13 Top audiobook books like Bride of the Sea by Eman Quotah

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Bride of the Sea

By: Eman Quotah

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

During a snowy Cleveland February, newlywed university students Muneer and Saeedah are expecting th…

"The way she talks about family—the way everyone here does—is more foreign to Hannah than anything else. She has always had only Mama. To have dozens of people feels like a gift, a gift of love that she never expected. Because she is family, they love her. At the same time, their love is a pressure, a standard she will have to live up to."

-Eman Quotah, Bride of the Sea

If you liked the audiobook plot in Bride of the Sea by Eman Quotah , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar

1. Anatomy of a Disappearance

By: Hisham Matar

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her st… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible."

-Hisham Matar, Anatomy of a Disappearance

"I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth."

-Hisham Matar, Anatomy of a Disappearance

"I wanted this world to still. I wanted to fix it and be fixed within it. But everything was on the move, the clouds, the wind..."

-Hisham Matar, Anatomy of a Disappearance

"There has not been a day since his sudden and mysterious vanishing that I have not been searching for him, looking in the most unlikely places. Everything and everyone, existence itself, has become a…"

-Hisham Matar, Anatomy of a Disappearance

2. Salt Houses

By: Hala Alyan

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more

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3. Angel on the Square (Angel on the Square, #1)

By: Gloria Whelan

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the fall of 1914, safe behind palace walls, Katya Ivanova sees St. Petersburg as a magical place… read more

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4. The Foghorn Echoes

By: Danny Ramadan

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout tha… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The story within me aches like an untreated wound. It's unheard and I need to speak it. It roams my insides like a caged animal gasping for air. It trembles."

-Danny Ramadan, The Foghorn Echoes

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5. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

By: Noor Naga

3.92

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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6. Evil Eye

By: Etaf Rum

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

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7. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson

8. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

By: Gretchen Sisson

4.38

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Sisson's Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood book and Eman Quotah's Bride of the Sea

  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The Arsonists' City

By: Hala Alyan

4.31

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rend… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Eyeliner: A Cultural History

By: Zahra Hankir

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed editor of Our Women on the Ground comes a dazzling exploration of the intersecti… read more

Similar categories in Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History book and Eman Quotah's Bride of the Sea

  • cultural
  • audiobook
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11. Between Two Moons

By: Aisha Abdel Gawad

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant encla… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Pale Morning Light With Violet Swan: A Novel of a Life in Art

By: Deborah Reed

4.24

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of a famous abstract painter at the end of her life—her family, her art, and the long-bur… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Reed's Pale Morning Light With Violet Swan: A Novel of a Life in Art book and Eman Quotah's Bride of the Sea

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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13. Silence Is a Sense

By: Layla AlAmmar

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A profound and life-affirming debut about migration, trauma, and the healing power of community. A … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of Bride of the Sea by Eman Quotah

14. Bride of the Sea

By: Eman Quotah

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

During a snowy Cleveland February, newlywed university students Muneer and Saeedah are expecting th… read more

Similar categories in Eman Quotah's Bride of the Sea book and Eman Quotah's Bride of the Sea

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • cultural
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The way she talks about family—the way everyone here does—is more foreign to Hannah than anything else. She has always had only Mama. To have dozens of people feels like a gift, a gift of love that s…"

-Eman Quotah, Bride of the Sea

Cover of I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat by Christopher   Gonzalez

15. I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat

By: Christopher Gonzalez

3.85

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Long nights, empty stomachs, and impulsive cravings haunt the stories of I’m Not Hungry But I Could… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of An Unlasting Home by Mai Al-Nakib

16. An Unlasting Home

By: Mai Al-Nakib

4.08

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

The debut novel from an award-winning short story writer: a multigenerational saga spanning Lebanon… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Bird Tattoo

By: Dunya Mikhail

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and sweeping novel set over two tumultuous decades in Iraq from the National Book Award-… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • cultural
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Savage Tongues by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

18. Savage Tongues

By: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“A luxuriant fevered quest for reclamation...Political, poetical, and spooky good.” — Joy Williams … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures by Sahaj Kaur Kohli

19. But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

By: Sahaj Kaur Kohli

4.58

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book from therapist, writer, and founder of @browngirltherapy … read more

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  • cultural
  • audiobook
Cover of Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James  Bradley

20. Deep Water: The World in the Ocean

By: James Bradley

4.48

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

'Teeming with mysteries, wonders and heartbreaking facts, this beautiful, lucid hymn to the sea is … read more

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  • audiobook
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21. Andorra Revealed

By: Clare Allcard

3.32

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Andorra Entertaining stories about one of the world’s more enigmatic countries. Journey with us th… read more

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3.50

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The Foghorn Echoes

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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga

3.92

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3.85

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