20 must-read audiobook books like The Boy in the Field by Margot Livesey

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The Boy in the Field

By: Margot Livesey

3.71

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy delivers another “luminous, unfo…

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Boy in the Field by Margot Livesey , here is a list of 20 books like this:

1. After This

By: Alice McDermott

3.86

Format: 302 pages,

A vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Alice McDerm… read more

Similar categories in Alice McDermott's After This book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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2. 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

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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3. 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

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 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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4. 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

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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5. Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson

3.87

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more

Similar categories in Roxana Robinson's Leaving book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

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6. 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

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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7. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

Similar categories in Alice McDermott's Absolution book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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9. 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

Similar categories in Amor Towles's Table for Two book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • 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

Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

10. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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11. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

Similar categories in Simon Van Booy's Sipsworth book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Lucky

By: Jane Smiley

3.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more

Similar categories in Jane Smiley's Lucky book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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13. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Barry's The Heart in Winter book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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14. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth O'Connor's Whale Fall book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Boy in the Field

By: Margot Livesey

3.71

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy delivers another “luminous, unfo… read more

Similar categories in Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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16. Nonfiction

By: Julie Myerson

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you’re gone, I see you everywhere. E… read more

Similar categories in Julie Myerson's Nonfiction book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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17. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

Cover of All the Colors of the Dark by Chris  Whitaker

18. All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker

4.44

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more

Similar categories in Chris Whitaker's All the Colors of the Dark book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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19. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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20. Everywhere You Don't Belong

By: Gabriel Bump

3.69

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In this alternately witty and heartbreaking debut novel, Gabriel Bump gives us an unforgettable pro… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Bump's Everywhere You Don't Belong book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"If there’s one thing wrong with people,"

-Gabriel Bump, Everywhere You Don't Belong

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21. Sparrow

By: Mary Cecilia Jackson

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak, a devastating but hopeful YA debut about a balle… read more

Similar categories in Mary Cecilia Jackson's Sparrow book and Margot Livesey's The Boy in the Field

  • audiobook
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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