Books like Solar bones by Mike McCormack

Pride and Prejudice is a classic novel by Jane Austen.

James Joyce’s Dubliners is a landmark collection of fifteen short stories set in late‑19th‑century Dublin, capturing ordinary lives and suppressed dreams while exploring themes of lost innocence, paralysis, and the moral fabric of Irish society.

On Beauty explores a New England family’s life as they confront love, identity, and cultural divides over three decades, weaving personal struggles with broader conversations about race and belonging.

After his wife's death, Max Morden retreats to a seaside town from his youth, where he must confront loss, aging, and the intrusions of nearby holidaymakers.

George Hall, a 61‑year‑old man content with a quiet retirement, is challenged when his daughter announces an unsuitable remarriage, forcing the family to confront love, loyalty and hidden tensions as George’s health deteriorates.

Jende Jonga’s dream of a new life in New York turns into a struggle as his family faces the rigors of immigration law and the hidden dangers of working for a powerful executive.

Two newcomers—an older man and a boy—arrive in a new land, learn Spanish, and are assigned new names. They navigate a desert camp, a relocation center, and the city of Novilla while the man searches for the boy’s mother, all amid themes of immigration, family, and fate.

In an unnamed city, a young woman’s quiet life is upended when a paramilitary figure known as 'the Milkman' begins to chase her, turning her ordinary days into a tense struggle for safety and privacy.

Three sisters, adopted after a wartime romance, are reunited across Paris, New York, and Appalachia, where secrets and tragic truths challenge family bonds.

Ein Haus an den Klippen, eine Liebe durch Generationen und eine Suche nach der Mutter.

In Maine, a family of middle‑aged women confronts the cost of caregiving as Alzheimer’s disease takes hold, while the sandwich generation juggles work, parenting and lingering shadows of past choices.

A collection of short stories that explore love, cruelty, crime, desperation, and hope, crafted by writer Kevin Barry.

In Anita Brookner’s *A Family Romance*, Jane Manning confronts the arrival of her glamorous aunt Dolly into her modest family circle, exposing the shifting attitudes toward identity, gender and family power.

When four Dublin graduates confront an uncertain future, they drift through city streets in search of drink, high, and fleeting ideals, while one’s darker impulses test their bonds and challenge the illusion of Ireland’s prosperity.

A luminous portrait of Tess Lohan, a single‑mother nurse and Irish‑American woman, tracing her journey from western Ireland to New York City and her poignant reunion with family after four decades of exile.

Before and After follows a New England family whose peaceful life is shattered when the son is suspected of murdering a teenage girl, forcing each member to confront hidden motives, secret anger, and community judgment.

Like everyone else in the Panopticon, 15-year-old Anais Hendricks has been in and out of foster care practically since birth. "[B]orn in a nuthouse to nobody that was ever seen again," she had her only successful foster placement with a prostitute later stabbed to death (Anais found the body). She's been sent to this facility, where the inmates are under constant surveillance, because she had a bad history with a policewoman who has been bludgeoned into a coma, and Anais--almost permanently whacked on whatever drug she can lay her hands on--can't explain why she has blood on her skirt. Amid the institution's crescent-shaped buildings and all-seeing watchtower, Anais befriends a group of ragtag ruffians and delves into her past, endlessly stoned and concerned she's being watched by an entity she calls "the experiment."