21 best-selling audiobook books like Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas

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Ghost Season

By: Fatin Abbas

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and…

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1. Island of a Thousand Mirrors

By: Nayomi Munaweera

3.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A stunning literary debut of two young women on opposing sides of the devastating Sri Lankan Civil … read more

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2. In blaukalter Tiefe

By: Kristina Hauff

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Ein Segeltörn in die wildromantischen schwedischen Schären – Caroline und ihr Mann Andreas erfüllen… read more

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  • contemporary
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3. Radio Sarajevo

By: Tijan Sila

4.47

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

„Eine Jugend zwischen Blauhelmen und Bon Jovi. Tijan Sila erzählt rau, verletzlich, unverstellt.“ (… read more

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  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Dearborn

By: Ghassan Zeineddine

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and comp… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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6. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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8. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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9. River East, River West

By: Aube Rey Lescure

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

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10. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

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  • audiobook
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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11. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

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12. Nightbloom

By: Peace Adzo Medie

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife , returns with a moving novel abou… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Blessings

By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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14. The History of a Difficult Child

By: Mihret Sibhat

3.74

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-own… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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15. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Issa

By: Mirrianne Mahn

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

«Ich kenne ihre Geschichten so gut, dass ich manchmal glaube, ich hätte sie selbst erlebt.» Eige… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. 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
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. It Would Be Night in Caracas

By: Karina Sainz Borgo

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman’s desperate battle … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Mientras redactaba la inscripción para su tumba, entendí que la primera muerte ocurre en el lenguaje, en ese acto de arrancar a los sujetos del presente para plantarlos en el pasado. Convertirlos en …"

-Karina Sainz Borgo, It Would Be Night in Caracas

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19. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. River Spirit

By: Leila Aboulela

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • historical
  • sudan
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise."

-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit

"I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty."

-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit

"She was part of his youth and their love stretched from her village to his town. She must not feel lost or untethered. And there now was his son in her arms."

-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit

"Free, heart tight, expectant, in love, she was not sure what her position would be in the household, not sure about much except that she did not want to be anywhere else."

-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit

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21. Havana Year Zero

By: Karla Suárez

3.63

Format: 256 pages, None

It was as if we’d reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Z… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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22. Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

By: Chantha Nguon

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during… read more

Similar categories in Chantha Nguon's Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes book and Fatin Abbas's Ghost Season

  • audiobook
"When you must flee and can carry only one thing, what will it be? What single seed from your old life will be the most useful in helping you sow a new one?"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"A refugee must learn to be anything people want her to be at any given moment. But behind the masks, I am only myself - a mosaic of flavors from near and far."

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"But if there's one thing I learned from my mother, it's that losing everything is not the end of the story. She taught me that lost civilizations can be rebuilt from zero, even if the task will requi…"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"But the past never goes away. The fear and pain are still there, buried in our brains like mines. It is better to defuse them than to leave them entombed, quietly, waiting for a single misstep. That …"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

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23. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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24. Habitations

By: Sheila Sundar

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young academic moves from India to the United States, where she navigates first love, a green car… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. And Then He Sang a Lullaby

By: Ani Kayode Somtochukwu

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The inaugural title from Roxane Gay Books, And Then He Sang a Lullaby is a searingly honest and res… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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26. Ghost Season

By: Fatin Abbas

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • historical
  • sudan
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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28. Scrap

By: Calla Henkel

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A true-crime obsessed young artist is drawn into the lives of an obscenely wealthy family in this f… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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29. The Night of Baba Yaga

By: Akira Otani

3.40

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

In this no-holds-barred queer thriller, a fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. Someone Like Us

By: Dinaw Mengestu

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"

-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us

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31. Freunderlwirtschaft: Kriminalroman (German Edition)

By: Petra Hartlieb

4.10

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

Es ist Kommissarin Alma Oberkoflers erste Woche in Wien und schon hat sie einen toten Politiker am … read more

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24 must-read fiction books like Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas

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Radio Sarajevo

Tijan Sila

4.47

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Dearborn

Ghassan Zeineddine

4.23

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Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Enter Ghost

Isabella Hammad

4.09

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Born on a Tuesday

Elnathan John

3.00

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Henry Henry

Allen Bratton

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

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Blessings

Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

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