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Brandi Wells is the author of This Boring Apocalypse, Please Don't Be Upset, and Poisonhorse. Their debut novel, Cleaner, was published by Wildfire Books in August 2023 and is forthcoming from Hanover Square Press in January 2024 as The Cleaner.

They teach creative writing at CSU Fullerton and hold a Phd in Literature and Creative Writing from University of Southern California. ...more

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Average rating: 3.24 · 1,663 ratings · 337 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Cleaner 2.97 avg rating — 1,313 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Please Don't Be Upset and Other Stories 4.36 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Boring Apocalypse 4.40 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	poisonhorse 4.31 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wildfire Cleaner A biting workplace satire - for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh and Halle Butler. 3.44 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens: Issue Y'aing'ngah by Brandi Wells (Goodreads Author), xTx (Goodreads Author), Mykle Hansen (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Patience (chapbook) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heavy Feather Review 2.1 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Warrior Review Spring / Summer 2014 Issue 40.2 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cleaner: A Novel by Brandi Wells (Goodreads Author), Francine Brody (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Brandi rated a book it was amazing Play Nice by Rachel Harrison	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I had a really good time reading this and thinking about genre. I liked the way this combined tropes of a slasher and tropes of a rom-com. It was more than a slasher with a love-story plot line, which we've all seen before. This really merged the two ...more
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I had a really good time reading this and thinking about genre. I liked the way this combined tropes of a slasher and tropes of a rom-com. It was more than a slasher with a love-story plot line, which we've all seen before. This really merged the two ...more
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I went into this not really knowing what to expect and I just loved it. I don't care about sports at all and I was so drawn in. I cared about the characters and town so much. Really stellar job on the rotating points of view, also. ...more
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Brandi and 127 other people liked pehesara ☾'s review of Untitled Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #4): "Y’all I only started this series cause I thought it was completed. wym I’m gonna have to wait 2 YEARS for the next one?!?😭"
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“Imagine thinking you have any say over how someone else lives or works.”
― Brandi Wells, The Cleaner

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“She always thinks she can do better without ever stopping to consider, “Do I even have anything appealing to offer?”
― Brandi Wells, The Cleaner

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“I will not be fucked around with by a man without a single book”
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