14 Best audiobook books like Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End by Lissa Soep

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Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

By: Lissa Soep

4.33

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

What if the great love of your life is friendship? In their twenties, Lissa Soep and her boyfriend …

If you liked the audiobook plot in Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End by Lissa Soep , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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2. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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3. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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4. The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Flexibound

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more

Similar categories in Amy Tan's The Backyard Bird Chronicles book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

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5. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's Modern Poetry: Poems book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

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6. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You? book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. Shanghailanders

By: Juli Min

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more

Similar categories in Juli Min's Shanghailanders book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • audiobook
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8. Sing Her Down

By: Ivy Pochoda

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

No Country for Old Men meets Killing Eve in this gritty, feminist Western thriller from the award-w… read more

Similar categories in Ivy Pochoda's Sing Her Down book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • audiobook
"If we could avenge people for their personalities, we'd all be in trouble."

-Ivy Pochoda, Sing Her Down

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9. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

By: Chelsea Devantez

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Devantez's I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway] book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

By: Alua Arthur

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more

Similar categories in Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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11. Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol

By: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay , a hilariously candid and refreshingly honest… read more

Similar categories in Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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12. Buster: A Dog

By: George Pelecanos

3.87

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

Pelecanos breaks new literary ground with the story of a dog's life―from the dog's perspective―on t… read more

Similar categories in George Pelecanos's Buster: A Dog book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

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13. Waiting for the Monsoon

By: Rod Nordland

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air, the New York Times's legendary war correspondent deli… read more

Similar categories in Rod Nordland's Waiting for the Monsoon book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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14. Devil Is Fine

By: John Vercher

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more

Similar categories in John Vercher's Devil Is Fine book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • audiobook
"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

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15. The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman

By: Gennifer Choldenko

4.55

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Readers will be rooting for a happy ending for Hank in Newbery-Honor-winner Gennifer Choldenko’s gr… read more

Similar categories in Gennifer Choldenko's The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • audiobook
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16. Alone in the House of My Heart: Poems

By: Kari Gunter-Seymour

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Deeply rooted in respect and compassion for Appalachia and its people, these poems are both paeans … read more

Similar categories in Kari Gunter-Seymour's Alone in the House of My Heart: Poems book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

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17. Touching the Art

By: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A daringly observant memoir about intergenerational trauma, fine art, and compartmentalization from… read more

Similar categories in Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's Touching the Art book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity

By: Sable Yong

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Journalist and former Allure editor Sable Yong debuts with a sharp-toothed and hilarious essay coll… read more

Similar categories in Sable Yong's Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • nonfiction
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19. Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

By: Lissa Soep

4.33

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

What if the great love of your life is friendship? In their twenties, Lissa Soep and her boyfriend … read more

Similar categories in Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • relationships
  • self help
  • memoir
  • philosophy
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals

By: Brenda Peterson

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In Wild Chorus , award-winning author Brenda Peterson draws on her lifelong relationship with anima… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Peterson's Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals book and Lissa Soep's Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

  • nonfiction

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4.07

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3.86

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3.91

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Lisa Ko

3.22

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