Great Fiction for Women
Discover the best fiction books for women with our curated list of must-read novels. From romance to drama, find your next favorite read today!
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The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
A Magical love story that is as sad as it is joyous.
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The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget. Esteban -- The patriarch, a volatile and proud man whose lust for land is legendary and who is haunted by his tyrannical passion for the wife he can never completely possess. Clara -- The matriarch, elusive and mysterious, who foretells family tragedy and shapes the fortunes of the house of the Truebas. Blanca -- Their daughter, soft-spoken yet rebellious, whose shocking love for the son of her father's foreman fuels Esteban's everlasting contempt... even as it produces the grandchild he adores. Alba -- The fruit of Blanca's forbidden love, a luminous bearty, a fiery and willful woman... the family's break with the past and link to the future.
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Any Place I Hang My Hat
by Susan Isaacs
No matter which side of the nature/nurture debate you're on, Amy Lincoln's prospects do not look good. Her mother abandoned her when she was ten months old (just a couple of months after Amy's father went off to serve his first prison term), leaving her in the care of Grandma Lil, who shoplifts dinner on the way home from her job as a leg waxer to the rich and refined. When Amy is fourteen, she gets a scholarship to a New England boarding school -- her exposure to the moneyed class. After Harvard and the Columbia School of Journalism, Amy becomes a political reporter for the prestigious weekly In Depth. While covering a political fund-raiser, Amy meets a college student who claims to be the son of one of the presidential candidates. It's precisely the sort of story that In Depth wouldn't deign to cover, but the idea of tracking down a lost parent and demanding recognition intrigues Amy. As she begins a search of her own past as well as the candidate's, she discovers a new and unimpeachable grandmother and a mother who is much more than she bargained for. Most important, she finally comes to understand the stuff she's made of and finds the perfect place to hang her hat in the world. Bold, insightful, witty, and exhilarating, Any Place I Hang My Hat is a novel about one extraordinary young woman looking for a place to belong -- by one of the most compelling and beloved voices in contemporary fiction.
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The Yada Yada Prayer Group
by Neta Jackson
Jodi is still recovering from the accident that ended the first book. A robbery during a Yada Yada meeting and Adele's withdrawal from the group add more opportunity for grace to do its thing.
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Personal Assets
by Emma Holly
The owner of an infamous Parisian boutique opens a new one in Manhattan, giving her and her best friend the chance to get their professional and personal lives on track as they weigh the price of love and lust--while making their wildest fantasies come to life.
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Playing with Boys
by Alisa Valdes
Three Latin-American women in their late twenties, including an actress, a suburban mother, and a music manager, take Los Angeles by storm in their shared quest to find healthy relationships and success in a cutthroat city.
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Shem Creek
by Dorothea Benton Frank
The author continues her saga of life in the steamy, coastal lowcountry of South Carolina.
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Admissions
by Nancy Lieberman
Preparing to enroll her daughter in private school, Helen Drager finds herself overwhelmed by the political undertaking, her friend's precarious position as an admissions officer, and her husband's attempts to set up a bribe.
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Snobs
by Julian Fellowes
From the Oscar(-winning screenwriter of "Gosford Park" comes a brilliant and revealing comedy of manners.
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The Same Sweet Girls
by Cassandra King
Now in paperback--the critically acclaimed novel by the celebrated author of "The Sunday Wife" about a group of women who have been holding reunions every year since college, and the impact they have on one another's lives.
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At Home in Mitford
by Jan Karon
The first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon’s beloved series set in America’s favorite small town: Mitford. It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won't go away. Add an attractive neighbor who begins wearing a path through the hedge. Now, stir in a lovable but unloved boy, a mystifying jewel theft, and a secret that's sixty years old. Suddenly, Father Tim gets more than he bargained for. And readers get a rich comedy about ordinary people and their ordinary lives.
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Our Kind
by Kate Walbert
From the award-winning author of "The Gardens of Kyoto" comes a witty novel about the lives of a group of women--once 1950s country-club housewives; today divorced, independent, and breaking the rules.
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Some People, Some Other Place
by J. California Cooper
A multigenerational saga chronicles the intertwined lives of the multi-ethnic residents of Dream Street in a town called Place, following one family from the Deep South of 1895, to rural Oklahoma and the industrial Midwest.
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Shopaholic & Sister
by Sophie Kinsella
Returning to London after her ten-month honeymoon, Becky Bloomwood Brandon finds herself depressed by a lack of money, a search for a job, and her best friend Suze's new best friend, until she discovers that she has a long lost sister.
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Wedding Season
by Darcy Cosper
Joy Silverman is happy in her single life until the arrival of seventeen invitations for weddings over six months forces her to reevaluate her attitude toward marriage, a situation complicated by her boyfriend's proposal.
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Nights of Rain and Stars
by Maeve Binchy
In a small Greek island village, a group of travelers from around the world and the local residents they encounter are brought together when tragedy strikes.
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Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
Moving into the attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy, politically connected Fedden family in 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest becomes caught up in the rising fortunes of this glamorous family and finds his own life forever altered by his association during the boom years of the 1980s. By the author of The Swimming-Pool Library. 30,000 first printing.
