20 must-read audiobook books like Carry the Dog by Stephanie Gangi

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Carry the Dog

By: Stephanie Gangi

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bea Seger has spent a lifetime running from her childhood. The daughter of a famous photographer, s…

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1. Holding Pattern

By: Jenny Xie

3.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE Holding Pattern. Noun. 1. A state of suspende… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Xie's Holding Pattern book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. Welcome Home, Stranger

By: Kate Christensen

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growin… read more

Similar categories in Kate Christensen's Welcome Home, Stranger book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. 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

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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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4. Alice Sadie Celine

By: Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

3.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

It’s opening night, but Alice’s performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter’s Tale i… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Blakley-Cartwright's Alice Sadie Celine book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Girls They Write Songs About

By: Carlene Bauer

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A power ballad to female friendship, Girls They Write Songs About is a thrumming, searching novel a… read more

Similar categories in Carlene Bauer's Girls They Write Songs About book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The last thing I remember: nestling up close to him, as close as I could get, the front of my knees locked into the back of his, burying my face in his shoulder blades, thinking that his skin smelled…"

-Carlene Bauer, Girls They Write Songs About

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6. Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4)

By: Stephen Spotswood

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series fo… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Spotswood's Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4) book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Tell Me Who You Are

By: Louisa Luna

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a… read more

Similar categories in Louisa Luna's Tell Me Who You Are book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Together We Will Go

By: J. Michael Straczynski

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Breakfast Club meets The Silver Linings Playbook in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt n… read more

Similar categories in J. Michael Straczynski's Together We Will Go book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Most of my friends put their preferred pronoun in their Instagram bios—he/she, him/her, they/their—but I respond to any and all of them. I like to think of it as collecting pronouns: the more I get, …"

-J. Michael Straczynski, Together We Will Go

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9. Chorus

By: Rebecca Kauffman

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and Claire Lombardo, Chorus shepherds seven siblings … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Kauffman's Chorus book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Our little hearts can carry only so much in one lifetime, after all."

-Rebecca Kauffman, Chorus

"And he knew that this beautiful world had a forked tongue. And he knew that everything he thought and felt and feared was real."

-Rebecca Kauffman, Chorus

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10. Lucky Turtle

By: Bill Roorbach

3.81

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this love story, a teenage girl with a checkered past finds instant chemistry with a mysterious … read more

Similar categories in Bill Roorbach's Lucky Turtle book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

By: Molly McGhee

3.50

Format: 304 pages, None

Jonathan Abernathy is drowning in debt. If he can appear to be competent at his new job, he might h… read more

Similar categories in Molly McGhee's Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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13. Reunion

By: Elise Juska

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of the “uniquely poignant” (Entertainment Weekly) novel The Blessings comes… read more

Similar categories in Elise Juska's Reunion book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Elsewhere

By: Alexis Schaitkin

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the ima… read more

Similar categories in Alexis Schaitkin's Elsewhere book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Difficult, but comforting, the way I suppose one's own life always feels."

-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

"He didn't understand that a mother and daughter cannot be protected from one another, that the harms that pass between them cannot be mitigated because they are also expressions of love."

-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

"I saw then that he was drawn not just to me, but also to the dark potential all women in our town carried inside us, and I was startled to realize he feared me a little. I began to know what women he…"

-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

Cover of The Self-Made Widow (Suburban Dicks, #2) by Fabian Nicieza

15. The Self-Made Widow (Suburban Dicks, #2)

By: Fabian Nicieza

3.92

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the cocreator of Deadpool and author of Suburban Dicks comes a diabolically funny murder myste… read more

Similar categories in Fabian Nicieza's The Self-Made Widow (Suburban Dicks, #2) book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. You Can't Stay Here Forever

By: Katherine Lin

3.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Named a must-read book of summer by: Good Morning America, People, the San Francisco Chronicle, the… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Lin's You Can't Stay Here Forever book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Seaplane on Final Approach

By: Rebecca Rukeyser

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A lusty young woman seeks out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead in this erotic and darkly hu… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Rukeyser's The Seaplane on Final Approach book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My ferocity was leveled at becoming."

-Rebecca Rukeyser, The Seaplane on Final Approach

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18. The Laughter

By: Sonora Jha

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more

Similar categories in Sonora Jha's The Laughter book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Kaleidoscope

By: Cecily Wong

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and heartfelt novel about two sisters caught in their parents' ambition, the accident th… read more

Similar categories in Cecily Wong's Kaleidoscope book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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20. Scarlet in Blue

By: Jennifer Murphy

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A 2023 MICHIGAN NOTABLE BOOK A beautiful and gripping psychological novel about a mother and dau… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Murphy's Scarlet in Blue book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Carry the Dog

By: Stephanie Gangi

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bea Seger has spent a lifetime running from her childhood. The daughter of a famous photographer, s… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog book and Stephanie Gangi's Carry the Dog

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • art
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook

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