17 must-read audiobook books like Five-Star Stranger by Kat Tang

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Five-Star Stranger

By: Kat Tang

3.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In Kat Tang’s exciting and resonant debut, a “Rental Stranger”—a companion hired under various guis…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Five-Star Stranger by Kat Tang , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

1. Margo's Got Money Troubles

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more

Similar categories in Rufi Thorpe's Margo's Got Money Troubles book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m just saying,"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

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2. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

Cover of A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3) by Peter  Swanson

3. A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3)

By: Peter Swanson

3.61

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularl… read more

Similar categories in Peter Swanson's A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3) book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. House of Glass

By: Sarah Pekkanen

3.99

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perf… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pekkanen's House of Glass book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Husbands & Lovers

By: Beatriz Williams

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom—discover … read more

Similar categories in Beatriz Williams's Husbands & Lovers book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Middletide

By: Sarah Crouch

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping and intensely atmospheric debut, disquiet descends on a small town after the suspi… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Crouch's Middletide book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Sleep Tight

By: J.H. Markert

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The sole survivor of a serial killer might hold the key to stopping a new spree of murders in this … read more

Similar categories in J.H. Markert's Sleep Tight book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Honey

By: Isabel Banta

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age story that follows the meteoric rise of singer Amber Young as she navigates fame in… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Banta's Honey book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The truth is my dad was always singing […]"

-Isabel Banta, Honey

"I wasn’t good enough—what a mortifying thing to discover about yourself."

-Isabel Banta, Honey

"[…] she remains enigmatic, unbreachable; she unlocks herself only for certain people."

-Isabel Banta, Honey

"Mike wants me to say I’m a normal girl. But I’m not, I never was. I always felt I had to prove I was better."

-Isabel Banta, Honey

Cover of A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang

9. A Song to Drown Rivers

By: Ann Liang

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the legend of Xishi, one of the famous Four Beauties of Ancient China, A Song to Drown … read more

Similar categories in Ann Liang's A Song to Drown Rivers book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • adult
  • fiction
"Please,"

-Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

"His eyes fluttered open, focused on me; it was how he had looked at me in all our time together, across the palace rivers, across the polished floors of his chambers, underneath the moonlight. no mat…"

-Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

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10. The Lost Story

By: Meg Shaffer

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale fo… read more

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Lost Story book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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12. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. 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

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight

14. Like Mother, Like Daughter

By: Kimberly McCreight

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A daughter races to uncover her mother's secret life in the wake of her disappearance in this thril… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly McCreight's Like Mother, Like Daughter book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman

15. The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

By: Lynda Cohen Loigman

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist … read more

Similar categories in Lynda Cohen Loigman's The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. A Thousand Times Before

By: Asha Thanki

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A heartrending family saga following three generations of women connected by a fantastic tapestry t… read more

Similar categories in Asha Thanki's A Thousand Times Before book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Five-Star Stranger by Kat Tang

17. Five-Star Stranger

By: Kat Tang

3.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In Kat Tang’s exciting and resonant debut, a “Rental Stranger”—a companion hired under various guis… read more

Similar categories in Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • modern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Book of Witching by C.J.  Cooke

18. The Book of Witching

By: C.J. Cooke

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A mother must fight for her daughter’s life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft and reve… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Cooke's The Book of Witching book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Dearest by Jacquie  Walters

19. Dearest

By: Jacquie Walters

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A new mom in need of help opens her door to her long-estranged mother—only to invite something much… read more

Similar categories in Jacquie Walters's Dearest book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Madwoman

By: Chelsea Bieker

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themse… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Bieker's Madwoman book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Dirty Diana by Jen Besser

21. Dirty Diana

By: Jen Besser

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A deliciously provocative novel about a woman caught between the comfortable stability of her marri… read more

Similar categories in Jen Besser's Dirty Diana book and Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger

  • fiction

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