14 Best audiobook books like We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

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We Cast a Shadow

By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty's The Sellout, about a father who wil…

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1. The Between

By: Tananarive Due

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

When Hilton was just a boy, his aged grandmother saved him from drowning by pulling him out of a tr… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Between book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror

2. So Far from God

By: Ana Castillo

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Sofia and her fated daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love … read more

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3. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

Similar categories in Elliott Gish's Grey Dog book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.46

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more

Similar categories in Ijeoma Oluo's Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • race
  • audiobook
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5. The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more

Similar categories in Willy Vlautin's The Horse book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Here Lies

By: Olivia Clare Friedman

3.70

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A visceral and portentous look at mourning, memory, and motherhood in an alternate Louisiana ravage… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Clare Friedman's Here Lies book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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7. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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8. Her Hidden Past (Rosemary Run, #2)

By: Kelly Utt

3.61

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

Bea Hughes had put the past behind her. Until an anonymous caller phoned to say they knew what she'… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Utt's Her Hidden Past (Rosemary Run, #2) book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • fiction
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9. We Cast a Shadow

By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty's The Sellout, about a father who wil… read more

Similar categories in Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • race
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • horror
  • african american
  • audiobook
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10. The Book of Ayn

By: Lexi Freiman

3.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The B… read more

Similar categories in Lexi Freiman's The Book of Ayn book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I met Ming at an old run-down bistro in Santa Monica. My friend had been writing her great McLuhanesque horror film for the last nine years—"The Medium Is the Monster." Each time she finished a draft…"

-Lexi Freiman, The Book of Ayn

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11. Say Hello to My Little Friend

By: Jennine Capó Crucet

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man’s attempt to … read more

Similar categories in Jennine Capó Crucet's Say Hello to My Little Friend book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Mood Swings

By: Frankie Barnet

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more

Similar categories in Frankie Barnet's Mood Swings book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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13. No More Police: A Case for Abolition

By: Mariame Kaba

4.59

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

An instant national best seller A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizer… read more

Similar categories in Mariame Kaba's No More Police: A Case for Abolition book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • race
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14. The Red Car

By: Marcy Dermansky

3.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In her “dry, delightful fairy tale for grown-ups” (People), celebrated novelist Marcy Dermansky off… read more

Similar categories in Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"And that is one of the problems of your generation. All sex. No romance. No love."

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

"Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame,"

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

"While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen."

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

"I was brand-new in San Francisco, right out of college, and I thought it was thrilling, a guy buying me a drink. I didn’t think, how tacky, this creep is buying me a drink. I thought, how amazing, I …"

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

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15. How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

By: Craig DiLouie

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From Bram Stoker Award‑nominated author Craig DiLouie comes a darkly humorous horror novel that see… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Devil Is Fine

By: John Vercher

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more

Similar categories in John Vercher's Devil Is Fine book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african american
  • audiobook
"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

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17. Somna

By: Becky Cloonan

4.18

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

BECKY CLOONAN and TULA LOTAY - both writing and drawing a graphic novel together for the FIRST TIME… read more

Similar categories in Becky Cloonan's Somna book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • fiction
  • horror
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18. No Road Home

By: John Fram

3.84

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A young father must clear his name and protect his queer son when his wealthy new wife’s televangel… read more

Similar categories in John Fram's No Road Home book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. The Bang-Bang Sisters

By: Rio Youers

3.86

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From critically acclaimed author Rio Youers, an action-packed crime novel featuring three kick-ass … read more

Similar categories in Rio Youers's The Bang-Bang Sisters book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Parking Lot Attendant

By: Nafkote Tamirat

3.16

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The story begins on an undisclosed island where the unnamed narrator and her father are the two new… read more

Similar categories in Nafkote Tamirat's The Parking Lot Attendant book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african american
  • audiobook
"There are people who help you and people who hurt you. You keep the former. You keep the former until they become the latter and hope that you never hurt the former."

-Nafkote Tamirat, The Parking Lot Attendant

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21. Someone Like Us

By: Dinaw Mengestu

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more

Similar categories in Dinaw Mengestu's Someone Like Us book and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast a Shadow

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"

-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us

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