14 Best fiction books like Lioness by Emily Perkins

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Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat…

If you liked the fiction plot in Lioness by Emily Perkins , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Chidgey's Pet book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir by Emma Espiner

2. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

By: Emma Espiner

4.31

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more

Similar categories in Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • adult
Cover of Return to Blood (Hana Westerman Thriller, #2) by Michael  Bennett

3. Return to Blood (Hana Westerman Thriller, #2)

By: Michael Bennett

3.94

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Better the Blood, the gripping second novel in a crime series starring Māori det… read more

Similar categories in Michael Bennett's Return to Blood (Hana Westerman Thriller, #2) book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Lioness by Emily Perkins

4. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

Similar categories in Emily Perkins's Lioness book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts by Josie Shapiro

5. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

Similar categories in Josie Shapiro's Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey

6. The Axeman's Carnival

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Chidgey's The Axeman's Carnival book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Amma by Saraid de Silva

7. Amma

By: Saraid de Silva

4.45

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Three generations. Three continents. Three sexualities. 1951. Singapore. Ten-year-old Josep… read more

Similar categories in Saraid de Silva's Amma book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. The Bone Tree

By: Airana Ngarewa

3.71

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

After the death of both parents, Kauri and Black must find a way to survive in a world that doesn't… read more

Similar categories in Airana Ngarewa's The Bone Tree book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • fiction
Cover of The Night She Fell by Eileen Merriman

9. The Night She Fell

By: Eileen Merriman

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

‘When I last saw Ashleigh, she was lying in a pool of blood . . . Her eyes were open, staring sight… read more

Similar categories in Eileen Merriman's The Night She Fell book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

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10. The Deck

By: Fiona Farrell

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

What is the point of inventing stories when reality eclipses imagination? A little way off in the f… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Farrell's The Deck book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • fiction
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11. Audition

By: Pip Adam

3.64

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room… read more

Similar categories in Pip Adam's Audition book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • novels
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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12. Bird Life

By: Anna Smaill

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration… read more

Similar categories in Anna Smaill's Bird Life book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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13. Backwaters

By: Emma Ling Sidnam

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Laura is tired of being asked where she’s really from. Her family has lived in Aotearoa New Zealand… read more

Similar categories in Emma Ling Sidnam's Backwaters book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • contemporary
Cover of Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story by Jools Topp

14. Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story

By: Jools Topp

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The iconic Kiwi duo - comedians, country music stars, yodellers, lesbians - in their own words. … read more

Similar categories in Jools Topp's Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • adult
Cover of When I Open the Shop by romesh dissanayake

15. When I Open the Shop

By: romesh dissanayake

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothin… read more

Similar categories in romesh dissanayake's When I Open the Shop book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • contemporary
Cover of Dice by Claire Baylis

16. Dice

By: Claire Baylis

3.86

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

A compelling courtroom drama, Dice is an incredibly timely exploration of how sexual violence is vi… read more

Similar categories in Claire Baylis's Dice book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. A Better Place

By: Stephen Daisley

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The old people in the district would often say that Roy was not quite the same after he come back. … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Daisley's A Better Place book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • literary fiction
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18. Ash

By: Louise Wallace

4.35

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Thea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she… read more

Similar categories in Louise Wallace's Ash book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

Cover of At The Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley

19. At The Grand Glacier Hotel

By: Laurence Fearnley

3.53

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Following a disastrous family holiday, Libby and Curtis make a If they ever visit the West Coast o… read more

Similar categories in Laurence Fearnley's At The Grand Glacier Hotel book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • fiction
Cover of All That We Know by Shilo Kino

20. All That We Know

By: Shilo Kino

4.61

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

'I don't want to be a pioneer. I want to be the last; to enjoy the fruits of everyone else's hard l… read more

Similar categories in Shilo Kino's All That We Know book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • fiction
Cover of Home Truths by Charity Norman

21. Home Truths

By: Charity Norman

4.36

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Livia Denby is on trial for attempted murder. The jury have reached a verdict. Two years earlier, L… read more

Similar categories in Charity Norman's Home Truths book and Emily Perkins's Lioness

  • fiction

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