21 must-read audiobook books like Drowning Practice by Mike Meginnis

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Drowning Practice

By: Mike Meginnis

3.45

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Profoundly moving, filled with tenderness, and brought to life by a curious, sprawling imagination,…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Drowning Practice by Mike Meginnis , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Veronica

By: Mary Gaitskill

3.59

Format: None pages,

The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behaviorand Two Girls, Fat and Thin, V… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction

2. The Expendable Man

By: Dorothy B. Hughes

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

The critic HRF Keating chose The Expendable Manas one of his Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books. '… read more

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3. Good Morning, Midnight

By: Lily Brooks-Dalton

3.84

Format: 95 pages, ebook

Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, is consumed by the stars. For years he has lived in remot… read more

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4. The Iron Dragon's Daughter

By: Michael Swanwick

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

A slave in a dragon factory that manufactures flying fighting machines, Jane changes her destiny wh… read more

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5. The Ferryman

By: Justin Cronin

3.93

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

6. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

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7. 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
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

8. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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9. The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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10. Sleepwalk

By: Dan Chaon

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big hearted mercenary,… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"There's a rare few that are able to drift through life without being owned by someone."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

"It was disconcerting to live in a time in which accepting reality required a suspension of disbelief."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

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11. The Oracle Year

By: Charles Soule

3.68

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

From bestselling comic-book franchise writer Charles Soule comes a clever and witty first novel of … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. Cult Classic

By: Sloane Crosley

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully cra… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You know who gets to drink coffee at fuck-you hours, I thought? The French."

-Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic

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13. Freckled: A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii

By: T.W. Neal

4.36

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

Für Fans vom Schloss aus Glas und Wie Bildung mir die Welt erschloss kommt Krimi- Autorin Toby Nea… read more

Similar categories in T.W. Neal's Freckled: A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii book and Mike Meginnis's Drowning Practice

  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Bridge

By: Lauren Beukes

3.68

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A grieving daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities in Bridge,… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Beukes's Bridge book and Mike Meginnis's Drowning Practice

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. The Future of Another Timeline

By: Annalee Newitz

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths … read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I remember abortion being legal in the United States"

-Annalee Newitz, The Future of Another Timeline

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16. Afterland

By: Lauren Beukes

3.26

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still ho… read more

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  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The dark comfort of mortality, she thinks, the reminder that other people before them dreamed and suffered, created strange architecture, and disappeared for reasons incomprehensible to those coming …"

-Lauren Beukes, Afterland

"Non ti conosco e non so cosa è successo nella tua vita. Ma quello che voglio dirti è che vale la pena raccontare alcuni segreti. Altrimenti ti avvelenano come la chemioterapia... ti scavano dall'inte…"

-Lauren Beukes, Afterland

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17. Reptile Memoirs

By: Silje O. Ulstein

3.65

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling Norwegian debut already sold in thirteen territories, Reptile Memoirs is a brilliantl… read more

Similar categories in Silje O. Ulstein's Reptile Memoirs book and Mike Meginnis's Drowning Practice

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Book of Love

By: Kelly Link

3.50

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Link's The Book of Love book and Mike Meginnis's Drowning Practice

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. A House Between Earth and the Moon

By: Rebecca Scherm

3.45

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

The gripping story of one scientist in outer space, another who watches over him, the family left b… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. Nonfiction

By: Julie Myerson

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you’re gone, I see you everywhere. E… read more

Similar categories in Julie Myerson's Nonfiction book and Mike Meginnis's Drowning Practice

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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21. The Dreamers

By: Karen Thompson Walker

3.63

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

In an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a freshman girl stumbles into her … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"His mind is like that: always mired in a terrible future."

-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

"But isn't the future always an imaginary thing before it comes?"

-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

"How expert we are at looking away from what we would rather not see."

-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

"Every one of her days hums with the possibility that she might be doing it wrong."

-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

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22. Lost Ark Dreaming

By: Suyi Davies Okungbowa

3.69

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon’s The Deep in this high… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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23. Seasonal Work: Stories

By: Laura Lippman

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  bestseller Laura Lippman showcases why she is one of today’s top crime writers in t… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. The Goth House Experiment

By: S.J. Sindu

3.56

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

An uncanny and electric story collection from SJ Sindu, Lambda Literary finalist and Publishing Tri… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Atomic Anna

By: Rachel Barenbaum

3.80

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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26. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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27. When We Fell Apart

By: Soon Wiley

3.77

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A drama that untangles the complicated ties that bind families together--or break them apart--as a … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The more I got to know here, the more impressed I was with her imperishable desire for something else. Never satisfied with how things were or how others thought they should be, she was always intere…"

-Soon Wiley, When We Fell Apart

"The more I got to know her, the more impressed I was with her imperishable desire for something else. Never satisfied with how things were or how others thought they should be, she was always interes…"

-Soon Wiley, When We Fell Apart

Cover of Drowning Practice by Mike Meginnis

28. Drowning Practice

By: Mike Meginnis

3.45

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Profoundly moving, filled with tenderness, and brought to life by a curious, sprawling imagination,… read more

Similar categories in Mike Meginnis's Drowning Practice book and Mike Meginnis's Drowning Practice

  • literary fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Brother Alive by Zain  Khalid

29. Brother Alive

By: Zain Khalid

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing debut novel about family, sexuality, and capitalist systems of control, following th… read more

Similar categories in Zain Khalid's Brother Alive book and Mike Meginnis's Drowning Practice

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Most by Jessica  Anthony

30. The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

3.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Anthony's The Most book and Mike Meginnis's Drowning Practice

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. The City in Glass

By: Nghi Vo

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this new standalone, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in th… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy

27 Best fiction books like Drowning Practice by Mike Meginnis

Transform Your Habits

Veronica

Mary Gaitskill

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Ferryman

Justin Cronin

3.93

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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Lorrie Moore

3.31

Transform Your Habits

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4.06

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18 Best fiction books like Afterland by Lauren Beukes

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Borne (Borne, #1)

Jeff VanderMeer

3.93

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Lidia Yuknavitch

4.00

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