18 must-read fiction books like Age of Consent by Amanda Brainerd

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Age of Consent

By: Amanda Brainerd

3.13

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

"A total time machine--I loved it." --Maria Semple, New York Times bestselling author of Where'd Y…

"The colored lights streamed over her face like rays of the sun. She closed her eyes and raised her arms over her head. The song was the best she’d ever heard. There’s 70 billion people of Earth, where are they hiding? The cocaine coursed through her organs in time with the pounding bass. Her eyes stung, she was pouring sweat. A voice inside her head called her name. Where are they hiding? She clenched her teeth to stop them from chattering. Her hands were shaking like falling leaves."

-Amanda Brainerd, Age of Consent

If you liked the fiction plot in Age of Consent by Amanda Brainerd , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. So Sad Today: Personal Essays

By: Melissa Broder

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cyc… read more

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2. A Scatter of Light

By: Malinda Lo

3.87

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age … read more

Similar categories in Malinda Lo's A Scatter of Light book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"This is what I’ve learned: The art is greater than you and your feelings. You have to serve it. It is not you. Some people will never understand that, but you need to surround yourself with people wh…"

-Malinda Lo, A Scatter of Light

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3. A Certain Hunger

By: Chelsea G. Summers

3.77

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Doro… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea G. Summers's A Certain Hunger book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

"I enjoy a man who’s kissed with a yeasty beastliness."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

"Junk food was rebellion, rebellion was femininity, femininity was junk."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

"I knew from a young age that motherhood was a cage I never wanted to inhabit."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

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4. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm

By: Emmeline Clein

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more

Similar categories in Emmeline Clein's Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

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5. 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 Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Find Me in California

By: Kerry Lonsdale

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

An achingly romantic novel about chance meetings, buried secrets, and the multiple facets of love a… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Lonsdale's Find Me in California book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. My First Book

By: Honor Levy

3.27

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

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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 Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
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9. A Better World

By: Sarah Langan

3.63

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The author of Good Neighbors, “one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American sub… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Langan's A Better World book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • fiction
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10. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. How to Love Your Daughter

By: Hila Blum

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling… read more

Similar categories in Hila Blum's How to Love Your Daughter book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. The Swallows

By: Lisa Lutz

3.66

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war--with deadly consequences. What … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Lutz's The Swallows book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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13. Stargazer

By: Laurie Petrou

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Summer 1995. Diana and Aurelle are inseparable, living together in Diana's parents' cottage on the … read more

Similar categories in Laurie Petrou's Stargazer book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Marilou is Everywhere

By: Sarah Elaine Smith

3.39

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Consumed by the longing for a different life, a teenager flees her family and carefully slips into… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Elaine Smith's Marilou is Everywhere book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There is a part of you that will always live outside your body, in the stars."

-Sarah Elaine Smith, Marilou is Everywhere

"Like most evil, I supposed, mine was only a hurt hiding in whatever materials were near. My hurt had no imagination for other people."

-Sarah Elaine Smith, Marilou is Everywhere

"...and wasn’t love a series of things you did in spite of how wild they were? Love is crazy, and this was crazy, so it must be love. It must."

-Sarah Elaine Smith, Marilou is Everywhere

"I couldn’t remember why I had ever been afraid to walk in the woods at night. It was all creatures, and I was a creature. Everything was legal between me and the rest."

-Sarah Elaine Smith, Marilou is Everywhere

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15. Thin Girls

By: Diana Clarke

3.87

Format: None pages, None

A dark, edgy, voice-driven literary debut novel about twin sisters that explores body image and que… read more

Similar categories in Diana Clarke's Thin Girls book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"When the pain is too much for the mind, we take it out on the body."

-Diana Clarke, Thin Girls

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16. First Love: Essays on Friendship

By: Lilly Dancyger

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more

Similar categories in Lilly Dancyger's First Love: Essays on Friendship book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • coming of age
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17. This Is Pleasure: A Story

By: Mary Gaitskill

3.47

Format: 83 pages, Hardcover

Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations wit… read more

Similar categories in Mary Gaitskill's This Is Pleasure: A Story book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. A Dream Life (Short Books by Great Women Writers)

By: Claire Messud

3.26

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A jewel of a novel by New York Times -bestselling author Claire Messud When the Armstrong family m… read more

Similar categories in Claire Messud's A Dream Life (Short Books by Great Women Writers) book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Cave Dwellers

By: Christina McDowell

3.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This “delicious take on the one percent in our nation’s capital” (Town & Country) and clever combin… read more

Similar categories in Christina McDowell's The Cave Dwellers book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Rental House

By: Weike Wang

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as se… read more

Similar categories in Weike Wang's Rental House book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Age of Consent

By: Amanda Brainerd

3.13

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

"A total time machine--I loved it." --Maria Semple, New York Times bestselling author of Where'd Y… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent book and Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • campus
"The colored lights streamed over her face like rays of the sun. She closed her eyes and raised her arms over her head. The song was the best she’d ever heard. There’s 70 billion people of Earth, wher…"

-Amanda Brainerd, Age of Consent

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