21 must-read audiobook books like The Fall Guy by James Lasdun

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The Fall Guy

By: James Lasdun

2.91

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this taut psychological thriller, a couple and their houseguest find themselves caught in a dead…

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1. You Will Know Me

By: Megan Abbott

3.43

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Katie and Eric Knox have dedicated their lives to their fifteen-year-old daughter Devon, a gymnasti… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"...there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can."

-Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

"...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change. That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard."

-Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

"This sensible, sensible girl. A girl who knew how to protect herself. Never a daredevil, never stunting without a safety mat, without spotters. A girl for whom instability was the ultimate enemy. Who…"

-Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

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2. The Possessions

By: Sara Flannery Murphy

3.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In an unnamed city, the Elysian Society allows paying clients to reconnect with their lost loved on… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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3. Odd Child Out (Jim Clemo, #2)

By: Gilly Macmillan

3.68

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

 How well do you know the people you love…? Best friends Noah Sandler and Abdi Mahad have always… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Sometimes it's hard not to let other people's misery seep into your own bones."

-Gilly Macmillan, Odd Child Out (Jim Clemo, #2)

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4. Find Me

By: Laura van den Berg

2.88

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us Find Me, her highly anticipated… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Didn't I know the worst dangers weren't the obvious ones?"

-Laura van den Berg, Find Me

"Is there any greater mystery than the separateness of each person?"

-Laura van den Berg, Find Me

"A great convulsion of the earth, or at least our American corner of it. Isn't that what we have all lived through?"

-Laura van den Berg, Find Me

"Ever wanted to test your own level of invisibility? Write out your obituary and see how many people you are survived by."

-Laura van den Berg, Find Me

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5. The Perfect Girl

By: Gilly Macmillan

3.66

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Zoe Maisey is a seventeen-year-old musical prodigy with a genius IQ. Three years ago, she was invol… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. The Animators

By: Kayla Rae Whitaker

4.10

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In the male-dominated field of animation, Mel Vaught and Sharon Kisses are a dynamic duo, the frict… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary

7. The Perfect Neighbors

By: Sarah Pekkanen

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Perfect Neighborstakes us into the homes of an idyllic suburban neighborhood where we discover the … read more

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8. The Past

By: Tessa Hadley

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing novel about family and the modern world encroaching upon the old, from one of Britain… read more

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9. The Windfall

By: Soneela Nankani , Diksha Basu

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Audio CD

For the past thirty years, Mr. and Mrs. Jha's lives have been defined by cramped spaces, cut corner… read more

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10. Lucky You: A Novel

By: None

4.00

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Three women, early twenties, find themselves aimlessly adrift in Erika Carter's fierce and darkly f… read more

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11. The English Wife

By: Lauren Willig

4.65

Format: None pages,

From the New York Timesbestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous New York Gilded Age… read more

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12. Lies She Told

By: Cate Holahan

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the truth is darker than fiction. Liza Jones has thirty days to write the thriller that c… read more

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13. Nicotine

By: Nell Zink

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the much acclaimed author of Mislaidand The Wallcreeper, a fierce and audaciously funny novel … read more

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14. Everything You Want Me to Be

By: Mindy Mejia

2.83

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

No one knows who she really is... Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the g… read more

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15. The Donut Legion

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.64

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

In this standalone, Edgar-award winning author, Joe R. Lansdale, whom "few can match" ( Booklist ) … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. Northwoods

By: Amy Pease

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder w… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Besides, I have my pepper spray." When his expression turned skeptical, she looked at him as if he was utterly clueless. "I'm from Chicago," she said, slowly, as if explaining something to a backward…"

-Amy Pease, Northwoods

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17. I Did It for You

By: Amy Engel

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A twisty thriller from the beloved author of The Familiar Dark, in which a woman returns to the tow… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Everybody grieves their own way. He's got his, and I've got mine. ... Personally, I'm a big fan of a bath. I get through my day, do what has to be done, and then at night I draw a hot bath. Sit in th…"

-Amy Engel, I Did It for You

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18. The Brittanys

By: Brittany Ackerman

3.28

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

They're not the most popular freshmen at their Florida prep school, but at least everyone knows the… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction

By: Gabrielle Moss

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A hilarious and nostalgic trip through the history of paperback pre-teen series of the '80s and '90… read more

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  • audiobook
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20. The Neighbor's Secret

By: L. Alison Heller

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Addictive, suspenseful and masterfully written...will delight fans of Big Little Lies .” ―Michele … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. Every Single Secret

By: Christina Dodd

3.61

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd comes a twisty emotional thriller about a wom… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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22. All Grown Up

By: Jami Attenberg

3.39

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins comes a wickedly funny novel about … read more

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  • audiobook
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I am distracted by the world around me and my family's issues and my lackluster career and how all the wheels keep spinning and I have never learned how to steer."

-Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up

"I can tell you something remarkable about that time, although it has only just occurred to me now. I never thought about death, like I do now. I never worried about dying. I only ever thought about b…"

-Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up

"But a funny thing happens when you tell a man that you don't want to get married: they don't believe you. They think you're lying to yourself or to them or you're trying to trick them in some way and…"

-Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up

"Then she calls me and she's crying and we talk for a while about her marriage and while I am sad that my friend is sad, it makes me happier than ever that I've never been married and never will be, b…"

-Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up

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23. Bonfire

By: Krysten Ritter

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Should you ever go back? It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away a… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The past is just a story we tell."

-Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

"Law school teaches you one thing above all: how to speak while saying absolutely nothing."

-Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

"Things dead and buried are best left that way. They don't look none too pretty when they come up."

-Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

"My phone’s dead, and I have to find the microwave to read the time: 8:12. Only bad news comes this early."

-Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

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24. When We Were Vikings

By: Andrew David MacDonald

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes life isn’t as simple as heroes and villains. For Zelda, a twenty-one-year-old Viking ent… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Sometimes the most important things don't fit on lists."

-Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

"...Sometimes the world thinks something is not possible, but it turns out that they can be wrong."

-Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

"...Sometimes life finds us, and when it does we have to rise to the occasion and have courage. And we make lists, rules, and try to order things, trying to control them, when actually the most import…"

-Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

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25. Sweet Little Lies (Cat Kinsella, #1)

By: Caz Frear

3.76

Format: 368 pages, ebook

In this gripping debut procedural, a young London policewoman must probe dark secrets buried deep i… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"...like a Lord of the Flies stage set, only taupe and with scatter cushions."

-Caz Frear, Sweet Little Lies (Cat Kinsella, #1)

"[H]is living room is everything I'd imagined it to be, styled by his wife, wrecked by his kids, like a Lord of the Flies stage set, only taupe and with scatter cushions."

-Caz Frear, Sweet Little Lies (Cat Kinsella, #1)

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26. That Kind of Mother

By: Rumaan Alam

3.07

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a novel about the families we fight to build and tho… read more

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  • audiobook
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. Our Kind of Cruelty

By: Araminta Hall

3.39

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

This is a love story. Mike’s love story. Mike Hayes fought his way out of a brutal childhood and… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"She doesn't know how easy it is to leave scars, how sometimes just a tiny brown oval will remain, but whenever you look at it you know why it's there."

-Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

"If I had been standing close enough I think I might have taken the heavy golden cross from the altar and smashed it against her head, in order to delve about in the red mess of her brains to try and …"

-Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

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28. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

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  • audiobook
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

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29. Don't Turn Around

By: Jessica Barry

3.52

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The riveting follow up to Jessica Barry’s debut Freefall—a controversial, of-the-moment thriller ab… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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30. The Fall Guy

By: James Lasdun

2.91

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this taut psychological thriller, a couple and their houseguest find themselves caught in a dead… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
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31. JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography

By: RoseMarie Terenzio

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look … read more

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  • audiobook

21 Top fiction books like The Fall Guy by James Lasdun

Transform Your Habits

You Will Know Me

Megan Abbott

3.43

Transform Your Habits

The Possessions

Sara Flannery Murphy

3.18

Transform Your Habits

Odd Child Out (Jim Clemo, #2)

Gilly Macmillan

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Find Me

Laura van den Berg

2.88

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19 Best fiction books like The Perfect Girl by Gilly Macmillan

Lie to Me

J.T. Ellison

2.96

Transform Your Habits

The Perfect Girl

Gilly Macmillan

3.66

Every Last Lie

Mary Kubica

2.64

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Scavenger Hunt

Chad Boudreaux

4.30

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