17 best-selling audiobook books like Bernard and the Cloth Monkey by Judith Bryan

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Bernard and the Cloth Monkey

By: Judith Bryan

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When Anita finally returns home to London after a long absence, everything has changed. Her father …

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1. The Fat Lady Sings

By: Jacqueline Roy

4.10

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Locked in a psychiatric unit because her public singing brought her to the attention of the police,… read more

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  • fiction
"She took sick back home so she never got to see the mother country. Funny phrase, that. Britain gives the kind of mothering that would fetch the social workers in."

-Jacqueline Roy, The Fat Lady Sings

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2. The Accidental

By: Ali Smith

3.37

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Accidenta… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Believe me. Everything is meant."

-Ali Smith, The Accidental

"Got a light? See? Careful. I'm everything you ever dreamed."

-Ali Smith, The Accidental

"There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them."

-Ali Smith, The Accidental

"She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had died a violent death."

-Ali Smith, The Accidental

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3. The Driver's Seat

By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark

3.61

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more

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  • fiction
"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."

-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat

"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."

-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat

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4. From the Heart

By: Susan Hill

4.00

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

You're a young woman. You can choose. Which career to pursue. Who to have sex with. Who to marry an… read more

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5. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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  • fiction

6. Minty Alley

By: C.L.R. James

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

There is a strong belief among devotees of C.L.R. James that it is not possible to have full compre… read more

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7. Elmet

By: Fiona Mozley

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Fresh and distinctive writing from an exciting new voice in fiction - Sally Rooney meets Sarah Perr… read more

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8. Case Study

By: Graeme Macrae Burnet

3.60

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting … read more

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  • fiction
"Forget about meaning’, he said. ‘Life’s not about meaning, it’s about experience."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"Her handbag, he said, was found on the scene. I made a mental note to carry out a thorough spring clean of contents of my own bag before throwing myself in front of any trains."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

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9. Fix the System, Not the Women

By: Laura Bates

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more

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  • audiobook
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"

-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women

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10. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.39

Format: 759 pages, Paperback

With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

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11. Ghost Wall

By: Sarah Moss

3.73

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie an… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain"

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"Lights blind you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"Haven't you been listening, people don't bother to hurt what they don't love. To sacrifice it."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"I knew better than to challenge him; even the word 'Negro' was already some concession to my ideas because he preferred to use a more offensive term and wait, chin raised, for a reaction."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

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12. A Little Luck

By: Claudia Piñeiro

4.29

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

After twenty years, a woman returns to the suburban Argentina she had fled to escape a dreadful acc… read more

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  • fiction
"Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo."

-Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck

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13. Women & Power: A Manifesto

By: Mary Beard

4.03

Format: 115 pages, Hardcover

At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly att… read more

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"Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino"

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"I do wonder if, in some places, the presence of large numbers of women in parliament means that parliament is where the power is not."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"A verdade pura e dura é que as amazonas eram um mito grego masculino. (..) A ideia subjacente era que o dever dos homens consistia em salvar a civilização do domínio das mulheres."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

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14. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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16. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

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  • audiobook
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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17. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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18. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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19. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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20. Wandering Souls

By: Cecile Pin

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

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21. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. Animals Eat Each Other

By: Elle Nash

3.48

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

In Elle Nash’s stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way rela… read more

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  • fiction
"Pain is closer to love than indifference, right?"

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"I didn’t know if I was crying because it hurt so bad or if I was crying because I had failed by letting the pain hurt me so much."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"I did too many things to my body that made it feel old and tired, as though I were dragging all of the mistakes I’d ever made behind me with each step."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"Maybe it wasn’t true love after all. That was disappointing. I had hoped it was true love, that something like that could exist. Instead, it was just sex. Like everything else."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

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23. Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

By: Bernardine Evaristo

3.98

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo's m… read more

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  • race
  • audiobook
"Alle pogingen om cultuur terug te brengen tot opvattingen over authenticiteit kunnen alleen het omgekeerde bewerkstelligen en de onderlinge verbondenheid van onze culturen openbaren."

-Bernardine Evaristo, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

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24. The Doloriad

By: Missouri Williams

3.14

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the M… read more

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  • fiction
"...the story of the city was always a story of disintegration."

-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad

"...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the Matriarch would finally be free of it—the past and its language."

-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad

"...the way that the words hung together to produce meaning had a logic that he could not follow, and sometimes he thought that this was because they spoke in images, immediate, sensuous images, that …"

-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad

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25. Without Prejudice

By: Nicola Williams

3.62

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

Black female barrister Lee Mitchell thinks she has it made when she takes on a dream client, financ… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. The Dancing Face

By: Mike Phillips

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Gus Dixon is campaigning for the payment of reparations to Africa by European governments. He enlis… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us by Kieran Yates

27. All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us

By: Kieran Yates

4.26

Format: None pages, Audiobook

 ‘I tore through the pages. A book I’ll read over and over again’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s (Black Britain Writing Back) by Barbara Blake Hannah

28. Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s (Black Britain Writing Back)

By: Barbara Blake Hannah

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

'A gorgeously exuberant account. . . writing that is natural and vivacious . . . a fascinating and … read more

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Cover of Bernard and the Cloth Monkey by Judith Bryan

29. Bernard and the Cloth Monkey

By: Judith Bryan

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When Anita finally returns home to London after a long absence, everything has changed. Her father … read more

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  • race
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Britons Through Negro Spectacles (Black Britain Writing Back) by A.B.C. Merriman-Labor

30. Britons Through Negro Spectacles (Black Britain Writing Back)

By: A.B.C. Merriman-Labor

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A riotous, witty travelogue documenting the author's experiences in Britain in the early 1900s, fro… read more

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  • audiobook

20 must-read fiction books like Bernard and the Cloth Monkey by Judith Bryan

Transform Your Habits

The Fat Lady Sings

Jacqueline Roy

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Accidental

Ali Smith

3.37

Transform Your Habits

The Driver's Seat

John Lanchester , Muriel Spark

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Quartet in Autumn

Barbara Pym

3.90

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20 Top fiction books like Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

Transform Your Habits

In Memoriam

Alice Winn

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Children of Paradise

Camilla Grudova

3.49

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