21 Top audiobook books like The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

By: Marianne Cronin

4.30

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Their last one begins here.Life is short. No-o…

"I think about all the people we'll never meet."

-Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

"I think about all the people we'll never meet."

-Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

"...They think that because the stars seem small and twinkling that they are small, but really, they are large, massive, and so very powerful."

-Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

"And I was aware, as I sometimes am, of the earth moving. That the earth was rotating and pulling us forward, and millions of milliseconds were flying by, and that this moment was precious."

-Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

If you liked the audiobook plot in The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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2. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. First Lie Wins

By: Ashley Elston

4.05

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

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4. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • adult
  • book club
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Go as a River

By: Shelley Read

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more

Similar categories in Shelley Read's Go as a River book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Women endure. That’s what we do."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

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6. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

By: Lisa See

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more

Similar categories in Lisa See's Lady Tan’s Circle of Women book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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7. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • 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

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8. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's The River We Remember book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

9. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • 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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11. Hello Beautiful

By: Ann Napolitano

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person wh… read more

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • 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

Cover of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

12. The Secret Book of Flora Lea

By: Patti Callahan Henry

4.07

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her mi… read more

Similar categories in Patti Callahan Henry's The Secret Book of Flora Lea book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The heart can hold much joy and great sorrow at the same time. It's a mystery. And it's also true."

-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea

"What a fairy tale is meant to do," she said, "if it's meant to do anything at all, Tolkien says, is give us new perspective on our world, the consolation of a happy ending. A recovery of sorts. Like …"

-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea

Cover of The Guncle (The Guncle, #1) by Steven  Rowley

13. The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)

By: Steven Rowley

4.14

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Gra… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle (The Guncle, #1) book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. The House of Eve

By: Sadeqa Johnson

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelph… read more

Similar categories in Sadeqa Johnson's The House of Eve book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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15. The Measure

By: Nikki Erlick

3.99

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour … read more

Similar categories in Nikki Erlick's The Measure book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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16. Mad Honey

By: Jodi Picoult

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behin… read more

Similar categories in Jodi Picoult's Mad Honey book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Being gay or straight,"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"People always talk about their love for you is unconditional. Then you reveal your most private self to them, and you find out how many conditions there are in unconditional love."

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"Dark honey from the second harvest. It's made late in the season after the nectar drought at the end of July when the bees turn to goldenrod and sunflowers instead. It's deeper and richer, it tastes …"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"My father taught me that beekeeping is both a burden and a privilege. You don’t bother the bees unless they need your help, and you help them when they need it. It’s a feudal relationship: protection…"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

Cover of The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

17. 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 Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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 Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer

18. The Collected Regrets of Clover

By: Mikki Brammer

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What’s the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can’t give yourself a beautiful life? … read more

Similar categories in Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"The secret to a beautiful death is to live a beautiful life. Putting your heart out there. Letting it get broken. Taking chances. Making mistakes.... Promise me, kid,...that you'll let yourself live."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Grief plays tricks on you that way - a familiar whiff of cologne or a potential sighting of your person in a crowd, and all the knots you've tied inside yourself to manage the pain of losing them sud…"

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

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19. 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 Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

20. The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

By: Marianne Cronin

4.30

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Their last one begins here.Life is short. No-o… read more

Similar categories in Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"I think about all the people we'll never meet."

-Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

"...They think that because the stars seem small and twinkling that they are small, but really, they are large, massive, and so very powerful."

-Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

"And I was aware, as I sometimes am, of the earth moving. That the earth was rotating and pulling us forward, and millions of milliseconds were flying by, and that this moment was precious."

-Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

"Do you know,’ she said slowly, ‘that the stars that we see the clearest are already dead?... it’s not depressing, it’s beautiful. They’ve been done for who knows how long, but we can still see them. …"

-Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

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21. All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker

4.44

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more

Similar categories in Chris Whitaker's All the Colors of the Dark book and Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook

21 must-read fiction books like The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

4.05

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Ariel Lawhon

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10 Best book club books like The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer

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Ashley Elston

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