19 must-read audiobook books like We Burn Daylight by Bret Anthony Johnston

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We Burn Daylight

By: Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of star-crossed lovers set in a doomsday cult on the Texas prairie that asks: what wo…

If you liked the audiobook plot in We Burn Daylight by Bret Anthony Johnston , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Last House

By: Jessica Shattuck

3.64

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

"An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures an… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Shattuck's Last House book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. By Any Other Name

By: Jodi Picoult

4.19

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about … read more

Similar categories in Jodi Picoult's By Any Other Name book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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4. The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more

Similar categories in Willy Vlautin's The Horse book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Burn Daylight by Bret Anthony Johnston

5. We Burn Daylight

By: Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of star-crossed lovers set in a doomsday cult on the Texas prairie that asks: what wo… read more

Similar categories in Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • cults
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • 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

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7. House of Glass

By: Sarah Pekkanen

3.99

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perf… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pekkanen's House of Glass book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. 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 Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • 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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9. 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 Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. How the Light Gets In

By: Joyce Maynard

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Maynard's How the Light Gets In book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp

By: Michelle Moran

4.30

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Maria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dram… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Moran's Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

13. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. 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

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • audiobook
Cover of Shades of Mercy (Porter Beck, #2) by Bruce Borgos

15. Shades of Mercy (Porter Beck, #2)

By: Bruce Borgos

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the usually quiet high desert of Nevada, Sheriff Porter Beck faces one of his greatest challenge… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Borgos's Shades of Mercy (Porter Beck, #2) book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. The World After Alice

By: Lauren Aliza Green

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Seating Arrangements and The Most Fun We Ever Had, a gorgeous and gripping story of … read more

Similar categories in Lauren Aliza Green's The World After Alice book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sequel (The Book Series, #2) by Jean Hanff Korelitz

17. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Sequel (The Book Series, #2) book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Someone Like Us

By: Dinaw Mengestu

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more

Similar categories in Dinaw Mengestu's Someone Like Us book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"

-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us

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19. 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 Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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

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20. 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

Similar categories in Peter Heller's Burn book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Season of Perfect Happiness by Maribeth Fischer

21. A Season of Perfect Happiness

By: Maribeth Fischer

4.37

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A Season of Perfect Happiness fundamentally questions what makes a “good” mother, with a propulsive… read more

Similar categories in Maribeth Fischer's A Season of Perfect Happiness book and Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction

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Jodi Picoult

4.19

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4.46

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