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If you loved Slammerkin

Books like Slammerkin

If you loved Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

The Crimson Petal and the White

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No. 2

Affinity

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No. 3

Room

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No. 4

Fingersmith

Sarah Waters

No. 5

Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail

Malika Oufkir, Michèle Fitoussi

No. 6

The Orchardist

Amanda Coplin

No. 7

Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

No. 8

The Help

Kathryn Stockett

No. 9

Ladder of Years

Anne Tyler

No. 10

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

No. 11

Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden

No. 12

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier

No. 13

City of Thieves

David Benioff

No. 14

The Paying Guests

Sarah Waters

No. 15

The Red Tent

Anita Diamant

No. 16

Half Broke Horses

Jeannette Walls

No. 17

The Reader

Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway

No. 18

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

No. 19

Frog Music

Emma Donoghue

No. 20

Ellen Foster

Kaye Gibbons

No. 21

Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood, Brigitte Walitzek

No. 22

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (One Thousand White Women#1)

Jim Fergus

No. 23

The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

Philippa Gregory

No. 24

Little Bee

Chris Cleave