21 must-read audiobook books like The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger

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The Displacements

By: Bruce Holsinger

3.97

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a l…

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1. Happiness Falls

By: Angie Kim

3.75

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more

Similar categories in Angie Kim's Happiness Falls book and Bruce Holsinger's The Displacements

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

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2. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Bruce Holsinger's The Displacements

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Bruce Holsinger's The Displacements

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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4. Margo's Got Money Troubles

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I’m just saying,"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

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5. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Bruce Holsinger's The Displacements

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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6. 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

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Bruce Holsinger's The Displacements

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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7. 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
  • family
  • 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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8. All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

By: William Landay

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A mother vanished. A father presumed guilty. There is no proof. There are no witnesses. For the chi… read more

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  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"When a writer goes quiet, nothing is blocking and nothing is being blocked. He is just empty."

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

"In small letters, now a little blurry, it read Omnia mea mecum porto, Latin for “All that is mine I carry with me."

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

"What about you, Mr. Glover. The smartest man in the room is usually the quietest. What do you think about all this?"

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

"Who among you would stand up, step out of that jury box, and trade places with me? Who would be accused of a violent murder based on…nothing? How would you prove your innocence when there was never a…"

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

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9. Wellness

By: Nathan Hill

4.00

Format: 611 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about mar… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Hill's Wellness book and Bruce Holsinger's The Displacements

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landi…"

-Nathan Hill, Wellness

"Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I beli…"

-Nathan Hill, Wellness

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10. 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 Bruce Holsinger's The Displacements

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • 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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11. 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 Bruce Holsinger's The Displacements

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Bruce Holsinger's The Displacements

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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13. Aurora

By: David Koepp

3.79

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace a… read more

Similar categories in David Koepp's Aurora book and Bruce Holsinger's The Displacements

  • thriller
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"on September 4, 1882, Thomas Edison would turn on the generators at Pearl Street Station, in Lower Manhattan, activating America's first power grid. Human beings were on the path to total electrical …"

-David Koepp, Aurora

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14. Our Missing Hearts

By: Celeste Ng

3.80

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

A novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gard… read more

Similar categories in Celeste Ng's Our Missing Hearts book and Bruce Holsinger's The Displacements

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Succulents would grow anew from a broken-off leaf, pushing roots out into the air, then down into the soil: a piece of its own body, transformed into its child."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"Evidence of his mother, out there, elsewhere, so worried about somebody else's children though she'd left her own behind. The irony of it leached into his veins."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"Why did I tell you so many stories? Because I wanted the world to make sense to you. I wanted to make sense of the world, for you. I wanted the world to make sense."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"And we need their generosity to keep this place open. Or, just as likely, someone got nervous and got rid of it preemptively. Us public libraries--a lot of us just can't take the risk."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

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15. 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 Bruce Holsinger's The Displacements

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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16. 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 Bruce Holsinger's The Displacements

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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17. The Light Pirate

By: Lily Brooks-Dalton

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous chil… read more

Similar categories in Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate book and Bruce Holsinger's The Displacements

  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Someone will be left behind; this is what love costs."

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

"These women haven't shared their genes, but they have given freely of their memories. Their ideas. Their skills. There is more than one kind of legacy."

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

"After all this time, the aches have grown softer but also deeper. They both know the looping shape of pain--it changes and quiets but never ends. There is a strange comfort in its constancy. Memories…"

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

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18. 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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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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 Displacements by Bruce Holsinger

19. The Displacements

By: Bruce Holsinger

3.97

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a l… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • thriller
  • climate change fiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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20. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Bruce Holsinger's The Displacements

  • thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Worst Case Scenario

By: T.J. Newman

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Following her explosive debut thriller Falling and its harrowing follow-up Drowning, #1 internation… read more

Similar categories in T.J. Newman's Worst Case Scenario book and Bruce Holsinger's The Displacements

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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