22 must-read audiobook books like Sugar Run by Mesha Maren

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Sugar Run

By: Mesha Maren

3.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

On the far side the view was nothing but ridgelines, the craggy silhouettes rising up against the n…

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1. Compromising Positions (Judith Singer, #1)

By: Susan Isaacs

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The brilliant debut that's sold over a million copies-now in trade paperback for the first time! … read more

Similar categories in Susan Isaacs's Compromising Positions (Judith Singer, #1) book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. The Girls from Corona del Mar

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A fiercely beautiful debut blazing with emotion: a major first novel about friendships made in yout… read more

Similar categories in Rufi Thorpe's The Girls from Corona del Mar book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Whatever it is that hurts you, don't talk to anyone about it."

-Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar

"Non ci meritiamo la primavera, e non ci meritiamo nemmeno l'inverno. Esistono e basta."

-Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar

"How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?"

-Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar

"What had been so funny? But you can never remember what you were laughing about, and even if you could, it seems doubtful that it would still be funny."

-Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar

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3. Cottonmouths

By: Kelly J. Ford

4.03

Format: 480 pages,

The alternate cover edition for this book can be found  This was Drear's Bluff. Nothing bad happen… read more

Similar categories in Kelly J. Ford's Cottonmouths book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

4. The Heavenly Table

By: Donald Ray Pollock

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Timeand Knockemstiff, com… read more

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5. Arcadia

By: Lauren Groff

4.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the fields and forests of western New York State in the late 1960s, several dozen idealists set … read more

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6. The Devil's Highway: A True Story

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, i… read more

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7. Belle Cora

By: Phillip Margulies

3.30

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Based loosely on the life of the 19th-century prostitute of the same name, the book is written in t… read more

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8. Rat Bohemia

By: Sarah Schulman

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1995, this award-winning novel is a bold, achingly honest story set in the "rat … read more

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9. The Science of Being Angry

By: Nicole Melleby

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Joey is angry. All the time. And she doesn’t understand why. She has two loving mom… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Melleby's The Science of Being Angry book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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10. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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11. All-Night Pharmacy

By: Ruth Madievsky

3.52

Format: 304 pages, ebook

*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Madievsky's All-Night Pharmacy book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • lesbian
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."

-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy

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12. The Drowning Sea (Maggie D'arcy, #3)

By: Sarah Stewart Taylor

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In The Drowning Sea, Sarah Stewart Taylor returns to the critically acclaimed world of Maggie D’arc… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Stewart Taylor's The Drowning Sea (Maggie D'arcy, #3) book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. The Swallows

By: Lisa Lutz

3.66

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war--with deadly consequences. What … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. A Woman of Pleasure

By: Kiyoko Murata

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“Even though A Woman of Pleasure exposes the brutal life of sex workers, a dynamic optimism runs th… read more

Similar categories in Kiyoko Murata's A Woman of Pleasure book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Southernmost

By: Silas House

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles… read more

Similar categories in Silas House's Southernmost book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • southern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Some nights he thinks they are just a dream God is having"

-Silas House, Southernmost

"Surely there is a light in that boy that will never go out, no matter what he has to face along the way. That's all a father can hope for his child, that a little fire will burn in them to keep them …"

-Silas House, Southernmost

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16. How You Get the Girl (Love & Other Disasters, #3)

By: Anita Kelly

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Chemistry sizzles in this workplace rom-com set in the world of high school basketball from the aut… read more

Similar categories in Anita Kelly's How You Get the Girl (Love & Other Disasters, #3) book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me by Rex Chapman

17. It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me

By: Rex Chapman

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media … read more

Similar categories in Rex Chapman's It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • audiobook
Cover of Don’t Turn Out the Lights: A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Jonathan Maberry

18. Don’t Turn Out the Lights: A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

By: Jonathan Maberry

3.79

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

None read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Maberry's Don’t Turn Out the Lights: A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Every Bone a Prayer

By: Ashley Blooms

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Misty's holler looks like any of the thousands of hollers that fork through the Appalachian Mountai… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Those are things you did,"

-Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

"That’s why we tell stories,"

-Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

"That’s why we tell the stories,"

-Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

"None of us belongs only to ourselves."

-Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

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20. This Will Be Funny Someday

By: Katie Henry

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A girl walks into a bar… then onto a stage, and up to the mic. Sixteen-year-old Izzy is used to … read more

Similar categories in Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"you are biologically incapable of being funny"

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

"How do you know they both went to Harvard? Mom smiles. 'It's like with vegans, sweetheart. They tell you."

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

"...that's the biggest reason people laugh at anything. Surprise. Unpredictability. We love being wrong about things... The surprise is the best part."

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

"The world wants girls to be pretty and polite,’ Mo says. ‘And careful and deferential and selfless. You can’t be any of those things onstage. The world is a better place when you’re onstage."

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

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21. Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place

By: Neema Avashia

4.26

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving “T… read more

Similar categories in Neema Avashia's Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

22. What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

By: Elizabeth Catte

4.02

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Catte's What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • southern
  • audiobook
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23. Familiaris

By: David Wroblewski

4.21

Format: 979 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtel… read more

Similar categories in David Wroblewski's Familiaris book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Suppose you could do one impossible thing."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"Time is a snake-oil remedy if you ask me. Some wounds just keep hurting as bad as they ever did. That's what I think."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"John once claimed that the way to convince a person to do something outlandish was to ask them to do something even more outlandish."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"You can never watch too many pups climb through the straw for the first time, but there are just so many dogs you can bear watch to die."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

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24. Little Gods

By: Meng Jin

3.60

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unrav… read more

Similar categories in Meng Jin's Little Gods book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Perhaps this was the first time I realized how simple it was to act as if certain parts of the past did not exist."

-Meng Jin, Little Gods

Cover of When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri

25. When Katie Met Cassidy

By: Camille Perri

3.10

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Assistants comes another gutsy book about the importance of women … read more

Similar categories in Camille Perri's When Katie Met Cassidy book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Do you like girls? Is. That. A. Thing. You. Do?"

-Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy

"in such a setting a female body in a tuxedo- a tuxedo without a plunging neckline or cropped bottoms paired with stiletto heels, but a proper men’s tux- confused the hell out of people"

-Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy

"this larger than life space was in fact just a room like any other. It struck Katie then how much it was about the people who filled a space with drama and personality, with love and grudges and out-…"

-Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy

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26. The Long Way Home

By: Richard Chizmar

4.19

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Gathered here for the first time ever are seventeen short stories, two essays, and a short script b… read more

Similar categories in Richard Chizmar's The Long Way Home book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of One Weekend in Aspen by Jaime Clevenger

27. One Weekend in Aspen

By: Jaime Clevenger

4.03

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

If you had the chance to have one fantasy fulfilled, what would it be? Fresh out of a ten-year rel… read more

Similar categories in Jaime Clevenger's One Weekend in Aspen book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • audiobook
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28. Music from Another World

By: Robin Talley

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A master of award-winning queer historical fiction, New York Times bestselling author Robin Talley … read more

Similar categories in Robin Talley's Music from Another World book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I'm a child. They're the ones hurting me"

-Robin Talley, Music from Another World

"We know how the world works, but that doesn't change who we are."

-Robin Talley, Music from Another World

"There’s no point worrying so hard you can’t breathe. Life’s short, and you’ve got to make sure there's time to live it."

-Robin Talley, Music from Another World

"Then I kissed her. And I finally understand all those songs I didn’t get before. This is what people mean when they write songs about love. This feeling. This perfect, overwhelming knowledge that eve…"

-Robin Talley, Music from Another World

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29. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. Candidly Cline

By: Kathryn Ormsbee

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A must-read for fans of Julie Murphy and Ashley Herring Blake, this queer coming-of-age story from … read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Ormsbee's Candidly Cline book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Sugar Run by Mesha Maren

31. Sugar Run

By: Mesha Maren

3.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

On the far side the view was nothing but ridgelines, the craggy silhouettes rising up against the n… read more

Similar categories in Mesha Maren's Sugar Run book and Mesha Maren's Sugar Run

  • lesbian
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • southern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer

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Compromising Positions (Judith Singer, #1)

Susan Isaacs

3.68

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The Girls from Corona del Mar

Rufi Thorpe

3.59

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Cottonmouths

Kelly J. Ford

4.03

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Nicole Melleby

4.11

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

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Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

4.03

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When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

Rich Cohen

3.90

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Keith O'Brien

4.43

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