Sign up for our newsletters to receive our Best of 2024 ezine!

Handpicked recommendations to other books that have a similar writing style or theme to The West

Summary |  Excerpt |  Reviews |  Read-Alikes |  Genres & Themes |  Author Bio

The West by Naoíse Mac Sweeney

The West

A New History in Fourteen Lives

by Naoíse Mac Sweeney
  • BookBrowse Review:
  • Critics' Consensus (4):
  • First Published:
  • May 23, 2023, 448 pages
  • Rate this book

About This Book

Reviews

Beyond the Book:
  The Life and Literature of Tullia D'Aragona

Read-Alikes

Read-Alikes Full read-alike results are for members only

If you liked The West, try these:

  • God's Shadow jacket

    God's Shadow

    by Alan Mikhail

    Published Aug 2021

    More about this book

    Read Reviews

    An explosive global history that redefines the historical origins of the modern world through the life of Sultan Selim I and his Ottoman Empire.

  • Babel jacket

    Babel

    by Gaston Dorren

    Published Dec 2019

    More about this book

    Read Reviews

    Witty, fascinating and utterly compelling, Babel will change the way you look at and listen to the world and how it speaks.

Read-Alikes are one of the many benefits of membership. To see the complete list of this book's read-alikes, you need to be a member.
How we choose read-alikes

Membership Advantages
  • Reviews
  • "Beyond the Book" articles
  • Free books to read and review (US only)
  • Find books by time period, setting & theme
  • Read-alike suggestions by book and author
  • Book club discussions
  • and much more!
  • Just $45 for 12 months or $15 for 3 months.
  • More about membership!

Top Picks

  • Book Jacket
    The Frozen River
    by Ariel Lawhon
    "I cannot say why it is so important that I make this daily record. Perhaps because I have been ...
  • Book Jacket
    Prophet Song
    by Paul Lynch
    Paul Lynch's 2023 Booker Prize–winning Prophet Song is a speedboat of a novel that hurtles...
  • Book Jacket: The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
    The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
    by Lynda Cohen Loigman
    Lynda Cohen Loigman's delightful novel The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern opens in 1987. The titular ...
  • Book Jacket: Small Rain
    Small Rain
    by Garth Greenwell
    At the beginning of Garth Greenwell's novel Small Rain, the protagonist, an unnamed poet in his ...

BookBrowse Book Club

Book Jacket
In Our Midst
by Nancy Jensen
In Our Midst follows a German immigrant family’s fight for freedom after their internment post–Pearl Harbor.
Book Jacket
The Story Collector
by Evie Woods
From the international bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop!
Who Said...

It was one of the worst speeches I ever heard ... when a simple apology was all that was required.

Click Here to find out who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!

Wordplay

Big Holiday Wordplay 2024

Enter Now

Your guide toexceptional          books

BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.