21 Top audiobook books like Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez

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Furia

By: Yamile Saied Méndez

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An #ownvoices contemporary YA set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything …

"Lies have long legs."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

"When we played, we were all the same. We were all one."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

"I was just a girl with strong legs and a stubborn streak."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

"I’ll rescue myself. No one will ever lock me up in a tower."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

If you liked the audiobook plot in Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. You Should See Me in a Crown

By: Leah Johnson

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, … read more

Similar categories in Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The best education is one you get in the world."

-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

"I don’t believe in putting a question mark where God put a period."

-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

"Did you know you have the chance to be the first black queen in Campbell history?"

-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

"Just because it could be worse doesn't mean you don't get to acknowledge how much it sucks, you know."

-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

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2. His Only Wife

By: Peace Adzo Medie

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.” Afi Tekple is a young seamstres… read more

Similar categories in Peace Adzo Medie's His Only Wife book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • romance
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez

3. Furia

By: Yamile Saied Méndez

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An #ownvoices contemporary YA set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything … read more

Similar categories in Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
  • audiobook
"Lies have long legs."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

"When we played, we were all the same. We were all one."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

"I was just a girl with strong legs and a stubborn streak."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

"I’ll rescue myself. No one will ever lock me up in a tower."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

Cover of We Are Not Free by Traci Chee

4. We Are Not Free

By: Traci Chee

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the… read more

Similar categories in Traci Chee's We Are Not Free book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"...I'm not guilty of anything but being born with this face."

-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

"We could do everything right, and they’d still think we were dangerous."

-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

"Tyranny is locking us up. Tyranny is taking our freedom. Tyranny is right here. Tyranny is American."

-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

"If someone always said, You have to do this for me before I do this for you, then nothing would ever get done"

-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

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5. Warrior Girl Unearthed

By: Angeline Boulley

4.34

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that wa… read more

Similar categories in Angeline Boulley's Warrior Girl Unearthed book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Some friendships can endure anything."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Sometimes you need to protect your heart from the pain."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Everything is connected. The past. The future. The beginning and ending."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"You jump, and I'll catch you. Every time. I'm your ride or die, niijiikwe."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

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6. Rez Ball

By: Byron Graves

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the her… read more

Similar categories in Byron Graves's Rez Ball book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
  • audiobook
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7. The Light in Hidden Places

By: Sharon Cameron

4.53

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgorska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by … read more

Similar categories in Sharon Cameron's The Light in Hidden Places book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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8. A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

By: Laura Taylor Namey

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Love & Gelato meets Don’t Date Rosa Santos in this charming, heartfelt story following a Miami girl… read more

Similar categories in Laura Taylor Namey's A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"there? Emotion burns my throat."

-Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

"It’s just too bloody hard. For now, let our time here be our moment."

-Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

"yes. I’ve grown to find peace and acceptance in not fighting what I can’t control."

-Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

"I know what it feels like to fall in love. But I’m not sure what falling out of love feels like."

-Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

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9. The Last Story of Mina Lee

By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim

3.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Margot Lee's mother, Mina, isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot,… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Jooyoun Kim's The Last Story of Mina Lee book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Her mother had once screamed, “How am I going to pay for this? Why don’t you take better care of yourself?"

-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

"Beauty is a construct, but theory is not at the reality we live, she thought. Theory didn't live in the bones. Theory didn't erase the years of self-scrutiny in a mirror and not seeing anyone at all,…"

-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

"But if she allowed that story to continue to be told, over and over again - that her mother was a nobody, anonymous, an immigrant who couldn't speak the language, another immigrant who worked a job t…"

-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

"She wondered how many women had been trapped - in terrible marriages, terrible jobs, unbearable circumstances - simply because the world hadn't been designed to allow them to thrive on their own. The…"

-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

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10. On the Rooftop

By: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

3.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides wit… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's On the Rooftop book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Tokyo Ever After (Tokyo Ever After, #1)

By: Emiko Jean

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in—it isn’t easy being Japanese American in her sma… read more

Similar categories in Emiko Jean's Tokyo Ever After (Tokyo Ever After, #1) book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Radish, I'm so heartsick for you."

-Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After (Tokyo Ever After, #1)

"Kanji is an expression of the soul"

-Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After (Tokyo Ever After, #1)

"...why does anybody do anything? Money?"

-Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After (Tokyo Ever After, #1)

"Dear Crown Prince Toshihito, I think I'm your daughter..."

-Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After (Tokyo Ever After, #1)

Cover of Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González

12. Anita de Monte Laughs Last

By: Xóchitl González

3.82

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-gener… read more

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

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13. You Have a Match

By: Emma Lord

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A new love, a secret sister, and a summer she'll never forget. When Abby signs up for a DNA serv… read more

Similar categories in Emma Lord's You Have a Match book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"But you're...you're a forever kind of person to me."

-Emma Lord, You Have a Match

"Love makes you do things you thought you never would."

-Emma Lord, You Have a Match

"If you learn to capture a feeling, it’ll always be louder than words."

-Emma Lord, You Have a Match

"he doesn’t like me the way I like him. And if he did once, he doesn’t anymore."

-Emma Lord, You Have a Match

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14. Firekeeper’s Daughter

By: Angeline Boulley

4.33

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, Daunis Fontaine has never qui… read more

Similar categories in Angeline Boulley's Firekeeper’s Daughter book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Good things end how they start"

-Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

"Honor your spirit. Love yourself."

-Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

"Who does not move forward recedes"

-Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

"Failure to plan means planning to fall."

-Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

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15. We Are Not From Here

By: Jenny Torres Sanchez

4.48

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A ripped-from-the-headlines novel of desperation, escape, and survival across the U.S.-Mexico borde… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Torres Sanchez's We Are Not From Here book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"We are to Mexico what Mexico is to the States."

-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here

"Los sueños y los hombres son para las pendejas."

-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here

"You can outrun danger...But you can’t outrun the pain."

-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here

"We are luchadores. We are fighters. We are those who dare to try against impossible odds."

-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here

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16. Still Lives

By: Maria Hummel

3.26

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her … read more

Similar categories in Maria Hummel's Still Lives book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Hollow Fires

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, gripping YA novel about the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthin… read more

Similar categories in Samira Ahmed's Hollow Fires book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"from the postscript: The commentators who scream against allowing in refugees, the same talking heads who think the horrifyingly inhumane treatment of migrants at our border with Mexico is justified,…"

-Samira Ahmed, Hollow Fires

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18. Everything Inside

By: Edwidge Danticat

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vivi… read more

Similar categories in Edwidge Danticat's Everything Inside book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Redwood Court

By: DeLana R.A. Dameron

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its yo… read more

Similar categories in DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Within These Wicked Walls

By: Lauren Blackwood

3.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What the heart desires, the house destroys... Andromeda is a debtera—an exorcist hired to cleans… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Blackwood's Within These Wicked Walls book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Pride and arrogance were fools, but knowing your ability wasn't."

-Lauren Blackwood, Within These Wicked Walls

"I choose to be thankful for what little that I have. And I choose to hope."

-Lauren Blackwood, Within These Wicked Walls

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21. Not So Pure and Simple

By: Lamar Giles

4.05

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Del has had a crush on Kiera Westing since kindergarten. And now, during their junior year, she’s f… read more

Similar categories in Lamar Giles's Not So Pure and Simple book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Furia

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I'd told the truth. That shouldn't be wrong, but the truth could be a weapon depending on who used it."

-Lamar Giles, Not So Pure and Simple

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