16 best-selling adult books like A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest by Charlie J Stephens

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A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

By: Charlie J Stephens

4.49

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

A dark yet hopeful tale about a child's search for love and safety.  "A pulsing novel filled with s…

If you liked the adult plot in A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest by Charlie J Stephens , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Song of Solomon

By: Toni Morrison

4.14

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more

Similar categories in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • fiction
"Her passions were narrow but deep."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"He can't value you more than you value yourself."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

2. The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Vol. 2

By: Nagabe , Adrienne Beck

4.26

Format: None pages,

Untouchable To be touched by an Outsider is to become an Outsider. A clawed, black hand reaches out… read more

Similar categories in Nagabe's The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Vol. 2 book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

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3. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

By: Huw Lemmey

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more

Similar categories in Huw Lemmey's Bad Gays: A Homosexual History book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Fever House (Fever House, #1) by Keith Rosson

4. Fever House (Fever House, #1)

By: Keith Rosson

4.03

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose … read more

Similar categories in Keith Rosson's Fever House (Fever House, #1) book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • adult
  • fiction
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5. Welcome Home, Stranger

By: Kate Christensen

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growin… read more

Similar categories in Kate Christensen's Welcome Home, Stranger book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • adult
  • fiction
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6. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • adult
Cover of The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Vol. 3 (The Girl from the Other Side, #3) by Nagabe

7. The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Vol. 3 (The Girl from the Other Side, #3)

By: Nagabe

4.34

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Homecoming Shiva's aunt has come to the Outside to bring her home, with several soldiers in tow.… read more

Similar categories in Nagabe's The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Vol. 3 (The Girl from the Other Side, #3) book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • fiction
"I suppose it's not so easy to change fate."

-Nagabe, The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Vol. 3 (The Girl from the Other Side, #3)

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8. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • adult
  • fiction
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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9. 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 Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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10. Pink Slime

By: Fernanda Trías

3.68

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more

Similar categories in Fernanda Trías's Pink Slime book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • adult
  • fiction
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11. The Glow

By: Jessie Gaynor

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy … read more

Similar categories in Jessie Gaynor's The Glow book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • adult
  • fiction
"Everyone agreed that he was brilliant, but he wore his intelligence like his perfect jean jacket- I stole it from my mom, he'd confessed on their first date- an effortless afterthought."

-Jessie Gaynor, The Glow

Cover of Howl for the Gargoyle (Monster Smash Agency, #2) by Kathryn  Moon

12. Howl for the Gargoyle (Monster Smash Agency, #2)

By: Kathryn Moon

4.18

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Hannah never wanted to be a werewolf. After over thirty years as a human, she finds her new life on… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Moon's Howl for the Gargoyle (Monster Smash Agency, #2) book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • adult
Cover of The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

13. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

Similar categories in Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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14. Bonfire

By: Krysten Ritter

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Should you ever go back? It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away a… read more

Similar categories in Krysten Ritter's Bonfire book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • adult
  • fiction
"The past is just a story we tell."

-Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

"Law school teaches you one thing above all: how to speak while saying absolutely nothing."

-Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

"Things dead and buried are best left that way. They don't look none too pretty when they come up."

-Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

"My phone’s dead, and I have to find the microwave to read the time: 8:12. Only bad news comes this early."

-Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

Cover of The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1) by Charlotte Bond

15. The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1)

By: Charlotte Bond

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Kill the dragon. Find the blade. Reclaim her honor. It’s that, or end up like countless knights … read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Bond's The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1) book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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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 Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • adult
  • fiction
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17. Thrust

By: Lidia Yuknavitch

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Lidia Yuknavitch has an unmatched gift for capturing stories of people on the margins--vulnerable h… read more

Similar categories in Lidia Yuknavitch's Thrust book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • fiction
"Memory is proof that imagination is a real place."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust

"Women have been outsmarting their counter-genders since the dawn of time. I do wonder, though, when women will tire of their part in the story and revolt. I imagine the bloodbath."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust

"Miles of information... so that questions might be answered, so that judgements might be made, so that stories would not be lost, so that memory might outlive slaughter. So that crimes against humani…"

-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust

Cover of Hum by Helen          Phillips

18. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

19. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.68

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision … read more

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Cover of The Bloodless Princes (The Fireborne Blade, #2) by Charlotte Bond

20. The Bloodless Princes (The Fireborne Blade, #2)

By: Charlotte Bond

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Orpheus meets A Natural History of Dragons in a tale of death, honor and true love's embrace. It… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Bond's The Bloodless Princes (The Fireborne Blade, #2) book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • adult
  • queer
Cover of A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest by Charlie J Stephens

21. A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

By: Charlie J Stephens

4.49

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

A dark yet hopeful tale about a child's search for love and safety.  "A pulsing novel filled with s… read more

Similar categories in Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest book and Charlie J Stephens's A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

  • adult
  • fiction
  • queer

15 must-read fiction books like A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest by Charlie J Stephens

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Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

4.14

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Fever House (Fever House, #1)

Keith Rosson

4.03

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Welcome Home, Stranger

Kate Christensen

3.44

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Nagabe

4.34

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Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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The Extinction of Irena Rey

Jennifer Croft

3.26

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Miranda July

3.81

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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