Fiction - Women

Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko...

Now published in the United States for the first time--an early novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes. Isabel Delancey, a classical violinist, has always taken her comfortable life for granted....

One of Amazon's Best Romances of the Month! For fans of "You've Got Mail," a young woman juggles pursuing her dream job in radio while helping her family compete with the new halal restaurant across the street, in this sparkling new rom-com by the...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The page-turner will sate fans and win over new readers alike...a solid stand-alone tale of mystery and suspense." --USA TODAY From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell comes an intricate and affecting novel about twisted marriages,...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph--a woman who kept the...

Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize - Winner of the 2021 Kate O'Brien Award - Winner of the 2021 Dalkey Emerging Writer AwardSin饌d Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. No-one knows it: not her fellow patients in...

"Brimming with scandal and an equal amount of heart...a sweeping yet intimate look at the lives of some of history's most notorious figures from Vanderbilts to the Prince of Wales... A must-read."--Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of When We Left Cuba and...

"With meticulous research and deft prose, Heather Webb crafts an unflinching look at the immigrant experience, an unlikely and unique friendship, and a resonant story of female empowerment. The Next Ship Home is truly a beautiful and powerful book."--Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling...

"The End of Men is a fiercely intelligent page-turner, an eerily prescient novel, at once thoughtful and highly emotive." --Paula Hawkins, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train Set in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End...

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal A dazzling collection of short fiction Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her...

FINALIST for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionA BEST BOOK OF 2022Oprah Daily・TIME Magazine・Washington Post・Publishers Weekly・Lit HubBestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the hit Virgin River series.In this hilarious contemporary romance tale from Robyn Carr, readers are swept into a conflicted bride's whirlwind journey to the most chaotic wedding event of the year.After her divorce, Charlene Dugan...

Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age. Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers,...

Meet Emma McCarthy, a thirty-year-old failed actress that just moved home to Plymouth, MA. And her mother, Cindy, a yoga instructor in the Pinehills, an exclusive golf community in Plymouth. They've just inherited Court Street Investigations, a private detective agency. And its one part-time...

The second in an adorable witchy rom-com series by New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre, perfect for fans of: Ride-or-die female friendships A bisexual heroine who stubbornly refuses to accept help A hero with an incredibly pesky moral conscience A mouse named Benson...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A stunningly clever thriller made doubly suspenseful by not one, but two unreliable narrators."--People Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters in The Good Sister....

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A finely paced, shrewdly observed, multi-tiered story . . . A thinking (and feeling) reader's thriller." -Wall Street Journal "Chilling, thought-provoking, and hauntingly written, Mother May I kept me on the edge of my seat with its breathless race against time." -- Megan...

Inspired by true events, this vivid and moving story of a young woman zookeeper and the elephant she's compelled to protect through the German blitz of Belfast during WWll speaks to not only the tragedy of the times, but also to the ongoing sectarian...

After the world suffers one of the worst weather catastrophes, the USA is now controlled by four royal families. To keep the peace each firstborn is forced to marry into another dynasty. Peyton Jameson, the heir to the East, can't stomach the fact that...

When Asia got hired to work at Chabo, she thought she was gaining a new job and lifestyle. Transitioning from hood life to working in an industrial setting was her safety net. She thought it would be easy to do her job, get her...

The highly acclaimed story of a young woman in New Dehli, and the love that both shatters and forever changes her--offering an intimate and raw exploration of female transformation in contemporary India, and an unforgettable hymn to a dangerous, exhilarating city. "Searing.... Intoxicating." --The...

Mabel Stark was the greatest female tiger trainer in history. In the 1910s and '20s, during the golden age of the big top, she was the superstar of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus, and one of America's most eccentric celebrities. A tiny,...

When Sam Hawthorne, a twenty-five-year-old U.S. Army captain, arrives at the princely state of Rudrakot in May of 1942, it is on a personal quest to find his missing brother. But Sam's mission is soon threatened by the unlikeliest of sources -- he falls...

The first heart-fluttering novel in K. Wiley Sider's Diary series, Diary of a Lonely Girl: Claire follows the story of a divorcee who decides to start her life over from scratch. Claire drives away from Maryland and her marriage, not stopping until car trouble...

The New York Times bestselling author of Falling and Sister Stardust presents a charming transatlantic take on trading places... Being director of Poise! magazine affords Vicky Townsley a glamorous London life. She has everything she wants--except marriage, children, and a house in the country....

Learn why Holly Miller has five people living inside her head in this "remarkable debut novel."(Kemble Scott, author of SoMa) Though she doesn't remember the trauma that caused it, Holly Miller has Dissociative Identity Disorder. Her personality has fractured into five different identities, together...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Wayne A. Rebhorn's thorough and thought-provoking introduction to Machiavelli, his world, and his famous political treatise (1513). - An accurate and highly readable translation, detailed explanatory annotations, and a map of North Central Italy in Machiavelli's time. -...

Jamesland, the buoyant second novel by Michelle Huneven, critically acclaimed author of Round Rock, is a witty, sophisticated, and deeply humane comedy of unlikely redemption. When thirty-three-year-old Alice Black discovers a deer in her dining room after fighting with her boyfriend, she wonders if...

Tess McDonald is a high-priced madam running a lucrative call girl service, and whatever she wants is less than a phone call away. Life can't get much better for Nikki Perez. She's young, beautiful, has one of the finest and most notorious men in...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Two couples, four decades apart. One believes that if lovers die, they find each other again in another life. Or perhaps they wind up as stars side by side in the sky, together forever. Who knows how it...

"Classic Moggach: readable, memorable . . . an unashamedly colorful journey across continents, with clothes, food, landscapes brought joyously to life." --The Times (London)"Nobody in the world knows our secret . . . that I've ruined Bev's life, and she's ruined mine."Petra's romantic life...

Renovating an historic Memphis house together, three cousins discover that their spectacular failures in love, career, and family provide the foundation for their future happiness in this warm and poignant novel from the author of The Roots of the Olive Tree that is reminiscent...

Perennial New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips now provides her fans with The Great Escape from ordinary women's romantic fiction.One of today's most beloved writers, the incomparable Phillips follows up her utterly beguiling hit, Call Me Irresistible ("Phillips at her very best....

When Megan Murphy discovers a floppy-eared rabbit gnawing on the hem of her skirt, she means to give its careless owner a piece of her mind, but Dr. Patrick Hunter is too attractive to stay mad at for long. As for Patrick, he wants...

Wanted: Woman to talk to. Three nights a week. Three hundred dollars a night. Skin Deep is about the unusual young woman who answers this ad. Martha Ward is twenty-eight, an ex-topless waitress, and part-time mother of an eight-year-old. She drives to Malibu for...

A family of estranged Vietnamese women--cursed to never know love or happiness--reunite when a psychic makes a startling prediction.Everyone in Orange County's Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed.It started with their ancestor, Oanh, who dared to leave her marriage for true...

In this fresh romantic comedy from the author of Shipped, heralded as an absolutely sparkling debut by Entertainment Weekly, a woman wakes up from a car accident with memories of a boyfriend she's never met...only to run into him a year later. Perfect for...

What happens when the man you love most in the world, who may be lying about everything, unexpectedly disappears into thin air--or deep water--and takes your small child with him? A riveting and powerful debut about the fierceness of first love and how far...

For fans of My (Not So) Perfect Life and Jasmine Guillory's While We Were Dating, a disarmingly fun debut novel follows Carlisa Henton as her life comes undone after a chance meeting with a rising pop star.Carlisa Carli Henton is a musician and songwriter...

After a long-buried, harrowing incident, a woman whose promising film career was derailed has an opportunity for revenge in this visceral and timely thriller about power, privilege, and justice. A Hollywood has-been, Sarah Lai's dreams of success behind the camera have been put to...

This lyrical, dreamlike debut novel explores a young woman's life through the lens of her last days--as told in part by the malevolent voice of her disease.Lia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris...

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Early Morning Riser with a dash of Where'd You Go, Bernadette in this very funny, occasionally romantic, and surprisingly moving novel about how one woman's life is turned upside down when she becomes caregiver to her sister with...

After her fiancé whisks her off to the glistening shores of Southampton in June of 1957, one young socialite begins to realize that her glamorous summer is giving her everything--except what she really wants--in this new novel from the author of Summer Darlings, one...

Perfect for fans of Maria Semple and Jennifer Weiner, this smart and witty debut novel follows Ramona through the forty-eight hours after her life has been upended by the discovery of her husband's affair and an approaching Category Four hurricane.Ramona's got a bratty boss,...

From Lisa Taddeo, #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Three Women and our most eloquent and faithful chronicler of human desire (Esquire), Ghost Lover is an electrifying collection of fearless and ferocious short stories.Behind anonymous screens, an army of cool and...

From the bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep and Three Things About Elsie, a delightfully sinister novel about a married woman living a nice, quiet suburban life--but things aren't always what they seem...Linda has lived in a quiet neighborhood since fleeing...

From the author of the funny, sexy, and absurdly entertaining (Marie Claire) Playing with Matches, a sweeping love story in the vein of Rebecca Serle and Chloe Benjamin about a woman who knows the date she'll meet her true love--only he isn't quite as...

The New York Times bestselling author of the mesmerizing and evocative (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants) Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across the generations.Dorothy Moy breaks her...

A New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller about a good girl dangerously drawn to the ultimate bad boy.The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn't drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes...

The author of the "suspenseful, atmospheric, and completely riveting" (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) debut The Winter Sister returns with a darkly thrilling novel about a woman who comes to believe that she has a connection to a decades old kidnapping and...