16 Top fiction books like The Life List of Adrian Mandrick by Chris White

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The Life List of Adrian Mandrick

By: Chris White

3.54

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

H Is for Hawk meets Grief Is the Thing with Feathers in this evocative debut novel about a pill-pop…

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Cover of Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2) by Ann Cleeves

1. Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

It has been ten years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Man… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Straight Man

By: Richard Russo

3.88

Format: 136 pages,

In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hila… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. The Last Summer

By: Ann Brashares , Edith Beleites

3.92

Format: 292 pages,

Riley and Alice, two sisters now in their twenties, and as fiercely different as they are loyal, ha… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Future Home of the Living God

By: Louise Erdrich

3.60

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

Louise Erdrich paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn ch… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She has decided to appear to nobody but the feckless."

-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God

"I’d been a snowflake. Without my specialness, I melted,"

-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God

"Where will you be my darling, the last time it snows on earth?"

-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God

"I want to see the story. More than anything, I am frustrated by the fact that I’ll never know how things turn out."

-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God

5. Here Comes the Sun

By: Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

3.94

Format: 256 pages,

Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis-Benn pens a tender hymn … read more

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6. Food: A Love Story

By: Jim Gaffigan

3.71

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

“What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here’s why:… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
"I'm a fan of relaxing, and when i get tired of relaxing I like to do nothing."

-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

"There are people who eat only organic food, and then there are people who don’t have tons of money to waste."

-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

"In America we have gone way beyond sustenance. Eating is an activity. 'Why don’t we get lunch, and then we’ll grab some pizza."

-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

"I love the phrase "I have a sweet tooth." I always want to say, "You're ordering it for your tooth? That's interesting, because it's going straight to your butt. I think your butt owed your tooth an …"

-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

7. Caribou Island

By: David Vann

4.35

Format: 255 pages,

On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unraveling. Gary… read more

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8. Shadows of the Workhouse

By: Jennifer Worth

4.00

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of E… read more

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9. Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002

By: David Sedaris

3.75

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

David Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the making. For forty years, Da… read more

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10. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

By: Vicki Myron , Bret Witter

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for … read more

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11. Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

By: Parker J. Palmer

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teach… read more

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Cover of A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

12. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

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  • audiobook
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Cover of The Child (Kate Waters, #2) by Fiona Barton

13. The Child (Kate Waters, #2)

By: Fiona Barton

3.94

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

When a paragraph in an evening newspaper reveals a decades-old tragedy, most readers barely give it… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"People say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. They say that when you been through something terrible ... But it doesn't. It breaks your bones, leaving everything splintered and held together w…"

-Fiona Barton, The Child (Kate Waters, #2)

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14. Who Is Maud Dixon?

By: Alexandra Andrews

3.83

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated, bestselling, elusive...who is Maud Dixon? Florence Darrow wants to be a writer. Corr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He had touched her tenderly, accommodatingly, in a way she found slightly revolting."

-Alexandra Andrews, Who Is Maud Dixon?

"She was so hemmed in all the time by timidity and insecurity that every once in a while some self-destructive impulse in her demanded brash action. It was the same impulse that had made her send thos…"

-Alexandra Andrews, Who Is Maud Dixon?

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15. The Fox Wife

By: Yangsze Choo

4.01

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, or life force, bu… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Chinese traditionally consider shadows part of the soul. Harm done to a shadow, whether by pinning it to the ground or stepping on it, was considered spiritual damage to the person. Of course none of…"

-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

"Sometimes our wishes come back in the darkest, most twisted ways, like a thorn that pierces and grows through your flesh. A tree that drinks blood and blots out the sun. The sin was mine; I had water…"

-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

Cover of Only Human (Themis Files, #3) by Sylvain Neuvel

16. Only Human (Themis Files, #3)

By: Sylvain Neuvel

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In her childhood, Rose Franklin accidentally discovered a giant metal hand buried beneath the groun… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Once you throw religion into the mix, it's easy to lose sight of reality."

-Sylvain Neuvel, Only Human (Themis Files, #3)

"They have me in a bunk next to this guy, Bilal. He’s just a year older than me. He—this is nuts—he studied plant biology in Helsinki. He worked in a bar to pay for school. There’s nothing special abo…"

-Sylvain Neuvel, Only Human (Themis Files, #3)

"Muslims are bad because they are, that’s all. Why would you need a reason? It’s one thing to let your child go blind because you read on Facebook that the measles vaccine would make him autistic, it’…"

-Sylvain Neuvel, Only Human (Themis Files, #3)

"You build a revolution on ideas. If the population doesn't buy your ideas, it means they're not ready, or you're wrong. There's this tendency for people to see any fight against the system as a fight…"

-Sylvain Neuvel, Only Human (Themis Files, #3)

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17. Small Game

By: Blair Braverman

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping debut novel about a survival reality show gone wrong that leaves a group of strangers s… read more

Similar categories in Blair Braverman's Small Game book and Chris White's The Life List of Adrian Mandrick

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper

18. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

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  • birds
  • animals
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

Cover of The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think by Jennifer Ackerman

19. The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ackerman's The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think book and Chris White's The Life List of Adrian Mandrick

  • birds
  • animals
  • nature
  • audiobook
"We dig up dinosaurs to try and figure out what happened to them. Perhaps someday dinosaurs, in the form of corvids, will dig us up to figure out what happened to us."

-Jennifer Ackerman, The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

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20. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twen… read more

Similar categories in Kirk Wallace Johnson's The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century book and Chris White's The Life List of Adrian Mandrick

  • birds
  • animals
  • nature
  • audiobook
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21. The Paper Wasp

By: Lauren Acampora

3.32

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from the acclaimed author of The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp is a riv… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Acampora's The Paper Wasp book and Chris White's The Life List of Adrian Mandrick

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. A Quantum Love Story

By: Mike Chen

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them. Grieving her best friend… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. Swamp Story

By: Dave Barry

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling author—and actual Florida Man—Dave Barry retu… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. Zorrie

By: Laird Hunt

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction) From prize-winning, acclaimed author Laird Hun… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You could get whiplash trying to watch time go by."

-Laird Hunt, Zorrie

"Still, it was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she knew."

-Laird Hunt, Zorrie

"As she began to doze, she wondered if when you rode in airplanes, love, even old impossible love, sent hearts tumbling end over end."

-Laird Hunt, Zorrie

"She asked Janie what it was like to have a mother, and Janie leaned over and gave Zorrie a kiss on the top of her head and then turned her around and gave her a quick kick in her seat and told her th…"

-Laird Hunt, Zorrie

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25. Marigold and Rose

By: Louise Glück

3.65

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds by Caroline Van Hemert

26. The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

By: Caroline Van Hemert

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Paci… read more

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  • nature
  • audiobook
"In life, we're always closer to the edge than we like to admit, never guaranteed our next breath, never sure of what will follow this moment. We're human. We're vulnerable. With love comes the risk o…"

-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

"About Northern Wheatears: ...birds from Alaska flew nine thousand miles to Kenya; those from Canada crossed the Atlantic to spend the winter in Mauritania. For young birds, just a few weeks old, this…"

-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

Cover of The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans by Bill Hammack

27. The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

By: Bill Hammack

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Discover the secret method used to build the world… For millennia, humans have used one simple m… read more

Similar categories in Bill Hammack's The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans book and Chris White's The Life List of Adrian Mandrick

  • audiobook
Cover of Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Duchess Goldblatt

28. Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

By: Duchess Goldblatt

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir and part joyful romp through the fields of imagination, the story behind a beloved pseu… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
"After a certain point, people lose patience with your grief. They just want you to move on."

-Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

"If you’ve ever wondered what the right thing is to say to someone who’s grieving a death, I think this is it: Tell me all about your dear one."

-Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

"When someone you love dies, you lose them in pieces over time, but you also get them back in pieces: little fragments of memory come rushing back through what they cared about, what brought them joy.…"

-Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

Cover of In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration by Shane O'Mara

29. In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration

By: Shane O'Mara

3.31

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A hymn to walking, the mechanical magic at the core of our humanity. Walking upright on two feet… read more

Similar categories in Shane O'Mara's In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration book and Chris White's The Life List of Adrian Mandrick

  • nature
  • audiobook
"The larger lesson is clear: brains have evolved for movement. If you're going to be stuck, unmoving, in one place, with all your food around you, then why do you need a costly brain?"

-Shane O'Mara, In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration

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30. 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 Chris White's The Life List of Adrian Mandrick

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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31. The Life List of Adrian Mandrick

By: Chris White

3.54

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

H Is for Hawk meets Grief Is the Thing with Feathers in this evocative debut novel about a pill-pop… read more

Similar categories in Chris White's The Life List of Adrian Mandrick book and Chris White's The Life List of Adrian Mandrick

  • literary fiction
  • animals
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • birds
  • adult
  • nature
  • audiobook

13 must-read contemporary books like The Life List of Adrian Mandrick by Chris White

Transform Your Habits

Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2)

Ann Cleeves

4.09

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Straight Man

Richard Russo

3.88

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The Last Summer

Ann Brashares , Edith Beleites

3.92

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Who Is Maud Dixon?

Alexandra Andrews

3.83

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Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

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No Two Persons

Erica Bauermeister

4.09

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Chris Bachelder

3.83

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Catherine Newman

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