18 Top audiobook books like Wayward by Dana Spiotta

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Wayward

By: Dana Spiotta

3.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” ( The New York Time…

"She herself had done little all day; instead she reported from the edge of an unlived life."

-Dana Spiotta, Wayward

"She herself had done little all day; instead she reported from the edge of an unlived life."

-Dana Spiotta, Wayward

"Why was so much noticed only in the breach, in the loss, by the regret-filled longing for what was left behind?"

-Dana Spiotta, Wayward

"Why was so much noticed only in the breach, in the loss, by the regret-filled longing for what was left behind?"

-Dana Spiotta, Wayward

If you liked the audiobook plot in Wayward by Dana Spiotta , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Latecomer

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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2. Lucy by the Sea

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • audiobook
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3. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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4. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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5. Our Country Friends

By: Gary Shteyngart

3.21

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation -- a powerful, emotion… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"How hard was it to be happy in this fucking country?"

-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

"Why do you know so much old rap?" "Because I'm white."

-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

"Russian was a language built around the exhalation of warmth and pain...."

-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

"Honesty and grace. You can try to find something better beyond that, but you won't."

-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

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6. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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7. Il fuoco che ti porti dentro

By: Antonio Franchini

3.90

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Il fuoco che ti porti dentro racconta la vita e la morte di Angela, una donna dal carattere impossi… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Sua madre è esattamente come lei, odia molti e disprezza tutti."

-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro

"Concorde con lo spirito del nostro tempo, non solo non teme la contraddizione ma disprezza la coerenza."

-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro

"A chiedere scusa ci si educa - e adesso so che è un processo accidentato -, mentre a casa mia non ci si confronta, si grida e si aggredisce, o si sta zitti. Non siamo stati abituati a parlare tra noi…"

-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro

"Conosco la rabbia che nasce dal senso di inferiorità, dall'inadeguatezza. Qualche volta sono stato preso da quella stessa frenesia, ho provato il desiderio di sfregiare con le parole coloro ai quali …"

-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro

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8. Gittersee

By: Charlotte Gneuß

3.89

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Jürgen Ponto-Preis 2023 1976, im Dresdner Vorort Gittersee: Karin ist 16, … read more

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  • family
  • fiction
  • novels
"Ein älterer Mann stand um die Ecke und rauchte. Er zwinkerte mir zu. Sie haben da was am Auge, rief ich ihm zu, so Zuckungen, würd ich behandeln lassen."

-Charlotte Gneuß, Gittersee

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9. The Candy House

By: Jennifer Egan

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an e… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"A new remote and unfamiliar place can make the prior remote and unfamiliar place seem like home."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Handsel and Gretel. Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before …"

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

Cover of Wayward by Dana Spiotta

10. Wayward

By: Dana Spiotta

3.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” ( The New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Dana Spiotta's Wayward book and Dana Spiotta's Wayward

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • american
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • womens
  • novels
  • audiobook
"She herself had done little all day; instead she reported from the edge of an unlived life."

-Dana Spiotta, Wayward

"Why was so much noticed only in the breach, in the loss, by the regret-filled longing for what was left behind?"

-Dana Spiotta, Wayward

"Only recently did it dawn on me all the things I will never do: I will never have an apartment in Rome. I will never have another lover. I will never radically change my life again."

-Dana Spiotta, Wayward

"I want things to be normal. I want you to call me and tell me about your life. I want to hear about Ally, and I want to talk politics. I want to garden, and walk my dog. I want my life as it is and a…"

-Dana Spiotta, Wayward

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11. Intimacies

By: Katie Kitamura

3.65

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I thought—I want to go home. I want to be in a place that feels like home. Where that was, I did not know."

-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies

"I had lived with my slow-moving grief for so long that I had ceased to notice it, or recognize how it blunted my feeling."

-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies

"This was done for obvious reasons, there were great chasms beneath words, between two or sometimes more languages, that could open up without warning."

-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies

"I realized, belatedly, that she had likely applied the makeup for Adriaan’s sake; certainly she had not done so for mine. I wondered then what it was like to be a man, so often surrounded by such del…"

-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies

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12. Oh William!

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she conf… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

"Mensen zijn eenzaam, dat wil ik hier maar mee zeggen. Veel mensen kunnen niet tegen degenen die ze goed kennen zeggen wat ze misschien wel zouden willen zeggen."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

"Er was iets aan haar wat ten diepste -bijna wezenlijk- in harmonie was met zichzelf, zoals iemand is, denk ik, wanneer allebei zijn ouders van hem hebben gehouden."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

"Verdriet is zoiets- o, het is zoiets éénzaams; dat is het beangstigende ervan, denk ik. Het is alsof je langs de glaswand van een heel hoog gebouw naar beneden glijdt terwijl niemand je ziet."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

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13. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Practice

By: Rosalind Brown

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts,… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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15. The War for Gloria

By: Atticus Lish

3.81

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the PEN/Faulkner winning debut novel Preparation for the Next Life--a searing, t… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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16. Eine vollständige Liste aller Dinge, die ich vergessen habe

By: Doris Knecht

3.71

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Sie ist die Tochter, die stets unsichtbar war neben ihren braven, blonden Schwestern. Sie ist die a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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18. Aria di famiglia

By: Alessandro Piperno

3.89

Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition

Cosa succede quando a cinquant'anni ti ritrovi all'improvviso un moccioso tra i piedi? È quello che… read more

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19. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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20. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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21. Sea Paradise

By: Eleonora Lombardo

3.59

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

Due donne si apprestano a salire sulla Sea Paradise, una nave da crociera capace di regalare un’esp… read more

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