16 best-selling audiobook books like Self-Portrait With Boy by Rachel Lyon

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Self-Portrait With Boy

By: Rachel Lyon

3.81

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An ambitious young artist accidentally photographs a boy falling to his death—an image that could j…

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1. The Beautiful Bureaucrat

By: Helen Phillips

3.24

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

A young wife's new job in an enigmatic organization pits her against the unfeeling machinations of … read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's The Beautiful Bureaucrat book and Rachel Lyon's Self-Portrait With Boy

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It was wise to put bureaucrats in windowless offices."

-Helen Phillips, The Beautiful Bureaucrat

"Kitchen-sink cookies," Trishiffany proclaimed. "Sounds disgusting, right? But I've always been so torn about chocolate chips versus butterscotch chips, but here you don't even have to choose. Walnuts…"

-Helen Phillips, The Beautiful Bureaucrat

2. Nobody Is Ever Missing

By: Catherine Lacey

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stab… read more

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3. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and Rachel Lyon's Self-Portrait With Boy

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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4. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Help Wanted

By: Adelle Waldman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more

Similar categories in Adelle Waldman's Help Wanted book and Rachel Lyon's Self-Portrait With Boy

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. 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

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  • 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

Cover of Self-Portrait With Boy by Rachel  Lyon

7. Self-Portrait With Boy

By: Rachel Lyon

3.81

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An ambitious young artist accidentally photographs a boy falling to his death—an image that could j… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lyon's Self-Portrait With Boy book and Rachel Lyon's Self-Portrait With Boy

  • art
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • photography
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Poor Deer

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

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9. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca K. Reilly's Greta & Valdin book and Rachel Lyon's Self-Portrait With Boy

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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10. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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11. Blue Ruin

By: Hari Kunzru

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more

Similar categories in Hari Kunzru's Blue Ruin book and Rachel Lyon's Self-Portrait With Boy

  • art
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Tell Me Who You Are

By: Louisa Luna

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a… read more

Similar categories in Louisa Luna's Tell Me Who You Are book and Rachel Lyon's Self-Portrait With Boy

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Kittentits by Holly    Wilson

13. Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more

Similar categories in Holly Wilson's Kittentits book and Rachel Lyon's Self-Portrait With Boy

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Altern by Elke Heidenreich

14. Altern

By: Elke Heidenreich

3.64

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Alle wollen alt werden, niemand will es sein. Ist das nicht absurd? Das Leben lesen: Elke Heiden… read more

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary
Cover of Mood Swings by Frankie Barnet

15. Mood Swings

By: Frankie Barnet

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Consent: A Memoir by Jill Ciment

16. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

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  • art
  • audiobook
Cover of Women! In! Peril! by Jessie Ren Marshall

17. Women! In! Peril!

By: Jessie Ren Marshall

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this brash and unputdownable collection, award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall invites us… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril! book and Rachel Lyon's Self-Portrait With Boy

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of The Material by Camille Bordas

18. The Material

By: Camille Bordas

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up com… read more

Similar categories in Camille Bordas's The Material book and Rachel Lyon's Self-Portrait With Boy

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Schlafen by Theresia Enzensberger

19. Schlafen

By: Theresia Enzensberger

3.25

Format: 113 pages, ebook

Das Leben Theresia Enzensbergers Buch ist ein philosophischer Streifzug durch die Nacht – und eine… read more

Similar categories in Theresia Enzensberger's Schlafen book and Rachel Lyon's Self-Portrait With Boy

  • audiobook
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20. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

Cover of The Most by Jessica  Anthony

21. The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

3.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Anthony's The Most book and Rachel Lyon's Self-Portrait With Boy

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

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