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10 best books like The Naked Husband (Colin Falconer): Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Nowhere Child, The Family Upstairs, Those People, The Wall, The Interpreter, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, Extinctions, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
AuthorSvetlana Alexievich
ISBN0312425848
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy. Journalist Svetlana Alexievich...
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
AuthorMuriel Barbery
ISBN1933372605
A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.

We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly...
The Nowhere Child
AuthorChristian White
ISBN1925584526
Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White’s internationally bestselling debut thriller of psychological suspense about a woman uncovering devastating secrets about her family—and her very identity…

Kimberly Leamy...
The Family Upstairs
AuthorLisa Jewell
ISBN1501190105
From the New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and Watching You comes another page-turning look inside one family’s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.

Be careful who you let in.

Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work...
Those People
AuthorLouise Candlish
ISBN0451489144
From the author of the international bestseller Our House, a new novel of twisty domestic suspense asks, "Could you hate your neighbor enough to plot to kill him?"

Lowland Way is the suburban dream. The houses are beautiful, the neighbors get along, and the kids play together on weekends.

But...
The Wall
AuthorJohn Lanchester
ISBN1324001631
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019

Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate...
The Interpreter
AuthorSuki Kim
ISBN0312422245
Suzy Park is a twenty-nine-year-old Korean American interpreter for the New York City court system who makes a startling and ominous discovery about her family history that will send her on a chilling quest. Five years prior, her parents--hardworking greengrocers who forfeited personal happiness...
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
AuthorC.A. Fletcher
ISBN0316449458
When a beloved family dog is stolen, her owner sets out on a life-changing journey through the ruins of our world to bring her back in this fiercely compelling tale of survival, courage, and hope. Perfect for readers of Station Eleven and The Girl With All the Gifts.

My name's Griz. My childhood...
Extinctions
AuthorJosephine Wilson
ISBN1742588980
He hated the word 'retirement', but not as much as he hated the word 'village', as if aging made you a peasant or a fool. Herein lives the village idiot.

Professor Frederick Lothian, a retired engineer, world expert on concrete and connoisseur of modernist design, has quarantined himself from...
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
AuthorChristy Lefteri
ISBN1984821210
The unforgettable love story of a mother blinded by loss and her husband who insists on their survival as they undertake the Syrian refugee trail to Europe.

Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo--until...
Painter of Silence
AuthorGeorgina Harding
ISBN1408821125
Speed dating with books 4/6
Since I am moving my books from one room to another and building a new bookcase I realized (again) that I have way too many unread books. I decided to choose 6 (for the beginning) of the ones waiting on my shelves for a long time or that I do not know if I would like, read 50 pages...
The Wilding
AuthorMaria McCann
ISBN0571251781
Jonathan Dymond, a 26-year old cider-maker in post-Civil War England, has enjoyed a quiet, harmonious existence until a letter arrives from his uncle with a request to speak with his father. When his father returns from the visit the next day, all he can say is that Jonathan's uncle has died. Then Jonathan...
The Crimson Rooms
AuthorKatharine McMahon
ISBN0399156224
In the spirit of Sarah Waters and Geraldine Brooks, a dramatic mystery about love, secrets, and discovery in post-World War I London.

Still haunted by the death of her only brother, James, in the Great War, Evelyn Gifford is completely unprepared when a young nurse and her six-year-old son...
Xi Jinping: The Backlash
AuthorRichard McGregor
ISBN1760893048
Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats, and abroad from an emerging coalition of Western nations that seem...
The Cockroach
AuthorIan McEwan
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.

Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain –...
The Rain Before it Falls
AuthorJonathan Coe
ISBN0670917281
Following "The Rotters' Club "and its sequel, "The Closed Circle, "Jonathan Coe now offers his first stand-alone novel in a decade, a story of three generations of women whose destinies reach from the English countryside in World War II to London, Toronto, and southern France at the turn of the new century.
Evacuated...
The Yield
AuthorTara June Winch
ISBN0143785753
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on...
The Woman in the Picture
AuthorKatharine McMahon
ISBN0297866036
February, 1926. These are the days leading up to The General Strike, and London is restless. Evelyn Gifford, narrator of THE CRIMSON ROOMS, has qualified as a solicitor - and is one of the first women to do so - but her life remains full of conflict. Embroiled in two new cases, the matter of a burnt letter...
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