20 must-read audiobook books like The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

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Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• romance
• adult fiction
• fiction
• adult
• book club
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"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• adult
• book club
• fiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• romance
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
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"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• romance
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
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"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
• books about books
• audiobook

"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Similar categories in Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• romance
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"

-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• romance
• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

"No, no, no,"

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
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"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• romance
• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
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"I'm going to let that tall drink of water slam me like a door."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I swear to God this guy is the epitome of If He Wanted To He Would."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"The best kind of love doesn't happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I’ve been waiting my whole life to feel like this and I thought it was a curse that nobody else ever worked out. But it wasn’t. It’s just that they weren’t you."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

Similar categories in Annabel Monaghan's Summer Romance book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• romance
• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
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"I am the architect of my own experience."

-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

"It's a lot easier to work through other people's problems. I think I must be very attached to my own."

-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

Similar categories in Katherine Center's The Rom-Commers book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• romance
• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"We don't get to know the whole story all at once. And where we're headed matters so much less than how we get there."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"If my life were a screenplay, I'd end the story right there and roll credits - and then maybe rewind and watch it again."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"But, it was okay. We don't get to know the whole story all at once. And where we're headed matters so much less than how we get there."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"Humanity at its worst is an easy story to tell - but it's not the only story. Because the more we can imagine our better selves, the more we can become them."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's The Seven Year Slip book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• romance
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"I kept him at arm's length because at least there he wouldn't be able to see how broken I was. I could keep lying."

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"But mostly because he was very handsome, and I was very much attracted to him, and that was the kind of surprise that I did not see coming."

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"That was love, wasn't it? It wasn't just a quick drop -- it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people. It was learning how to exist with every new br…"

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"Romance wasn't in chocolate, it was in the gasp of breath as we came up for air. It was in the way he cradled my face, the way I traced my finger over the crescent-shaped birthmark on his collarbone.…"

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Wishing Game book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• romance
• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• books about books
• audiobook

"Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself."

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Another thing I learned in therapy?" Angie said. "The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They're the ones who see that something's wron…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Once, he'd loved the ocean. Loved seeing it every morning, every night. Seeing all its facets, all its faces. Not many people knew what the sea looked like in all seasons, under all phases of the moo…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• romance
• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

Similar categories in Adrienne Young's The Unmaking of June Farrow book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• romance
• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

"[He] was the kind of handsome that was carved from forests and rivers. He had the look of someone who'd spent his life in the sun, hands in the dirt. Every color, curve, and angle of him was shaped w…"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

"I didn't care that this crossed the line of keeping my distance or confusing boundaries. In that moment, I needed there to be no space between the three of us. I needed to feel us together, with no b…"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

"My eyes focused on the chart that hung on the wall behind him. It was a diagram of the human heart, with detailed renderings of the muscle and tissue, and I immediately thought how fortunate I would …"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's A Novel Love Story book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• romance
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• books about books
• audiobook

"I was hungover and halfway dead, and still my heart had the audacity to be horny."

-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

"I could treat you to dinner as a thank-you..." Don't you mean I could treat you?" "You're already a treat, sweetie."

-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

"It's when Darcy tells Elizabeth he loves her most ardently, when Mark brings Bridget her new dairy, when Harry tells Sally he loves her, when Will buys Junie the inn."

-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

"He was close enough that I caught a note of his cologne--- cedar and black tea and, faintly, the subtle scent of a well-loved paperback. Familiar and yearning. It was mystifying."

-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

• literary fiction
• adult
• fiction
• audiobook