6 Best romance books like Swanna in Love by Jennifer Belle

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Swanna in Love

By: Jennifer Belle

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Best-selling author Belle ( High Maintenance, Going Down) unleashes her first new novel in over ten…

If you liked the romance plot in Swanna in Love by Jennifer Belle , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. 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 Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"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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2. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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3. 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

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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4. Brutes

By: Dizz Tate

3.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more

Similar categories in Dizz Tate's Brutes book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"to be loved, was just to be watched"

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

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5. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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6. We Were the Universe

By: Kimberly King Parsons

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly King Parsons's We Were the Universe book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"

-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe

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7. Fruit of the Dead

By: Rachel Lyon

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lyon's Fruit of the Dead book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Lost in the Garden

By: Adam S. Leslie

3.73

Format: 446 pages, Paperback

"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more

Similar categories in Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Sugar, Baby

By: Celine Saintclare

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Luster and Queenie , an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of th… read more

Similar categories in Celine Saintclare's Sugar, Baby book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"It's so deeply entrenched in me, the Fear of God, so much more strongly than the belief."

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"The thought of having a relationship with my kids like the one I have with my mum, a scam on both sides, makes me want to vomit."

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"It is all beginning to make sense; the gifts he gives like offerings, the golden temple of a Miami house. Oracles, orgies, lusty Greek and Roman gods, apples and pomegranates. Ceremonial robes as des…"

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"You're young and that counts for a lot,' she says. 'And you're pretty. It's like currency, like...a bunch of casino chips in the game of life. You can keep them locked up in the back of a drawer and …"

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

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10. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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11. Fragile Animals

By: Genevieve Jagger

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Jagger's Fragile Animals book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. 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

Similar categories in Frankie Barnet's Mood Swings book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Swanna in Love by Jennifer Belle

13. Swanna in Love

By: Jennifer Belle

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Best-selling author Belle ( High Maintenance, Going Down) unleashes her first new novel in over ten… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
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14. Blood Red

By: Gabriela Ponce Padilla

3.59

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The exhilarating English-language debut from celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Ponce Padilla, B… read more

Similar categories in Gabriela Ponce Padilla's Blood Red book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
"Let the living fly. The machine must fall. The machine in the air must fail at some point, emptiness always prevails."

-Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red

"We felt as if we were just one body—bone, blood, flesh—that momentarily splits apart to come back together, pulled by the irremediable need for touch."

-Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red

"I try to understand, but everything I do is a surprise even to me, as if I were an unknowable amalgam full of errors, an open wound closing up and splitting open, always wavering between criticism an…"

-Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red

"I hated and loved understanding this is what happens, love gave way to hatred, forging love always meant forging hatred, fucking hell, but it isn’t so simple to differentiate the two in this amalgam,…"

-Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red

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15. Spoilt Creatures

By: Amy Twigg

3.94

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. It was a place for women.… read more

Similar categories in Amy Twigg's Spoilt Creatures book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Bodies

By: Christine Anne Foley

3.81

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

You were everything I ever wanted. Johnny was my first. I was seventeen and I was only brave enough… read more

Similar categories in Christine Anne Foley's Bodies book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Dead Animals

By: Phoebe Stuckes

3.61

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

There is something creeping at the edge of your vision, lingering somewhere just out of focus. All … read more

Similar categories in Phoebe Stuckes's Dead Animals book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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19. Plaything

By: Bea Setton

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A tense and compulsive novel of unnatural fixation Anna is smart. Smarter than you, probably. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Bea Setton's Plaything book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

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

20. 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 Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • 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

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21. Kill For Love

By: Laura Picklesimer

3.64

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The boys on the row are only after one thing, but that bullshit’s for pledges. Tiffany’s on the hun… read more

Similar categories in Laura Picklesimer's Kill For Love book and Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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