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If you loved The Slap

Books like The Slap

If you loved The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

Instructions for a Heatwave

Maggie O'Farrell

No. 2

May We Be Forgiven

A.M. Homes

No. 3

Looking for Alibrandi

Melina Marchetta

No. 4

When God Was a Rabbit

Sarah Winman

No. 5

Seating Arrangements

Maggie Shipstead

No. 6

Cloudstreet

Tim Winton

No. 7

The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

Deborah Rodriguez

No. 8

Apple Tree Yard

Louise Doughty

No. 9

The Hand That First Held Mine

Maggie O'Farrell

No. 10

An Officer and a Spy

Robert Harris

No. 11

The Secret River

Kate Grenville

No. 12

Solar

Ian McEwan

No. 13

Us

David Nicholls

No. 14

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver

No. 15

One Day

David Nicholls

No. 16

Small Island

Andrea Levy

No. 17

The Dinner

Herman Koch, Sam Garrett

No. 18

Birdsong

Sebastian Faulks

No. 19

The Miniaturist

Jessie Burton

No. 20

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler

No. 21

Room

Emma Donoghue

No. 22

Jasper Jones

Craig Silvey

No. 23

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

No. 24

The Thing Around Your Neck

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie