9 Best audiobook books like Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller

Notes on a Scandal

By: Zoë Heller

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the first day that the beguiling Sheba Hart joins the staff of St George's, history teacher Ba…

"We are bound by the secrets we share."

-Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal

"Things that are truly innocent don’t need to be labelled as such."

-Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal

"If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical."

-Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal

"...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left."

-Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal

If you liked the audiobook plot in Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Here Are The Young Men

By: Rob Doyle

3.51

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Here are the Young Men tells the story of four young men: Cocker, Rez, Kearney and Matthew. Facing … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Reservoir 13

By: Jon McGregor

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join t… read more

Similar categories in Jon McGregor's Reservoir 13 book and Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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3. Ending Up

By: Kingsley Amis

4.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found  The title refers to how we spend our reti… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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4. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]

By: Zoë Heller

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art teacher at St. G… read more

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6. The Sense of an Ending

By: Julian Barnes

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and … read more

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7. According to Mark

By: Penelope Lively

3.62

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Mark Lamming is happily married--until he falls for the lovely daughter of his latest biography sub… read more

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8. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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9. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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10. 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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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
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12. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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13. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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14. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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15. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. This Is Fine

By: Poorna Bell

4.26

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

It might not be the stuff of dreams, but Padma and Wallace have spent ten years building a relation… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Monumenta

By: Lara Haworth

3.83

Format: 91 pages, Kindle Edition

Olga Pavic's house has been requisitioned.The council will bulldoze it.Her home will become a monum… read more

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  • fiction
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19. My Family: The Memoir

By: David Baddiel

4.41

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idio… read more

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  • audiobook
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20. The End of Summer

By: Charlotte Philby

4.02

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

'An elegant, provocative, twisting thriller… hugely entertaining and beautifully written' CHRIS WHI… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
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21. First Love : by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Author)

By: Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

3.50

Format: 78 pages, Kindle Edition

Vladimir Petrovich Voldemar, a 16-year-old, is staying in the country with his family and meets Zin… read more

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  • fiction

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