21 Best audiobook books like Flores and Miss Paula by Melissa Rivero

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Flores and Miss Paula

By: Melissa Rivero

3.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A wry, tender novel about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final …

If you liked the audiobook plot in Flores and Miss Paula by Melissa Rivero , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. 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 Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of You Only Call When You're in Trouble by Stephen McCauley

2. You Only Call When You're in Trouble

By: Stephen McCauley

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Is it ever okay to stop caring for others and start living for yourself? After a lifetime of tak… read more

Similar categories in Stephen McCauley's You Only Call When You're in Trouble book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • 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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4. 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 Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • 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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5. 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 Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • 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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6. Welcome Home, Stranger

By: Kate Christensen

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growin… read more

Similar categories in Kate Christensen's Welcome Home, Stranger book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.70

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Henríquez's The Great Divide book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"

-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

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8. My Side of the River

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez's My Side of the River book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • audiobook
  • family
  • contemporary
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9. The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By: Julia Alvarez

3.68

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more

Similar categories in Julia Alvarez's The Cemetery of Untold Stories book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Storm We Made

By: Vanessa Chan

3.87

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781668015148. A novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unl… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Chan's The Storm We Made book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Limits

By: Nell Freudenberger

3.35

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost a… read more

Similar categories in Nell Freudenberger's The Limits book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Wildest Sun

By: Asha Lemmie

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain , Asha Lemmie's next sweeping a… read more

Similar categories in Asha Lemmie's The Wildest Sun book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

Similar categories in Susan Muaddi Darraj's Behind You Is the Sea book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. The Stone Home

By: Crystal Hana Kim

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Hana Kim's The Stone Home book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Flores and Miss Paula by Melissa Rivero

15. Flores and Miss Paula

By: Melissa Rivero

3.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A wry, tender novel about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
  • family
  • audiobook
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16. Familia

By: Lauren E. Rico

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

What if your most basic beliefs about your life were suddenly revealed to be a lie? In this compell… read more

Similar categories in Lauren E. Rico's Familia book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González

17. Anita de Monte Laughs Last

By: Xóchitl González

3.82

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-gener… read more

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

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18. The Things We Didn’t Know

By: Elba Iris Pérez

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez’s lyrical, cross-… read more

Similar categories in Elba Iris Pérez's The Things We Didn’t Know book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. Oye

By: Melissa Mogollon

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Mogollon's Oye book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Like Happiness

By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more

Similar categories in Ursula Villarreal-Moura's Like Happiness book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Malas

By: Marcela Fuentes

3.96

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a c… read more

Similar categories in Marcela Fuentes's Malas book and Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula

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

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You Only Call When You're in Trouble

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Shubnum Khan

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