18 must-read adult books like There's Going to Be Trouble by Jen Silverman

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There's Going to Be Trouble

By: Jen Silverman

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A woman is pulled into a love affair with a radical activist, unknowingly echoing her family's dang…

If you liked the adult plot in There's Going to Be Trouble by Jen Silverman , here is a list of 18 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 Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"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. Henry Henry

By: Allen Bratton

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more

Similar categories in Allen Bratton's Henry Henry book and Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."

-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry

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3. The Extinction of Irena Rey

By: Jennifer Croft

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Croft's The Extinction of Irena Rey book and Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

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4. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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5. 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 Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Memory Piece

By: Lisa Ko

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Ko's Memory Piece book and Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."

-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece

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7. Great Expectations

By: Vinson Cunningham

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more

Similar categories in Vinson Cunningham's Great Expectations book and Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

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8. The Sleepwalkers

By: Scarlett Thomas

3.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the UK’s most interesting authors” (Kirkus Reviews), Patricia Highsmith meets White Lo… read more

Similar categories in Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers book and Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"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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10. 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 Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

Similar categories in Marina Yuszczuk's Thirst book and Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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12. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Smith's Brat book and Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

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13. In Tongues

By: Thomas Grattan

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Grattan's In Tongues book and Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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14. 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 Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

Cover of There's Going to Be Trouble by Jen Silverman

15. There's Going to Be Trouble

By: Jen Silverman

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A woman is pulled into a love affair with a radical activist, unknowingly echoing her family's dang… read more

Similar categories in Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble book and Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
  • historical fiction
  • queer
Cover of Mother Doll by Katya Apekina

16. Mother Doll

By: Katya Apekina

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic novel about the shadow of trauma in Russian history that follows four generations o… read more

Similar categories in Katya Apekina's Mother Doll book and Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • adult
  • historical fiction
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17. Wait

By: Gabriella Burnham

3.36

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A young woman reunites with her teenage sister in their childhood home on Nantucket Island after th… read more

Similar categories in Gabriella Burnham's Wait book and Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas

18. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's The Anthropologists book and Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix

19. How It Works Out

By: Myriam Lacroix

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Lacroix's How It Works Out book and Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg

20. State of Paradise

By: Laura van den Berg

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more

Similar categories in Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise book and Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler

21. 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 Jen Silverman's There's Going to Be Trouble

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook

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Anna Dorn

4.06

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3.26

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Anna Dorn

4.06

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Miranda July

3.81

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3.24

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