22 must-read audiobook books like Treeborne by Caleb Johnson

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Treeborne

By: Caleb Johnson

3.28

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Daniel Wallace’s Big Fish and Amanda Coplin’s The Orchardist comes a debut nove…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Treeborne by Caleb Johnson , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir

By: Domingo Martinez

3.65

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

Lyrical and gritty, this authentic coming-of-age story about a border-town family in Brownsville, T… read more

Similar categories in Domingo Martinez's Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • southern
  • family
  • audiobook
"Hope disappears. And still you go on. Then suddenly it's over. And hope doesn't surprise you again, once it's gone. It has a different name. Different face. And you're not happy to see it, or surpris…"

-Domingo Martinez, Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir

"You go and do what you need to do, June," she says to me. "You go and find what you need. Your supper will be here, when you need it. Your supper will be warm. No matter where I am, that will be your…"

-Domingo Martinez, Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir

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2. The Lola Quartet

By: Emily St. John Mandel

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Gavin Sasaki is a promising young journalist in New York City, until he's fired in disgrace followi… read more

Similar categories in Emily St. John Mandel's The Lola Quartet book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook

3. The World Without Us

By: Alan Weisman

4.09

Format: 296 pages,

A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers… read more

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4. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

By: John Berendt

4.27

Format: 67 pages,

A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this eno… read more

Similar categories in John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • audiobook
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5. Flight Behavior

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.81

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a d… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She would die of him or be cured."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

"For scientists, reality is not optional."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

"I never learn anything from listening to myself."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

"Be sweet and carry a sharp knife, was her motto."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

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6. Dandelion Wine

By: Ray Bradbury

4.08

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawn… read more

Similar categories in Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • magical realism
  • historical fiction
"No,"

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

"and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,"

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

"And the sea moved her back down the shore."

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

"Those women like to see their tongues dance."

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

7. Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts

By: Burkhard Bilger

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Burkhard Bilger vividly captures a world that lies outside the familiar images of life in the Unite… read more

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8. Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

By: David Wong

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Nightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements. An all-seeing social network that tracks your ev… read more

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9. The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

By: Jennifer Worth

3.78

Format: 472 pages,

An unforgettable story of the joy of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the hope of one ex… read more

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10. The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

By: Susan Orlean

4.22

Format: 160 pages,

The Orchid Thiefis Susan Orlean's tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered f… read more

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11. Somebody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

4.27

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more

Similar categories in Richard Russo's Somebody's Fool book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Romney: A Reckoning

By: McKay Coppins

4.36

Format: 416 pages, ebook

A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more

Similar categories in McKay Coppins's Romney: A Reckoning book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • audiobook
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13. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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14. Chain-Gang All-Stars

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more

Similar categories in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

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15. The Invisible Hour

By: Alice Hoffman

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The latest New York Times bestseller from beloved author Alice Hoffman celebrates the enduring magi… read more

Similar categories in Alice Hoffman's The Invisible Hour book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read."

-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour

"Mia now understood that Joel was well aware that once a girl walked into a library she could never be controlled again."

-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour

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16. The Queen of Dirt Island

By: Donal Ryan

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant… read more

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's The Queen of Dirt Island book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"Happiness was a strange notion, something that was wrapped neatly, and packed into the closing scenes of television shows and daytime films, sharply relieved on the screen, but blurry in real life, a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother had walked her to the classroom door and Mammy had cried a bit and Granny had told her to cop on and Nana then had told Granny to cop on herself and t…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"She felt sad in that moment for anyone in the world who didn’t have a mother like hers. A mother who was standing now above her quarry like a prizefighter in a swell of victory, looking slowly left a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

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17. The Heart of It All

By: Christian Kiefer

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A small, declining town in Ohio. A family bereaved by terrible loss. A searing narrative about how … read more

Similar categories in Christian Kiefer's The Heart of It All book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2) by Colson Whitehead

18. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more

Similar categories in Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2) book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Misery is a money pit."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

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19. The Chosen and the Beautiful

By: Nghi Vo

3.55

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s Ame… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Chosen and the Beautiful book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • historical
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It was after midnight with that tired charm that all parties on the downturn acquire."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"He wanted something agreeable, something sweeter around the edges, but I was never very good at sweet."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"He called me careless because he didn't have the words to sort out how jealous he was of my money and my freedom and how very few people in the world could act as I did."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"You weren't meant to look at people the way that Lieutenant Gatsby looked at Daisy Fay. You couldn't peel your skin back and show them how your heart had gone up in flames, how nothing that had come …"

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

Cover of Maureen (Harold Fry #3) by Rachel Joyce

20. Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

By: Rachel Joyce

3.95

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes a moving novel told from… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3) book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank

21. One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

By: Michael Frank

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

One of Wall Street Journal ’s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Award… read more

Similar categories in Michael Frank's One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • audiobook
"I do believe that as we travel through life we become a different person in every situation, or context, or phase."

-Michael Frank, One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

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22. How High We Go in the Dark

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu

3.83

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's resea… read more

Similar categories in Sequoia Nagamatsu's How High We Go in the Dark book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Death has become a way of life"

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"Life is always easier for boys."

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"She always preferred celestial objects to people."

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"Embrace possibility, but don't let it drag you down"

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

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23. Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump

By: Miles Taylor

4.44

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism … read more

Similar categories in Miles Taylor's Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • audiobook
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24. Walk the Vanished Earth

By: Erin Swan

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Station Eleven, Severance and The Dog Stars, a beautifully written and emotiona… read more

Similar categories in Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • fiction
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25. 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 Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • 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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26. Again and Again

By: Jonathan Evison

3.75

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of America’s greatest, most creative novelists comes Again and Again , a poignant and endl… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Evison's Again and Again book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson

27. I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

By: Abbi Jacobson

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a "poignant, funny, and beautifully u… read more

Similar categories in Abbi Jacobson's I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • audiobook
"Love revealed how covered up I was, but heartache broke me open."

-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

"Real life is like a constant Yelp review, everyone has notes on how the experience could be improved."

-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

"I thought about how pain is also a symptom of transformation. I thought about bouncing back. How we can start again. And again."

-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

"From that poorly lit room on the top floor of a tiny mini mall in Sedona, a stranger told me exactly what I knew already. I guess that's what I was looking for, someone to see me and my fears and my …"

-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

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28. Nuclear Family

By: Joseph Han

3.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Set in the months leading up to the 2018 nuclear missile false alarm, a Korean American family livi… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Han's Nuclear Family book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

Similar categories in Rumaan Alam's Entitlement book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. Treeborne

By: Caleb Johnson

3.28

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Daniel Wallace’s Big Fish and Amanda Coplin’s The Orchardist comes a debut nove… read more

Similar categories in Caleb Johnson's Treeborne book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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31. Someone Like Us

By: Dinaw Mengestu

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more

Similar categories in Dinaw Mengestu's Someone Like Us book and Caleb Johnson's Treeborne

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"

-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us

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Emily St. John Mandel

4.00

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3.81

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4.27

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