22 must-read audiobook books like Jameela Green Ruins Everything by Zarqa Nawaz

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Jameela Green Ruins Everything

By: Zarqa Nawaz

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“I think we got off on the wrong foot, with you telling me I had to be killed and then me getting a…

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1. Girls Like Us

By: Gail Giles

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

With gentle humor and unflinching realism, Gail Giles tells the gritty, ultimately hopeful story of… read more

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2. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

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3. The Orphan Girl

By: Kurt Palka

3.26

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

For fans of Kristin Harmel and Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls -- the bestselling author of The Pia… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

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  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

Cover of Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11) by Iona Whishaw

5. Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11)

By: Iona Whishaw

4.39

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Beginning with a bang, the latest mystery in the series Publishers Weekly calls “highly entertainin… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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6. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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7. Reuniting With Strangers: A Novel

By: Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio

4.39

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Inspired by the work of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Catherine Hernandez and Wayson Choy, this unforget… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
Cover of Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking (A Caribbean Kitchen Mystery, #2) by Raquel V. Reyes

8. Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking (A Caribbean Kitchen Mystery, #2)

By: Raquel V. Reyes

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s time for a savory soirée—but something sinister is stewing—in Raquel V. Reyes’s second delight… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. You Know What You Did

By: K.T. Nguyen

3.38

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

EDITORIAL REVIEWS A People Magazine Best Book of April 2024 | “The Most Anticipated Crime Fiction … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Courting Samira

By: Amal Awad

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Set in Sydney, Australia, Courting Samira is a charming and frothy romantic comedy about a twenty-s… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Much Ado about Nada

By: Uzma Jalaluddin

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion... Nada Syed is stuck. On… read more

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  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Life really was bizarre on occasion."

-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada

"He didn't want anything to change, ever. And so nothing changed for anyone in her family. Ever."

-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada

"A world doesn't exist where I don't choose you, Nada beta, over everyone else. I will always choose you."

-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada

"My parents want to leave a legacy. We want to create our own. We're all just making it up as we go along."

-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada

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12. Gutter Child

By: Jael Richardson

3.86

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award Cityline Book Club Pick … read more

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  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
"What if greatness only happens when we're together, when we don't let them pull us apart?"

-Jael Richardson, Gutter Child

"It takes a particular kind of strength to exist in a world where you are not wanted that doesn't feel like strength at all."

-Jael Richardson, Gutter Child

"When I drew pictures of Mother and me, I used Peach for her and Chestnut for myself. "Why is your skin named after something soft and sweet and mine is something hard and bitter?" "Because you are so…"

-Jael Richardson, Gutter Child

"A girl learns who she is from the woman she sees loving her," Ida says. "She learns what's good and what's lovely about herself, and the further apart she is from that woman, and the more different t…"

-Jael Richardson, Gutter Child

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13. The Darkness in the Light

By: Daniel Kalla

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A psychiatrist’s patients are dying—are they suicides related to a new antidepressant, or is there … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Kalla's The Darkness in the Light book and Zarqa Nawaz's Jameela Green Ruins Everything

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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14. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. So Happy for You

By: Celia Laskey

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A wedding weekend spirals out of control in this bold, electrifying, hilarious novel about the comp… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Damned If You Do

By: Alex Brown

3.74

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Queer Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Filipino folklore in this horror comedy about a high school st… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

By: Chelsea Vowel

4.13

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

"Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to sign… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice  Wong

18. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Zarqa Nawaz's Jameela Green Ruins Everything

  • adult
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19. Jameela Green Ruins Everything

By: Zarqa Nawaz

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“I think we got off on the wrong foot, with you telling me I had to be killed and then me getting a… read more

Similar categories in Zarqa Nawaz's Jameela Green Ruins Everything book and Zarqa Nawaz's Jameela Green Ruins Everything

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • canada
  • humor
  • religion
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies by Dianna E. Anderson

20. In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies

By: Dianna E. Anderson

4.11

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

For decades, our cultural discourse around trans and gender-diverse people has been viewed through … read more

Similar categories in Dianna E. Anderson's In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies book and Zarqa Nawaz's Jameela Green Ruins Everything

  • audiobook
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21. Operation Angus

By: Terry Fallis

3.85

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

From bestselling author Terry Fallis comes the long-awaited follow-up to The Best Laid Plans and Th… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • canada
  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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22. When the Vibe Is Right

By: Sarah Dass

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Where the Rhythm Takes You comes a delightful enemies-to-lovers contemporary rom… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins

23. A Little Kissing Between Friends

By: Chencia C. Higgins

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the stud… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"No less than forty-five minutes after giving birth, a memo is sent out informing the life-bringer that their time as a bad bitch has expired and they are henceforth Somebody’s Mama and must act accor…"

-Chencia C. Higgins, A Little Kissing Between Friends

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24. A Sprinkle in Time (Shake Shop #2)

By: Dana Mentink

4.04

Format: 353 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It's Alpenfest in Upper Sprocket! Yodelers are congregating in the square, tourists flocking to the… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Trinidad Jones had never before realized how much her dog Noodles appreciated yodeling."

-Dana Mentink, A Sprinkle in Time (Shake Shop #2)

"She stumbled as if in a dream. But this wasn’t a dream. It was a real dead body…in Papa’s trunk."

-Dana Mentink, A Sprinkle in Time (Shake Shop #2)

"Her insides quivered with the combination of terror and titillation. The bare bones truth was The Shimmy and Shake Shop needed an infusion of income, since her brand- new ice cream shop had to be reb…"

-Dana Mentink, A Sprinkle in Time (Shake Shop #2)

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25. Knitting the Fog

By: Claudia D. Hernández

4.01

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Weaving together narrative essay and bilingual poetry, Claudia D. Hernández’s lyrical debut follows… read more

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  • adult
Cover of Well Seasoned: A Year's Worth of Delicious Recipes by Mary    Berg

26. Well Seasoned: A Year's Worth of Delicious Recipes

By: Mary Berg

3.95

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Beloved home cook, television star, and bestselling author Mary Berg is back with 100 seasonal reci… read more

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27. We Rip the World Apart

By: Charlene Carr

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Hold My Girl comes a sweeping multi-generational story about motherhoo… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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28. Letters to Amelia

By: Lindsay Zier-Vogel

3.75

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Grace Porter is reeling from grief after her partner of seven years unexpectedly leaves. Amidst her… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado

29. We Came to Welcome You

By: Vincent Tirado

3.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar in this spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut f… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Tirado's We Came to Welcome You book and Zarqa Nawaz's Jameela Green Ruins Everything

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of In Mary's Kitchen: Stress-Free Recipes for Every Home Cook by Mary    Berg

30. In Mary's Kitchen: Stress-Free Recipes for Every Home Cook

By: Mary Berg

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

The kitchen is Mary's happy place, where worries melt away, a busy mind calms, and time seems to sl… read more

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31. Bad Land

By: Corinna Chong

3.94

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The slow-burning, deeply felt story of a social outcast reckoning with the wounds of her past Re… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook

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Seanan McGuire

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3.26

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4.15

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