23 must-read audiobook books like Bug by Giacomo Sartori

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Bug

By: Giacomo Sartori

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In the singular world of the young, deaf narrator of Bug, there are just a handful of people who tr…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Bug by Giacomo Sartori , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. Magic for Liars

By: Sarah Gailey

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Ivy Gamble has never wanted to be magical. She is perfectly happy with her life. She has an almost-… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Fucking Mages."

-Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars

"If you need to hurry...you’re already too late."

-Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars

"the bags under my eyes were definitely well past the carry-on limit"

-Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars

"A twenty-five-cent word sprang unbidden into my mind: “noctilucent."

-Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars

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2. The Country Life

By: Rachel Cusk

3.73

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Stella Benson, anxious to leave London and begin a new life, journeys to rural Sussex to work as an… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Meaty

By: Samantha Irby , None

3.54

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

The debut essay collection by Chicago writer and performer, Samantha Irby, creator of bitchesgottae… read more

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  • audiobook
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4. Boy, Snow, Bird

By: Helen Oyeyemi

3.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

BOY Novak turns twenty and decides to try for a brand-new life. Flax Hill, Massachusetts, isn't exa… read more

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  • fiction
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5. The Dog of the South

By: Charles Portis

4.27

Format: 24 pages,

The narrator is Ray Midge, down-at-the-heels Southerner after his wife. "Norma had run off with Guy… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook

6. Grief is the Thing with Feathers

By: Max Porter

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their … read more

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7. Dark Harvest

By: Norman Partridge

4.02

Format: 982 pages,

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, … read more

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8. The Exquisite

By: Laird Hunt

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"Strange, original, and utterly brilliant--Laird Hunt is one of the most talented young writers on … read more

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9. This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

By: David Wong

4.26

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Originally released as an online serial where itreceivedmore than 70,000 downloads,John Dies at the… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Damn it! I knew she was a monster! John! Amy! Listen! Guard your buttholes."

-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

"When they write the sequel to the Bible, that shit is definitely gonna be in there."

-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

"Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back."

-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

"Your 'let's remain calm and stay put' speech would be a lot more convincing if you weren't giving it in front of a pile of burning skeletons."

-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

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10. Several People Are Typing

By: Calvin Kasulke

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"what is a workplace but a cult where everyone gets paid"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

"When is have a break? We already had lunch, man. The next break happens when the work is over. I showed you on your gcal, remember? When is have a break from self meat? LOL. Uh, death, I guess. But t…"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

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11. House of Cotton

By: Monica Brashears

3.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn’t have much to look forward to… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Vulnerables

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

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13. Chouette

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremisTiny is pregnant. Her husband is deligh… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"We're the oldest love triangle in the world: mother, father, child."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"Maybe I resent you a little. Once this first small thought of maybe-resentment creeps in, it acts like a fast poison."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"Every day you wrench me toward a different world altogether: an older world, filled with wild, perfect creatures, singing in the dark."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

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14. You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Jonny Appleseed

By: Joshua Whitehead

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I am my own best medicine."

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

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16. The Centre

By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who atten… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. VenCo

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It felt like the drunken part of falling in love, the erratic and uncompromising compulsion that made you do dumb shit and your best shit at the same time. She had to stop herself from running. She h…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"Throughout history, witches have been the stand-ins for all people who have felt 'outside' or 'different.' I say, fuck it -- go outside, be different, be so different they have to loosen their grip o…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"She wondered if every place in New Orleans had a secret garden, if every place was so witchy and beautiful. And for the first time, she was filled with an enormous pride for who she was-- what she wa…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

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18. Djinn City

By: Saad Z. Hossain

3.71

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super dense, super chaotic third worl… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Silentiary

By: Antonio di Benedetto

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The Silentiary takes place in a nameless Latin American city during the early 1950s. A young man em… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Art of Prophecy (War Arts, #1) by Wesley Chu

20. The Art of Prophecy (War Arts, #1)

By: Wesley Chu

4.08

Format: 533 pages, Hardcover

An epic fantasy ode to martial arts and magic—the story of a spoiled hero, an exacting grandmaster,… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Because she was here on a diplomatic mission, she decided to be gentle. She had learned from experience that murder was a terrible way to start a relationship."

-Wesley Chu, The Art of Prophecy (War Arts, #1)

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21. The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

By: Briony Cameron

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one o… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

22. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

By: Amanda Leduc

4.09

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After … read more

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  • disability
  • audiobook
"...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life."

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

" It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that mean…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

"Most importantly, it's a message that assumes absolute and unrealistic able-bodiedness. No one with glasses. No crutches, no wheelchairs, no visible differences from girl to girl apart from the colou…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

"If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society wi…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

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23. Inconvenient Daughter

By: Lauren J. Sharkey

3.42

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A vibrant and provocative debut novel that dispels myths surrounding transracial adoption. Rowan… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. Cry of the Firebird (The Firebird Fairytales, #1)

By: Amy Kuivalainen

3.80

Format: 518 pages, Paperback

A firebird hatches in the far corners of Russia, where gods still walk and magic slumbers, sparking… read more

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  • fiction
"What are you reading?"

-Amy Kuivalainen, Cry of the Firebird (The Firebird Fairytales, #1)

"Oh Jesus, oh Zeus, oh Odin,"

-Amy Kuivalainen, Cry of the Firebird (The Firebird Fairytales, #1)

"Cerise! Come and kiss me, you red haired harpy,"

-Amy Kuivalainen, Cry of the Firebird (The Firebird Fairytales, #1)

"Can I have a final request in case I don’t make it?"

-Amy Kuivalainen, Cry of the Firebird (The Firebird Fairytales, #1)

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25. Red Dust (Cuban Science Fiction)

By: Yoss

3.49

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. Pure (New World Magic #1)

By: Kim Alexander

3.42

Format: None pages, None

‘A unicorn walks into a bar….’ That is not a joke. Look, I’m a bartender, I have nothing to do… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. The Witches at the End of the World

By: Chelsea Iversen

3.52

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Rage burns brighter than any spellfire… Deep in the birchwoods of Norway, magic courses through the… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Labirent

By: Burhan Sönmez

3.57

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

“Evet. Genç bir adam ormanda kaybolmuş. Günler sonra yaşlı birine rastlamış. Yaşlı adam da uzun zam… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. Thieves, Beasts, & Men

By: Shan Leah

3.61

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

** AMERICAN FICTION AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NEW FICTION 2021 **** FINALIST FOR THE 2021 SHELF UNBOU… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. The Only Living Girl on Earth

By: Charles Yu

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Univ… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bug by Giacomo Sartori

31. Bug

By: Giacomo Sartori

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In the singular world of the young, deaf narrator of Bug, there are just a handful of people who tr… read more

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  • italy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • disability
  • audiobook

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