Fiction - Women

In "This Marrying," Margaret Culkin Banning explores the complexities of marriage and relationships with a keen eye. Set against the backdrop of the newspaper industry, the novel delves into the lives of women navigating domestic life and professional aspirations. Banning's work offers a glimpse...

Rosamond Lehmann's "Dusty Answer" is a classic example of the bildungsroman, exploring the journey of self-discovery and identity formation. Falling squarely into the categories of literary fiction and coming-of-age stories, the novel intricately portrays the experiences of women navigating a world of change and...

Step into the dazzling world of 19th-century Paris with Émile Zola's "The Ladies' Paradise," a captivating realistic novel and sequel to "Piping Hot!" This classic of French literature offers a sweeping social commentary through the microcosm of a bustling department store. Zola masterfully portrays...

Kathleen Norris's "Sisters" offers a compelling exploration of family, specifically the intricate bonds between sisters in California. This work of contemporary fiction delves into the complexities of sibling relationships, painting a vivid portrait of women's lives. The novel is a timeless study of familial...

Frances Hodgson Burnett, the beloved author of "The Secret Garden," weaves a compelling tale of marriage and social class in "The Shuttle." Set between England and the United States, this captivating novel explores themes of wealth, family, and the lives of women navigating the...

Museum of Stones reveals a possessive/obsessive world of a love that must be released. An exceptional child collects too many rocks, invents a garbage recycler that runs amok, does not "play well." His mother takes their relationship to extremes, threatening her sanity and health,...

A romance author with a serious case of writer's block. A plan to find a muse, write the book, then walk away. But plans are made to be broken.My name is Molly Brinks, but most people know me as Vivienne Foxx, bestselling author of...

Healing must start from within... Desperate to reconnect with her half-brother, Emma Edwards takes her new medical training and secures a doctor's job at the prison where he's serving a sentence. But what she finds there is worse than she ever imagined...tough rules and...

What if the man you've always loved isn't the right one for you?Rose Atwood has been in love with her best friend for years, and she's tired of keeping her feelings under wraps for fear of getting hurt. Being Tyler's best friend is becoming...

Danielle Running is AWOL from the university where she has been working on her Master of Fine Arts degree. She is distressed by her thesis advisor's humiliating criticism and by her academic-supervisor boyfriend's intrusion on her work. The atmosphere in the Drama Department and...

"The Beautiful Years is part character study, part love triangle, and part commentary on how the decisions we make in an instant can color decades of our lives. A gorgeous, rich, contemplative read." - Jodi PicoultOn the day she graduates from college, Ada makes...

Part love story, part prison break, "From the Chrysalis" is a fictionalized account of the deadliest event in Canadian penal history, the Kingston Penitentiary Riot of April 1971. Liza's bad-boy cousin, the handsome, magnetic D'Arcy "Dace" Devereux is nothing but trouble. Falling in love...

In C.E. Case's second novel, ambitious state prosecutor Natalie Ivans has a headline-making trial about to begin. To escape the pressure of the spotlight, she drives toward the Carolina shore but is left stranded, battered, and broken in a small town after a car...

The second volume in the Scags Series, Scags is now at college and finding out about love, sex and politics. These three ingredients of life lead her to also discover the deeper meanings of friendship, heartbreak and loss.Author: Deborah EminISBN-10: 0981942873ISBN-13: 9780981942872Publisher: Sullivan Street...

From New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes a page-turning drama that explores the beauty of female friendship; the relationship between money, power, and sex; and the very human desire to protect the ones we love most. Renee has been working as a...

This iPublish original brings to vivid life the powerful story of one woman's struggle to build a future out of the wreckage of the past.Author: Marisa Kantor StarkISBN-10: 0759550085ISBN-13: 9780759550087Publisher: Grand Central PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2001Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.62h x 5.84w x 0.51d

In the elegant isolation of a Victorian mansion in Cape May, New Jersey, Autumn Thackeray, the once proud heiress of a once proud family, learns that she is "ill-suited to service." Her family's fortune diminished, she has taken a position as a companion to...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and "queen of royal fiction" (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory comes the remarkable story of Katherine of Aragon, Princess of Spain, daughter of two great monarchs, and eventual Queen of England when she marries the infamous King Henry...

These days, finding love online is as commonplace as ordering that coveted sweater. But back in 2003, the whole concept of internet dating was still quite new, with a stigma attached to it that meant those who were willing to test the waters faced...

Never in her wildest dreams would Jess Mason imagine herself being a part of the online dating hype. Yet here she is smack-dab in the middle of it all. And she's dated her fair share of online crazies to be a new connoisseur of...

A story about love and family, fighting for who you want to be, fighting against who you used to be and finding your way home. The last time I was on the otherside of those trees, I'd been seventeen and running away from home......

I'd become a version of myself I no longer recognised. Not just in the last couple of hours, but the last few of years if I were honest. If I were brave enough to face the reality of who I'd become, who I'd allowed...

A beautiful story of hope, love, friendship, the great love that changes everything and what happens to the secrets we leave behindAll I know is I have to be more than this person who can't face the daylight or remember to put on pants.Life...

Private Investigator, Sonoma (Sonny) Whittington, finds herself entangled in a web of deceit and danger when she takes on a seemingly routine case for the enigmatic businesswoman, Janine Thomlinson. Initially tasked with investigating Janine's husband's suspected affair, Sony's case takes an unexpected turn when...

Karen Fletcher, alias Mary Elizabeth Kensington, has everything: haughty British-born façade, successful public broadcasting career in Atlanta, beautiful home, and devoted fiancé. Following her breast cancer diagnosis, Karen returns to her southern hometown of Chattahoochee, Florida, to garner support, seek treatment, and unravel the...

Let the games begin! Newly widowed Claire Emmett leaves Los Angeles so she and her eleven-year-old daughter, Rachel, can have a fresh start in the picture-perfect suburb of Santa Bella, California. But the simple, quiet life she seeks is nowhere to be found in...

A playwright must grapple with her difficult year and writer's block while falling for the single dad living next door in this emotional debut novel from Ashley Jordan. Eve Ambroise may be a rising star playwright, but her personal life is falling part. Desperate...

A relationship grown stale. A timeworn mansion full of secrets. When future bliss means braving the past, can she write her own happily ever after? Author Kendyll Jamison yearns to reignite love's spark. So when an opportunity arises for her to relocate with her...

It's been 936 days since Flint has had clean water. Marion, a third generation General Motors employee, is consumed by layoffs at the engine plant. When her sister, Ainee, seeks justice and restitution for lead poisoning, her plan reveals the toxic entanglements between the...

A faded newspaperman downs a double Maker's Mark and contemplates life as a "ham-and-egger," a hack. Then one day he finds the scoop of a lifetime in a Chicago basement: diaries belonging to the infamous Judith Campbell Exner. Right, that Judy, the game girl...

Read Gerry Bartlett's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. View our feature on Gerry Bartlett's Real Vampires Have More to Love. Dangerous curves lie ahead in the latest hilarious novel from the national bestselling author of Real Vampires Hate Their Thighs. Glory...

Someone is eating for two... Full-figured vampire Glory St. Clair thinks things are finally going her way. She's no longer possessed by a demon, the legions of hell aren't on her tail, and her love life is heating up since she managed to reconnect...

For a vampire, losing weight can be hellish-from the national bestselling author of Real Vampires Hate Their Thighs. After Glory St. Clair kicked out the demon that had set up shop in her body, she had a serious fallout with longtime lover Jeremy Blade....

"An unashamedly sexy collection" (Glamour) featuring today's top female writers hiding behind naughty pseudonyms. A unique and sexy collection of bedtime stories by bestselling, award- winning, and well-known novelists delivering the goods under their X- rated pseudonyms. So who's who? We're not telling. After...

Included in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023 This provocative, fiercely imaginative debut follows a woman trying to slip the shackles of society by controlling her body and mind in extreme ways. It was hard to be in the present, she said, but...

Unwrap this steamy sports romance for Christmas as an NBA star uses his home court advantage to win back his high school sweetheart in New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde's Twilight, Texas series. Now with a brand-new cover!Kelsey James always played by the...

The internationally bestselling author of The Woman on the Ledge returns with a twisty thriller about a missing child and three adults whose shared secrets and hidden history could prove deadly."I need to report a crime. My baby has been stolen."All Lauren wants is...

Author: Julia QuinnISBN-10: 0063445077ISBN-13: 9780063445079Publisher: Avon BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2026Pages: 416Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbs

Author: Julia QuinnISBN-10: 0063445085ISBN-13: 9780063445086Publisher: Avon BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/03/2026Pages: 368Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbs

The Ring Is Not Enough ...... not if, like Paris Montague, you come from a long line of women whoknow how to marry. In her family, the unspoken rule has always been: never wed someone who's not as well off as you, and her...

Sharing Sean is a fabulously entertaining, and comedic debut novel in which four women in their late thirties-with no time, or desire for a full time relationship-hatch a plan to "share" a man. Not all women read bridal magazines, shop for dates on the...

Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother's homeland in this captivating, wry debut about family, identity,...

"Kirk Farber has a style very similar to Chuck Palahniuk, with offbeat observations, a view of our world through a slightly distorted lens, and a tone that's ... hilarious and tragic at the same time." -- Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing...

We'll meet again... When Ali inherits her great-aunt's house she immediately moves her whole family in, despite the warnings that there is something strange about the place. Unfazed, Ali begins redecorating, going through the rooms, making each one her own with the help of...

Author: Halle ButlerISBN-10: 0593730364ISBN-13: 9780593730362Publisher: Random House TradeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/26/2025Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.69d

What happens when you've made all the right moves but ended up in the wrong place?At forty-one, Darla Clarke has mastered the art of having it all-almost. Her career as a high-powered project manager in Boulder is picture-perfect, but the frame feels increasingly empty....

"Exquisitely crafted . . . [an] emotive tour-de-force." - Publishers Weekly BookLife (Editor's Pick)Raised on sunny days at Lake Koda, Jill piloted a speedboat long before driving a car. Her husband and three boys share her love for boating-until a surprise storm and tragic...

I thought I had my life planned out - working alongside my boyfriend, supporting my best friend as she launched her business, and dreaming of the day when I would be able to be home with a growing family. But all of that came...

I thought I had my life planned out - working alongside my boyfriend, supporting my best friend as she launched her business, and dreaming of the day when I would be able to be home with a growing family. But all of that came...

Escape to Wisconsin Bluff Country with a resilient new literary heroine on a journey of self-exploration across the Great Heartland. A picture perfect photo essay, this novel companion is a must-have as the fierce and fabulous Jaycee Grayson trades showbiz dreams for Midwest scenes...