16 Best audiobook books like Trio by William Boyd

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Trio

By: William Boyd

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Mart…

"People come to us...us novelists...looking for information about all the other people in the world; what we're thinking, what we need, what we dream about, what we hate, what makes us tick.... People are opaque, mysterious, even those dearest to us are closed books. If you want to know what people are like, if you want to know what's going on in their heads behind those masks we all wear then read a novel."

-William Boyd, Trio

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1. On Green Dolphin Street

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.59

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray delivers an enthralling, vibrantly evocative … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"I've missed you, Frank.' 'I haven't breathed since you left."

-Sebastian Faulks, On Green Dolphin Street

"I will think of you every day. All the time. If ever you should think of me and wonder what I'm doing, I'm thinking of you. That's all I'll be doing. Nothing else."

-Sebastian Faulks, On Green Dolphin Street

"Until she had had children of her own she had not been able to contemplate the death of either of her parents; when the subject had arisen, in conversation or in her own imagining, she had said only:…"

-Sebastian Faulks, On Green Dolphin Street

2. Felicia's Journey

By: William Trevor

3.22

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts t… read more

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3. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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4. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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5. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"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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6. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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7. The Echo Chamber

By: John Boyne

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

'His relish is infectious' Times'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Ra… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"They wouldn’t understand anyway. The cheese fell off their crackers a long time ago."

-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

"I’m sorry, but there is nothing – nothing – that squeezes my lemons more than people saying that."

-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

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8. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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9. Lessons

By: Ian McEwan

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

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10. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • 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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11. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 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

Cover of Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain

12. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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13. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Snow Country

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.71

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist. While work… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I think perhaps the reincarnation is not of other men through me, but of myself at other times. I've been forced by circumstance into many separate lives."

-Sebastian Faulks, Snow Country

Cover of Trio by William  Boyd

15. Trio

By: William Boyd

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Mart… read more

Similar categories in William Boyd's Trio book and William Boyd's Trio

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • literature
  • historical
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"People come to us...us novelists...looking for information about all the other people in the world; what we're thinking, what we need, what we dream about, what we hate, what makes us tick.... People…"

-William Boyd, Trio

Cover of Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip by Richard Ratay

16. Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip

By: Richard Ratay

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Don’t Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips—before por… read more

Similar categories in Richard Ratay's Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip book and William Boyd's Trio

  • audiobook
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17. Mr Wilder & Me

By: Jonathan Coe

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle England In the heady… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"In circumstances this desperate there is only one thing that can console me. I always keep at least three different kinds of Brie in the kitchen for emergency situations."

-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me

"Mi hija tenía razón: la gente joven no se fija en los sentimientos de sus padres, ni siquiera es consciente de ellos la mayor parte del tiempo. Viven en un bendito estado de sociopatía en lo que resp…"

-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me

"The phallic symbolism of his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, is obvious. Lindbergh, in effect, is trapped inside an enormous penis which carries him onwards to an inevitable destination which cannot …"

-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me

"Here I sat down and closed my eyes, tilting my face towards the sun and listening to the gentle lap of the blue water against the rocks. Perhaps it was my destiny, after all, to be always alone: that…"

-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me

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18. The Estate

By: Denzil Meyrick

4.05

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Inheritance can be murder... Sebastian Pallander's death leaves behind a multi-billion-dollar fi… read more

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19. Swan Song

By: Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

3.70

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Over countless martini-soaked Manhattan lunches, they shared their deepest secrets and greatest fea… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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20. Mrs. Jekyll

By: Emma Glass

4.02

Format: 164 pages, Hardcover

Schoolteacher Rosy Winter is dying. But, beyond the homeopathic remedies, the dinner party obligati… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. A Woman of Opinion

By: Sean Lusk

4.10

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

'I shall be a thousand different Marys and, in such manner, shall find the one I wish to be...' La… read more

Similar categories in Sean Lusk's A Woman of Opinion book and William Boyd's Trio

  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature

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On Green Dolphin Street

Sebastian Faulks

3.59

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Act of Oblivion

Robert Harris

4.07

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Old God's Time

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3.85

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Trust

Hernan Diaz

3.83

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Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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4.07

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3.99

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