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Good for readers who want WWII historical fiction about sisters, nurses, rescue missions, and family drama.
Sisters of the Storm
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · Women's Fiction · World War 2
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Sisters of the Storm follows identical twin US Army nurses Andrea and Nicole as they trek through Nazi-occupied Albania with Germans closing in, while Andrea’s marriage and Nicole’s first love are tested by a long-held secret, with a 4.5-star average from more than 100 Goodreads ratings. Good for readers who want WWII historical fiction about sisters, nurses, rescue missions, and family drama.
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From a USA Today bestselling author, this is a heart-stopping story of lost love, family drama, resilience and courage in World War II – perfect for fans of Heather Morris, Mandy Robotham and Kate Quinn
Albania, 1943. When US Army nurses and identical twins Andrea and Nicole find themselves stranded in a remote area of the war-torn country, their only route to safety is a perilous trek through the mountains with the Germans on their tail.
On the long and risky journey, the treacherous conditions push both of them – and Andrea’s marriage – to the limits.
When a chance encounter brings Darren, Nicole’s first love, back into their lives, a long-held secret threatens to tear the sisters apart. As the enemy moves ever closer and the danger continues to mount, will the chance to rebuild their relationship be lost forever?
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Good for readers who want historical fiction about female friendship, feminism, suburbia, and women questioning the lives they were sold.
The Book Club for Troublesome Women
Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A USA TODAY bestseller, The Book Club for Troublesome Women follows four 1960s suburban women whose impromptu book club becomes a source of secrets, self-discovery, and change, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 23,800 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want historical fiction about female friendship, feminism, suburbia, and women questioning the lives they were sold.
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USA TODAY BESTSELLER · SOUTHERN INDIE BESTSELLER · A BRENDA NOVAK BOOK GROUP PICK · GLOSS BOOK CLUB PICK · THE GIRLFRIEND BOOK CLUB PICK · A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 (SheReads) · Margaret never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution, for that matter in this bold and plucky novel from New York Times bestselling author Marie Bostwick.
"Ideal for fans of historical fiction and those who enjoyed Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry." --Library Journal, starred review
"Readers will cheer." --Kirkus
"Perfect for those who love book club, nostalgia for the 1960s, and stories of female friendship." --Booklist
"A feel-good beach read with . . . elements that spark a revolution." --Southern Review of Books
By 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan is living the American woman's dream. She has a husband, three children, a station wagon, and a home in Concordia--one of Northern Virginia's most exclusive and picturesque suburbs. She has a standing invitation to the neighborhood coffee klatch, and now, thanks to her husband, a new subscription to A Woman's Place--a magazine that tells housewives like Margaret exactly who to be and what to buy. On paper, she has it all. So why doesn't that feel like enough?
Margaret is thrown for a loop when she first meets Charlotte Gustafson, Concordia's newest and most intriguing resident. As an excuse to be in the mysterious Charlotte's orbit, Margaret concocts a book club get-together and invites two other neighborhood women--Bitsy and Viv--to the inaugural meeting. As the women share secrets, cocktails, and their honest reactions to the controversial bestseller The Feminine Mystique, they begin to discover that the American dream they'd been sold isn't all roses and sunshine--and that their secret longing for more is something they share. Nicknaming themselves the Bettys, after Betty Friedan, these four friends have no idea their impromptu club and the books they read together will become the glue that helps them hold fast through tears, triumphs, angst, and arguments--and what will prove to be the most consequential and freeing year of their lives.
The Book Club for Troublesome Women is a humorous, thought provoking, and nostalgic romp through one pivotal and tumultuous American year--as well as an ode to self-discovery, persistence, and the power of sisterhood.
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Best for readers who like American gothic fiction, ghost stories, eerie journeys, and supernatural uncertainty.
Mr. Splitfoot
Literary Fiction · Horror · Women's Fiction
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Called “hypnotic and glowing” by Gregory Maguire in The New York Times Book Review, Mr. Splitfoot follows Ruth and Nat, two orphans who may be able to speak to the dead, and Cora, Ruth’s niece, decades later, as a silent Ruth leads her across New York on foot, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 800 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like American gothic fiction, ghost stories, eerie journeys, and supernatural uncertainty.
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The strange odysseys of two young women animate this "hypnotic and glowing" American gothic novel that blurs the line between the real and the supernatural (Gregory Maguire, The New York Times Book Review).
A New York Times Editors' Choice
A Paris Review Staff Pick
Ruth and Nat are seventeen. They are orphans living at The Love of Christ! Foster Home in upstate New York. And they may be able to talk to the dead. Enter Mr. Bell, a con man with mystical interests who knows an opportunity when he sees one. Together they embark on an unexpected journey that connects meteor sites, utopian communities, lost mothers, and a scar that maps its way across Ruth's face.
Decades later, Ruth visits her niece, Cora. But while Ruth used to speak to the dead, she now doesn't speak at all. Even so, she leads Cora on a mysterious mission that involves crossing the entire state of New York on foot. Where is she taking them? And who—or what—is hidden in the woods at the end of the road?
"[A] gripping novel…The narratives, which twist together into a shocking dénouement, are marked by ghost stories."—The New Yorker
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A strong match for readers drawn to Southern coming-of-age fiction, complicated family legacies, and gritty historical settings.
The Moonshiner’s Daughter
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Women's Fiction
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In 1960 North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Jessie Sasser wants nothing to do with her family’s moonshine legacy, especially after blaming it for her mother’s death. As her attempt to destroy the stills escalates an old rivalry, Jessie uncovers family secrets, buried grudges, and truths about loyalty, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 14,000 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to Southern coming-of-age fiction, complicated family legacies, and gritty historical settings.
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If you fell in love with 1960s North Carolina when reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Donna Everhart’s The Moonshiner’s Daughter will transport you right back. Everhart’s sensitive and expert storytelling will capture you in this Southern coming-of-age novel!
Set in North Carolina in 1960 and brimming with authenticity and grit, The Moonshiner’s Daughter evokes the singular life of sixteen-year-old Jessie Sasser, a young woman determined to escape her family’s past . . .
Generations of Sassers have made moonshine in the Brushy Mountains of Wilkes County, North Carolina. Their history is recorded in a leather-bound journal that belongs to Jessie Sasser’s daddy, but Jessie wants no part of it. As far as she’s concerned, moonshine caused her mother’s death a dozen years ago.
Her father refuses to speak about her mama, or about the day she died. But Jessie has a gnawing hunger for the truth—one that compels her to seek comfort in food. Yet all her self-destructive behavior seems to do is feed what her school’s gruff but compassionate nurse describes as the “monster” inside Jessie.
Resenting her father’s insistence that moonshining runs in her veins, Jessie makes a plan to destroy the stills, using their neighbors as scapegoats. Instead, her scheme escalates an old rivalry and reveals long-held grudges. As she endeavors to right wrongs old and new, Jessie’s loyalties will bring her to unexpected revelations about her family, her strengths—and a legacy that may provide her with the answers she has been longing for.
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A thoughtful fit for readers who like literary fiction about faith, marriage, friendship, family, and social change.
The Dearly Beloved
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick called “one of my favorites ever” by Jenna Bush Hager, The Dearly Beloved traces two married couples whose lives become entangled when their husbands are hired as copastors at a New York City congregation in the 1960s, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 5,700 Amazon reviewers. A thoughtful fit for readers who like literary fiction about faith, marriage, friendship, family, and social change.
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A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick
“This gentle, gorgeously written book may be one of my favorites ever.” —Jenna Bush Hager
This “moving portrait of love and friendship set against a backdrop of social change” (The New York Times Book Review) traces two married couples whose lives become entangled when the husbands become copastors at a famed New York city congregation in the 1960s.
Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart.
Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to ministry. How then, can he fall in love with Lily—fiercely intellectual, elegantly stern—after she tells him with certainty that she will never believe in God? And yet, how can he not?
James, the youngest son in a hardscrabble Chicago family, spent much of his youth angry at his alcoholic father and avoiding his anxious mother. Nan grew up in Mississippi, the devout and beloved daughter of a minister and a debutante. James’s escape from his desperate circumstances leads him to Nan and, despite his skepticism of hope in all its forms, her gentle, constant faith changes the course of his life.
Against the backdrop of turbulent changes facing the city and the church’s congregation, The Dearly Beloved offers a poignant meditation on faith and reason, marriage and children, forgiveness and commitment, and the ways we find meaning in our lives.
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Best for readers who like emotional women’s fiction about friendship, trauma, justice, and loyalty under pressure.
Moment in Time
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Women's Fiction
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Moment in Time follows Mo and Chloe as they search for their missing roommate Hazel after an assault and a violent attack deepen the mystery, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 7,100 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like emotional women’s fiction about friendship, trauma, justice, and loyalty under pressure.
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From the bestselling author of In an Instant comes a heartrending story about the power of friendship during the most challenging moments in life.
It’s been eight years since a tragic accident changed Mo Kaminski’s and Chloe Miller’s lives forever. Now in their midtwenties, they’re sharing an apartment in San Francisco and navigating the normal challenges of early adulthood. Along with their roommate, Hazel, they are making their marks on the world—Mo revolutionizing the news with her media start-up, Hazel using her big brain to anticipate the future, and Chloe rescuing abandoned strays in the city.
But when Hazel disappears after being sexually assaulted, Mo’s and Chloe’s lives are again suddenly ripped apart. And when the perpetrator turns up drugged and beaten, the mystery of where Hazel is deepens. Intensely worried and desperate to discover the truth, they set out to find Hazel and bring her home.
Mo and Chloe are no strangers to tragedy, but this journey will test them in ways they never imagined. The stakes are high; the future uncertain; the need for justice essential.
Will their commitment to their friend bring them closer together—or ultimately drive them apart?
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Good for readers who want contemporary fiction about identity, disruption, relationships, and self-reckoning.
Wish You Were Here
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A #1 New York Times bestseller called “a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit” by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Wish You Were Here follows Diana O’Toole as early Covid-19 signs in NYC upend her carefully planned life and strand her in the Galápagos, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 56,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want contemporary fiction about identity, disruption, relationships, and self-reckoning.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes “a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six)
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Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She’s an associate specialist at Sotheby’s now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She’s not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Galápagos—days before her thirtieth birthday. Right on time.
But then a virus that felt worlds away has appeared in the city, and on the eve of their departure, Finn breaks the news: It’s all hands on deck at the hospital. He has to stay behind. You should still go, he assures her, since it would be a shame for all of their nonrefundable trip to go to waste. And so, reluctantly, she goes.
Almost immediately, Diana’s dream vacation goes awry. Her luggage is lost, the Wi-Fi is nearly nonexistent, and the hotel they’d booked is shut down due to the pandemic. In fact, the whole island is now under quarantine, and she is stranded until the borders reopen. Completely isolated, she must venture beyond her comfort zone. Slowly, she carves out a connection with a local family when a teenager with a secret opens up to Diana, despite her father’s suspicion of outsiders.
In the Galápagos Islands, where Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was formed, Diana finds herself examining her relationships, her choices, and herself—and wondering if when she goes home, she too will have evolved into someone completely different.
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Good for readers who want warm contemporary fiction with second chances, Broadway dreams, and a touch of holiday magic.
The Last Phone Booth in Manhattan
Literary Fiction · Romance · RomCom · Women's Fiction
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A young woman hits rock bottom and embarks on a positively Dickensian adventure in a witty and warmhearted novel about past regrets, old loves, new beginnings, and making up for lost time, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 13,600 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want warm contemporary fiction with second chances, Broadway dreams, and a touch of holiday magic.
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When a young woman hits rock bottom, she embarks on a positively Dickensian adventure in a witty and warmhearted novel about past regrets, old loves, new beginnings, and making up for lost time.
Avery Lawrence thought she had it all—a charming fiancé, a Broadway-themed star-studded engagement, and a picture-perfect life. But when her fraudster of a fiancé’s true identity is exposed and he’s hauled away in handcuffs, Avery’s world comes crashing down faster than the chandelier in Phantom of the Opera. Left stranded on Christmas Day outside the federal prison without her cell phone or wallet, Avery stumbles out of the cold and into the last phone booth in Manhattan. With nothing left to lose, Avery is directed by a mysterious voice on the line to the doorstep of the college boyfriend she thought she’d moved on from over six years ago.
When a second encounter with the phone booth leads Avery to a life-changing audition for Marley Is Dead, a new musical based on Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, Avery is blown away by the striking similarities between the show and her own life. Convinced the phone booth is somehow responsible for reuniting her with “the one that got away” and reigniting her acting career, maybe she will finally have the chance to rewrite her future. But as she grapples with the ghosts of her past and the uncertainty of her present, Avery must decide whether to follow her heart or pursue her dream.
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Good for readers who like emotional historical fiction about courage, sacrifice, and mothers making impossible choices.
The Twins on the Train
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · Women's Fiction · World War 2
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In 1939 Berlin, Rosa gives her newborn twins to Dora, a woman helping children escape by train to England, even though babies are not authorized to travel. The Twins on the Train is a heartbreaking World War Two historical novel about two women risking everything to protect children from war, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 2,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like emotional historical fiction about courage, sacrifice, and mothers making impossible choices.
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Berlin, 1939. Tears pouring down her cheeks, Rosa pushes through the crowds and thrusts the basket containing her darling newborn twins at the woman closing the door to the carriage. All she can say is please take them. Then she runs, praying the train will reach England safely…
As the smell of smoke drifts through the air, Jewish people lock their doors. They no longer feel welcome in their home city, and while some mothers hide their children, others take them, clad in dark threadbare coats, to the crowded train station and the hope of a new life.
Rosa has feared for her twins since they were born two weeks ago. As she huddles in her filthy house, crammed in with her neighbours, she sees children growing weaker. It may be too late for her and her seven-year-old daughter Therese. But can she find a way out for her precious babies?
Dora scans the desperate crowd on the platform, despairing as she knows there isn’t room for all of them on the train to England. And when a woman thrusts a basket containing newborn twins into her arms, a shiver of dread slides down her spine. Babies aren’t authorised to travel – how can she keep them hidden from the cold-eyed soldiers?
She knows this mother wants the same thing she does – safety for these innocent children. But will she be able to help this brave woman before it is too late?
An unforgettable World War Two novel about two courageous women who risked everything for the innocent victims of war. Fans of The Nightingale and The Alice Network will be utterly gripped by this unputdownable page-turner from bestselling author Suzanne Goldring.
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Good for readers who like funny, relatable women’s fiction about fresh starts, self-discovery, and starting over at almost 50.
The Woman Who Ran Away from Everything
Romance · Literary Fiction · RomCom · Women's Fiction
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A Kindle Top 5 read from the million copy bestselling queen of romantic comedy, a hilarious story of a fed-up wife who impulsively leaves her comedian husband and smug neighborhood behind to rediscover her true self, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 6,300 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like funny, relatable women’s fiction about fresh starts, self-discovery, and starting over at almost 50.
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The million copy bestselling queen of romantic comedy is back with this laugh-out-loud and heart-warmingly relatable tale of a woman who has had enough
Being married to a comedian is no joke.
Kate is sick of it. Sick of being a wife, cook, dog walker and flat-pack assembler, while still being treated like a doormat. Her husband all but ignores her – unless he needs a clean shirt – and she’s constantly compelled to keep up with the (very smug) Joneses in their neighbourhood.
What happened to the fun-loving woman she used to be? At almost 50, Kate feels lost, overlooked and stuck. That is, until she comes home to one of her husband's impromptu parties – and is expected to feed their hungry guests.
And that’s it. Breaking point. The final straw.
Scrambling out of the bathroom window, Kate leaves. She has no money, no clean pants, and no plan – but a chance encounter sees her following her heart for once. And now there’s no going back…
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Good for readers who want romantic suspense with guarded characters, family secrets, and a haunted-house edge.
Lead Me Home
Literary Fiction · Romance · Romantic Suspense · Women's Fiction
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Luna Canning trusts numbers more than people, but a stolen car brings former FBI agent Nate Warren into her ordered life in Lead Me Home. As their chemistry grows, Luna’s manipulative mother returns with a dangerous man and unresolved trauma that threaten the safety she built. Good for readers who want romantic suspense with guarded characters, family secrets, and a haunted-house edge.
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When spreadsheets are safer than people, falling in love becomes the ultimate risk in this powerful novel of trauma, healing, and unexpected courage from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bybee.
Luna Canning trusts numbers more than people—and for good reason. As a forensic accountant who specializes in exposing fraud, she knows numbers never deceive, unlike the toxic family she’s spent a lifetime trying to escape. Now living in her grandmother’s Victorian home, Luna has built a carefully ordered life behind walls she thought were unbreakable.
When her car is stolen from an airport parking lot, former FBI agent turned PI Nate Warren steps in to help—and proves more dangerous to her defenses than any thief. Despite Luna’s ironclad rules about mixing business with pleasure, their chemistry ignites, and for the first time, she considers letting someone past her guard. But just as their relationship begins to blossom, Luna’s manipulative mother arrives unannounced, dragging with her a dangerous man and decades of unresolved trauma that threaten everything Luna has built.
Now Luna must confront the ghosts of her past—both metaphorical and possibly literal, as strange occurrences in her historic home suggest she’s not alone. With a violent threat looming and her heart on the line, Luna discovers that sometimes the hardest person to trust is yourself.
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Good for readers who want adventurous historical fiction about ambition, secrecy, medicine, and gender barriers.
A Girl with a Knife
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Winner of the Illinois Soon To Be Famous Author Contest, A Girl with a Knife follows Ella Parker, a young woman in early 19th-century England who disguises herself as a man to study medicine after a ship surgeon recognizes her talent, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 1,400 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want adventurous historical fiction about ambition, secrecy, medicine, and gender barriers.
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Winner of the Illinois Soon To Be Famous Author Contest
Finalist for the Goethe Award in Late Historical Fiction
Women could not be surgeons. She did it anyway.
After the heartbreaking loss of her mother and a cruel attack by her drunken father, Ella Parker decides that dishonesty is fine when it serves her needs. At a time when wealthy young ladies do little more than embroidery, Ella escapes her luxurious but lonely life, and meets an eccentric ship surgeon who—once she impresses him with her quick-thinking and empathy—allows her to assist him during a surgery.
Compelled by Ella’s intelligence and interest in medicine, the doctor prepares her for a medical career, but there’s a catch: in early 19th century England, women are not accepted into universities. To fulfil her dream of becoming a doctor, Ella must disguise herself as a young man with aspirations of becoming a doctor. After changing her look and name, Ella finds her footing as she performs dissections, conducts experiments, and cares for patients. She also tutors Oli, a kind but struggling fellow student, but she must take caution. Even in her loneliest moment, she cannot trust anyone or make friends.
As Ella continues to excel in her studies, brilliantly saving the life of a patient, she becomes a top contender for the apprenticeship with a famed professor. Dogged by fear of discovery, she must choose between truth and lies, and distinguish between real and false friends, before her pretense is uncovered.
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