The Vanishing Half
By: Brit Bennett
4.14
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, souther…
Want to Read $ 10.99"You didn't just find a self out there waiting. You had to make one. You had to create who you wanted to be."-Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
"You didn't just find a self out there waiting. You had to make one. You had to create who you wanted to be."-Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
If you liked the audiobook plot in The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett , here is a list of 20 books like this:
1. An American Marriage
By: Tayari Jones
4.47
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Tayari Jones's An American Marriage book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
2. Homegoing
By: Yaa Gyasi
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and alon… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
3. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
4. None of This Is True
By: Lisa Jewell
4.12
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's None of This Is True book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Acting as if there is something wrong with me, when there isn't. It's the world that's wrong, you and I both know that."-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True
"Being with so many people felt right, and afterward at the wake thrown by Nathan's company at a huge bar in Paddington overlooking the canal, with seats outside and bottomless champagne and a playlis…"-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True
5. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
6. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
7. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
By: Gail Honeyman
4.23
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She stru… read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"It’s SpongeBob, Eleanor,"-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
"You can't have too much dog in a book."-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
"In the end, what matters is this: I survived."-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
"In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder."-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
8. Remarkably Bright Creatures
By: Shelby Van Pelt
4.39
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more
Want to Read $ 20.99Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
9. Lessons in Chemistry
By: Bonnie Garmus
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to poi… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Sometimes I think," she said slowly, "that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn't make it past noon."-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry
"(On religion) "I think it lets us off the hook. I think it teaches us that nothing is really our fault; that something or someone else is pulling the strings; the ultimately, we're not to blame for t…"-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry
"Whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change - and change is what we're chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself b…"-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry
10. Hello Beautiful
By: Ann Napolitano
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person wh… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
11. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
By: Gabrielle Zevin
4.15
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative p… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Friendship,"-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"How I will miss the horses."-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"You try again. You fail better."-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"There are no ghosts, but up here"-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
12. Yellowface
By: R.F. Kuang
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
13. Funny Story
By: Emily Henry
4.27
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"No, no, no,"-Emily Henry, Funny Story
"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."-Emily Henry, Funny Story
"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."-Emily Henry, Funny Story
"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."-Emily Henry, Funny Story
14. The Dutch House
By: Ann Patchett
4.10
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to beg… read more
Want to Read $ 15.49Similar categories in Ann Patchett's The Dutch House book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"You don't have to like your work to be good at it."-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
"We had stepped into the river that takes you forward."-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
"Even the stupidest ideas have resonance once they’ve happened"-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
"We were all so young, you know. We were still our best selves."-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
15. Demon Copperhead
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in t… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
16. Educated
By: Tara Westover
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mounta… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Tara Westover's Educated book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"An education is not so much about making a living as making a person."-Tara Westover, Educated
"I would never again be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand."-Tara Westover, Educated
"I believed then--and part of me will always believe--that my father's words ought to be my own."-Tara Westover, Educated
"I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut."-Tara Westover, Educated
17. Crying in H Mart
By: Michelle Zauner
4.26
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unfli… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
"what procellous awesomeness does not in you abound"-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
"It felt wrong to talk to anyone, to smile or laugh or eat again knowing that she was dead."-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
"I could almost feel in the embrace that my concerns had been her concerns, my pain had been her pain."-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
"Maybe I was just terrified that I might be the closest thing she had to leaving a piece of herself behind."-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
18. The Vanishing Half
By: Brit Bennett
4.14
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, souther… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"You didn't just find a self out there waiting. You had to make one. You had to create who you wanted to be."-Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
19. American Dirt
By: Jeanine Cummins
4.37
Format: 459 pages, Hardcover
Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt, the #1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick that has… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"No one can stay in a brutal, bloodstained place."-Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt
"If you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?"-Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt
"También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams."-Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt
"Someone once told me that the only good advice for grief is to stay hydrated. Because everything else is just chingaderas."-Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt
20. Seven Days in June
By: Tia Williams
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from a… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Tia Williams's Seven Days in June book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Religion. Hmm. I guess it's like fire. In good hands, fire can be used to do positive things, like keep you warm. Make s'mores. In bad hands, it can burn a witch at the stake. Lynch a Black body."-Tia Williams, Seven Days in June
21. Such a Fun Age
By: Kiley Reid
3.79
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turn… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age book and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Family means no favorites."-Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age
"I don't mess with the internet, so give it."-Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age
"New York was like an ex who had worked out all summer."-Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age
"I've been to middle school so you can't really hurt me."-Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age
