16 Top audiobook books like My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley

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My Ex-Life

By: Stephen McCauley

3.70

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

The time for Stephen McCauley's breakout novel has come and My Ex-Life is it in a major way. A deli…

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1. Is This Tomorrow

By: Caroline Leavitt

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In 1956, when divorced, working-mom Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in … read more

Similar categories in Caroline Leavitt's Is This Tomorrow book and Stephen McCauley's My Ex-Life

  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook

2. The Steady Running of the Hour

By: Justin Go

3.77

Format: None pages,

In this mesmerizing debut, a young American discovers he may be heir to the unclaimed estate of an … read more

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3. The View from Penthouse B

By: Elinor Lipman

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters recover from widowhood, divorce, and Bernie Madoff as unexpected roommates in a Manhatt… read more

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4. High Rising

By: Angela Thirkell

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

In Angela Thirkell's first Barsetshire novel, she sets the plot pattern which will be played out in… read more

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5. On Turpentine Lane

By: Elinor Lipman

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

At thirty-two, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes insti… read more

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6. Good Riddance

By: Elinor Lipman

3.13

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she in… read more

Similar categories in Elinor Lipman's Good Riddance book and Stephen McCauley's My Ex-Life

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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7. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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8. 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

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  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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9. Lucky

By: Jane Smiley

3.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more

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  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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10. Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

By: Olivia Ford

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food Nothing… read more

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  • audiobook
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"To want something, she realized, was to make yourself vulnerable to losing it."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"It's sometimes easy to feel left behind at my age, as if the world has a future and you have no place in it...but I hope to discover that there is meaning and adventure still to be found."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"...the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner's changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It's a bit like growing roses - you don't get to choose exactly which w…"

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

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11. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir

By: Owen Elliot-Kugell

3.96

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more

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  • audiobook
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12. Bad Animals

By: Sarah Braunstein

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A sexy, propulsive novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation throu… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

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  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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14. Disorderly Men

By: Edward Cahill

4.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Three gay men in pre-Stonewall NYC find their fates thrown together in the police raid of a Village… read more

Similar categories in Edward Cahill's Disorderly Men book and Stephen McCauley's My Ex-Life

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Countries of Origin

By: Javier Fuentes

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning debut, Javier Fuentes chronicles a tumultuous, passionate love affair between two … read more

Similar categories in Javier Fuentes's Countries of Origin book and Stephen McCauley's My Ex-Life

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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16. My Ex-Life

By: Stephen McCauley

3.70

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

The time for Stephen McCauley's breakout novel has come and My Ex-Life is it in a major way. A deli… read more

Similar categories in Stephen McCauley's My Ex-Life book and Stephen McCauley's My Ex-Life

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • queer
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17. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Stephen McCauley's My Ex-Life

  • audiobook
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18. Four Squares

By: Bobby Finger

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel spanning the 1990s … read more

Similar categories in Bobby Finger's Four Squares book and Stephen McCauley's My Ex-Life

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. The Same Bright Stars

By: Ethan Joella

3.87

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant, and Jack has been at t… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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20. The Son of Good Fortune

By: Lysley Tenorio

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Excel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager. But Excel knows that h… read more

Similar categories in Lysley Tenorio's The Son of Good Fortune book and Stephen McCauley's My Ex-Life

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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21. The Light Years

By: Chris Rush

4.19

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent t… read more

Similar categories in Chris Rush's The Light Years book and Stephen McCauley's My Ex-Life

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer

8 Top family books like My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley

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Family Family

Laurie Frankel

4.00

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Welcome Home, Stranger

Kate Christensen

3.44

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Jane Smiley

3.13

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Olivia Ford

4.10

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Chris Bohjalian

3.53

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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