17 best-selling audiobook books like The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

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The Friend

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.77

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her do…

"I like that the Aborigines say dogs make people human"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

"I like that the Aborigines say dogs make people human"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

"I know this is all moronically anthropomorphic, but sometimes that is the form love takes."

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

"I know this is all moronically anthropomorphic, but sometimes that is the form love takes."

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Friend by Sigrid Nunez , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. We the Animals

By: Justin Torres

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In this award-winning, groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed."

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

"This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance ha…"

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

"Always more, always hungrily scratching for more. But there were times, quiet moments, when our mother was sleeping, when she hadn’t slept in two days, and any noise, any stair creak, any shut door, …"

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

2. The Lost Daughter

By: Elena Ferrante

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more

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3. Small Things Like These

By: Claire Keegan

4.18

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

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4. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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5. Kaarna

By: Tommi Kinnunen

4.24

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

Ihminen ei voi tulla entisekseen, jos ei tiedä, kuka on ollut. He kiertävät poron etäältä. Se py… read more

Similar categories in Tommi Kinnunen's Kaarna book and Sigrid Nunez's The Friend

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. Hyeenan päivät

By: Saara Turunen

3.74

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

”En ollut suostunut uskomaan, että elämä ilman lasta olisi tyhjää, olin vakuutellut itselleni, ette… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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8. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Sigrid Nunez's The Friend

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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11. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

Similar categories in Michael Cunningham's Day book and Sigrid Nunez's The Friend

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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12. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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13. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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14. The Friend

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.77

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her do… read more

Similar categories in Sigrid Nunez's The Friend book and Sigrid Nunez's The Friend

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • animals
  • dogs
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I like that the Aborigines say dogs make people human"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

"I know this is all moronically anthropomorphic, but sometimes that is the form love takes."

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

"Anthropomorphism, I've decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it."

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

"There's a certain type of person who, having read this far, is anxiously wondering: Does something bad happen to the dog?"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

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15. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Sigrid Nunez's The Friend

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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16. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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17. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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18. Psykiatrini

By: Milja Sarkola

3.25

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

Kaikki on kai hyvin. Kertoja elää vakavaraista elämää kulttuurin piirissä, lapset voivat hyvin, uus… read more

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19. Liv!

By: Helmi Kekkonen

3.72

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

Kaksikymmentäkaksivuotias Liv viettää perheensä kesäpaikassa viimeistä lomaviikkoaan, hän on raukea… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Hiekkalinnat: Erittelyjä rakkausromaania varten by Jukka Viikilä

20. Hiekkalinnat: Erittelyjä rakkausromaania varten

By: Jukka Viikilä

3.33

Format: 171 pages, Hardcover

Kaksinkertaisen Finlandia-voittajan romaani on häikäisevä tutkielma rakkaudesta, seksistä ja uskoll… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

21. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook

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