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10 best books like The Innocents (Francesca Segal): The Red Book, Ignorance, The Marlowe Papers, A Trick I Learned from Dead Men, The Forrests, The Heart Broke In, Mateship With Birds, Lamb, The Girl Giant, Motherland

The Red Book
AuthorDeborah Copaken Kogan
ISBN1401340822
The Big Chill meets The Group in Deborah Copaken Kogan’s wry, lively, and irresistible new novel about a once-close circle of friends at their twentieth college reunion.



Clover, Addison, Mia, and Jane were roommates at Harvard until their graduation in 1989. Clover, homeschooled...
Ignorance
AuthorMichèle Roberts
ISBN1408816008
A stunning war-time novel set in France from Booker-shortlisted author Michèle Roberts.

After every war there are stories that are locked away like bluebottles in drawers and kept silent. But sometimes the past can return: in the smell of carbolic soap, in whispers darting through a village...
The Marlowe Papers
AuthorRos Barber
ISBN1444737392
On May 30th, 1593, a celebrated young playwright was killed in a tavern brawl in London. That, at least, was the official version. Now let Christopher Marlowe tell you the truth: that his 'death' was an elaborate ruse to avoid his being hanged for heresy; that he was spirited across the channel to live...
A Trick I Learned from Dead Men
AuthorKitty Aldridge
ISBN0224096435
After the disappearance of their father and the sudden death of their mother, Lee Hart and his deaf brother, Ned, imagine all is lost until Lee lands a traineeship at their local funeral home and discovers there is life after death. Here, in the company of a crooning ex-publican, a closet pole vaulter,...
The Forrests
AuthorEmily Perkins
ISBN0385663730
Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune. Through the wilderness...
The Heart Broke In
AuthorJames Meek
ISBN0857862901
I suppose minor spoilers ahead for anyone planning on reading this, which is, oh, no-one? Thought so. Good choice, everyone!

Sleazy ex-popstar turned sleazy reality show producer Ritchie Shepherd cheats on his wife with a 15 year old girl (not the first time either) and gets blackmailed by...
Mateship With Birds
AuthorCarrie Tiffany
ISBN1742610765
On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a tree near his house. Harry observes the kookaburras through a year of feast, famine, birth, death, war, romance and song. As Harry watches the birds, his next door...
Lamb
AuthorBonnie Nadzam
ISBN1590514378
Winner of the 2011 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize

Lamb traces the self-discovery of David Lamb, a narcissistic middle aged man with a tendency toward dishonesty, in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his own...
The Girl Giant
AuthorKristen Den Hartog
ISBN1451656173
“Something good can come from even the most terrifying things. For every thing that is taken away, something else is given.” Ruth Brennan is a giant, “a rare, organic blunder pressed into a dollhouse world,” as she calls herself. Growing up in a small town, where even an ordinary person can’t...
Motherland
AuthorAmy Sohn
ISBN1439158495
In her trademark blend of social satire and sexy drama, New York Times bestselling author Amy Sohn delivers a candid, unsentimental look at modern marriage.

With her trademark blend of “social satire, interpersonal drama, and urban glamour” (The New York Times), Amy Sohn delivers a...
Brand New Human Being
AuthorEmily Jeanne Miller
ISBN0547734360
When your compass is taken away, how do you navigate? Stay-at-home dad Logan Pyle is holding his life together by a thread: his larger-than-life father, Gus, has just died, his wife is distant, and his kindergarten-age son has regressed to drinking from a baby bottle and sucking his thumb. Complicating...
The White Family
AuthorMaggie Gee
ISBN0863563805
“Outstanding . . . tender, sexy and alarming.”—Jim Crace

When Alfred White, patriarch of the White family, collapses at work, his wife, May, and their three disparate children find themselves confronting issues they would rather ignore. Maggie Gee skillfully weaves a narrative...
Beauty
AuthorRaphael Selbourne
ISBN0955647673
Beauty - in both name and appearance - is a twenty-year-old Bangladeshi, back in
England having disgraced her family by fleeing an abusive arranged marriage. Forced onto
the jobseeker's treadmill and under extreme domestic pressure, she cracks and runs away.
Her encounters with officialdom,...
The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
AuthorShani Boianjiu
ISBN0307955958
Yael, Avishag, and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty Israeli village, attending a high school made up of caravan classrooms, passing notes to each other to alleviate the universal boredom of teenage life. When they are conscripted into the army, their lives change in unpredictable ways, influencing...
In the Kingdom of Men
AuthorKim Barnes
ISBN0307273393
Here is the first thing you need to know about me:  I’m a barefoot girl from red-dirt Oklahoma, and all the marble floors in the world will never change that.
Here is the second thing:  that young woman they pulled from the Arabian shore, her hair tangled with mangrove—my husband didn’t kill...
Kalooki Nights
AuthorHoward Jacobson
ISBN1416543422
Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled "Five Thousand Years of Bitterness," recalls his childhood in a British suburb in the 1950s. Growing up, Max is surrounded by Jews, each with an entirely different and outspoken view on what it means to be Jewish. His mother,...
Alys, Always
AuthorHarriet Lane
ISBN0297865013
Frances is a thirty-something sub-editor, an invisible production drone on the books pages of the Questioner. Her routine and colourless existence is disrupted one winter evening when she happens upon the aftermath of a car crash and hears the last words of the driver, Alys Kyte. When Alys's family...
A Seat at the Table: A Novel of Forbidden Choices
AuthorJoshua Halberstam
ISBN1402208391
Lust - Tradition - Love - Faith - Self - Family

Elisha walks through Brooklyn with side curls tucked behind his ears and an oversized black hat on his head. He is a Chassidic Orthodox Jew and the son of a revered rabbi in whose footsteps he's expected to follow. When he leaves his insular world to...
The Empire of the Senses
AuthorAlexis Landau
ISBN1101870079
A sweeping, gorgeously written debut: a novel of duty to family and country, the dictates of passion, and blood ties unraveling in the charged political climate of Berlin between the world wars.

Lev Perlmutter, an assimilated, cultured German Jew, enlists to fight in World War I, leaving...
When We Were Bad
AuthorCharlotte Mendelson
"'The Rubin family, everybody agrees, seems doomed to happiness'"

Claudia Rubin is in her heyday. Wife, mother, rabbi and sometime moral voice of the nation, everyone wants to be with her at her older son's glorious February wedding. Until Leo becomes a bolter and the heyday of the Rubin family...
Clear: A Transparent Novel
AuthorNicola Barker
ISBN0060797576
On September 5, 2003, illusionist David Blaine entered a small Perspex box suspended alongside the Thames and began starving himself. Forty-four days later, on October 19, he left the box, fifty pounds lighter. That much, at least, is clear. And the rest? The crowds? The chaos? The hype? The rage? The...
Gilded Age
AuthorClaire McMillan
ISBN1451640471
A debut author transforms Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth into a powerful modern story of one woman’s struggle with independence and love.

Intelligent, witty, and poignant, Gilded Age presents a modern Edith Wharton heroine—dramatically beautiful, socially prominent, and...
Seating Arrangements
AuthorMaggie Shipstead
ISBN0307599469
Winn Van Meter is heading for his family’s retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskeke. Normally a haven of calm, for the next three days this sanctuary will be overrun by tipsy revelers as Winn prepares for the marriage of his daughter Daphne to the affable young scion Greyson Duff.  Winn’s...
Life! Death! Prizes!
AuthorStephen May
ISBN1620400014
Billy's mother is dead. He knows-because he reads about it in magazines-that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother's death in a bungled street robbery is the most random and tragic...
Sweet Like Sugar
AuthorWayne Hoffman
With eloquence and wit, Wayne Hoffman explores the unlikely camaraderie between a young Jewish man and an Orthodox rabbi, in this rich, insightful novel about love, honesty, faith, and belonging.In Yiddish, there is a word for it: bashert—the person you are fated to meet. Twentysomething Benji...
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