14 must-read lesbian books like Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens

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Lucky Red

By: Claudia Cravens

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it. A vibrant and cinematic debut…

If you liked the lesbian plot in Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Triste tigre

By: Neige Sinno

4.23

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more

Similar categories in Neige Sinno's Triste tigre book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • audiobook
"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"

-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre

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2. Chi dice e chi tace

By: Chiara Valerio

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Scauri, affacciato sul Tirreno, è l’ultimo paese del Lazio, un posto né bello né brutto, con una su… read more

Similar categories in Chiara Valerio's Chi dice e chi tace book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3) by Ashley Herring Blake

3. Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partn… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3) book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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4. Cleat Cute

By: Meryl Wilsner

3.77

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two socce… read more

Similar categories in Meryl Wilsner's Cleat Cute book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Lesbian is important to me," Phoebe says. "The world likes to act like it's a porn category, not an identity. It took me a while to realize it wasn't. I want other girls like me to know it's a beauti…"

-Meryl Wilsner, Cleat Cute

Cover of L'età fragile by Donatella Di Pietrantonio

5. L'età fragile

By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

Format: 192 pages, ebook

Non esiste un'età senza paura. Siamo fragili sempre, da genitori e da figli, quando bisogna ricostr… read more

Similar categories in Donatella Di Pietrantonio's L'età fragile book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • 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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7. Chain-Gang All-Stars

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more

Similar categories in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • 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

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8. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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9. The Rachel Incident

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately tr… read more

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's The Rachel Incident book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • 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

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10. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's Learned by Heart book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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11. Interesting Facts about Space

By: Emily R. Austin

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettif… read more

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's Interesting Facts about Space book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"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

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12. Sunburn

By: Chloe Michelle Howarth

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Michelle Howarth's Sunburn book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"All I'm doing is trying to love people. All I need is the right kind of love back."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

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13. How Can I Help You

By: Laura Sims

3.42

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A razor-sharp suspense about two local librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined. N… read more

Similar categories in Laura Sims's How Can I Help You book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Day's Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • audiobook
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15. Land of Milk and Honey

By: C Pam Zhang

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more

Similar categories in C Pam Zhang's Land of Milk and Honey book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

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16. Here We Go Again

By: Alison Cochrun

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The author of Kiss Her Once for Me returns with a new queer rom-com following once childhood best f… read more

Similar categories in Alison Cochrun's Here We Go Again book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of How You Get the Girl (Love & Other Disasters, #3) by Anita Kelly

17. How You Get the Girl (Love & Other Disasters, #3)

By: Anita Kelly

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Chemistry sizzles in this workplace rom-com set in the world of high school basketball from the aut… read more

Similar categories in Anita Kelly's How You Get the Girl (Love & Other Disasters, #3) book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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18. King Nyx

By: Kirsten Bakis

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the contemporary cult classic, Lives of the Monster Dogs , comes a haunting myst… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Bakis's King Nyx book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Mrs. S

By: K. Patrick

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more

Similar categories in K. Patrick's Mrs. S book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."

-K. Patrick, Mrs. S

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20. Lucky Red

By: Claudia Cravens

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it. A vibrant and cinematic debut… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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21. Tutto il bello che ci aspetta

By: Lorenza Gentile

3.86

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Viviamo in un’epoca in cui niente è impossibile, dunque se le cose non vanno dev’essere per forza c… read more

Similar categories in Lorenza Gentile's Tutto il bello che ci aspetta book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • fiction
Cover of L'ultimo mago by Francesca Diotallevi

22. L'ultimo mago

By: Francesca Diotallevi

3.81

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

È la notte di Capodanno del 1960 e, in un lussuoso appartamento affacciato sul parco del Valentino,… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Diotallevi's L'ultimo mago book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. Marabbecca

By: Viola Di Grado

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Un pomeriggio di fine estate Clotilde e Igor, dopo essersi lasciati, hanno un incidente d’auto. Lei… read more

Similar categories in Viola Di Grado's Marabbecca book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • fiction
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24. Rainbow Black

By: Maggie Thrash

3.96

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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25. Shoot the Moon

By: Isa Arsén

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

How far would you travel for love? Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk fee… read more

Similar categories in Isa Arsén's Shoot the Moon book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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26. The Gulf

By: Rachel Cochran

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this electrifying debut literary thriller, set on the gulf coast of Texas in the 1970s at the he… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Cochran's The Gulf book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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27. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"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

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28. Killing Me

By: Michelle Gagnon

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Amber Jamison cannot believe she's about to become the latest victim of a serial killer-she's savvy… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Gagnon's Killing Me book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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29. The Sirens

By: Emilia Hart

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A story of sisters separated by hundreds of years but bound together in more ways than they can ima… read more

Similar categories in Emilia Hart's The Sirens book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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30. Clean

By: Alia Trabucco Zerán

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sh… read more

Similar categories in Alia Trabucco Zerán's Clean book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Yo jamás me comí las uñas. Tampoco mi mamá. Para eso, me imagino, hay que tener las manos desocupadas."

-Alia Trabucco Zerán, Clean

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31. A Swift and Sudden Exit

By: Nico Vincenty

4.51

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

An immortal, doomed to die. A time traveler, desperate to save her. When Zera travels back in ti… read more

Similar categories in Nico Vincenty's A Swift and Sudden Exit book and Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer

29 best-selling fiction books like Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens

Transform Your Habits

Chi dice e chi tace

Chiara Valerio

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)

Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Cleat Cute

Meryl Wilsner

3.77

Transform Your Habits

L'età fragile

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

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21 best-selling fiction books like Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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