11 must-read audiobook books like The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem

Cover of The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem

The Arrest

By: Jonathan Lethem

3.15

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly origi…

"Basically every two-bit libertarian, free-range asshole you'll ever meet is just waiting for someone to talk them in default cop."

-Jonathan Lethem, The Arrest

"Basically every two-bit libertarian, free-range asshole you'll ever meet is just waiting for someone to talk them in default cop."

-Jonathan Lethem, The Arrest

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño, Chris    Andrews

1. Last Evenings on Earth

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting… read more

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  • fiction
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2. Italian Folktales

By: Italo Calvino , George Martin

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

Chosen as one of the New York Times's ten best books in the year of its original publication, this … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction

3. The Clockwork Dynasty

By: Daniel H. Wilson

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Audio CD

Follow a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries. Present d… read more

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4. Veniss Underground

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.87

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

In his debut novel, literary alchemist Jeff VanderMeer takes us on an unforgettable journey, a triu… read more

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5. Ship Fever: Stories

By: Andrea Barrett

3.60

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love… read more

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6. Malice Aforethought

By: Francis Iles

3.93

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

On a balmy summer's day in 1930 the great and the good of the county are out in force for the annua… read more

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  • fiction
"The evidence knocked clean out of their hands. Nothing but suspicion left…and you can’t arrest a murderer on suspicion, oh dear no! Only felonious loiterer’s and housebreakers and low scum like that.…"

-Francis Iles, Malice Aforethought

"Madeleine Cranmere met him in the hall and showed him over the ground floor herself. She appeared delighted to listen to his rapturous enthusiasm, and consulted him on a few points as if he were an e…"

-Francis Iles, Malice Aforethought

7. Gentlemen of the Road

By: Michael Chabon , Gary Gianni

4.60

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

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8. I've Been Thinking

By: Daniel C. Dennett

3.76

Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition

"How unfair for one man to be blessed with such a torrent of stimulating thoughts. Stimulating is a… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Nipponia Nippon by Kazushige Abe

9. Nipponia Nippon

By: Kazushige Abe

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Il diciassettenne protagonista Haruo vive in cittadina di provincia nel nord del Giappone. È un ado… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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10. America Fantastica

By: Tim O'Brien

3.45

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in No… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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12. The Arrest

By: Jonathan Lethem

3.15

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly origi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • post apocalyptic
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • 21st century
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
"Basically every two-bit libertarian, free-range asshole you'll ever meet is just waiting for someone to talk them in default cop."

-Jonathan Lethem, The Arrest

Cover of Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser

13. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

By: Steven Millhauser

3.56

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Martin thought of the iron El trestles winding and stretching across the city, of department store windows and hotel lobbies, of electric elevators and street-car ads, of the city pressing its way no…"

-Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

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14. Same Bed Different Dreams

By: Ed Park

3.77

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Dr. No

By: Percival Everett

3.71

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star k… read more

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  • science fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-c…"

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

Cover of Dune: House Atreides, Volume Two by Brian Herbert

16. Dune: House Atreides, Volume Two

By: Brian Herbert

3.79

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever graphic fiction adaptation of the New York Times best-selling Dune: House Atreides c… read more

Similar categories in Brian Herbert's Dune: House Atreides, Volume Two book and Jonathan Lethem's The Arrest

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves

17. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. Red Moon

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.38

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications system f… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"One sequence of these diary notes had lasted longer than most, and by their content he saw that they came from the time right after his father had died. One line stuck him like a thorn: Alone in the …"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Moon

Cover of Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night by Jerry Saltz

19. Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night

By: Jerry Saltz

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist: a deliciously readabl… read more

Similar categories in Jerry Saltz's Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night book and Jonathan Lethem's The Arrest

  • audiobook
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20. Rakesfall

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rakesfall is a groundbreaking, standalone science fiction epic about two souls bound together from … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"She asks the moon, who loves her, but the moon does not know."

-Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall

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21. Trophäe

By: Gaea Schoeters

4.11

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Gaea Schoetersʼ preisgekrönter Roman ist von einer außerordentlichen erzählerischen Wucht. Die Tief… read more

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  • fiction

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Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.17

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3.93

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3.31

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3.49

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Natsuko Imamura

3.63

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