5 Best coming of age books like Sharp Edges by Leah Mol

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Sharp Edges

By: Leah Mol

3.47

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

For readers of My Dark Vanessa and Lullabies for Little Criminals, this important, electrifying nov…

If you liked the coming of age plot in Sharp Edges by Leah Mol , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Scarborough

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 208 pages,

Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more

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2. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • fiction
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3. The Adult

By: Bronwyn Fischer

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Soon, but not yet, Nora will look up and she will see me, sitting at a distance.  In the wet grass… read more

Similar categories in Bronwyn Fischer's The Adult book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • coming of age
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1) book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • fiction
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"

-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

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5. All-Night Pharmacy

By: Ruth Madievsky

3.52

Format: 304 pages, ebook

*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Madievsky's All-Night Pharmacy book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."

-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy

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6. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

By: Sarah Polley

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more

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"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

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7. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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8. My Last Innocent Year

By: Daisy Alpert Florin

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one wo… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Alpert Florin's My Last Innocent Year book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • coming of age
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. The Fake

By: Zoe Whittall

3.44

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A con artist can make you feel like the luckiest person on earth just to be in their presence. But … read more

Similar categories in Zoe Whittall's The Fake book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There are worse things than telling a lie."

-Zoe Whittall, The Fake

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10. Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir

By: Cody Caetano

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

*LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2023* NATIONAL BESTSELLERA family tries to learn from the mistakes of … read more

Similar categories in Cody Caetano's Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • coming of age
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11. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

Similar categories in Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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12. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Johns's Bad Cree book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • fiction
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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13. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's The Circle book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Berlin

By: Bea Setton

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she … read more

Similar categories in Bea Setton's Berlin book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • coming of age
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A Minor Chorus book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. In a Not So Perfect World

By: Neely Tubati Alexander

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A delightful Caribbean-set romp about an ambitious designer of apocalyptic video games with a strat… read more

Similar categories in Neely Tubati Alexander's In a Not So Perfect World book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Animal

By: Lisa Taddeo

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Honestly, sometimes I think it’s the only recourse. Killing men in times like these.Joan has spent … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Taddeo's Animal book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Let me tell you something, he said, looking into my eyes like an asshole."

-Lisa Taddeo, Animal

"When someone suffocates you with what they believe is love, even as you feel your air supply being cut off, you at least feel embraced."

-Lisa Taddeo, Animal

"The men noticed I'd stopped playing. Men are never okay when you stop. I had the fear of angering a man. Of not being an amenable woman. I had the fear of being murdered."

-Lisa Taddeo, Animal

"He looked a little wounded, and I realized that true power came from not caring about anyone. That was the last time I would sleep with a man. I was through with the gender."

-Lisa Taddeo, Animal

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18. A Bit Much

By: Sarah Jackson

3.69

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Ottessa Moshfegh, A Bit Much is a darkly funny novel about the complex… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Jackson's A Bit Much book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Far Cry

By: Alissa York

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In a novel as compelling as the forbidden love at its heart, Alissa York, one of Canada's most dist… read more

Similar categories in Alissa York's Far Cry book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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20. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

By: Shashi Bhat

4.22

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

CBC Books' Top Pick for Most Anticipated Canadian Fiction for Spring 2024—a breathtaking and sharpl… read more

Similar categories in Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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21. Sharp Edges

By: Leah Mol

3.47

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

For readers of My Dark Vanessa and Lullabies for Little Criminals, this important, electrifying nov… read more

Similar categories in Leah Mol's Sharp Edges book and Leah Mol's Sharp Edges

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • dark
  • contemporary

18 Best fiction books like Sharp Edges by Leah Mol

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Adult

Bronwyn Fischer

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

Transform Your Habits

All-Night Pharmacy

Ruth Madievsky

3.52

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17 must-read fiction books like A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Transform Your Habits

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Future

Catherine Leroux

3.32

Transform Your Habits

Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Sleeping Car Porter

Suzette Mayr

3.46

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