18 must-read audiobook books like The Gentleman From Peru by André Aciman

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The Gentleman From Peru

By: André Aciman

3.56

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would re…

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1. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

Similar categories in Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the … read more

Similar categories in Satoshi Yagisawa's More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2) book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of You Are Here by David Nicholls

3. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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4. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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5. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Earth book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

Similar categories in Michael Magee's Close to Home book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

Similar categories in Alice Winn's In Memoriam book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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8. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. 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 André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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10. Pity

By: Andrew McMillan

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more

Similar categories in Andrew McMillan's Pity book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Radical Love

By: Neil Blackmore

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to England, 1809. London is a violent, intolerant city, exhausted by years of war, beset by… read more

Similar categories in Neil Blackmore's Radical Love book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • romance
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Gentleman From Peru

By: André Aciman

3.56

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would re… read more

Similar categories in André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • romance
  • italy
  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

Similar categories in Wendy Cope's The Orange and Other Poems book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • romance
  • short stories
  • contemporary
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14. 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 André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

Similar categories in Asako Yuzuki's Butter book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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16. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Cover of What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma

17. What I'd Rather Not Think About

By: Jente Posthuma

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more

Similar categories in Jente Posthuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

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18. Anyone's Ghost

By: August Thompson

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more

Similar categories in August Thompson's Anyone's Ghost book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. I Want To Die but I Want To Eat Tteokpokki 2

By: Baek Se-hee

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

“Alih-alih menerima kekurangan, aku memutuskan untuk tidak memandang diriku sendiri secara negatif.… read more

Similar categories in Baek Se-hee's I Want To Die but I Want To Eat Tteokpokki 2 book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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21. Thunderhead

By: Miranda Darling

3.62

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman’s struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway beg… read more

Similar categories in Miranda Darling's Thunderhead book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Fool Me Twice

By: Nona Uppal

3.75

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

Since school, Sana has been the popular girl with excellent grades, beloved by both teachers and pa… read more

Similar categories in Nona Uppal's Fool Me Twice book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • romance
  • fiction
"I know people hate the romance genre in general, for its predictability, but that's precisely why I love it. Isn't there enough uncertainty in life to seek it in cinema too? For me, there's something…"

-Nona Uppal, Fool Me Twice

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23. We Are Together Because

By: Kerry Andrew

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Luke, Connor, Thea and Violet spend their first holiday together alone in their father's house in t… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Andrew's We Are Together Because book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • fiction
Cover of The Silence In Between by Josie  Ferguson

24. The Silence In Between

By: Josie Ferguson

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more

Similar categories in Josie Ferguson's The Silence In Between book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • fiction
"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

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25. Barcelona

By: Mary Costello

3.58

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

In Barcelona, we meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives. In a Spanish hotel room … read more

Similar categories in Mary Costello's Barcelona book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of En agosto nos vemos by Gabriel García Márquez

27. En agosto nos vemos

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.63

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez   Cada mes de a… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel García Márquez's En agosto nos vemos book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Do you know how old I am?"

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

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28. The Echoes

By: Evie Wyld

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and … read more

Similar categories in Evie Wyld's The Echoes book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

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

29. 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 André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • literary fiction
  • 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

Cover of Rosarita by Anita Desai

30. Rosarita

By: Anita Desai

3.29

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman RushdieFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author An… read more

Similar categories in Anita Desai's Rosarita book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Start of Something by Holly  Williams

31. The Start of Something

By: Holly Williams

3.54

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An intoxicating, provocative and thought-provoking novel that through ten interlocking sexual encou… read more

Similar categories in Holly Williams's The Start of Something book and André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru

  • fiction

29 Top fiction books like The Gentleman From Peru by André Aciman

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Transform Your Habits

More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

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Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

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Anyone's Ghost

August Thompson

4.11

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In Tongues

Thomas Grattan

4.04

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Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

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