9 best-selling queer books like Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne

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Cherry Beach

By: Laura McPhee-Browne

3.84

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

We arrived on a Tuesday, I can remember that. I can remember Hetty’s hand in mine as we moved slowl…

If you liked the queer plot in Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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2. Thirst for Salt

By: Madelaine Lucas

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A Goodreads Buzziest Book of t… read more

Similar categories in Madelaine Lucas's Thirst for Salt book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"As if it were possible to circumnavigate memory."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

"I like you as you are, he said. Even if you're going to wear me out."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

"As lovers learn, when love ends, you lose the future as well as the past."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

"The trouble is that our dreams, like our memories, are not immune to revision."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

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3. 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 Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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4. Seeing Other People

By: Diana Reid

3.42

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat … read more

Similar categories in Diana Reid's Seeing Other People book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • queer
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5. No Hard Feelings

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed, this isn't where Penny expected to be as she reached her late … read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Novak's No Hard Feelings book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Gray's Green Dot book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • adult
  • queer
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7. Kokomo

By: Victoria Hannan

3.55

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

'genuinely funny and heartbreaking' - VPLA judgesWhen Mina receives an urgent call from her best fr… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Hannan's Kokomo book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Mina let Valerie envelop her in silk and perfume. The smell was so pungent Mina could see it: a sunset of whipped egg-white clouds, a field of foxgloves, pink on pink on pink on pink."

-Victoria Hannan, Kokomo

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8. Something Bad is Going to Happen

By: Jessie Stephens

3.86

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Stephens's Something Bad is Going to Happen book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

Similar categories in Bri Lee's The Work book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Body Friend

By: Katherine Brabon

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Brabon's Body Friend book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Between You and Me

By: Joanna Horton

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

Between You and Me is a riveting portrayal of female friendship, and the frayed boundary between lo… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Horton's Between You and Me book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. One Day We're All Going to Die

By: Elise Esther Hearst

3.51

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Sorrow and Bliss meets Normal People in this utterly compelling, darkly humorous millennial coming… read more

Similar categories in Elise Esther Hearst's One Day We're All Going to Die book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. Search History

By: Amy Taylor

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A woman's obsession with her new boyfriend's dead ex-girlfriend fuels this sharp and honest debut n… read more

Similar categories in Amy Taylor's Search History book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne

14. Cherry Beach

By: Laura McPhee-Browne

3.84

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

We arrived on a Tuesday, I can remember that. I can remember Hetty’s hand in mine as we moved slowl… read more

Similar categories in Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • adult
  • queer
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15. Crushing

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Gettin… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Novak's Crushing book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. 28 Questions

By: Indyana Schneider

3.83

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A queer When Harry Met Sally for the Sally Rooney generation.  Reader, imagine yielding to someone… read more

Similar categories in Indyana Schneider's 28 Questions book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • adult
  • queer
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17. Marshmallow

By: Victoria Hannan

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Some moments change everything. For five friends, what should have been a birthday to remember will… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Hannan's Marshmallow book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Lead Us Not

By: Abbey Lay

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

‘When we spoke, I never knew what Olive would reveal to me. There were nights where she would lie n… read more

Similar categories in Abbey Lay's Lead Us Not book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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19. Sunbathing

By: Isobel Beech

4.05

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each… read more

Similar categories in Isobel Beech's Sunbathing book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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20. The Modern

By: Anna Kate Blair

3.10

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

In an age driven by desire, what happens when you want two different things?   Set in the pristin… read more

Similar categories in Anna Kate Blair's The Modern book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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21. A Language of Limbs

By: Dylin Hardcastle

4.56

Format: 277 pages, ebook

The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more

Similar categories in Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs book and Laura McPhee-Browne's Cherry Beach

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

21 Best fiction books like Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne

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Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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Thirst for Salt

Madelaine Lucas

3.84

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Sunburn

Chloe Michelle Howarth

4.33

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Seeing Other People

Diana Reid

3.42

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Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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The Rachel Incident

Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

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Diana Reid

3.42

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No Hard Feelings

Genevieve Novak

3.80

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