6 must-read audiobook books like A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers

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A Hologram for the King

By: Dave Eggers

3.29

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman…

"It all meant something. Until it didn't."

-Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

"It all meant something. Until it didn't."

-Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

"The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners."

-Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

"The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners."

-Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

If you liked the audiobook plot in A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Tonio: een requiemroman by A.F.Th. van der Heijden

1. Tonio: een requiemroman

By: A.F.Th. van der Heijden

3.91

Format: 635 pages, Hardcover

In de vroege morgen van Eerste Pinksterdag 2010 wordt Tonio van der Heijden, het enig kind van Adri… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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2. Het boek Ont

By: Anton Valens

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Met de overgang van de gulden naar de euro breekt voor Isebrand Schut de financiële ijstijd aan. Na… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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3. The Final Solution

By: Michael Chabon , Jay Ryan

3.35

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

In deep retirement in the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Long life wore away everything that was not essential."

-Michael Chabon, The Final Solution

"It would please him well enough to amount to no more in the end than a single great organ of detection, reaching into blankness for a clue."

-Michael Chabon, The Final Solution

"He did not fear death exactly, but he had evaded it for so many years that it had come to seem formidable simply by virtue of that long act of evasion. In particular he feared dying in some undignifi…"

-Michael Chabon, The Final Solution

"The old man had been stoking and sipping at his pipe for the last fifteen minutes as they awaited the prisoner. The smoke of his tobacco was the foulest that she, a girl raised in a house with seven …"

-Michael Chabon, The Final Solution

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4. Tenth of December

By: George Saunders

3.98

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an u… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Ted, I swear to God, quothe he."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"Every step was a victory. He had to remember that."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

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5. Mother, Mother

By: Koren Zailckas

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughters, a brilliantly intellige… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form by Thomas C. Foster

6. How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

By: Thomas C. Foster

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Mi… read more

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  • literature
Cover of The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives by Sebastian Faulks

7. The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In The Fatal Englishman,his first work of nonfiction, Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three … read more

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8. Everything I Found on the Beach

By: Cynan Jones

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

A dark tale of slavery, immigration, and murder set on the west coast of Wales, this is a startling… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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9. The Cove

By: Ron Rash

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

This lyrical, heart-rending tale, as mesmerizing as its award-winning predecessor Serena, shows onc… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction

10. Netherland

By: Joseph O'Neill

3.71

Format: 160 pages,

In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans - a banker originally from the… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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11. La Superba

By: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

3.74

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Deze roman is een monument voor een stad zoals er maar één is, Genua, La Superba (de hoogmoedige). … read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

12. Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

By: David Halberstam

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

From The Breaks of the Gameto Summer of '49, David Halberstam has brought the perspective of a grea… read more

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Cover of A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers

13. A Hologram for the King

By: Dave Eggers

3.29

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It all meant something. Until it didn't."

-Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

"The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners."

-Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

"The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard."

-Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

"Americans are born knowing everything and nothing. Born moving forward, quickly, or thinking they are."

-Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

14. Telegraph Avenue

By: Michael Chabon

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Telegraph Avenue is the great American novel we've been waiting for. Generous, imaginative, funny, … read more

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15. Private Citizens

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition, and fr… read more

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16. The Arm of the Starfish (O'Keefe Family, #1)

By: Madeleine L'Engle

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

When Adam Eddington, a gifted marine biology student, makes the acquaintance of blond and beautiful… read more

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17. Mirror Mirror

By: Gregory Maguire

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The world was called Montefiore, as far as she knew, and from her aerie on every side all the world… read more

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18. Swamplandia!

By: Karen Russell

3.27

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline—think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Evergla… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"the gravity of wound to fist"

-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

"Stars slid away like rain, she was gone so long."

-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

"Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children."

-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

"The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around."

-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

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19. Ik kom hier nog op terug

By: Rob van Essen

3.78

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Wanneer hij de mogelijkheid krijgt een fout uit het verleden te herstellen grijpt Rob Hollander dit… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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  • audiobook
"Was het grote falen van mijn leven eigenlijk niet dat ik zo weinig had gefaald, omdat ik zo weinig had gedaan, omdat ik me zo weinig had verbonden, aan mensen, aan dingen? Ik had mezelf geen kans geg…"

-Rob van Essen, Ik kom hier nog op terug

Cover of No Judgment: Essays by Lauren Oyler

20. No Judgment: Essays

By: Lauren Oyler

3.30

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new piece… read more

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  • audiobook
"I’m told I should smoke more weed, which I don’t like, or else “do something nice for yourself,"

-Lauren Oyler, No Judgment: Essays

Cover of Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein

21. Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom

By: Norman G. Finkelstein

4.66

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its… read more

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12 Top fiction books like A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers

Transform Your Habits

Tonio: een requiemroman

A.F.Th. van der Heijden

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Het boek Ont

Anton Valens

3.37

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The Final Solution

Michael Chabon , Jay Ryan

3.35

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Tenth of December

George Saunders

3.98

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Mao II

Don DeLillo

4.31

Remainder

Tom McCarthy

4.23

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Teju Cole

4.00

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Joseph O'Neill

3.71

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