30 must-read audiobook books like The Complicities by Stacey D'Erasmo

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The Complicities

By: Stacey D'Erasmo

3.29

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Stacey D’Erasmo tells a haunting and emotionally affecting story about a woman…

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1. Commitment

By: Mona Simpson

3.62

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He respected architecture less than he once had. Some buildings were true art. A few more worked like machines for living. But when he looked at most new buildings, what he saw was ego. So many peopl…"

-Mona Simpson, Commitment

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2. Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson

3.87

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

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3. Lucy by the Sea

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Lucy by the Sea book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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4. Dinosaurs

By: Lydia Millet

3.88

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

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5. The Guest

By: Emma Cline

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

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6. The Road from Belhaven

By: Margot Livesey

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more

Similar categories in Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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8. Vintage Contemporaries

By: Dan Kois

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Slate editor Dan Kois makes his fiction debut with this stunning coming-of-age novel set in New Yor… read more

Similar categories in Dan Kois's Vintage Contemporaries book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

Similar categories in Alice McDermott's Absolution book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Flight

By: Lynn Steger Strong

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"Arresting and powerful,  Flight  examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still …"

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

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11. Welcome Home, Stranger

By: Kate Christensen

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growin… read more

Similar categories in Kate Christensen's Welcome Home, Stranger book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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12. Take What You Need

By: Idra Novey

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In her most powerful book yet, award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of "astonishing… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. They're Going to Love You

By: Meg Howrey

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York C… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Marriage is always kind of a net loss, for girls."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"I've had a life of interrupted things, you see. Perhaps I can't bear to have one more part of myself go unfinished."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"All this wasted time. For nothing. For ego. Because nobody could get exactly what they wanted. Because nobody knew how to stop themselves from being themselves."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"What is the thing that happens in a friendship that isn't an absence of sex? The thing added, that's maybe only between women. Not a matter of our organs or whether we were born with them or what we …"

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

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14. The Midcoast

By: Adam White

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Propulsive . . . An absorbing look at small-town Maine and the thwarted drea… read more

Similar categories in Adam White's The Midcoast book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. My Last Innocent Year

By: Daisy Alpert Florin

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one wo… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Alpert Florin's My Last Innocent Year book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. Signal Fires

By: Dani Shapiro

3.91

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of INHERITANCE: “a haunting, moving, and propulsive … read more

Similar categories in Dani Shapiro's Signal Fires book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"How long will molecular traces of the Wilfs remain inside 18 Division Street?"

-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires

"It wasn't scary. I mean, it was scary being in the dark and cold and everything, but when the lady, Mrs. Wilf, died, it was like everything had no beginning, and no end. Like we were lightyears away …"

-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires

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17. Little Monsters

By: Adrienne Brodeur

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complica… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Brodeur's Little Monsters book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Our scars are what make us unique. Nothing broken is ever lost."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

"Whenever I paint the truth, no matter how strange, people see themselves in it."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

"To stare into the spiral of a shell was to see the swirl of a galaxy, the logarithmic spiral of life itself, the intertwined miracle of art and science."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

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18. I Have Some Questions for You

By: Rebecca Makkai

3.61

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Hope

By: Andrew Ridker

3.67

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and ideal… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Ridker's Hope book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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20. The Limits

By: Nell Freudenberger

3.35

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost a… read more

Similar categories in Nell Freudenberger's The Limits book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. The Means

By: Amy Fusselman

2.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Shelly Means, a stay-at-home mom and disgraced former PTA president, is poised to get the one thing… read more

Similar categories in Amy Fusselman's The Means book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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22. Small World

By: Laura Zigman

3.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more

Similar categories in Laura Zigman's Small World book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"

-Laura Zigman, Small World

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23. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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24. The Eden Test

By: Adam Sternbergh

3.40

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Edgar Award-finalist Adam Sternbergh, an electrifying domestic suspense novel for fans of The … read more

Similar categories in Adam Sternbergh's The Eden Test book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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25. The House Party

By: Rita Cameron

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When a house party goes terribly wrong, a suburban town fractures, exposing disturbing truths about… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • crime
  • audiobook
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26. Sugar Street

By: Jonathan Dee

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Publishing for the first time with Grove Atlantic, Pulitzer Prize finalist and celebrated author of… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • crime
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27. The Boys

By: Katie Hafner

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A tour-de-force novel about love, the yearning for connection, and the ways in which childhood trau… read more

Similar categories in Katie Hafner's The Boys book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Mike the Cat was already a senior citizen by the time I met him, a reality I had trouble adjusting to. I had never owned a pet, yet from knowing people who did I was aware that we bring animals into …"

-Katie Hafner, The Boys

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28. The Complicities

By: Stacey D'Erasmo

3.29

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Stacey D’Erasmo tells a haunting and emotionally affecting story about a woman… read more

Similar categories in Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • crime
  • audiobook
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29. You Can't Stay Here Forever

By: Katherine Lin

3.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Named a must-read book of summer by: Good Morning America, People, the San Francisco Chronicle, the… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Lin's You Can't Stay Here Forever book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Laughter by Sonora Jha

30. The Laughter

By: Sonora Jha

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more

Similar categories in Sonora Jha's The Laughter book and Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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31. The Material

By: Camille Bordas

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up com… read more

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

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Mona Simpson

3.62

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Roxana Robinson

3.87

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Elizabeth Strout

3.91

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Lydia Millet

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Angie Kim

3.75

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