11 Best lesbian books like Women! In! Peril! by Jessie Ren Marshall

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Women! In! Peril!

By: Jessie Ren Marshall

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this brash and unputdownable collection, award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall invites us…

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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 Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • 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. 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 Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. 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 Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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4. 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 Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • 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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5. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

Similar categories in Elliott Gish's Grey Dog book and Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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6. 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 Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Ellipses

By: Vanessa Lawrence

2.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Set in the glossy world of New York City media, this sharp and witty debut novel follows a young wo… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Lawrence's Ellipses book and Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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8. Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more

Similar categories in Holly Wilson's Kittentits book and Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. 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 Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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10. Your Presence Is Mandatory

By: Sasha Vasilyuk

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a Ukrainian World War II veteran with a secret … read more

Similar categories in Sasha Vasilyuk's Your Presence Is Mandatory book and Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • adult
  • fiction
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11. The Z Word

By: Lindsay King-Miller

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay King-Miller's The Z Word book and Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Women! In! Peril! by Jessie Ren Marshall

12. Women! In! Peril!

By: Jessie Ren Marshall

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this brash and unputdownable collection, award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall invites us… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril! book and Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Mouth: Stories by Puloma Ghosh

13. Mouth: Stories

By: Puloma Ghosh

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

BESTIARY MEETS THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED IN THIS COLLECTION OF 11 EERIE, UNCANNY, AND SURREAL S… read more

Similar categories in Puloma Ghosh's Mouth: Stories book and Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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14. Loneliness & Company

By: Charlee Dyroff

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A timely, beautifully observed debut novel set in near future New York about a young woman who find… read more

Similar categories in Charlee Dyroff's Loneliness & Company book and Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"We open our mouths and let the world fall out."

-Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

"We cannot see the world without seeing pieces of ourselves"

-Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

"A person to think with is the most intimate thing someone can have. And she has it, this connection that outlasts the body’s demise, the heart’s tantrums."

-Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

"I guess I feel anxious in a good way, too. It's a weird cycle: Do I do things all the time because they are important? Or because they make me feel important?"

-Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

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15. Broughtupsy

By: Christina Cooke

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

At once cinematic yet intimate, Broughtupsy is an enthralling debut novel about a young Jamaican wo… read more

Similar categories in Christina Cooke's Broughtupsy book and Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Ghostroots: Stories by 'Pemi Aguda

16. Ghostroots: Stories

By: 'Pemi Aguda

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom… read more

Similar categories in 'Pemi Aguda's Ghostroots: Stories book and Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
Cover of How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix

17. 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 Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

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

18. 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 Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of But How Are You, Really by Ella  Dawson

19. But How Are You, Really

By: Ella Dawson

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A burned-out bisexual confronts old demons, her estranged chosen family, and the ex she maybe shoul… read more

Similar categories in Ella Dawson's But How Are You, Really book and Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Mystery Lights by Lena Valencia

20. Mystery Lights

By: Lena Valencia

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Set against the stark background of the Southwestern desert, Lena Valencia’s Mystery Lights glows w… read more

Similar categories in Lena Valencia's Mystery Lights book and Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
  • anthologies
Cover of Highway Thirteen: Stories by Fiona McFarlane

21. Highway Thirteen: Stories

By: Fiona McFarlane

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, enigmatic collection of linked short stories about the reverberations of a serial kille… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McFarlane's Highway Thirteen: Stories book and Jessie Ren Marshall's Women! In! Peril!

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction

21 best-selling fiction books like Women! In! Peril! by Jessie Ren Marshall

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Anna Dorn

4.06

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Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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A Good Happy Girl

Marissa Higgins

3.01

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We Were the Universe

Kimberly King Parsons

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Julia Phillips

3.38

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Frankie Barnet

3.73

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Yōko Ogawa

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