19 must-read audiobook books like Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

Cover of Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

Under the Whispering Door

By: T.J. Klune

4.15

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing …

"You’re awfully strange."

-T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

"You’re awfully strange."

-T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

"Oh, Wallace. It's . . . the sun."

-T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

"Oh, Wallace. It's . . . the sun."

-T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

If you liked the audiobook plot in Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) by Travis Baldree

1. Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

By: Travis Baldree

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we nee… read more

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"See you in the story past the story."

-Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

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2. Tress of the Emerald Sea

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.40

Format: 483 pages, Kindle Edition

The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, w… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"They supposedly had golden hair, like yours, the color of sunlight."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"It might be said that Tress had a way with words. In that her words tended to get in her way."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"Well, this isn't the part of the story where you ask questions. So kindly keep them to yourself."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"If we let it, memory can make shadows of the now, as nothing can match the buttressed legends of our past."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

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3. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

Cover of A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1) by Becky  Chambers

4. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

By: Becky Chambers

None

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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5. Remarkably Bright Creatures

By: Shelby Van Pelt

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • magical realism
  • 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

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6. Yellowface

By: R.F. Kuang

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

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7. Funny Story

By: Emily Henry

4.27

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne … read more

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No, no, no,"

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

Cover of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) by Heather Fawcett

8. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.02

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and dis… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"I could not tell if he was terrible at drawing cats or if he simply had a terrible cat."

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"Shadow padded up to me and put his head on my knee, all forgiven, as it always is with dogs. If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she'd ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then …"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"And you shall shut yourself away forever in those old stones with your books and your mysteries like a dragon with her hoard, having as little association with the living as possible and emerging onl…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

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9. Weyward

By: Emilia Hart

4.07

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackl… read more

Similar categories in Emilia Hart's Weyward book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
" Altha . A strange name. Soft and yet powerful. Like an incantation."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"It took skill, Violet thought, to make even your handwriting look angry"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"She named me Altha, after all. Not Alice, meaning noble woman, nor Agnes, lamb of God. Altha. Healer."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

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10. Starling House

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.83

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Starling House book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • romance
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You’re a pretty good liar"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Survival is a hard habit to break."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

Cover of Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) by Heather Fawcett

11. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

Cover of Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1) by Travis Baldree

12. Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)

By: Travis Baldree

4.12

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time.The battl… read more

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1) book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Never Fall for a Dragon (Mate Mountain, #1) by Lola Glass

13. Never Fall for a Dragon (Mate Mountain, #1)

By: Lola Glass

3.98

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

I'm trapped in a cabin with a gorgeous dragon shifter. Granted, I was the one who accidentally igni… read more

Similar categories in Lola Glass's Never Fall for a Dragon (Mate Mountain, #1) book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
Cover of The Book of Doors by Gareth  Brown

14. The Book of Doors

By: Gareth Brown

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go? In New York City, bookseller Cassie An… read more

Similar categories in Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It's not the number of books that matters, is it? It's what one does with them."

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

"One does not look at a dog and assume it is the only animal to exist. ~ Edmund Fox"

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

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15. The Wishing Game

By: Meg Shaffer

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Make a wish. . . . Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it’s like to grow up without parents … read more

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Wishing Game book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself."

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Another thing I learned in therapy?" Angie said. "The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They're the ones who see that something's wron…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Once, he'd loved the ocean. Loved seeing it every morning, every night. Seeing all its facets, all its faces. Not many people knew what the sea looked like in all seasons, under all phases of the moo…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

Cover of The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven  Rowley

16. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Susan, You're The Chosen One (Welcome To Midlife Magic, #1) by Lauretta Hignett

17. Susan, You're The Chosen One (Welcome To Midlife Magic, #1)

By: Lauretta Hignett

4.38

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Starting over isn’t easy when your whole world is a pile of rubble and everyone thinks you’re insan… read more

Similar categories in Lauretta Hignett's Susan, You're The Chosen One (Welcome To Midlife Magic, #1) book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

18. The Unmaking of June Farrow

By: Adrienne Young

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A woman risks everything to end her family’s centuries-old curse, solve her mother’s disappearance,… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Young's The Unmaking of June Farrow book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"[He] was the kind of handsome that was carved from forests and rivers. He had the look of someone who'd spent his life in the sun, hands in the dirt. Every color, curve, and angle of him was shaped w…"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

"I didn't care that this crossed the line of keeping my distance or confusing boundaries. In that moment, I needed there to be no space between the three of us. I needed to feel us together, with no b…"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

"My eyes focused on the chart that hung on the wall behind him. It was a diagram of the human heart, with detailed renderings of the muscle and tissue, and I immediately thought how fortunate I would …"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

Cover of Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

19. Under the Whispering Door

By: T.J. Klune

4.15

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing … read more

Similar categories in T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • queer
"You’re awfully strange."

-T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

"Oh, Wallace. It's . . . the sun."

-T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

"Not knowing is better than pretending to know."

-T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

"I wish I'd found you before. Not someone like you. But you."

-T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

Cover of Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1) by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

20. Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)

By: Hannah Nicole Maehrer

3.92

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Once Upon a Time meets The Office in Hannah Maehrer’s laugh-out-loud viral TikTok series turned nov… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Nicole Maehrer's Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1) book and T.J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door

  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Caring about other people is very irritating."

-Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)

"You just can't kill people and be pretty. It's confusing."

-Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)

"It seemed feeble to merely refer to her boss as a “person"

-Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)

"She steadied him like an anchor to a wayward ship, and he couldn’t resist"

-Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)

Cover of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

21. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

By: Sangu Mandanna

4.11

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"The thing is, being a witch is extraordinary,"

-Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

"That was some excellent Mary Poppins shit right there."

-Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

"I can’t transform the world, Jamie. The world’s too big and too messy and too stubborn."

-Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

"Trust is earned." "It is. But that’s only possible if someone’s willing to give you a chance."

-Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

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