9 Best thriller books like The Listeners by Jordan Tannahill

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The Listeners

By: Jordan Tannahill

3.42

Format: 304 pages, ebook

A propulsive literary page-turner about a family torn apart by a mother’s obsession with a sound th…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Listeners by Jordan Tannahill , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Security by Gina Wohlsdorf

1. Security

By: Gina Wohlsdorf

4.40

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

"Original and imaginative . . . Ripping suspense, sheer terror, and a wrenching love story." --Sand… read more

Similar categories in Gina Wohlsdorf's Security book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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2. Solstice

By: Joyce Carol Oates

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1985, Solsticeis the gripping story of Monica Jensen and Sheila Trask, two … read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's Solstice book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. The Witnesses Are Gone

By: Joel Lane , Conrad Williams

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Witnesses Are Gone is a first-hand account of a journey into the underworld in all the wrong pl… read more

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4. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • canada
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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5. Foe

By: Iain Reid

3.71

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things. … read more

Similar categories in Iain Reid's Foe book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Good news for someone often means bad news for someone else"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I’VE BECOME MORE AWARE OF MYSELF. BECAUSE OF THE SITUATION. NOW THAT I KNOW I’M LEAVING, I SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY. I’VE BEEN AWARE OF LITTLE THINGS THAT I WOULD HAVE MISSED BEFORE. “LIKE WHAT?"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I’ve been told these old barns are physical reminders of an older life, when things were different. They need upkeep. They need to be restored. It would be a tragedy if the one in this field is ablaz…"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I can remember we were happy, I say. Happy to have our own house. ‘Can you recall anything specific, like a detail, or is it more a feeling you remember?’ Anybody can remember details if you ask them…"

-Iain Reid, Foe

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6. The Son of the House

By: Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

SHORTLISTED for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2021 • FINALIST for the Nigeria Prize for Literature 20… read more

Similar categories in Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia's The Son of the House book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Bernstein's Study for Obedience book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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8. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

Similar categories in Téa Mutonji's Shut Up You're Pretty book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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9. What Strange Paradise

By: Omar El Akkad

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more

Similar categories in Omar El Akkad's What Strange Paradise book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

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10. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Leroux's The Future book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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11. Astra

By: Cedar Bowers

4.21

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

If you could see yourself as others saw you, would you be any closer to the truth of who you really… read more

Similar categories in Cedar Bowers's Astra book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

12. The Centre

By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who atten… read more

Similar categories in Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi's The Centre book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
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13. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

Similar categories in Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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14. The Homes

By: J.B. Mylet

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

There were good people in The Homes. But there were also some very, very bad ones... A thousand … read more

Similar categories in J.B. Mylet's The Homes book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Johns's Bad Cree book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • canada
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

Cover of The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard

16. The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

By: Matthieu Simard

3.66

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where … read more

Similar categories in Matthieu Simard's The Country Will Bring Us No Peace book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
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17. No Secrets

By: David Jackson

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

THEY ALL BELIEVE HIM THEY BELIEVE HIS LIES. SHE KNOWS THE TRUTH. You can't lie to Izzy Lambert.… read more

Similar categories in David Jackson's No Secrets book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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18. Everything You Ever Wanted

By: Luiza Sauma

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

You wake up. You go to work. You don't go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy mee… read more

Similar categories in Luiza Sauma's Everything You Ever Wanted book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Listeners by Jordan Tannahill

19. The Listeners

By: Jordan Tannahill

3.42

Format: 304 pages, ebook

A propulsive literary page-turner about a family torn apart by a mother’s obsession with a sound th… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of A Sacred Storm (The Wanderer Chronicles, #2) by Theodore Brun

20. A Sacred Storm (The Wanderer Chronicles, #2)

By: Theodore Brun

4.39

Format: 705 pages, Kindle Edition

'A masterly debut... If Bernard Cornwall and George RR Martin had a lovechild, it would look like A… read more

Similar categories in Theodore Brun's A Sacred Storm (The Wanderer Chronicles, #2) book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • fiction
Cover of Glorious Frazzled Beings by Angelique LaLonde

21. Glorious Frazzled Beings

By: Angelique LaLonde

3.13

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Home is where we love, suffer, and learn. Some homes we chose, others are inflicted upon us, and st… read more

Similar categories in Angelique LaLonde's Glorious Frazzled Beings book and Jordan Tannahill's The Listeners

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook

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Gina Wohlsdorf

4.40

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Joyce Carol Oates

4.26

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Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Iain Reid

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Mona Awad

3.56

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3.68

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Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

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