21 best-selling audiobook books like Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González

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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…

"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

If you liked the audiobook plot in Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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2. 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 Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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3. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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4. 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

Similar categories in Holly Gramazio's The Husbands book and Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • 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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6. 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 Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • 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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7. 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 Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • literary 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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8. 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 Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • 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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9. 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

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • 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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10. How to End a Love Story

By: Yulin Kuang

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780063310681. Two writers with a complicated history end up wor… read more

Similar categories in Yulin Kuang's How to End a Love Story book and Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

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12. 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 Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • art
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • 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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13. The Most Fun We Ever Had

By: Claire Lombardo

3.93

Format: 532 pages, Hardcover

A multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in lov… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's The Most Fun We Ever Had book and Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You're ethereal. My intangible everything."

-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

"Sometimes it was enough just to listen to voices that weren't your own."

-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

"The best thing about the cold was the comfort that came from escaping it."

-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

"Life’s insistence on juxtaposing darkness and light would never cease to amaze him."

-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

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14. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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15. The Unwedding

By: Ally Condie

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie in this bold novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Ally Condie's The Unwedding book and Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Interesting, her mind noted, that she would accept an increase in the risk of death over looking rude."

-Ally Condie, The Unwedding

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16. Slow Dance

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK! Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up to… read more

Similar categories in Rainbow Rowell's Slow Dance book and Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I want to remember this day, she whispered. But I also want to have so many good days that this one gets lost in the plethora."

-Rainbow Rowell, Slow Dance

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17. Redwood Court

By: DeLana R.A. Dameron

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its yo… read more

Similar categories in DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court book and Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs book and Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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20. The Lion Women of Tehran

By: Marjan Kamali

4.50

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more

Similar categories in Marjan Kamali's The Lion Women of Tehran book and Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

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21. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook

21 must-read fiction books like Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Husbands

Holly Gramazio

3.53

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21 best-selling fiction books like Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

North Woods

Daniel Mason

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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