27 Top audiobook books like Light Years From Home by Mike Chen

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Light Years From Home

By: Mike Chen

3.55

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Every family has issues. Most can’t blame them on extraterrestrials. Evie Shao and her sister, K…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Light Years From Home by Mike Chen , here is a list of 27 books like this:

Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

1. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

2. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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3. The Kaiju Preservation Society

By: John Scalzi

3.99

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food deliv… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's The Kaiju Preservation Society book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I lift things."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"So we’re the monster police, too?"

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"...if you're only reading books because you have to, it becomes much less fun."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"My brain said. Just walk away. [...] But even as my brain was saying that, my body was turning back, becaus like puppies we are enculturated to turn when our name is called."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

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4. Starter Villain

By: John Scalzi

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Starter Villain book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

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5. The Road to Roswell

By: Connie Willis

3.74

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are … read more

Similar categories in Connie Willis's The Road to Roswell book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2) by Mur Lafferty

6. Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Paperback

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but … read more

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2) book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) by Mur Lafferty

7. Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.71

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroil… read more

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of You Sexy Thing (Disco Space Opera #1) by Cat Rambo

8. You Sexy Thing (Disco Space Opera #1)

By: Cat Rambo

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Farscape meets The Great British Bake Off in this fantastic space opera You Sexy Thing from former … read more

Similar categories in Cat Rambo's You Sexy Thing (Disco Space Opera #1) book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
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9. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's The Terraformers book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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10. The Great Transition

By: Nick Fuller Googins

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Station Eleven and The Ministry for the Future, this richly imaginative, immersive, and… read more

Similar categories in Nick Fuller Googins's The Great Transition book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What it came down to was saving each other’s butts."

-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

"Inside every battery is a piece of a storm when you think about it"

-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

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11. The Paradox Hotel

By: Rob Hart

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An impossible crime. A detective on the edge of madness. The future of time travel at stake. Jan… read more

Similar categories in Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"The reason humans process pain by inflicting it on others is because it’s a really shitty and childish way of asking for help."

-Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

Cover of Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1) by Edward Ashton

12. Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

By: Edward Ashton

3.75

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee … read more

Similar categories in Edward Ashton's Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1) book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for who they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if y…"

-Edward Ashton, Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

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13. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Mal Goes to War: A Novel by Edward Ashton

14. Mal Goes to War: A Novel

By: Edward Ashton

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and… read more

Similar categories in Edward Ashton's Mal Goes to War: A Novel book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Deep Sky

By: Yume Kitasei

3.71

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space… read more

Similar categories in Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"...wanting to prove they were strong enough to withstand anything. Except strength could make you brittle. Big enough impact, and you splinter."

-Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

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16. Under Fortunate Stars

By: Ren Hutchings

3.93

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Fleeing the final days of the generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven's f… read more

Similar categories in Ren Hutchings's Under Fortunate Stars book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
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17. Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

By: Eddie Robson

3.91

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as tra… read more

Similar categories in Eddie Robson's Drunk on All Your Strange New Words book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"We take drug abuse very seriously, Lydia."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It's exhausting."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"if you can control the stories a culture tells about itself, you can control who they are."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"There’s a particular type of alone you feel when in a room with someone who’s no longer alive, she’s discovering now, and it is the worst kind."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

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18. Big Time

By: Ben H. Winters

3.43

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Ben Winters, whom critics attest  "you'll follow...anywhere" ( New York Times Book Review ), return… read more

Similar categories in Ben H. Winters's Big Time book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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19. How High We Go in the Dark

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu

3.83

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's resea… read more

Similar categories in Sequoia Nagamatsu's How High We Go in the Dark book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Death has become a way of life"

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"Life is always easier for boys."

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"She always preferred celestial objects to people."

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"Embrace possibility, but don't let it drag you down"

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

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20. Floating Hotel

By: Grace Curtis

3.70

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

This cozy debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery … read more

Similar categories in Grace Curtis's Floating Hotel book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • mystery
Cover of Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2) by Micaiah Johnson

21. Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

By: Micaiah Johnson

4.15

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and i… read more

Similar categories in Micaiah Johnson's Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2) book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Wanting to shift someone's boundaries is a burden and a threat, not a gift or a compliment."

-Micaiah Johnson, Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

Cover of Light Years From Home by Mike Chen

22. Light Years From Home

By: Mike Chen

3.55

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Every family has issues. Most can’t blame them on extraterrestrials. Evie Shao and her sister, K… read more

Similar categories in Mike Chen's Light Years From Home book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin

23. Tell Me an Ending

By: Jo Harkin

3.64

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

What if you didn't have to live with your worst memories? Across the world, thousands of people … read more

Similar categories in Jo Harkin's Tell Me an Ending book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Where does the human regret live? Police stations, hospitals. Courtrooms. Hotel bedrooms- bedrooms in general. They should advertise on pillowcases."

-Jo Harkin, Tell Me an Ending

Cover of The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

24. The Stardust Grail

By: Yume Kitasei

3.78

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Save one world. Doom her own. From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-c… read more

Similar categories in Yume Kitasei's The Stardust Grail book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo

25. Escape Velocity

By: Victor Manibo

3.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Space Habitat Altaire is the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit, playground of the privileged… read more

Similar categories in Victor Manibo's Escape Velocity book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • mystery
Cover of Braking Day by Adam Oyebanji

26. Braking Day

By: Adam Oyebanji

3.98

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

On a generation ship bound for a distant star, one engineer-in-training must discover the secrets a… read more

Similar categories in Adam Oyebanji's Braking Day book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2) by Edward Ashton

27. Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2)

By: Edward Ashton

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and m… read more

Similar categories in Edward Ashton's Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2) book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of On Earth as It Is on Television by Emily  Jane

28. On Earth as It Is on Television

By: Emily Jane

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

First Contact stories have never been as intoxicating and fun as in Emily Jane’s novel of the sudde… read more

Similar categories in Emily Jane's On Earth as It Is on Television book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Day Tripper by James Goodhand

29. The Day Tripper

By: James Goodhand

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

It’s 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazi… read more

Similar categories in James Goodhand's The Day Tripper book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"People who pursue money are those with nothing better to pursue."

-James Goodhand, The Day Tripper

Cover of Please Report Your Bug Here by Josh Riedel

30. Please Report Your Bug Here

By: Josh Riedel

3.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Introducing Josh Riedel's adrenaline-packed debut novel about a dating app employee who discovers a… read more

Similar categories in Josh Riedel's Please Report Your Bug Here book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Atlas Alone (Planetfall #4) by Emma Newman

31. Atlas Alone (Planetfall #4)

By: Emma Newman

4.10

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Hugo Award winner Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a novel about ven… read more

Similar categories in Emma Newman's Atlas Alone (Planetfall #4) book and Mike Chen's Light Years From Home

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • mystery
  • audiobook

31 Best fiction books like Light Years From Home by Mike Chen

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Kaiju Preservation Society

John Scalzi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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7 Top time travel books like The Day Tripper by James Goodhand

Transform Your Habits

Begin Again

Helly Acton

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Book of Doors

Gareth Brown

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Other Valley

Scott Alexander Howard

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Ministry of Time

Kaliane Bradley

3.62

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