24 Best audiobook books like The Skunks by Fiona Warnick

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The Skunks

By: Fiona Warnick

3.75

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Reminiscent of Elif Batuman and Sally Rooney, Fiona Warnick’s precise and tender prose captures the…

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1. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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2. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Earth Angel

By: Madeline Cash

4.05

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Great Expectations

By: Vinson Cunningham

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

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6. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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7. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. We Were the Universe

By: Kimberly King Parsons

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly King Parsons's We Were the Universe book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"

-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe

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10. Fruit of the Dead

By: Rachel Lyon

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • audiobook
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12. Bitter Water Opera

By: Nicolette Polek

4.03

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it In 1967, … read more

Similar categories in Nicolette Polek's Bitter Water Opera book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Practice

By: Rosalind Brown

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts,… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

Cover of Mood Swings by Frankie Barnet

15. Mood Swings

By: Frankie Barnet

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more

Similar categories in Frankie Barnet's Mood Swings book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. In Tongues

By: Thomas Grattan

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Grattan's In Tongues book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Skunks

By: Fiona Warnick

3.75

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Reminiscent of Elif Batuman and Sally Rooney, Fiona Warnick’s precise and tender prose captures the… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Warnick's The Skunks book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • literary fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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19. Negative Space

By: Gillian Linden

3.26

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A gem of a debut novel about a young mother navigating the instabilities of teaching, parenting, an… read more

Similar categories in Gillian Linden's Negative Space book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte

21. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

Similar categories in Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection: Fiction book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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22. Concerning the Future of Souls

By: Joy Williams

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b… read more

Similar categories in Joy Williams's Concerning the Future of Souls book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. State of Paradise

By: Laura van den Berg

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more

Similar categories in Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. Smothermoss

By: Alisa Alering

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more

Similar categories in Alisa Alering's Smothermoss book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

3.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Anthony's The Most book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Please Stop Trying to Leave Me by Alana Saab

27. Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

By: Alana Saab

4.06

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A debut novel about love, family, queerness, and losing your mind in the modern world marks the arr… read more

Similar categories in Alana Saab's Please Stop Trying to Leave Me book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Today, if someone asked me what, if not a bird, if not fire, is love to me, I would most likely say, surrender."

-Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

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28. Shred Sisters

By: Betsy Lerner

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A wry and riveting debut novel about family, mental illness, and a hard-won path between two sister… read more

Similar categories in Betsy Lerner's Shred Sisters book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Bright Objects

By: Ruby Todd

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequenc… read more

Similar categories in Ruby Todd's Bright Objects book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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30. Mystery Lights

By: Lena Valencia

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Set against the stark background of the Southwestern desert, Lena Valencia’s Mystery Lights glows w… read more

Similar categories in Lena Valencia's Mystery Lights book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Leave the House by Nathan  Newman

31. How to Leave the House

By: Nathan Newman

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: th… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House book and Fiona Warnick's The Skunks

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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