27 Top audiobook books like Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan

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Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

Similar categories in Megan Nolan's Acts of Desperation book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

"You always think your pain is the most painful. You always think it's uniquely awful."

-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

"I didn't want her near me, because she was the only one able to see me for what I was, but I couldn't lose her for the very same reason."

-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

"You can't complain about feeling bad, about being depressed, if you aren't trying to sleep, trying to eat, trying to care about yourself."

-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

"I made mistakes like this all the time, seeking affirmation from the very worst people, so that what I must have been after deep down was confirmation of the fears instead of their dismissals"

-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"A convenience store is a world of sound."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

"People who are considered normal enjoy putting those who aren't on trial, you know."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

"Anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

"Well, I guess anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Mr Salary book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• ireland
• irish literature

"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's The Rachel Incident book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

Similar categories in Jenny Mustard's Okay Days book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult

"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. all she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Jenny Mustard, Okay Days

Similar categories in Sheena Patel's I'm a Fan book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

Similar categories in Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"What next? I couldn't imagine."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

"I wasn't an insomniac, but I was miserable."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

"Life was repetitive, resonated at a low hum."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

"I just wanted to sleep all the time. I had a plan."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Similar categories in Claire Daverley's Talking at Night book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Being unattached is exhausting."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"being a muse is not for the weak"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"Money was limited, but my taste was not."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"isn't a vacation when you forget what day it is?"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

Similar categories in Jessica Andrews's Milk Teeth book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Good Material book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Cleopatra and Frankenstein book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"And you’re in love?"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"People are like this too, you know,"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Boy Parts book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• audiobook
• contemporary

"Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

"No matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you for ever."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

"She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

"I don't need any words or looks or comments from a man to believe I'm visible; to believe I'm here. don't need to run away from discomfort and into a male eyeliner. That's not where I come alive."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

Similar categories in Monica Heisey's Really Good, Actually book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

Similar categories in Yomi Adegoke's The List book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

Similar categories in Clare Chambers's Small Pleasures book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"The new and threatening would become the old and familiar in due course."

-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

"The journey into love was so effortless and graceful; the journey out such a long and laboured climb"

-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

"Previous experience taught her that the pain would not be unending - but neither would it subside smoothly, incrementally, but rather in a series of crashing waves, some of which might still knock he…"

-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

Similar categories in Caleb Azumah Nelson's Open Water book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Trauma makes you considerate."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You are more than the sum of your traumas"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You do not want to die before you can live"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"...love was not always synonymous with care."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Milk Fed book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Ghosts book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"But I think maybe every job is a waste of an English degree."

-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

"I think the memory of your childhood home is impossible to destroy."

-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

"Jethro's flat was in a warehouse that, even from the outside, looked very pleased with its own conversion."

-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

"The contents of supermarket baskets are surely evidence that none of us are coping with adulthood all that well."

-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Dear Dolly book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• audiobook
• adult
• contemporary

"Pero, ¿quién se enamora de lo correcto?"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship."

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"...romantics are, ironically, the worst culprits for being relationship avoidant. This is for two reasons. The first being that committing to someone would mean they would have to call off the search…"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

Similar categories in Lily King's Writers & Lovers book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"That reverberation for me is what is most important about literature"

-Lily King, Writers & Lovers

"It's a particular kind of pleasure, of intimacy, loving a book with someone."

-Lily King, Writers & Lovers

"They say women have intuition, but men can smell a competitor across state lines."

-Lily King, Writers & Lovers

"God, you poets are full of shit. You have no idea what half the words you worship mean."

-Lily King, Writers & Lovers

Similar categories in Raven Leilani's Luster book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be…"

-Raven Leilani, Luster

Similar categories in Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• ireland
• irish literature
• queer

"Eunice Fong said: “Miss, are you sick?"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"My wanting to cry was a reflection mainly of my social conscience"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"It's normal to miss your family,' he said. I said that was why I didn't"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"I wondered which other phrases he´d plucked. I felt like a bird he kept for quills."

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

Similar categories in Meg Mason's Sorrow and Bliss book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"We hugged each other like two people who had no practical experience of embracing, had only taught themselves the theory from a poorly worded manual."

-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

"I have been unbearable but I have never been unloved. I have felt alone but I have never been alone and I've been forgiven for the unforgiveable things I have done."

-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

"I have never understood why people think of champagne as celebratory rather than medicinal. (...) Surely the only time one needs one's blood effervesced is when life is utterly flat."

-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

"After Barbara’s Contentious Divorce, Everyone Felt Genuinely Hurt, Including Justifiably Kin Left Melancholically Noting Or Perhaps Questioning Rumours Suggesting That, Unannounced, Vincent’d Wed an …"

-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Beautiful World, Where Are You book and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times

• romance
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

"They looked at one another for a long moment, without speaking, and in the soil of that look many years were buried."

-Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

"Maybe certain kinds of pain, at certain formative stages in life, just impress themselves into a person's sense of self permanently."

-Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

"Maybe we're just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing."

-Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

"I’m sorry to say that I think it is too late to change the way we have turned out. The turning-out process has come to an end, and we are to a very great extent what we are."

-Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You