15 must-read audiobook books like Virgil Wander by Leif Enger

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Virgil Wander

By: Leif Enger

4.01

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Virgil Wander is an all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in t…

"Your tribe is always bigger than you think."

-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

"Your tribe is always bigger than you think."

-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

"He had an advanced capacity for hatred. It came to him easily and fully formed."

-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

"He had an advanced capacity for hatred. It came to him easily and fully formed."

-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

If you liked the audiobook plot in Virgil Wander by Leif Enger , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Hannah Coulter

By: Wendell Berry

4.38

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

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2. The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

By: Wendell Berry

4.34

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beauti… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden as the beating of her heart."

-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

"The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understan…"

-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

"Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land, his thought becoming indistinguishable from it, so that when he came to die his intell…"

-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

"Sitting there, eyes shut, head tilted back, hands at rest upon his cane's crook, he seems to sink immeasurably, to float down into a well of light as warm and red as blood. He has met the sun at its …"

-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

3. The High Divide

By: Lin Enger

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Hardcover

"A deeply moving, gripping novel about one man's quest for redemption and his family's determinatio… read more

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4. Undiscovered Country

By: Lin Enger

4.17

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

Unaware that his life is about to change in ways he can't imagine, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson … read more

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5. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. 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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  • adult
  • book club
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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
  • 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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8. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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9. The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese

4.45

Format: 724 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • book club
  • audiobook
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10. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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11. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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12. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. 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

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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14. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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15. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Virgil Wander by Leif Enger

16. Virgil Wander

By: Leif Enger

4.01

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Virgil Wander is an all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in t… read more

Similar categories in Leif Enger's Virgil Wander book and Leif Enger's Virgil Wander

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Your tribe is always bigger than you think."

-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

"He had an advanced capacity for hatred. It came to him easily and fully formed."

-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

"She seemed to belong here, though maybe she was the sort to belong wherever she was at the time."

-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

"I wanted to hear about many small things, the smaller the better. I wanted to tell her small things in return."

-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

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17. American Gospel

By: Lin Enger

3.62

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Radically personal and quintessentially American, an intimate drama at the heart of an apocalyptic … read more

Similar categories in Lin Enger's American Gospel book and Leif Enger's Virgil Wander

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Mia madre aveva una Cinquecento gialla

By: Enrica Ferrara

4.09

Format: 300 pages, ebook

Gina ha dieci anni ed è figlia di un politico democristiano, Mario Carafa, che nell’estate del 1980… read more

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19. Open to the Spirit: God in Us, God with Us, God Transforming Us

By: Scot McKnight

4.05

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

World-renowned New Testament scholar offers a straightforward examination of what the Bible says ab… read more

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20. La sposa del vento

By: Scilla Bonfiglioli

3.56

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

Un affascinante romanzo d’esordio sul pittore Oskar Kokoschka e l’amore fatale che lo legò ad Alma … read more

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  • fiction
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21. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

17 must-read fiction books like Virgil Wander by Leif Enger

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Wendell Berry

4.38

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4.34

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4.03

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4.43

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Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

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James

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4.54

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Daniel Mason

4.15

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4.24

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