21 best-selling audiobook books like The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton

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The Light Pirate

By: Lily Brooks-Dalton

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous chil…

"Someone will be left behind; this is what love costs."

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

"These women haven't shared their genes, but they have given freely of their memories. Their ideas. Their skills. There is more than one kind of legacy."

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

"After all this time, the aches have grown softer but also deeper. They both know the looping shape of pain--it changes and quiets but never ends. There is a strange comfort in its constancy. Memories of what was lost are also reminders of what was held."

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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2. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Happiness Falls by Angie  Kim

3. Happiness Falls

By: Angie Kim

3.75

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more

Similar categories in Angie Kim's Happiness Falls book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

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4. 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

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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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6. 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

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's The River We Remember book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • 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

Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

7. 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

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Hello Beautiful

By: Ann Napolitano

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person wh… read more

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

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9. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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10. Weyward

By: Emilia Hart

4.07

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackl… read more

Similar categories in Emilia Hart's Weyward book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
" Altha . A strange name. Soft and yet powerful. Like an incantation."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"It took skill, Violet thought, to make even your handwriting look angry"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"She named me Altha, after all. Not Alice, meaning noble woman, nor Agnes, lamb of God. Altha. Healer."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

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11. Camp Zero

By: Michelle Min Sterling

3.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a near-future northern settlement, a handful of climate change survivors find their fates intert… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Min Sterling's Camp Zero book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Now Grant understood. College wasn't about books and ideas and new directions. It was slow annihilation."

-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

"Why do men take so easily whatever they want? Because nothing will ever be enough, she realizes. The more a man possesses, the more he thinks he deserves."

-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

Cover of River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer

12. River Sing Me Home

By: Eleanor Shearer

4.01

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Shearer's River Sing Me Home book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Every freedom had its price."

-Eleanor Shearer, River Sing Me Home

"Freedom mean something different to me. The search, that is freedom."

-Eleanor Shearer, River Sing Me Home

"This is why me don't like to do it... Think about the past. The memories too painful. The hope hurt. All I want to do is live the life in front of me, because it's a miracle me make it here."

-Eleanor Shearer, River Sing Me Home

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13. Maame

By: Jessica George

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards in the Book of the Year, 2023 and the Goodreads Debut and Fi… read more

Similar categories in Jessica George's Maame book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist."

-Jessica George, Maame

"I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live."

-Jessica George, Maame

"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. Because there’s levels to that sh*t. Like a lasagna."

-Jessica George, Maame

"It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person."

-Jessica George, Maame

Cover of The Measure by Nikki Erlick

14. The Measure

By: Nikki Erlick

3.99

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour … read more

Similar categories in Nikki Erlick's The Measure book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • magical realism
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. The Wishing Game

By: Meg Shaffer

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Make a wish. . . . Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it’s like to grow up without parents … read more

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Wishing Game book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself."

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Another thing I learned in therapy?" Angie said. "The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They're the ones who see that something's wron…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Once, he'd loved the ocean. Loved seeing it every morning, every night. Seeing all its facets, all its faces. Not many people knew what the sea looked like in all seasons, under all phases of the moo…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

Cover of The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer

16. The Collected Regrets of Clover

By: Mikki Brammer

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What’s the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can’t give yourself a beautiful life? … read more

Similar categories in Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"The secret to a beautiful death is to live a beautiful life. Putting your heart out there. Letting it get broken. Taking chances. Making mistakes.... Promise me, kid,...that you'll let yourself live."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Grief plays tricks on you that way - a familiar whiff of cologne or a potential sighting of your person in a crowd, and all the knots you've tied inside yourself to manage the pain of losing them sud…"

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

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17. Shark Heart

By: Emily Habeck

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their weddin… read more

Similar categories in Emily Habeck's Shark Heart book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What if magic is just mislabeled peace?"

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a privilege it was to mark time with the sun."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"Lewis, you've told me so much about Wren, sometimes I think I miss her, too."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a tragedy it is, being a woman. I would rather be a million other things."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

Cover of The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton

18. The Light Pirate

By: Lily Brooks-Dalton

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous chil… read more

Similar categories in Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • climate change
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Someone will be left behind; this is what love costs."

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

"These women haven't shared their genes, but they have given freely of their memories. Their ideas. Their skills. There is more than one kind of legacy."

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

"After all this time, the aches have grown softer but also deeper. They both know the looping shape of pain--it changes and quiets but never ends. There is a strange comfort in its constancy. Memories…"

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

Cover of The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

19. The Unmaking of June Farrow

By: Adrienne Young

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A woman risks everything to end her family’s centuries-old curse, solve her mother’s disappearance,… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Young's The Unmaking of June Farrow book and Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"[He] was the kind of handsome that was carved from forests and rivers. He had the look of someone who'd spent his life in the sun, hands in the dirt. Every color, curve, and angle of him was shaped w…"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

"I didn't care that this crossed the line of keeping my distance or confusing boundaries. In that moment, I needed there to be no space between the three of us. I needed to feel us together, with no b…"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

"My eyes focused on the chart that hung on the wall behind him. It was a diagram of the human heart, with detailed renderings of the muscle and tissue, and I immediately thought how fortunate I would …"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

Cover of All the Colors of the Dark by Chris  Whitaker

20. 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 Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The God of the Woods by Liz    Moore

21. 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 Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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