14 must-read audiobook books like Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës by Devoney Looser

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Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës

By: Devoney Looser

4.48

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the mo…

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1. The Missing Chums (Hardy Boys, #4)

By: Franklin W. Dixon

4.81

Format: 539 pages,

Eighteen year-old Frankand seventeen year-old Joe, no sooner accept a 'Shantytown' beach investigat… read more

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2. Jane Austen at Home

By: Lucy Worsley

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her world a… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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3. Rob Roy

By: Walter Scott

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Scott's tour de forceof family intrigue has two heroes. Francis Osbaldistone, dispatched in disgrac… read more

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  • historical
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4. Daniel Deronda

By: George Eliot , Edmund White

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

George Eliot's final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Derondacontrasts the moral laxity of… read more

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5. The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen

By: Syrie James

3.71

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

Many rumors abound about a mysterious gentleman said to be the love of Jane's life--finally, the tr… read more

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6. Jane Austen: A Life

By: Claire Tomalin

3.87

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English-… read more

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7. Tales from the Perilous Realm

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Tom Shippey , Alan Lee

3.00

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien's four novellas ("Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by N… read more

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8. The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life

By: Clare Carlisle

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who ex… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • literary criticism
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9. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing In Eager, environmental jour… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Pandemonium isn’t convenient, but often it’s more natural than stability."

-Ben Goldfarb, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

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10. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

By: Melissa L. Sevigny

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Godmersham Park

By: Gill Hornby

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

On 21 January 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of gover… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
"She was simply a creature of the most passionate nature. She felt intensely; where she loved, there she loved absolutely."

-Gill Hornby, Godmersham Park

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12. The Late Mrs. Willoughby (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #2)

By: Claudia Gray

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

The suspenseful sequel to The Murder of Mr. Wickham, which sees Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney re… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
"...she said to Brandon, "If I am found out in Scotland - or if George and I decide Edinburgh is not to our taste - we might always set out for the United States of America." "You need not stoop to ba…"

-Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #2)

"...Willoughby had sequestered himself in his room. Jonathan half wondered if he had pushed heavy furniture against the door to keep himself safe, then realized this could not be so. That would keep o…"

-Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #2)

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13. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

By: Heather Clark

4.58

Format: 1154 pages, ebook

The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • audiobook
"I lust for him, and in my mind I am ripped to bits by the words he welds and wields...and glory in the temporary sun of his ruthless force."

-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

"She was, [Wilfrid Riley] recalled, "a very clever person, but you couldn't be at ease with her some way. She wasn't with you. She was up in the clouds, always studying poetry, what have you . . . You…"

-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

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14. The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch

By: Melinda Taub

3.81

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sparkling, witchy reimagining of Pride and Prejudice, told from the perspective of the troublesom… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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15. Gone to the Wolves

By: John Wray

3.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author John Wray dives deep into the wild, risky world of heavy metal in the 1980… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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16. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Mark Dawidziak

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"

-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"

-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

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17. Perilous Times

By: Thomas D. Lee

3.89

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet—saving the politically polar… read more

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  • audiobook
"Oi!' says the squirrel. 'Get your filthy hands off me! I'll fucking have you!"

-Thomas D. Lee, Perilous Times

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18. Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës

By: Devoney Looser

4.48

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the mo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • american
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • books about books
  • literary criticism
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19. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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20. The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh

By: Claudia Gray

4.10

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

The third book in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, which finds the amateur sleuths facin… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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21. Solomon's Crown

By: Natasha Siegel

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Two destined rivals fall desperately in love—but the fate of medieval Europe hangs in the balance. … read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
"If he managed to kill me now, if he could really bring himself to do it--then at least I would die in his arms. There were worse endings."

-Natasha Siegel, Solomon's Crown

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4.29

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