major works of womens fiction
Explore the greatest works of women's fiction with our curated list of major books by female authors. Discover timeless classics and modern masterpieces that celebrate women's voices and stories.
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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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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. “A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
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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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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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The Family Tree
by Carole Cadwalladr
At once nostalgic and refreshingly original, this is a sophisticated story of one woman and the generations of women who came before her whose legacies shaped her life.
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Three Weeks with My Brother
by Nicholas Sparks
In a memoir written with his brother, the popular author describes how the two of them dealt with their grief over the untimely deaths of their parents and only sister by embarking on a three-week odyssey around the world.
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The Wedding
by Nicholas Sparks
From America's favorite chronicler of love stories comes the long-awaited follow-up to his classic, "The Notebook," as Wilson Lewis struggles to find his way back into the heart of the woman he adores.
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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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Broken for You
by Stephanie Kallos
Margaret Hughes, a septuagenarian living in Seattle, takes in a series of boarders who help her cope with her illness, and whose lives become unexpectedly connected to each other.
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The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
From Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison comes the story of a young black girl who longs to be like the blond, blue-eyed children that America loves-a novel "so charged with pain and wonder that it becomes poetry" (The New York Times).
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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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Light on Snow
by Anita Shreve
Remembering the December afternoon nearly twenty years earlier when her father and she discovered an abandoned infant in the snow, Nicky recalls her father's efforts to escape society after a painful tragedy, a young woman struggles to live with the consequences of her choices, and a clever detective is determined to promote justice. 300,000 first printing.