7 best-selling audiobook books like The Wild Things by Dave Eggers

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The Wild Things

By: Dave Eggers

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Wild Things -- based very loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritt…

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Wild Things by Dave Eggers , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Spoiled Brats

By: Simon Rich

3.97

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

In his collection SPOILED BRATS, Simon Rich takes his absurd, culture-skewering style to new height… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The Benders had died in a helicopter explosion but were otherwise in perfect health."

-Simon Rich, Spoiled Brats

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2. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

By: Charles Yu

3.45

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

A story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time.  Minor Universe 31 is a… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am."

-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

"You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself."

-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

"You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits."

-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

"Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire."

-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

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3. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

By: Xiaolu Guo

3.56

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

When a young Chinese woman, newly arrived in London, moves in with her English boyfriend, she decid… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance."

-Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

"English words made only from twenty-six characters? Are English a bit lazy or what? We have fifty thousand characters in Chinese."

-Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

"Everyone tries to be an optimist. But being an optimist is a bit boring and not honest. Losers are more interesting than winners."

-Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

"Mrs. Margaret sigh heavy. Then she standing up, and starting make her own tea. She drink it in very thirsty way, like angry camel in the desert."

-Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

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4. Beautiful You

By: Chuck Palahniuk

2.74

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"A billion husbands are about to be replaced." From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays

By: Steve Martin

3.89

Format: 197 pages,

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  • fiction
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6. Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In

By: Joe R. Lansdale , Andres Guinaldo

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

When a group of friends decided to spend a day at the world's largest Drive-In theater horror fest,… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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7. The Wild Things

By: Dave Eggers

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Wild Things -- based very loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritt… read more

Similar categories in Dave Eggers's The Wild Things book and Dave Eggers's The Wild Things

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

8. Nine Inches: Stories

By: Tom Perrotta

3.60

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

"Nine Inches," Tom Perrotta's first true collection, features ten short stories, some sharp and fun… read more

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9. Dagboek van een poes

By: Remco Campert

1.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Dagboek van een poes laat Remco Campert een buitengewoon oplettende poes aan het woord, die vanu… read more

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10. Flotsam

By: David Wiesner

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything fl… read more

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11. De drie duifkes

By: Hilde Van Mieghem

4.24

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

1920. Drie temperamentvolle, beeldschone jonge vrouwen willen uitvliegen, dartelen en liefhebben. B… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Elf Dog and Owl Head by M.T. Anderson

12. Elf Dog and Owl Head

By: M.T. Anderson

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Newbery Honor Book A magical adventure about a boy and his dog—or a dog and her boy—and a fore… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. The Pale House Devil

By: Richard Kadrey

3.67

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives—one dead, o… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. First Comes Summer

By: Maria Hesselager

3.25

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Winding seamlessly between the psychological and the mythological, the spellbinding story of a youn… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Zondagsleven (Zondagskind, #2) by Judith Visser

15. Zondagsleven (Zondagskind, #2)

By: Judith Visser

4.33

Format: 461 pages, Paperback

Rinkelende telefoons, felle lampen, rumoerige collega’s én haar hond mag niet mee. Voor Jasmijn Vin… read more

Similar categories in Judith Visser's Zondagsleven (Zondagskind, #2) book and Dave Eggers's The Wild Things

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

By: Nina MacLaughlin

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In fierce, textured voices, the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses claim their stories and challenge the… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"We are all swallowed up each moment into the whole history of new."

-Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

"There's more than two to a story -- the doers, the done-tos, and the ones who interpret who's who."

-Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

"His eyes they held the most dangerous thing, they held the top of the sins. Indifference. Indifference. A vacancy where human care should be."

-Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

"You grow up to believe that if you say, Please pass the salt, a person will reach toward the shaker, grab it in his hand, and move it in your direction. But then one day some of us might learn that i…"

-Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

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17. The Game

By: Alessandro Baricco

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Prima scena. Calciobalilla, flipper, videogioco. Prendetevi mezz'ora e passate dall'uno all'altro,… read more

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  • childrens
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18. Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

By: Simon Critchley

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the curator of The New York Times's "The Stone," a provocative and timely exploration into tra… read more

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19. Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough

By: Dina Nayeri

3.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

“Dina Nayeri’s powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.”—Viet Than… read more

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  • audiobook
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20. Vanya

By: Simon Stephens

4.60

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

Chekhov's classic tale of love, art, sex, and attempted murder in a fresh adaptation by Simon Steph… read more

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21. Made in Korea

By: Jeremy Holt

3.29

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

A Korean nine-year-old named Jesse is adopted and sent to live with a lovely couple in America. Soc… read more

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  • fiction

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