Fiction - Women

"One of our major novelists" (Salman Rushdie) tells the story of a woman reflecting on her uncompromising life, and the life of a former lover, in this provocative novel. "Yiyun Li is one of my favorite writers, and Must I Go is an extraordinary...

America's First Lady of Romance, New York Times bestselling author Janet Dailey, kicks off The Champions, an exciting new series about the world of bucking bulls and the ranchers who raise them. At the Alamo Canyon Ranch, set amid the desert foothills of Southern...

A compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney, Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Offill. "Shrewd and sensual, Popkey's debut carries the scintillating charge of a long-overdue girls'...

ELIF SHAFAK'S NEW YORK TIMES ISTANBUL READING LISTA GREAT GROUP READS SELECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 RUNCIMAN AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD At the neighborhood café where pastry chef Kosmas, charming widower Fanis, and other Rum-Greek Orthodox Christian-friends meet regularly for afternoon tea,...

When a woman's whole life falls apart, she finds refuge in the home she left behind in this touching novel in the Tending Roses series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours....

'Hilarious I loved every page... ' Dawn at Crooks on Books One evening in early August, while mashing the potatoes for dinner, Connie McColl decides she's had enough... Connie is tired of solving one family crisis after another - usually involving her unruly grandchildren...

From the New York Times bestseller Ashley Antoinette, author of the Prada Plan series comes a boldly fierce and strikingly dramatic novel, Luxe. Bleu Montclair knew as a young girl that she would one day escape the hard, unrelenting streets of Flint, Michigan, and...

Toy Sooner has dealt with enough rough waves in her troubled past. It's only been through the enduring love of a close-knit group of women on this tiny island that she's finally started to find her footing. But as new challenges in her career...

"America's favorite writer" (The New Yorker) begins a trilogy inspired by the inn she owns and the town she loves. The historic hotel in BoonsBoro, Maryland, has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it's getting a major facelift from the...

Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up...

A Sarah Selects Book Club Pick!"As sophisticated and delicious as lobster bisque." --Amanda Eyre Ward, New York Times bestselling author A shimmering summer read set in Maine about family secrets, marriage, motherhood, and privilege, from the bestselling author of Two Truths and a Lie...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post - O, The Oprah Magazine - TIME Magazine - NPR - Financial Times - New York Post - Kirkus Reviews - Harper's Bazaar AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NATIONAL...

Named One of the Best Thrillers by the Washington Post"Possibly my favorite of Pinborough's yet, and that's saying something. It's an absolute rollercoaster of a ride: twist upon twist, expertly handled. I actually gasped out loud several times. So atmospheric and sexy... A triumph!"...

"I can always count on Tijan to write an action-packed, intense, emotional story that will have me invested until the very last page."--Helena Hunting, New York Times bestselling author No longer an outsider, Bailey has a family and love that she never could've imagined....

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The...

'As a general rule, I am opposed to fiction written from the perspective of a child. It's not that I'm uninterested in childhood as a concept, or even in children themselves - far from it - but some writers use childhood as a lazy...

The New York Times-bestselling author of Little Beach Street Bakery and Christmas at the Cupcake Caf returns with a delightful new novel, already an international bestseller, perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes, Meg Donohue, and Sophie Kinsella. For fans of Jojo Moyes and Elin...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - A "furious and addictive new novel" (The New York Times) about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning as she flees her suburban life. "A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a...

"Roberts proves again why she is the premier purveyor of small-town, feel-good romance." --Booklist USA TODAY bestselling author Sheila Roberts takes readers back to the sun-dappled shores of Moonlight Harbor as its citizens find hope, happiness and humor in the wake of a tragic...

Parade's "10 Books Written by Women We Can't Wait to Read in 2019" She Reads' "Most Anticipated Thillers of Summer 2019" Pure Wow's "The Best Beach Reads of Summer 2019" CrimeReads' "The Most Anticipated Crime Books of Summer" From bestselling author Michele Campbell comes...

A sensuous, textured novel of life in a refugee camp, long-listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets that, in an act of imaginative resilience, will serve as a...

"If you enjoyed An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, read The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls...an absorbing commentary on love, family and forgiveness."--The Washington Post "A fast-paced, intriguing story...the novel's real achievement is its uncommon perceptiveness on the origins and variations of...

A landmark literary event: the first novel by a female member of Oulipo in English, a sexy genderless love story.Author: Anne Garr騁aISBN-10: 1941920098ISBN-13: 9781941920091Publisher: Deep Vellum PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2015Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 04/01/2015 pg. 76

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be...

A beautiful, "deeply affecting" (Kirkus Reviews) novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spices about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another. Sweeping across the twentieth...

Fortyish movie studio publicist Marcee Brookes feels ordinary; she's stuck in a mid-level job, struggles to accept her size-16 figure and dreams of a man who might look past her waistline and into her heart. When Claire, the seemingly affable wife of screen legend...

Olivia Lockhart Cedar Cove, Washington Dear Reader, If you've been to Cedar Cove before, you've probably met my friend Grace Sherman. You can usually find her at home--she lives at 204 Rosewood Lane--or at the public library, where she works. Like me, she grew...

"Kimberly Belle delivers the goods--a rocket-paced story with a heart that will keep you riveted through every hairpin twist and turn. Breathless suspense!" --Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of The Red HunterWhen a child goes missing, two mothers' lives collide in a...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes "a rollicking page-turner . . . It's funny. It's clever. It twists and turns. . . . Sophie Kinsella has yet another winner." (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) "Sophie...

Before diving into Cecelia Ahern's new sequel, Postscript, discover how Holly's journey began in this New York Times bestseller. Everyone needs a guardian angel! Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could...

"The Right Swipe is everything you want in a Summer read: fun, clever, and so, so sexy." -- PopsugarAlisha Rai returns with a sizzling new novel, in which two rival dating app creators find themselves at odds in the boardroom but in sync in...

"If I could only read one writer from now until the end of my life, it would be Dorothea Benton Frank." --Elin Hilderbrand, the New York Times bestselling authorImmerse yourself in the enchanting world of New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank's Carolina...

"Entirely satisfying, an expert balance of warmth and compassion, terrific supporting characters, a little steamy sex and just enough suspense to keep you from guessing how it will all go down." -- Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA hilarious novel about one woman's quest to redo an old...

A classic novel that explores how the moral standards of Victorian England affected a young woman seeking her place in society. This beautiful flexibound edition also features bright foil on the cover. Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles is a masterpiece of...

From the Goncourt Prize-winning author of And Their Children After Them, a devilishly smart noir novella that finds uncomfortable truths in the everyday about romance, violence, and women's desire and desirability. Nearing fifty, with a divorce and a string of other failed relationships behind...

Winner of the 2020 Big Moose PrizeSpanning the mid to late 20th century and set in the Elkhorn Valley of southwestern Montana, The Stone Sister is told from three points of view - a father's, a nurse's, and a sister's. Together they tell the...

Spanning nearly a century, from 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, a page turning, epic family saga centering on three generations of women in one Russian Jewish family--each striving to break free of fate and history, each yearning for love and personal fulfillment--and how...

"An Agatha Christie vibe make[s] this whodunit an excellent beach read"(Library Journal). Discover secrets, scandal, and a suspected killer--all on one street in this gripping suspense from New York Times bestselling author and "master of misdirection and sudden plot twists," (Booklist) Megan Miranda. Welcome...

First published in 1923, "A Lost Lady" by American author and Pulitzer-prize winner Willa Cather, is the story of the lovely and enigmatic Marian Forrester and her life in the Western American town of Sweet Water. The novel is told from the perspective of...

A young slacker decides to live her life according to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure: "A rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent" (The New York Times). When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper, gift wrapper, laziest ever part-time...

Combining the social commentary of The Handmaid's Tale with the white-knuckled thrills of Red Rising, this epic space opera follows a comfort woman as she claims her agency, a soldier questioning his allegiances, and a non-binary hero out to save the solar system. First...

Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014Largehearted Boy Favorite Novels of 2014 "An extraordinary new literary talent."--The Daily Telegraph"In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sensibility so alive it...

When Olivia Shaw's mother dies, the sophisticated food editor is astonished to learn she's inherited a centuries-old English estate--and a title to go with it. Raw with grief and reeling from the knowledge that her reserved mother hid something so momentous, Olivia leaves San...

From Jodi Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Mornings on Main and Indigo Lake, comes this heartwarming new novel set in Honey Creek, Texas--a small town where family bonds and legends run deep, and friendship and love are always close at hand ....

The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made...

Helen Wan's engaging and suspenseful (Wall Street Journal) debut novel, The Partner Track, is now a Netflix series! Ingrid Yung's life is full of firsts. A first-generation Chinese American, the first lawyer in her family, she's about to collect the holy grail of firsts...

Winner of the New England Book Award, Howard Frank Mosher's endearing novel is both a heroic adventure and a thrilling coming-of-age story. It is the memorable tale of a young man named Wild Bill Bonhomme, his larger-than-life father, Quebec Bill, and their whiskey-smuggling exploits...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper examines the fault lines of a troubled marriage in this "unfailingly intelligent...undeniably literary psychological drama"(Booklist). To the outside world, they seem to have it all. Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, and Alex Rivers,...

"She grew daring and reckless. Overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out. Where no woman had swum before."Author: Kate ChopinISBN-10: 0380002450ISBN-13: 9780380002450Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/10/1982Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 6.86h x 4.12w x 0.54dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 8.5Point Value: 12Interest Level:...

A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by The Millions - A Best Book to Read in April by Town & Country and The AV Club - One of 2022's Best Beach Reads by Southern Living From the prize-winning author of Supper Club--a debut novel...