19 must-read audiobook books like The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson

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The Exhibitionist

By: Charlotte Mendelson

3.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The longer the marriage, the harder truth becomes . . . Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for …

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

Similar categories in Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • unfinished
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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3. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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4. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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5. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

By: Nina Stibbe

3.66

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more

Similar categories in Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • audiobook
  • unfinished
  • contemporary
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6. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

Similar categories in Paul Murray's The Bee Sting book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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7. Shrines of Gaiety

By: Kate Atkinson

3.85

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Shrines of Gaiety book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

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8. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

Similar categories in Rose Tremain's Absolutely and Forever book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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10. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

Similar categories in Megan Nolan's Ordinary Human Failings book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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11. Trespasses

By: Louise Kennedy

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more

Similar categories in Louise Kennedy's Trespasses book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Remote Sympathy

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.31

Format: 526 pages, Hardcover

Moving away from Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had fear… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait

13. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Wait's I’m Sorry You Feel That Way book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

Similar categories in Kate Grenville's Restless Dolly Maunder book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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16. Flamingo

By: Rachel Elliott

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A novel of love, homelessness, and learning to be fearless In the garden, there were three flami… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Elliott's Flamingo book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • adult
Cover of The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson

17. The Exhibitionist

By: Charlotte Mendelson

3.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The longer the marriage, the harder truth becomes . . . Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for … read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • unfinished
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. At the Table

By: Claire Powell

3.74

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple - a suburban double act, happily m… read more

Similar categories in Claire Powell's At the Table book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. A Trace of Sun

By: Pam Williams

3.73

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Don’t go Mammy please.’ Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she… read more

Similar categories in Pam Williams's A Trace of Sun book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Salt Lick

By: Lulu Allison

3.66

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Food production has moved overseas. The countryside is empty and once again wild. The rural economy… read more

Similar categories in Lulu Allison's Salt Lick book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Creatures of Passage

By: Morowa Yejide

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Yejidé’s novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington,… read more

Similar categories in Morowa Yejide's Creatures of Passage book and Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The Conundrum of Three. It's the mind seeking the memory of a body long gone, and the body withdrawing from the mind and the spirit, and the spirit chasing the echo of the other two"

-Morowa Yejide, Creatures of Passage

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