A gripping, addictive page-turner about dangerous secrets and the lengths people will go to keep … read more

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  • irish literature
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7. In Her Place

By: Edel Coffey

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 bestselling author of Breaking Point and winner of Crime Novel of the Year at the An … read more

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8. The Trial

By: Jo Spain

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief by Katriona O'Sullivan

9. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

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  • book club
  • irish literature
  • ireland
  • audiobook
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10. Service

By: Sarah Gilmartin

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • irish literature
  • ireland
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11. Three Little Birds

By: Sam Blake

3.78

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Two decades of secrets. One shocking discovery... When a skull is found in Lough Coyne, facial r… read more

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  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Reality Check

By: Vicki Notaro

3.64

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

Portia Daniels' life is sorted. She has a perfect man (Jason, a hot TV producer from Ireland), a pe… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of This Is How You Remember It by Catherine Prasifka

13. This Is How You Remember It

By: Catherine Prasifka

4.11

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you sp… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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15. Spirit Level

By: Richy Craven

3.94

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Danny Hook is a directionless twenty-something year old fresh out of therapy. Dealing with his disa… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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16. Bodies

By: Christine Anne Foley

3.81

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

You were everything I ever wanted. Johnny was my first. I was seventeen and I was only brave enough… read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Free Therapy

By: Rebecca Ivory

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

A debut collection that heralds the arrival of a fresh and exciting new literary voiceFree Therapy … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Seaborne by Nuala O'Connor

18. Seaborne

By: Nuala O'Connor

3.81

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

1703, Kinsale, County Cork. Anne Coleman is the illegitimate child of a local lawyer and his maid; … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Amendments

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel abou… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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20. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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21. This is Not a Self-Help Book

By: Mark Mehigan

4.25

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Much of Mark Mehigan's twenties read like a how-to How to get very drunk without raising people's … read more

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  • audiobook

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