18 must-read audiobook books like The Sun Collective by Charles Baxter

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The Sun Collective

By: Charles Baxter

3.28

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award finalist and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune)--a tim…

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Cover of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

1. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

By: Ben Fountain

3.00

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walkis a razor-sharp satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq. … read more

Similar categories in Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk book and Charles Baxter's The Sun Collective

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers, #1) by Alan Furst

2. Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers, #1)

By: Alan Furst

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is re… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
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3. Austerlitz

By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction

4. Family Happiness

By: Laurie Colwin

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Polly is a happy wife and mother from a remarkable strong and attractive family -- until one day sh… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

By: Joyce Carol Oates , David Sedaris , Katherine Mansfield , Alice Munro , Flannery O'Connor , Sarah Vowell , Patricia Highsmith , Charles Baxter , Richard Yates , Jhumpa Lahiri , Dorothy Parker , Jincy Willett , Tobias Wolff , Lorrie Moore , Amy Hempel , Jean Thompson , None , Frank Gannon , Tim Johnston

3.65

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A must-have for the fans of the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, a c… read more

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6. An Honorable Man (George Mueller #1)

By: Paul Vidich

4.12

Format: 440 pages,

A debut espionage novel in the style of Alan Furst and John le Carre, An Honorable Man is a chillin… read more

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7. The Turner House

By: Angela Flournoy

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

There ain't no haints in Detroit. So spoke Francis Turner--patriarch and provider, former preacher … read more

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8. The Glorious Heresies

By: Lisa McInerney

3.69

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash… read more

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9. Glory

By: NoViolet Bulawayo

3.70

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more

Similar categories in NoViolet Bulawayo's Glory book and Charles Baxter's The Sun Collective

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

Cover of A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself by Peter Ho Davies

10. A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself

By: Peter Ho Davies

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal y… read more

Similar categories in Peter Ho Davies's A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself book and Charles Baxter's The Sun Collective

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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11. Lucky

By: Jane Smiley

3.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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12. Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

By: Eyal Press

4.17

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of dirty work--the work that society considers… read more

Similar categories in Eyal Press's Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America book and Charles Baxter's The Sun Collective

  • audiobook
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13. Something New Under the Sun

By: Alexandra Kleeman

3.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Why was the only choice paper or plastic, rathern than being able to choose to buy nothing at all?"

-Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun

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14. Red Pill

By: Hari Kunzru

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears, a bold new novel about searching for order in a w… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Now what I think of when I think of my “self"

-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

"You do strike me more as the secular type. A believer in progress, religion of the liberals."

-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

"Plot is the artificial reduction of life’s complexity and randomness. It is a way to give aesthetic form to reality."

-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

"Ο άνθρωπος μόνος του είναι κρέας για τους λύκους. Έτσι μας θέλουν. Απομονωμένους. Θηράματα. Άρα πρέπει να βρούμε ο ένας τον άλλον. Πρέπει να θυμόμαστε ότι δεν μπορούμε να υπάρξουμε μόνοι."

-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

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15. In a Hard Wind (Mac McKenzie #20)

By: David Housewright

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When asked to investigate a murder in a seemingly idyllic Minnesota town, Rushmore McKenzie finds t… read more

Similar categories in David Housewright's In a Hard Wind (Mac McKenzie #20) book and Charles Baxter's The Sun Collective

  • fiction
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16. A Calling for Charlie Barnes

By: Joshua Ferris

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris comes a “murderously funny” novel about a modern Am… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee

17. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

By: Molly McGhee

3.50

Format: 304 pages, None

Jonathan Abernathy is drowning in debt. If he can appear to be competent at his new job, he might h… read more

Similar categories in Molly McGhee's Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind book and Charles Baxter's The Sun Collective

  • audiobook
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Life's Work: A Memoir

By: David Milch

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The creator of Deadwood and NYPD Blue reflects on his tumultuous life, driven by a nearly insatiabl… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

19. The Liar

By: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

3.52

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Waking Lions, a provocative novel about how one mistake can have a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"But he was always like that, reporting the facts with a slight deviation that would suit his needs."

-Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Liar

"Why couldn’t there be two suns in the sky? Why did the rise of one large orb of light necessitate the setting of another?"

-Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Liar

"People often prefer to deny what is right before their eyes, especially if they can continue to hold on to what is in their hearts."

-Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Liar

"After all, more lies remain undiscovered than are revealed, harmless little lies absorbed into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from the truth."

-Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Liar

Cover of My Rogue to Ruin (The Wild Wynchesters, #4) by Erica Ridley

20. My Rogue to Ruin (The Wild Wynchesters, #4)

By: Erica Ridley

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The riotous Wynchester family has taken on a new case to expose a forger, but the prime suspect isn… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Long Answer

By: Anna Hogeland

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A woman considers pregnancy, motherhood, and the nature of female relationships in this profound an… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le

22. 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

By: Nam Le

4.05

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat In his first … read more

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  • contemporary
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23. Thrust

By: Lidia Yuknavitch

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Lidia Yuknavitch has an unmatched gift for capturing stories of people on the margins--vulnerable h… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Memory is proof that imagination is a real place."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust

"Women have been outsmarting their counter-genders since the dawn of time. I do wonder, though, when women will tire of their part in the story and revolt. I imagine the bloodbath."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust

"Miles of information... so that questions might be answered, so that judgements might be made, so that stories would not be lost, so that memory might outlive slaughter. So that crimes against humani…"

-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust

Cover of Never the Wind by Francesco Dimitri

24. Never the Wind

By: Francesco Dimitri

4.00

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

A bittersweet gothic fantasy of family, friendship, memory, and the uncanny told from the perspecti… read more

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  • audiobook
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Praise God, never the wind- for the wind may answer"

-Francesco Dimitri, Never the Wind

"There was only another time in my life when I felt like that: last year, the morning after Mum died, when I woke up with my heart in tatters to a world that had not taken notice. Sparrows were chirpi…"

-Francesco Dimitri, Never the Wind

"It is a mystery how we never manage to pack as much living into winter as we do into summer, when apparently we idle around doing little else than play and rest. Days last for ever, but the end too s…"

-Francesco Dimitri, Never the Wind

Cover of Man in the Water (Twin Cities P.I. Mac McKenzie, #21) by David Housewright

25. Man in the Water (Twin Cities P.I. Mac McKenzie, #21)

By: David Housewright

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

None read more

Similar categories in David Housewright's Man in the Water (Twin Cities P.I. Mac McKenzie, #21) book and Charles Baxter's The Sun Collective

  • fiction
Cover of All the Acorns on the Forest Floor by Kim Hooper

26. All the Acorns on the Forest Floor

By: Kim Hooper

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

" All the Acorns on the Forest Floor is a stirring series of stories interwoven by the common threa… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Sun Collective by Charles Baxter

27. The Sun Collective

By: Charles Baxter

3.28

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award finalist and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune)--a tim… read more

Similar categories in Charles Baxter's The Sun Collective book and Charles Baxter's The Sun Collective

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • magical realism
  • unfinished
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • cult classics
  • thriller
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville by Akash   Kapur

28. Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville

By: Akash Kapur

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN , New Statesman, Air… read more

Similar categories in Akash Kapur's Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville book and Charles Baxter's The Sun Collective

  • audiobook
Cover of The Joy of Politics: Surviving Cancer, a Campaign, a Pandemic, an Insurrection, and Life's Other Unexpected Curveballs by Amy Klobuchar

29. The Joy of Politics: Surviving Cancer, a Campaign, a Pandemic, an Insurrection, and Life's Other Unexpected Curveballs

By: Amy Klobuchar

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and revelatory memoir—on personal challenges, political turmoil, and the state of Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Amy Klobuchar's The Joy of Politics: Surviving Cancer, a Campaign, a Pandemic, an Insurrection, and Life's Other Unexpected Curveballs book and Charles Baxter's The Sun Collective

  • audiobook
Cover of Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories by Hannah Tinti

30. Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories

By: Hannah Tinti

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

“Lovers of the short story, rejoice! There’s something for everyone in this anniversary collection … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss

31. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary

21 Best fiction books like The Sun Collective by Charles Baxter

Transform Your Habits

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Ben Fountain

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers, #1)

Alan Furst

0.00

Transform Your Habits

Austerlitz

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4.67

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Emmanuel Carrère

3.87

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Gabriel Bump

2.88

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