21 Top adult books like Sweet, Young, & Worried by Blythe Baird

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Sweet, Young, & Worried

By: Blythe Baird

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird. This…

If you liked the adult plot in Sweet, Young, & Worried by Blythe Baird , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. I Wrote This For You (I Wrote This For You #4)

By: pleasefindthis , Iain S. Thomas , Jon Ellis

4.09

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyo… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
"The little things you forget, kill me."

-pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You (I Wrote This For You #4)

"You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore."

-pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You (I Wrote This For You #4)

"Because we all need to believe in movies, sometimes."

-pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You (I Wrote This For You #4)

"I'd rather live with the answer than die with the question."

-pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You (I Wrote This For You #4)

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2. peluda

By: Melissa Lozada-Oliva

3.98

Format: 392 pages,

One of the most original performance poets of her generation, Melissa Lozada-Oliva has captivated c… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Lozada-Oliva's peluda book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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3. Depression & Other Magic Tricks

By: Sabrina Benaim

4.27

Format: 359 pages,

Depression & Other Magic Tricksis the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performa… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Benaim's Depression & Other Magic Tricks book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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4. Our Numbered Days

By: Neil Hilborn

4.24

Format: 212 pages,

In 2013, Neil Hilborn's performance of his poem "OCD" went viral. To date, it has been watched over… read more

Similar categories in Neil Hilborn's Our Numbered Days book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health

5. Autopsy

By: None

4.02

Format: 982 pages,

Written after the death of his mother, Donte Collins's Autopsy establishes the poet as one of the m… read more

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6. New American Best Friend

By: Olivia Gatwood

4.24

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

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7. Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky

By: Rudy Francisco

4.64

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is the third installment of the Rudy Francisco poetry collection. With … read more

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  • poetry
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8. Helium (Button Poetry)

By: Rudy Francisco

4.29

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

2018 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist Helium is the debut poetry collection by … read more

Similar categories in Rudy Francisco's Helium (Button Poetry) book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"The word “repurpose"

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"I held you the way a boat holds water."

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"Loving you was the last thing I felt really good at."

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"you wouldn't let me love both of us at the same time"

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

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9. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems

By: Megan Fox

3.76

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over… read more

Similar categories in Megan Fox's Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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10. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

By: Andrea Gibson

4.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"There will be music for you one day."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

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11. Persephone Made Me Do It

By: Trista Mateer

4.21

Format: 176 pages, ebook

Bestselling and Goodreads Choice Award-winning author Trista Mateer returns with another mythical a… read more

Similar categories in Trista Mateer's Persephone Made Me Do It book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • mental health
  • adult
  • lgbt
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12. Artemis Made Me Do It

By: Trista Mateer

4.14

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer returns with another magical approach to self-ca… read more

Similar categories in Trista Mateer's Artemis Made Me Do It book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Forgive me if I unlearn pretty and learn vicious in its place."

-Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

"I believe all men think of me as a piece. Correction: Not all men."

-Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

"Look at you, taking care of everyone but yourself, letting love make you hollow instead of full."

-Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

"The wolf caught me in its jaws but when I cried out, other only said: I have seen the wolf many times and he has not bitten me"

-Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

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13. You Better Be Lightning

By: Andrea Gibson

4.63

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Gibson's You Better Be Lightning book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

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14. Nocturnal

By: Wilder Poetry

3.85

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Nocturnal is a collection of words and imagery inspired by darkened skies and sleepless nights. it … read more

Similar categories in Wilder Poetry's Nocturnal book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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15. Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction

By: Jared Singer

3.93

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

Singer’s highly anticipated debut book collects and transforms work from his ten years as a mainsta… read more

Similar categories in Jared Singer's Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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16. Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

By: Rachel Wiley

3.99

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Revenge Body is a poetry collection that explores anger (righteous and not), black identity, body i… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry) book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"water might be the only thing that could ever hold us gentle"

-Rachel Wiley, Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

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17. I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

By: Rudy Francisco

4.31

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

In his stunningly intimate, highly anticipated follow up to Helium, Rudy Fransico has created a col… read more

Similar categories in Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry) book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence."

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

"Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine. No, I'm not just saying that so you'll leave me alone."

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

"Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing until vertical. The ground has taught me more about flight than the sky ever c…"

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

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18. Swallowtail (Button Poetry)

By: Brenna Twohy

4.33

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Swallowtail: A deep dive into the dissection of popular culture, and how the brightness and horrors… read more

Similar categories in Brenna Twohy's Swallowtail (Button Poetry) book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"Peach pits are poisonous. This is not a mistake. Girlhood is growing fruit around cyanide. It will never be your for swallowing."

-Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail (Button Poetry)

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19. Sweet, Young, & Worried

By: Blythe Baird

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird. This… read more

Similar categories in Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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20. Life of the Party

By: Olivia Gatwood

4.19

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A dazzling debut collection of raw and explosive poems about growing up in a sexist, sensationalize… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Some things are more a feeling than they are a memory."

-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

"The truth is: It is a privilege to have your body looked for."

-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

"You must know the width of the knife and how it ruined you, name the organs it kissed."

-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

"I want to know what it means to survive something. does it just mean I get to keep my body?"

-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

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21. Words You Never Thought You'd Hear

By: Rhiannon Janae

3.90

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

Words You Never Thought You’d Hear is a compelling poetry series book of rebuilding yourself after … read more

Similar categories in Rhiannon Janae's Words You Never Thought You'd Hear book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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22. I Love You, Call Me Back: Poems

By: Sabrina Benaim

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From one of the most-viewed spoken word poets of all time, a collection exploring loneliness, anxie… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Benaim's I Love You, Call Me Back: Poems book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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23. Fat Girl Finishing School

By: Rachel Wiley

4.24

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

“Fat girls of the world will find their voice through Wiley’s brilliance, and we all owe her for th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Wiley's Fat Girl Finishing School book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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24. Ephemera

By: Sierra DeMulder

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

If every experience lasted forever and the sands of time never interrupted our most loving moments,… read more

Similar categories in Sierra DeMulder's Ephemera book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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25. Whoever You Are, Honey

By: Olivia Gatwood

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women build themselves—beneath the gaze of love, fri… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Gatwood's Whoever You Are, Honey book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • adult
  • lgbt
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26. Date & Time (Button Poetry)

By: Phil Kaye

4.21

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Phil Kaye's debut collection is a stunning tribute to growing up, and all of the challenges and cel… read more

Similar categories in Phil Kaye's Date & Time (Button Poetry) book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
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27. Nothing Is Okay

By: Rachel Wiley

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Nothing is Okay is the second full-length collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously dec… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Wiley's Nothing Is Okay book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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28. Butcher

By: Natasha T. Miller

4.16

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Butcher is a book about love & loss — about being unapologetic and transparent in grief. Natasha… read more

Similar categories in Natasha T. Miller's Butcher book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • mental health
  • lgbt
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29. A Socially Acceptable Breakdown

By: Patrick Roche

4.26

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

A Socially Acceptable Breakdown is a poetry collection that explores themes of family, queerness, m… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Roche's A Socially Acceptable Breakdown book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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30. My Darling from the Lions

By: Rachel Long

3.78

Format: None pages, None

Described as a narrative collection in three parts, My Darling from the Lions “threads experiences … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Long's My Darling from the Lions book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry
  • adult
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31. How to Maintain Eye Contact

By: Robert Wood Lynn

3.68

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

How to Maintain Eye Contact takes readers through a journey of uncertainty and what we make of it. … read more

Similar categories in Robert Wood Lynn's How to Maintain Eye Contact book and Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried

  • poetry

19 Best nonfiction books like Sweet, Young, & Worried by Blythe Baird

Transform Your Habits

peluda

Melissa Lozada-Oliva

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Depression & Other Magic Tricks

Sabrina Benaim

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Our Numbered Days

Neil Hilborn

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Helium (Button Poetry)

Rudy Francisco

4.29

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17 must-read adult books like I Love You, Call Me Back: Poems by Sabrina Benaim

Transform Your Habits

No Matter the Wreckage

Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Take Me with You

Andrea Gibson

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Our Numbered Days

Neil Hilborn

4.24

Transform Your Habits

I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

Kate Baer

4.28

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