31 must-read audiobook books like The Catch by Alison Fairbrother

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The Catch

By: Alison Fairbrother

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young woman searches for the truth about her father and the secrets of her family in this electri…

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1. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. The Latecomer

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more

Similar categories in Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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 Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta

4. Tracy Flick Can't Win

By: Tom Perrotta

3.64

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon “Tom Perrotta is…one of the great w… read more

Similar categories in Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But it wasn't really about her looks; there was just this current running between us, a really strong connection. Her absence always felt abrupt and unfair when we parted at the end of the day, like …"

-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

"I try not to think too much about those days now - let the past be past. The truth is, we're all prisoners of our historical context. Anybody who says morality is absolute, that right and wrong don't…"

-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

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5. Pineapple Street

By: Jenny Jackson

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, old money Stockton family, followed her heart, t… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"

-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

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6. Community Board

By: Tara Conklin

3.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise, timely, big-hearted no… read more

Similar categories in Tara Conklin's Community Board book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Come and Get It

By: Kiley Reid

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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8. Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

By: Alison Espach

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The summer before Sally Holt starts the eighth grade begins as a gloriously uneventful one. It's fu… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But I didn't remind you of this, because that was the fun of being sisters. Sometimes, you got to be younger than you were, and I got to be older."

-Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

"We laughed a lot, but I don't remember about what. I just remember laughing. And wasn't that the most important thing? Wasn't that all a person wanted to remember?"

-Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

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9. 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

Similar categories in Lynn Steger Strong's Flight book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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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10. It All Comes Down to This

By: Therese Anne Fowler

3.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Geller sisters: Beck, Claire, and Sophie, a trio of strong-minded women whose pragmatic mo… read more

Similar categories in Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • relationships
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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12. The Half Moon

By: Mary Beth Keane

3.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who… read more

Similar categories in Mary Beth Keane's The Half Moon book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. 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 Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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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14. Vacationland

By: Meg Mitchell Moore

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Louisa has come to her parents' house in Maine this summer with all three of her kids, a barely wri… read more

Similar categories in Meg Mitchell Moore's Vacationland book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Flying Solo

By: Linda Holmes

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Smarting from her recently cancelled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to he… read more

Similar categories in Linda Holmes's Flying Solo book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You don't have to be single to be independent. And you don't have to be married to be loved."

-Linda Holmes, Flying Solo

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16. 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 Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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18. Any Other Family

By: Eleanor Brown

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Brown's Any Other Family book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Whether it was fate that made them family or the dumb luck of the universe, they are here now, and they are going to go forward together."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"It's an amazing thing, she thinks, that we marry a person because we claim to love them so much, and then punish them by making them tolerate all our worst qualities."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"There is a strange trick to adoptive motherhood, she has found, a necessary blindness to the bifurcation of your child's life. if you spend all your time thinking about the life your child might have…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"Now Tabitha is forced to truly consider the mechanics of things, to look at events as chance rather than luck, as coincidence rather than fate. Because there are so many families who would love to ad…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

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19. Fellowship Point

By: Alice Elliott Dark

4.07

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she… read more

Similar categories in Alice Elliott Dark's Fellowship Point book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I had been judicious in my warnings and instructions, phrasing them so as not to scare her, or inhibit her. I'm determined not to teach her to fear everything, as we were taught, or that manners are …"

-Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point

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20. Marrying the Ketchups

By: Jennifer Close

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the de… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Close's Marrying the Ketchups book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A reminder of how many people there were in the world. A reminder that sometimes the right person shows up just when you need him to."

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Gretchen walked by and saw Kendall and another waitress dipping fries in Armando's garlic aioli and shoveling them into their mouths. This was the number-one hangover food for the staff at Sullivan's…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Mistakes were made all over the place, all around her, all the time, and she couldn't live her whole life with the sole purpose of not messing up. She didn't know if it would be a mistake or not, she…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Along with the regular brunch selections of eggs Benedict and Belgian waffles, they planned to serve individual portions of Poof in custard dishes. They also had a whole section for different kinds o…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

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21. Now Is Not the Time to Panic

By: Kevin Wilson

3.69

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted no… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Wilson's Now Is Not the Time to Panic book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

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22. 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 Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Small World by Laura Zigman

23. 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 Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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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24. This Time Tomorrow

By: Emma Straub

3.80

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

What if you could take a vacation to your past? With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, belo… read more

Similar categories in Emma Straub's This Time Tomorrow book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"This time tomorrow, where will we be?"

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"Forward, that was the idea. Until the future, whatever it was going to be."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"It's not about the time. It's about how you spend it. Where you put your energy."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"Happy endings were too much for some people, false and cheap, but hope - hope was honest. Hope was good."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

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25. 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

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

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

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

Cover of The Work Wife by Alison B.  Hart

26. The Work Wife

By: Alison B. Hart

3.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Zanne Klein never planned to be a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty Ted and Holly Stabler. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Alison B. Hart's The Work Wife book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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 Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • 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 Old Place

By: Bobby Finger

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens t… read more

Similar categories in Bobby Finger's The Old Place book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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29. The Shore

By: Katie Runde

3.51

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

A mother and her two daughters spend a summer grappling with heartbreak, young love, and the weight… read more

Similar categories in Katie Runde's The Shore book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • coming of age
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Catch by Alison Fairbrother

30. The Catch

By: Alison Fairbrother

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young woman searches for the truth about her father and the secrets of her family in this electri… read more

Similar categories in Alison Fairbrother's The Catch book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • relationships
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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31. The Wise Women

By: Gina Sorell

3.45

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A witty and wildly enjoyable novel, set in New York City, about two adult daughters and their meddl… read more

Similar categories in Gina Sorell's The Wise Women book and Alison Fairbrother's The Catch

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

31 Best fiction books like The Catch by Alison Fairbrother

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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The Latecomer

Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Lucy by the Sea

Elizabeth Strout

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Tracy Flick Can't Win

Tom Perrotta

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The Five-Star Weekend

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4.04

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Mary Kay Andrews

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