15 Best audiobook books like Correspondents by Tim Murphy

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Correspondents

By: Tim Murphy

4.29

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The world is Rita Khoury's oyster. The bright and driven daughter of a Boston-area Irish-Arab famil…

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1. Umami

By: Laia Jufresa

3.95

Format: None pages,

Umamiconstituye una propuesta literaria original en su afan por explorar la amplia gama de sensacio… read more

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2. The End of Drum-Time

By: Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder… read more

Similar categories in Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time book and Tim Murphy's Correspondents

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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4. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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5. An Honest Man

By: Ben Fergusson

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In West Berlin in 1989, eighteen-year-old Ralf has just left school and is living a final golden su… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Like all of my friends, I’d seen the ubiquitous soft-core pornography on late-night German television that our English relatives found scandalous. Police interviews, maths lessons, doctors’ visits tu…"

-Ben Fergusson, An Honest Man

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6. 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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  • literary fiction
  • politics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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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8. River East, River West

By: Aube Rey Lescure

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

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9. Other Women

By: Emma Flint

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A husband. A wife. A lover. Each has a secret they’d kill to protect . . . From the author of Li… read more

Similar categories in Emma Flint's Other Women book and Tim Murphy's Correspondents

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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11. Perris, California

By: Rachel Stark

3.97

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and l… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Stark's Perris, California book and Tim Murphy's Correspondents

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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12. Women and Children First

By: Alina Grabowski

3.38

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in … read more

Similar categories in Alina Grabowski's Women and Children First book and Tim Murphy's Correspondents

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Homeland Elegies

By: Ayad Akhtar

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal work about hope and identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Eleg… read more

Similar categories in Ayad Akhtar's Homeland Elegies book and Tim Murphy's Correspondents

  • literary fiction
  • politics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Boryga's Victim book and Tim Murphy's Correspondents

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. A Great Country

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more

Similar categories in Shilpi Somaya Gowda's A Great Country book and Tim Murphy's Correspondents

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

By: Ben Shattuck

3.84

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

On an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of… read more

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17. Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells

By: Harold McGee

4.02

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The ultimate guide to the smells of the universe – the ambrosial to the malodorous, and everything … read more

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18. Correspondents

By: Tim Murphy

4.29

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The world is Rita Khoury's oyster. The bright and driven daughter of a Boston-area Irish-Arab famil… read more

Similar categories in Tim Murphy's Correspondents book and Tim Murphy's Correspondents

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • lebanon
  • audiobook
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19. Motion Sickness (Masks)

By: Lynne Tillman

3.39

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Book by Tillman, Lynne read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"…the tongue, for instance, is privileged with information indifferent to words."

-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)

"The rain persists, an amniotic fluid, the perfect environment for reading in a room, a womb of one’s own."

-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)

"…but place is unimportant to a traveler, if that’s what I can be called. If it were important, people couldn’t bear to move on."

-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)

"... I want things plain. Or direct. When I read a book I’m suspicious of description. Too much embellishment or an excess of adjectives bothers me, as if the speaker or writer were attempting to over…"

-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)

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20. Grown Women

By: Sarai Johnson

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning debut novel, four generations of complex Black women contend with motherhood and d… read more

Similar categories in Sarai Johnson's Grown Women book and Tim Murphy's Correspondents

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I don’t think you’re ever really grown."

-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women

"We can learn from trauma. We can become better, more efficient, if we do the work."

-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women

"Similarly, I owe a great deal to my female ancestors and the women who mothered me."

-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women

"Sometimes the best thing you can do for someone you love is stay the hell away from them."

-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women

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21. Where the Forest Meets the River (Dalton, Maine, #2)

By: Shannon Bowring

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Return to Dalton as Shannon Bowring draws another stunningly human portrait of small town America. … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Bowring's Where the Forest Meets the River (Dalton, Maine, #2) book and Tim Murphy's Correspondents

  • literary fiction
  • fiction

18 Top fiction books like Correspondents by Tim Murphy

Transform Your Habits

The End of Drum-Time

Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

In Memoriam

Alice Winn

4.53

Transform Your Habits

An Honest Man

Ben Fergusson

4.24

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20 Best fiction books like Perris, California by Rachel Stark

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Last House

Jessica Shattuck

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Leaving

Roxana Robinson

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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