20 must-read audiobook books like The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne

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The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,…

"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. She untwined herself from the arms of Admiral Paul Henry Bastedo who served under Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt, and proposed they get married in the morning so he could be her date at her late husband’s funeral. To the tabloids’ delight, the newlyweds took Helen Prindeville Griffin Bastedo’s private railway car to Lake Forest, Illinois, to attend the service. The act so outraged the Griffin family that they used their juice with Union Pacific to divert the train and the unlucky passengers coupled to Helen’s private car. The train choo-chooed deep into Wisconsin, denying the newlyweds their grand entrance to the funeral."

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

Similar categories in Doris Kearns Goodwin's An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s book and Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) by Colm Tóibín

2. 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 Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • new york
  • family
  • audiobook
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3. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • family
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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4. The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

By: Susan Page

3.90

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a wo… read more

Similar categories in Susan Page's The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters book and Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

By: Elizabeth Beller

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more

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  • new york
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir book and Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • new york
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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7. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir

By: Owen Elliot-Kugell

3.96

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more

Similar categories in Owen Elliot-Kugell's My Mama, Cass: A Memoir book and Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius

By: Carrie Courogen

3.92

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"A deeply researched, psychologically astute new biography of May by Carrie Courogen...The book is … read more

Similar categories in Carrie Courogen's Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius book and Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • family
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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10. The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir

By: Cory Leadbeater

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addict… read more

Similar categories in Cory Leadbeater's The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir book and Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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11. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

Similar categories in Jill Ciment's Consent: A Memoir book and Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • new york
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

12. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs book and Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion by Julie Satow

14. When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

By: Julie Satow

4.06

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A glittering, glamorous portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visio… read more

Similar categories in Julie Satow's When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion book and Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • new york
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

15. 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 Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • new york
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • audiobook
Cover of Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs by Mo Rocca

17. Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs

By: Mo Rocca

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller Mobitua… read more

Similar categories in Mo Rocca's Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs book and Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

18. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Callahan's Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed book and Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels by Gary Janetti

20. We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels

By: Gary Janetti

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this hilarious and often touching collection, the New York Times bestselling author, television … read more

Similar categories in Gary Janetti's We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels book and Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography

By: RoseMarie Terenzio

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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4.71

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3.90

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Elizabeth Beller

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Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

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Anna Akbari

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