31 must-read audiobook books like The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

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Similar categories in Ling Ma's Bliss Montage book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• short stories
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

Similar categories in Jessica Knoll's Bright Young Women book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• historical fiction

"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• race
• fiction
• historical fiction
• african american
• audiobook

Similar categories in Rufi Thorpe's Margo's Got Money Troubles book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"I’m just saying,"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

Similar categories in Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• adult
• fiction
• historical fiction
• african american
• audiobook

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

"No, no, no,"

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

Similar categories in Holly Gramazio's The Husbands book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• adult
• audiobook

"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's The Rachel Incident book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Olga Dies Dreaming book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"

-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming

Similar categories in Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• race
• novella
• adult
• short stories
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• african american
• audiobook

"Who buys these?" I asked. "Who walks in here and says this, this is what I need?" "People who don't know what they need in the first place," she said. "So, pretty much anybody."

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

"Besides the tablecloths, the decor is all old photographs and postcards that they scrounged up from wherever, because you know how white people love their history right up until it's true."

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

"I was certain it would indeed be charming, but the Upper Midwest made me moody; people made me feel like I was being asked to speak a language I'd never learned and in which I was constantly misunder…"

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

"I distrusted, in general, appeals to nostalgia--I loved the past of archives, but there was no era of the past I had any inclination to visit with my actual human body, being rather fond of it having…"

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• adult
• audiobook

"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's Interesting Facts about Space book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things."

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I doubt it's possible to have a baby and not imagine what you want for it. If I were to ever fall pregnant, I would wonder what the sex of the baby is. Celebrations that center expectations around ge…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I …"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

Similar categories in Deesha Philyaw's The Secret Lives of Church Ladies book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• adult
• short stories
• fiction
• contemporary
• african american
• audiobook

"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."

-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"

-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"

-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• adult
• audiobook

"But this story? This one's mine."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"You tried to tell your story to people who didn't know how to listen."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Similar categories in Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• audiobook
• contemporary

"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

Similar categories in Tiffany McDaniel's Betty book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• adult
• audiobook

"The earth is warm enough."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"A girl comes of age against the knife. She must learn to bear its blade. To be cut. To bleed."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"Your life is what makes you rich,' they insisted. 'The people you love and the people who love you back."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"She was born to a woman as telling as a dream and to a man who was a Cherokee, a moonshiner, and a mythmaker."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• historical fiction

"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

Similar categories in Sierra Greer's Annie Bot book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• adult
• audiobook

"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Similar categories in Danya Kukafka's Notes on an Execution book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Grief was a loneliness that felt like a planet."

-Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

"Sister love was like food, or air, or memory itself. It was molecular. The very stuff of her."

-Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

"Felix Culpa, her mother had written. The happy fault. The horrible thing that leads to the good."

-Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

"There is no justification for what you've done, Ansel P, but God knows you've got the time to keep searching."

-Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

Similar categories in Tia Williams's Seven Days in June book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

"Religion. Hmm. I guess it's like fire. In good hands, fire can be used to do positive things, like keep you warm. Make s'mores. In bad hands, it can burn a witch at the stake. Lynch a Black body."

-Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• literary fiction
• fiction
• historical fiction
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's The Pairing book and Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

"Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"He was the first great thing I ever let myself want. This time, I’m keeping him."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing