20 Best audiobook books like Less (Arthur Less, #1) by Andrew Sean Greer

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Similar categories in Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

Similar categories in Hernan Diaz's Trust book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

• literary fiction
• fiction
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

• literary fiction
• fiction
• audiobook

"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

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

"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• fiction
• novels

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's There There book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

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

"Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."

-Tommy Orange, There There

Similar categories in Emma Cline's The Guest book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• 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

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

• literary fiction
• fiction
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

• literary fiction
• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

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

"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

Similar categories in Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

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

"Friendship,"

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"How I will miss the horses."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"You try again. You fail better."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"There are no ghosts, but up here"

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

• 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 Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

• romance
• humor
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Just to be clear,"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

Similar categories in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

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

"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

Similar categories in Paul Murray's The Bee Sting book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• audiobook

"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

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

"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

• 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 Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1) book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

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

"Maybe I’m a bad writer."

-Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Arthur Less, #1)

"Fuck love and just get fat."

-Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Arthur Less, #1)

"You should kiss me like it’s goodbye."

-Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Arthur Less, #1)

"Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit."

-Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Arthur Less, #1)

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's The Great Believers book and Andrew Sean Greer's Less (Arthur Less, #1)

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

"Ageism is the only self-correcting prejudice, isn’t it?"

-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

"Boys with hands in pockets, waiting for everything to begin"

-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

"Listen, direct action—direct action is the third best feeling in the world."

-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

"And when you came here from Heaven, you left the door open so he could go out."

-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers