11 Best audiobook books like The Children's Bach by Helen Garner

Cover of The Children's Bach by Helen Garner

The Children's Bach

By: Helen Garner

3.53

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels …

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Children's Bach by Helen Garner , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing

1. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

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  • audiobook
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Cover of Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

2. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

Cover of Ciała by Annie Ernaux

3. Ciała

By: Annie Ernaux

4.28

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Jak oddać paraliżujący strach towarzyszący niechcianej ciąży i potajemnej aborcji? Jak opisać nasto… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's Ciała book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • audiobook
Cover of The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez

4. The Vulnerables

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more

Similar categories in Sigrid Nunez's The Vulnerables book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

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5. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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6. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • audiobook
Cover of The Children's Bach by Helen Garner

7. The Children's Bach

By: Helen Garner

3.53

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels … read more

Similar categories in Helen Garner's The Children's Bach book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 20th century
  • australia
  • novels
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of West Farragut Avenue by Agnieszka Jelonek

8. West Farragut Avenue

By: Agnieszka Jelonek

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Myślałam, że piszę książkę o pamięci, ale napisałam love story. Chciałam stworzyć plot, ale prawdzi… read more

Similar categories in Agnieszka Jelonek's West Farragut Avenue book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • fiction
Cover of Toń by Ishbel Szatrawska

9. Toń

By: Ishbel Szatrawska

4.30

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

Kiedy Eichmedien stały się Nakomiadami? Kiedy Rastenburg był Rastemborkiem i kiedy stał się Kętrzyn… read more

Similar categories in Ishbel Szatrawska's Toń book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • fiction
Cover of Strużki by Maria Halber

10. Strużki

By: Maria Halber

3.83

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Ta książka opowiada o trudnej przyjaźni dwóch dziewczyn. Różni je temperament, wygląd i pochodzenie… read more

Similar categories in Maria Halber's Strużki book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • fiction
Cover of Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton

11. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

By: Danielle Dutton

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and S… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Dutton's Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • contemporary
Cover of Ciężar skóry by Małgorzata Rejmer

12. Ciężar skóry

By: Małgorzata Rejmer

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Ciało, trauma, magia. Codzienna groza życia i marzenia o wolności. Autorka głośnych reportaży o Bał… read more

Similar categories in Małgorzata Rejmer's Ciężar skóry book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Legendy

By: Torgny Lindgren

3.69

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Legendy w tłumaczeniu Tomasza Feliksa, to zbiór opowiadań, który mieści kilkanaście miniatur, pisan… read more

Similar categories in Torgny Lindgren's Legendy book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • fiction
Cover of Swobodne wpadanie by Katarzyna Pochmara-Balcer

14. Swobodne wpadanie

By: Katarzyna Pochmara-Balcer

3.68

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Barwny, nietuzinkowy mężczyzna składa nieoczekiwaną wizytę w domu córki, wprowadzając w jej poukład… read more

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15. Don's Party

By: David Williamson

3.20

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Williamson, David, Don's Party read more

Similar categories in David Williamson's Don's Party book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • australia
Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

16. 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

Similar categories in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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17. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

Similar categories in Clare Chambers's Shy Creatures book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • book club
Cover of Noc szpilek by Santiago Roncagliolo

19. Noc szpilek

By: Santiago Roncagliolo

3.83

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Porywający od pierwszego zdania thriller autorstwa jednego z najważniejszych współczesnych południo… read more

Similar categories in Santiago Roncagliolo's Noc szpilek book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

20. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Cover of Magiczna rana by Dorota Masłowska

21. Magiczna rana

By: Dorota Masłowska

3.73

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Długo oczekiwany prozatorski powrót Doroty Masłowskiej Trashowa powieść, która w obłąkańczo zaba… read more

Similar categories in Dorota Masłowska's Magiczna rana book and Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

  • novels
  • fiction

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3.61

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