17 Best audiobook books like Shmutz by Felicia Berliner

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Shmutz

By: Felicia Berliner

3.52

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this witty, provocative, and unputdownable debut novel a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get m…

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1. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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2. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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3. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. Und alle so still

By: Mareike Fallwickl

4.29

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

Was wäre, wenn alle Frauen sich verweigern und in einen Care-Streik treten würden? Ein großer femin… read more

Similar categories in Mareike Fallwickl's Und alle so still book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. The Guest

By: Emma Cline

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Emma Cline's The Guest book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"

-Emma Cline, The Guest

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6. Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Death Valley book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

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7. Piglet

By: Lottie Hazell

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more

Similar categories in Lottie Hazell's Piglet book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

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8. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Big Swiss

By: Jen Beagin

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"¿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

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10. Milk Fed

By: Melissa Broder

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Milk Fed book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

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

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11. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Ripe

By: Sarah Rose Etter

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

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13. Geordnete Verhältnisse

By: Lana Lux

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Wenn man seine Heimat verlassen muss, kommt es immer darauf an, wo man landet und welche Leute man … read more

Similar categories in Lana Lux's Geordnete Verhältnisse book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Normal Women

By: Ainslie Hogarth

3.01

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this darkly comic story about how we value female labor—and don’t—a new mother becomes embroiled… read more

Similar categories in Ainslie Hogarth's Normal Women book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Shmutz by Felicia Berliner

15. Shmutz

By: Felicia Berliner

3.52

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this witty, provocative, and unputdownable debut novel a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get m… read more

Similar categories in Felicia Berliner's Shmutz book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • jewish
  • coming of age
  • judaism
  • religion
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Am Tag des Weltuntergangs verschlang der Wolf die Sonne

By: Sina Scherzant

4.04

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Katha ist eine Instanz in ihrem 1-Personen-Betrieb, der sich der Aufgabe verschrieben hat, es allen… read more

Similar categories in Sina Scherzant's Am Tag des Weltuntergangs verschlang der Wolf die Sonne book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • coming of age
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir

By: Sara Glass

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Brazen , about one young woman’s desper… read more

Similar categories in Sara Glass's Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • audiobook
  • judaism
  • religion
  • jewish
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18. Schlafen

By: Theresia Enzensberger

3.25

Format: 113 pages, ebook

Das Leben Theresia Enzensbergers Buch ist ein philosophischer Streifzug durch die Nacht – und eine… read more

Similar categories in Theresia Enzensberger's Schlafen book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • audiobook
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19. Wir kommen

By: LIQUID CENTER

4.35

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

Was passiert, wenn 18 Autor*innen aus mehreren Generationen sich gemeinsam über Sexualität und Bege… read more

Similar categories in LIQUID CENTER's Wir kommen book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

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20. Die schönste Version

By: Ruth-Maria Thomas

4.41

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

Die späten Nullerjahre, frühen 2010er Jahre in einer ostdeutschen Die schönste Version erzählt die… read more

Similar categories in Ruth-Maria Thomas's Die schönste Version book and Felicia Berliner's Shmutz

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Reichskanzlerplatz

By: Nora Bossong

3.63

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Nora Bossong zeichnet in ihrem neuen Roman das intensive Porträt der Frau, die Magda Goebbels wurde… read more

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3.56

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3.81

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3.36

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4.29

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Anna Dorn

4.06

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3.81

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3.97

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4.15

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