13 best-selling audiobook books like Watching Women & Girls by Danielle Pender

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Watching Women & Girls

By: Danielle Pender

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Every aspect of her body or personality was up for inspection: too big, too small, too available, …

"It's very boring to call people crazy because they don't do what you tell them to"

-Danielle Pender, Watching Women & Girls

If you liked the audiobook plot in Watching Women & Girls by Danielle Pender , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of I Who Have Never Known Men by Ros Schwartz, Jacqueline Harpman

1. I Who Have Never Known Men

By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more

Similar categories in Ros Schwartz's I Who Have Never Known Men book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • feminism
  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

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2. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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3. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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4. Watching Women & Girls

By: Danielle Pender

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Every aspect of her body or personality was up for inspection: too big, too small, too available, … read more

Similar categories in Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's very boring to call people crazy because they don't do what you tell them to"

-Danielle Pender, Watching Women & Girls

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5. Okay Days

By: Jenny Mustard

3.76

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

‘A perfect Millennial love story ... with its acidic dialogue and languid sex scenes. A charming an… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Mustard's Okay Days book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. all she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Jenny Mustard, Okay Days

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6. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

Similar categories in Sheena Patel's I'm a Fan book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

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7. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Piglet

By: Lottie Hazell

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more

Similar categories in Lottie Hazell's Piglet book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

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9. Rosewater

By: Liv Little

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age comes a deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel a… read more

Similar categories in Liv Little's Rosewater book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Send Nudes

By: Saba Sams

3.53

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more

Similar categories in Saba Sams's Send Nudes book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."

-Saba Sams, Send Nudes

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11. Milk Teeth

By: Jessica Andrews

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Andrews's Milk Teeth book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • adult
Cover of Good Material by Dolly Alderton

12. Good Material

By: Dolly Alderton

3.91

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Good Material book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

Cover of Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

13. Cleopatra and Frankenstein

By: Coco Mellors

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant d… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Cleopatra and Frankenstein book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And you’re in love?"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"People are like this too, you know,"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Cover of Boy Parts by Eliza  Clark

14. Boy Parts

By: Eliza Clark

3.77

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Boy Parts book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

Cover of As Young as This by Roxy Dunn

15. As Young as This

By: Roxy Dunn

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are the men M… read more

Similar categories in Roxy Dunn's As Young as This book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love by Huma Qureshi

16. Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

By: Huma Qureshi

3.89

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

A collection about mothers and daughters, children lost, unborn, grown up, grown apart, and the dis… read more

Similar categories in Huma Qureshi's Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Every day I looked up at the sky and I longed for the day that I might escape."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"I look back now and I want to shake myself. I want to say, do not think so long about what you cannot plan for. Do not take so long. Do it. Do it anyway."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"Our star-crossed moments may have lasted only milliseconds, but they filled the whole of my small schoolgirl world and kept it turning, like shafts of dust dancing gold in a splinter of sunlight."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"I accept time has passed and we have changed and there is an emptiness now in which we have nothing left to say because it has all been said already, because there are no words left between us any mo…"

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

Cover of This Is How You Remember It by Catherine Prasifka

17. This Is How You Remember It

By: Catherine Prasifka

4.11

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you sp… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Prasifka's This Is How You Remember It book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Notes on Heartbreak by Annie Lord

18. Notes on Heartbreak

By: Annie Lord

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a b… read more

Similar categories in Annie Lord's Notes on Heartbreak book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • adult
  • contemporary
"Why suffer for something ordinary?"

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"That's the thing about pain: we forget it."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

Cover of Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth by Niamh Mulvey

19. Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Hearts and Bones is a book about relationships. It explores what love does to us, and how we surviv… read more

Similar categories in Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Gold Rush by Olivia Petter

20. Gold Rush

By: Olivia Petter

3.61

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

We give celebrities a power they don’t deserve. Power they haven’t earned. What happens when they e… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Petter's Gold Rush book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Private Rites by Julia Armfield

21. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

20 must-read fiction books like Watching Women & Girls by Danielle Pender

Transform Your Habits

I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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Watching Women & Girls

Danielle Pender

3.69

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20 Top fiction books like Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

Transform Your Habits

I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Acts of Desperation

Megan Nolan

3.74

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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Julia Armfield

3.78

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