22 must-read audiobook books like The Running Book by John Connell

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The Running Book

By: John Connell

3.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

The new book about running, life, the history and landscape of Ireland and so much more from the aw…

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1. Rhine Journey

By: Ann Schlee

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

It is the summer of 1851. An English family is making a romantic journey by paddle-steamer on the R… read more

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2. The Spinning Heart

By: Donal Ryan

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As v… read more

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3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

By: Jean-Dominique Bauby , Jeremy Leggatt

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young child… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. Running Man

By: Charlie Engle

3.70

Format: 640 pages, ebook

Charlie Engle's "fascinating account of the high and low points of his life as an ultramarathon run… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Impossible Dead

By: Ian Rankin

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

The Complaints: that's the name given to the Internal Affairs department who seek out dirty and com… read more

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6. They Came Like Swallows

By: William Maxwell

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

First published in 1937, They Came Like Swallows was William Maxwell's second novel. It tells of an… read more

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7. Victim Without a Face (Fabian Risk, #1)

By: Stefan Ahnhem , Rachel Willson-Broyles

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

The first book in the Fabian Risk series, Victim Without a Faceis a chilling novel about the ultima… read more

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8. Running Free: A Runner’s Journey Back to Nature

By: Richard Askwith

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Richard Askwith wanted more. Not convinced running had to be all about pounding pavements, buying f… read more

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9. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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10. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

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  • audiobook
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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11. The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2)

By: Mark Lawrence

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The second volume in the bestselling, ground-breaking Library Trilogy, following The Book That Woul… read more

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  • audiobook
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12. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. How to Build a Boat

By: Elaine Feeney

3.78

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more

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  • audiobook
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

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14. 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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  • audiobook
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15. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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16. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

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17. April in Spain (Quirke, #8)

By: John Banville

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of A Pocketful of Happiness by Richard E. Grant

18. A Pocketful of Happiness

By: Richard E. Grant

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has be… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • audiobook
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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20. Breakdown

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more

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  • audiobook
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21. Charlotte

By: Helen Moffett

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Everybody thinks that Charlotte Lucas has no prospects. She is twenty-seven years old, unmarried, p… read more

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  • audiobook
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22. Rememberings

By: Sinéad O'Connor

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."

-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

Cover of The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works by Helen Czerski

23. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

By: Helen Czerski

4.23

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief by Katriona O'Sullivan

24. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Snowflake

By: Louise Nealon

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely talented young Irish writer makes her literary debut with this powerful and haunting… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Mrs. S by K.    Patrick

26. Mrs. S

By: K. Patrick

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more

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  • audiobook
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."

-K. Patrick, Mrs. S

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27. Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

By: Bernardine Evaristo

3.98

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo's m… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Alle pogingen om cultuur terug te brengen tot opvattingen over authenticiteit kunnen alleen het omgekeerde bewerkstelligen en de onderlinge verbondenheid van onze culturen openbaren."

-Bernardine Evaristo, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

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28. Girl

By: Edna O'Brien

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A New York Public Library Best Book for Adults (2019) I was a girl once, but not anymore. So beg… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Held by Anne   Michaels

29. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Cover of The Running Book by John Connell

30. The Running Book

By: John Connell

3.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

The new book about running, life, the history and landscape of Ireland and so much more from the aw… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

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Transform Your Habits

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jean-Dominique Bauby , Jeremy Leggatt

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Running Man

Charlie Engle

3.70

Transform Your Habits

A Pocketful of Happiness

Richard E. Grant

4.36

Transform Your Habits

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Sinéad O'Connor

4.10

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John McGahern

3.77

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4.27

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Claire Keegan

3.86

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