26 must-read audiobook books like Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman

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Separation Anxiety

By: Laura Zigman

3.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Laura Zigman, a hilarious novel about a wife and mother whose life is unrav…

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1. Hannah's Dream

By: Diane Hammond

4.15

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

An elephant never forgets . . . but can she dream? For forty-one years, Samson Brown has been carin… read more

Similar categories in Diane Hammond's Hannah's Dream book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • animals
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"I'll be singing hymns to the rafters, be praising His goodness so loud they're going to have to turn down the volume in Heaven."

-Diane Hammond, Hannah's Dream

"Well, yelling real loud, that's an important skill to have, too. You never know when you might walk right in front of a train and her yelling's all that stands between you and eternity. But for that …"

-Diane Hammond, Hannah's Dream

"Harriet loved her new persona. As Maxine, she was courageous and accomplished, a woman of sophistication equally at home in Cannes or on the Indian subcontinent. As Maxine she didn't walk, she strode…"

-Diane Hammond, Hannah's Dream

"Why did we divorce? I guess you could say we had trouble synchronizing. You know that carnival ride where two cages swing in opposite directions, going higher and higher until they go over the top? T…"

-Diane Hammond, Hannah's Dream

Cover of Billy, Me & You: A Graphic Memoir of Grief and Recovery by Nicola Streeten

2. Billy, Me & You: A Graphic Memoir of Grief and Recovery

By: Nicola Streeten

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Nicola Streeten's little boy, Billy, was two years old when he died following heart surgery for pro… read more

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3. The Portable Veblen

By: Elizabeth Mckenzie

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Portable Veblenis a dazzlingly original novel that's as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud fun… read more

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4. The Best of Enemies

By: Jen Lancaster

3.91

Format: None pages,

Bridesmaids meets The In-Laws in a novel told from the alternating perspectives of two women who de… 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

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. 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
  • family
  • 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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7. Amazing Grace Adams

By: Fran Littlewood

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick Bernadette , Eleanor Oliph… read more

Similar categories in Fran Littlewood's Amazing Grace Adams book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Margo's Got Money Troubles

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more

Similar categories in Rufi Thorpe's Margo's Got Money Troubles book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m just saying,"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

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9. Pineapple Street

By: Jenny Jackson

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, old money Stockton family, followed her heart, t… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"

-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

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10. The Husbands

By: Holly Gramazio

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Celebrants

By: Steven Rowley

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselve… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Celebrants book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

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12. Community Board

By: Tara Conklin

3.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise, timely, big-hearted no… read more

Similar categories in Tara Conklin's Community Board book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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14. Come and Get It

By: Kiley Reid

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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15. Flight

By: Lynn Steger Strong

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"Arresting and powerful,  Flight  examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our … read more

Similar categories in Lynn Steger Strong's Flight book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still …"

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

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16. Within Arm's Reach

By: Ann Napolitano

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Within Arm's Reach book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Breakaway

By: Jennifer Weiner

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new no… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Weiner's The Breakaway book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Half Moon

By: Mary Beth Keane

3.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who… read more

Similar categories in Mary Beth Keane's The Half Moon book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Book of Summer

By: Michelle Gable

3.57

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The ocean, the wild roses on the dunes and the stunning Cliff House, perched atop a bluff in Sconse… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
"Does he know? He doesn’t, but he hopes."

-Michelle Gable, The Book of Summer

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20. 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

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  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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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21. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

By: Abbi Waxman

3.80

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a … read more

Similar categories in Abbi Waxman's The Bookish Life of Nina Hill book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If you're not scared, you're not brave."

-Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

"Coming out of a book was always painful."

-Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

"Being with you is as good as being alone."

-Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

"Is book smart the only smart that counts?"

-Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

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22. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin    Wilson

23. Now Is Not the Time to Panic

By: Kevin Wilson

3.69

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted no… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Wilson's Now Is Not the Time to Panic book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

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24. Separation Anxiety

By: Laura Zigman

3.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Laura Zigman, a hilarious novel about a wife and mother whose life is unrav… read more

Similar categories in Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • animals
  • dogs
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Hope in the Dark: Believing God Is Good When Life Is Not by Craig Groeschel

25. Hope in the Dark: Believing God Is Good When Life Is Not

By: Craig Groeschel

4.38

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Can God be good when life is not? Rediscover faith in the character, power, and presence of God. Ev… read more

Similar categories in Craig Groeschel's Hope in the Dark: Believing God Is Good When Life Is Not book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • audiobook
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26. Ms. Demeanor

By: Elinor Lipman

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From one of America's most beloved contemporary novelists, a delicious and witty story about love u… read more

Similar categories in Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Lacey's Story: A Puppy Tale by W. Bruce Cameron

27. Lacey's Story: A Puppy Tale

By: W. Bruce Cameron

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Lacey's Story is another delightful Puppy Tale from #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling aut… read more

Similar categories in W. Bruce Cameron's Lacey's Story: A Puppy Tale book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • family
  • animals
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream by Jeannie Zusy

28. The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

By: Jeannie Zusy

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Early Morning Riser with a dash of Where’d You Go, Bernad… read more

Similar categories in Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

29. How to Age Disgracefully

By: Clare Pooley

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy f… read more

Similar categories in Clare Pooley's How to Age Disgracefully book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Mature? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."

-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

"Mature'? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."

-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

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30. In the Midnight Room

By: Laura McBride

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From the author of the acclaimed novel We Are Called to Rise comes a “jewel of a novel” (BookPage) … read more

Similar categories in Laura McBride's In the Midnight Room book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. The Sisters K

By: Maureen Sun

3.64

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

When Eugene Kim assembles his three estranged daughters at his deathbed, he means to put them to th… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Sun's The Sisters K book and Laura Zigman's Separation Anxiety

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

27 best-selling fiction books like Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman

Transform Your Habits

Hannah's Dream

Diane Hammond

4.15

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Amazing Grace Adams

Fran Littlewood

3.35

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Transform Your Habits

Breakwater Bay

Shelley Noble

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Dress in the Window

Sofia Grant

3.35

Transform Your Habits

The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship

Lisa Verge Higgins

4.04

That Summer

Lauren Willig

4.19

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