20 must-read audiobook books like American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

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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…

"No one can stay in a brutal, bloodstained place."

-Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt

"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

"If you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?"

-Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt

If you liked the audiobook plot in American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. The Great Alone

By: Kristin Hannah

3.28

Format: 437 pages,

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Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone book and Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. The Nightingale

By: Kristin Hannah

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Despite their differences, sisters Vianne and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isab… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale book and Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

3. Before We Were Yours

By: Lisa Wingate

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant … read more

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4. 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

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt

  • adult fiction
  • 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

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5. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. 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

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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

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7. First Lie Wins

By: Ashley Elston

4.05

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

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8. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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9. 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

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  • 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

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10. 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

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  • 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

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11. 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

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  • adult fiction
  • 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

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12. 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

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  • 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

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13. 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

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • 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

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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

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

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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

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • 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

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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

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  • 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

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17. The Giver of Stars

By: Jojo Moyes

4.29

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Me Before You, set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extra… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?"

-Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

"Nothing more dangerous than a woman armed with a little knowledge"

-Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

"I worked it out sitting here. Maybe that’s the thing we need to understand, Alice. That some things are a gift, even if you don’t get to keep them."

-Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

"There is always a way out of a situation. Might be ugly. Might leave you feeling like the earth had gone and shifted under your feet. But there is always a way around."

-Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

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18. Mad Honey

By: Jodi Picoult

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behin… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Being gay or straight,"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"People always talk about their love for you is unconditional. Then you reveal your most private self to them, and you find out how many conditions there are in unconditional love."

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"Dark honey from the second harvest. It's made late in the season after the nectar drought at the end of July when the bees turn to goldenrod and sunflowers instead. It's deeper and richer, it tastes …"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"My father taught me that beekeeping is both a burden and a privilege. You don’t bother the bees unless they need your help, and you help them when they need it. It’s a feudal relationship: protection…"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

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19. 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

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

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20. 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

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  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
  • book club
  • historical fiction
"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

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21. The Four Winds

By: Kristin Hannah

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighti… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Love is what remains when everything else is gone."

-Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

"Don't worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave."

-Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

"Passion is a thunderstorm, there and gone. It nourishes, si, but it drowns, too."

-Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

"Books had always been her solace. Novels gave her the space to be bold, brave, beautiful, if only in her imagination."

-Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

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