20 must-read audiobook books like The Vegan by Andrew Lipstein

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The Vegan

By: Andrew Lipstein

3.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In The Vegan , Andrew Lipstein challenges our notions of virtue with a brilliant tale of guilt, gre…

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1. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

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2. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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3. Nothing Special

By: Nicole Flattery

3.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother … read more

Similar categories in Nicole Flattery's Nothing Special book and Andrew Lipstein's The Vegan

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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4. Do You Remember Being Born?

By: Sean Michaels

3.83

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN AWARD FOR FICTION Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner… read more

Similar categories in Sean Michaels's Do You Remember Being Born? book and Andrew Lipstein's The Vegan

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I opened my eyes: soft light, morning, cool. The shimmer of a dream as it departed. I have always enjoyed waking up to different weather, as if the world's been up to something in the night."

-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

"A poem-shaped space, I thought. A poem-shaped space. I tried to hold a poem-shaped space in my mind. Sometimes the work of life is like preparing a bedroom for a guest: sweeping the floor, emptying t…"

-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

"Some of what makes us human is our smallness. The brevity of our lifespans, the shortness of our memories, the narrowness of each person's field of vision. My Marian-ness is in the slender sample of …"

-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

"Art is husbandry, I thought. It is an experiment in imaginary kinship. Bring together this mare and this stallion; this marriage and this moon; this sun and this daughter. Poems, paintings, pop songs…"

-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

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5. Hope

By: Andrew Ridker

3.67

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and ideal… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Ridker's Hope book and Andrew Lipstein's The Vegan

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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6. Land of Milk and Honey

By: C Pam Zhang

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

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7. Mobility

By: Lydia Kiesling

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden … read more

Similar categories in Lydia Kiesling's Mobility book and Andrew Lipstein's The Vegan

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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8. The Stolen Coast

By: Dwyer Murphy

3.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Adrift in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, a man who ferries fugitives by day gets twisted up i… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The experience was collective, but not the memory."

-Dwyer Murphy, The Stolen Coast

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9. The Anniversary

By: Stephanie Bishop

3.10

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

For fans of Lisa Halliday and Susan Choi, The Anniversary is a simmering page-turner about an ascen… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Bishop's The Anniversary book and Andrew Lipstein's The Vegan

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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10. The Winner

By: Teddy Wayne

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner—a book I started and then simply couldn’t stop re… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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11. Last Acts

By: Alexander Sammartino

3.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A rollicking, satirical debut novel about a gun-store-owning father and son forced to live together… read more

Similar categories in Alexander Sammartino's Last Acts book and Andrew Lipstein's The Vegan

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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12. Reboot

By: Justin Taylor

3.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A raucous and wickedly smart satire of Hollywood, toxic fandom, and our chronically online culture,… read more

Similar categories in Justin Taylor's Reboot book and Andrew Lipstein's The Vegan

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. 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 Andrew Lipstein's The Vegan

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • novels
  • audiobook
"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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15. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

Similar categories in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise book and Andrew Lipstein's The Vegan

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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16. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

Cover of The Vegan by Andrew Lipstein

17. The Vegan

By: Andrew Lipstein

3.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In The Vegan , Andrew Lipstein challenges our notions of virtue with a brilliant tale of guilt, gre… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Lipstein's The Vegan book and Andrew Lipstein's The Vegan

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • novels
  • audiobook
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18. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • novels
  • audiobook
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19. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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20. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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21. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Andrew Lipstein's The Vegan

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

21 Top fiction books like The Vegan by Andrew Lipstein

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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Lorrie Moore

3.31

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Day

Michael Cunningham

3.57

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Nothing Special

Nicole Flattery

3.06

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Do You Remember Being Born?

Sean Michaels

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Anne Enright

3.55

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Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

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Mark Brandi

4.07

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Tony Birch

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