21 Top audiobook books like The Bad Angel Brothers by Paul Theroux

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The Bad Angel Brothers

By: Paul Theroux

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An evocative novel about two brothers whose rivalry as youths in the Massachusetts town of Littlefo…

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1. An Evening of Long Goodbyes

By: Paul Murray

3.64

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Charles Hythloday observes the world from the comfortable confines of his family estate, and doesn’… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Mrs. P.? Oh no. She’s the help. Bosnian, you know. Or is it Serbian? An absolute treasure, anyway. As I always say to Bel, if there’s one good thing to come out of all this fuss in the Balkans, it’s …"

-Paul Murray, An Evening of Long Goodbyes

"You're talking like a Stalinist!' I cried. 'People don't get jobs to achieve things and learn values ! They do it because they have to, and then they use whatever's left over to buy themselves things…"

-Paul Murray, An Evening of Long Goodbyes

"The accursed ship didn't sink for a full three hours. By the time it did, I was feeling so traumatized that even watching Dogface die offered little consolation. The dialogue, the acting, the vast em…"

-Paul Murray, An Evening of Long Goodbyes

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2. A Burnt-Out Case

By: Graham Greene , Giles Foden

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A famous architect struggling with a crisis of faith escapes to a leper colony in the Congo, in Gra… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"The more bare a life is, the more we fear change."

-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

"The cabin-passenger wrote in his diary a parody of Descartes: 'I feel discomfort, therefore I am alive."

-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

"Discomfort irritates our ego like a mosquito-bite. We become aware of ourselves, the more uncomfortable we are"

-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

"He looked around the church, at the altar, the tabernacle, the brass candles, and the European saints, pale like albinos in the dark continent."

-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

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3. Annie Dunne (Dunne Family #2)

By: Sebastian Barry

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wi… read more

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  • fiction

4. The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty

By: Sebastian Barry

4.15

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicleas "the finest book to come out of Europe this year," The Wher… read more

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5. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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6. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Harbor Lights

By: James Lee Burke

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” ( Denver Post ), the… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. El último caso de William Parker

By: Alexandre Escrivà

3.71

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

¿QUIÉN MATÓ A SARAH EVANS? Alfaguara Negra presenta al nuevo joven prodigio del thriller español, u… read more

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  • thriller
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9. The Conversion

By: Amanda Lohrey

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

From Miles Franklin Award-winning author Amanda Lohrey comes a stunning literary foray into place, … read more

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  • literature
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. The Bad Angel Brothers

By: Paul Theroux

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An evocative novel about two brothers whose rivalry as youths in the Massachusetts town of Littlefo… read more

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  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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11. Hard by a Great Forest

By: Leo Vardiashvili

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the … read more

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  • literature
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Indian Burial Ground

By: Nick Medina

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right an… read more

Similar categories in Nick Medina's Indian Burial Ground book and Paul Theroux's The Bad Angel Brothers

  • thriller
  • fiction
"What happened in the cemetery causes us pain, not her. You understand that, don’t you?"

-Nick Medina, Indian Burial Ground

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13. Small Mercies

By: Dennis Lehane

4.29

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —a… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. California Bear

By: Duane Swierczynski

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty new thriller from a "great storyteller" (Michael Connelly), California Bear follows four un… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Sing Her Down

By: Ivy Pochoda

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

No Country for Old Men meets Killing Eve in this gritty, feminist Western thriller from the award-w… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"If we could avenge people for their personalities, we'd all be in trouble."

-Ivy Pochoda, Sing Her Down

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16. Every Spy a Traitor (The Double Agent series Book 1)

By: Alex Gerlis

4.11

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

'Gerlis is at the top of his game' Paul Vidich, author of Beirut Station 'Utterly gripping and sta… read more

Similar categories in Alex Gerlis's Every Spy a Traitor (The Double Agent series Book 1) book and Paul Theroux's The Bad Angel Brothers

  • thriller
  • fiction
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17. Distant Sons

By: Tim Johnston

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current, an absorbing new work of liter… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)

By: Walter Mosley

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Stardust Grail

By: Yume Kitasei

3.78

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Save one world. Doom her own. From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-c… read more

Similar categories in Yume Kitasei's The Stardust Grail book and Paul Theroux's The Bad Angel Brothers

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Ilium

By: Lea Carpenter

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Sugar Street

By: Jonathan Dee

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Publishing for the first time with Grove Atlantic, Pulitzer Prize finalist and celebrated author of… read more

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  • literature
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. The Stars Turned Inside Out

By: Nova Jacobs

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merg… read more

Similar categories in Nova Jacobs's The Stars Turned Inside Out book and Paul Theroux's The Bad Angel Brothers

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. On Java Road

By: Lawrence Osborne

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A veteran journalist in Hong Kong is caught in a shadowy web of tr… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Osborne's On Java Road book and Paul Theroux's The Bad Angel Brothers

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Deep into the Dark (Detective Margaret Nolan #1) by P.J. Tracy

24. Deep into the Dark (Detective Margaret Nolan #1)

By: P.J. Tracy

3.77

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Sam Easton—a true survivor—is home from Afghanistan, trying to rebuild a life in his hometown of LA… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. A través del bosque

By: Laura Alcoba

3.60

Format: 157 pages, Kindle Edition

La última novela de la aclamada autora de La casa de los conejos , una historia sobrecogedora basad… read more

Similar categories in Laura Alcoba's A través del bosque book and Paul Theroux's The Bad Angel Brothers

  • fiction
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26. Past Crimes

By: Jason Pinter

3.61

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When death becomes entertainment, every life has a price. And Cassie West is about to find out how … read more

Similar categories in Jason Pinter's Past Crimes book and Paul Theroux's The Bad Angel Brothers

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. Blood Roses (The Warsaw Quartet #1)

By: Douglas Jackson

4.35

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

As the Nazis roll into Warsaw, a serial killer is unleashed… September 1939. A city ruled by fear. … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. The Rope Artist

By: Fuminori Nakamura

2.95

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body—rapidly becoming two, then three, then four. All… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

By: Michael Wolraich

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfa… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wolraich's The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age book and Paul Theroux's The Bad Angel Brothers

  • audiobook
Cover of Asesinato en el Richelieu (Spanish Edition) by Anita  Blackmon

30. Asesinato en el Richelieu (Spanish Edition)

By: Anita Blackmon

3.77

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

LLEGA ADELAIDE ADAMSUna miss Marple de Arkansas, irónica, artrítica y deslenguada.«Yo, Adelaide Ada… read more

Similar categories in Anita Blackmon's Asesinato en el Richelieu (Spanish Edition) book and Paul Theroux's The Bad Angel Brothers

  • thriller
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31. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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3.93

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Sebastian Barry

3.98

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Yiyun Li

3.75

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