A Home for Friendless Women
By: Kelly Hill
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In Victorian-era Louisville, the Home for Friendless Women is run by benevolent benefactors with on…
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1. Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
By: Suzanne Scanlon
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once. When Su… read more
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"Only in retrospect might I say I loved it there. I didn't love it. It became familiar. I got used to it. I became dependent upon it. This is not love."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I became a writer because I believe in that part of me who is not limited by age or gender or time or disability - yet still I am afraid to say it. Yes, I was ill."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I myself have internalized the self-loathing that at times can make me feel ashamed to be writing this book. But I also believe that, as my heroes have shown me, this is where a writer must go."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"What if, instead of being diagnosed—being called mentally ill—what if I had been able to receive care for its own sake. To be in distress, to ask for care, to receive it. What if there were space in …"-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
2. The Underground Library
By: Jennifer Ryan
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighti… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
3. The Beautiful People
By: Michelle Gable
3.73
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Set against the glamorous 1960s Jet Set, a novel about a failed debutante whose new job as assistan… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. The Lost Book of Bonn
By: Brianna Labuskes
3.95
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
For fans of The Rose Code and The Librarian Spy comes another literary themed historical novel from… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
5. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
6. The Medicine Woman of Galveston
By: Amanda Skenandore
3.88
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Caught in the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, a female doctor who’s joined a traveling medicine … read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. The Lost Letters from Martha's Vineyard
By: Michael Callahan
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A tantalizing novel of two women bound by blood but divided by a long-buried secret, and the island… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
8. The French Ingredient: A Memoir
By: Jane Bertch
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i… read more
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9. All We Were Promised
By: Ashton Lattimore
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an e… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
10. The Titanic Survivors Book Club
By: Timothy Schaffert
3.19
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
A remarkable tale about the life-changing power of books, following the Titanic librarian whose sur… read more
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- adult fiction
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"I would happily spend every minute of my future hearing about every minute of his past."-Timothy Schaffert, The Titanic Survivors Book Club
11. In the Shadow of the Greenbrier
By: Emily Matchar
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A poignant multigenerational Jewish family saga inspired by remarkable, yet little-known, true even… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
12. All You Have to Do Is Call
By: Kerri Maher
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women w… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"I wish you could understand what it's like to have to stop doing something you love, something important , just because your body is made to carry children. No one else can do this for me...."-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call
"No matter what you want to call it," Veronica said, steering clear of words like cells and fetus that might further inflame Patty, "it resides inside a fully grown woman with a life to lead. Jane hel…"-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call
"[She] hadn't given a lot of thought to the many reasons why women needed abortions, but there was such a wide range: maternal health, money, rape and incest, shocking cluelessness about how pregnancy…"-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call
13. The Enemy at Home
By: Kevin O'Brien
4.10
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
As World War II rages overseas, a serial killer preys on women working in Seattle’s factories in th… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
14. The House on Biscayne Bay
By: Chanel Cleeton
3.69
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and presen… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I think it did. He was quite staggered by the place. Then again, Vizcaya tends to have that effect. Is the home that grand? It Is. Vizcaya has brought the Mediterranean to Florida."-Chanel Cleeton, The House on Biscayne Bay
"I like to think of the houses I build as having their own personalities. Oh, there's the people who are their custodians to consider, of course, a symbiosis in the relationship between the house and …"-Chanel Cleeton, The House on Biscayne Bay
15. Nonfiction
By: Julie Myerson
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you’re gone, I see you everywhere. E… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
16. Shelterwood
By: Lisa Wingate
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
17. The Secret History of Bigfoot
By: John O’Connor
3.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, on… read more
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- adult
18. Husbands & Lovers
By: Beatriz Williams
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom—discover … read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
19. Like Happiness
By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- lgbt
20. The Modern Fairies
By: Clare Pollard
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Lauren Groff’s The Matrix meets Ophelia Field’s The Favourite in this the wry, sexy, and sharp hist… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"If there's such a thing as a kiss of true love, then we must declare that this is one of them: this moment in which their whole life trembles, like the world reflected in a drop of dew."-Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies
"For a year or so the group stays intimate and exclusively feminine. But then, after Marie coins the term "contes de fées," or fairy tales, the fame of these "Modern Fairies" begins to spread too fast…"-Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies
"Briou thinks of those words of Don Juan in Molière's play: "As for me, beauty embraces me wherever I find it, and I can easily yield to the sweet violence with which it sweeps me along." He imagined …"-Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies
"Perrault likes this bit of the tale--- the pattern of it. The rhythm. He likes the shapes things make. And he likes beautiful, refined things: frescos, hyacinths, clockmakers, marzipans, butterfly wi…"-Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies
21. A Home for Friendless Women
By: Kelly Hill
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In Victorian-era Louisville, the Home for Friendless Women is run by benevolent benefactors with on… read more
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- adult fiction
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
