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Women's Fiction & Chick Lit July 2025 |
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New and Upcoming Releases
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The Art of Vanishing
by Morgan Pager
In an extraordinary twist of fate, Claire discovers she can step through the frame of Jean’s painting and into a bygone era, a lush, verdant snapshot of family life in France in the throes of the First World War. She and Jean begin a seemingly impossible affair, falling in love against the backdrop of the gallery’s other paintings come to life—glittering parties, exhilarating horse races, and windswept beach bluffs—which they can move through together and where Claire is seemingly the only outside visitor, alone in possession of this gift.
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A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart
by Nishant Batsha
In 1917 California, Cora Trent, a graduate student raised in the rugged mining towns of the American West, meets Indra Mukherjee, an Indian revolutionary newly arrived in the U.S. They spark an instant connection, and their passionate romance deepens as they attend protests alongside anticolonial dissidents and socialize with eccentric thinkers in Berkeley and Palo Alto. Cora and Indra quickly marry, even as the United States is drawn into the conflict in Europe and wartime patriotism begins to give way to increasing intolerance. They are eventually forced to flee to New York City with the hope that they can avoid the attention of the British and American authorities.
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The Convenience Store by the Sea
by Sonoko Machida
A quaint seaside town in Kitakyushu, Mojiko is full of hidden delights. And one unexpected treasure is the 24/7 convenience store, Tenderness. Sure, it's a bit odd that the incredibly handsome manager has his own fan club. And perhaps the customers are somewhat eccentric, if not entertaining. But there's a warmth about the store that draws you in. The truth is, Tenderness is different. Operating only in Kyushu, Tenderness stands firm and proud by its motto “Caring for People, Caring for You”, no matter the cause. And for Mitsuhiko, dishing out delicious food is simply the appetizer to his unsolicited but hearty wisdom on the town’s shenanigans.
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Finding Grace
by Loretta Rothschild
Grace has made her London wine shop a second home for people like her—those running from their own past—and she soon finds herself curious about Tom, who becomes a fixture at the shop.
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If You Love It, Let It Kill You
by Hannah Pittard
A novelist learns that an unflattering version of herself will appear prominently—and soon—in her ex-husband’s debut. For a week, her life continues largely unaffected by the news—she cooks, runs, teaches, entertains—but the morning after baking mac ’n’ cheese from scratch for her nephew’s sixth birthday, she wakes up changed. The contentment she’s long enjoyed is gone. In its place: nothing. A remarkably ridiculous midlife crisis ensues, featuring a talking cat and a game called Dead Body.
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The Lake Escape
by Jamie Day
When a woman disappears during a summer trip to Vermont’s Lake Timmeny, longtime friends Julia, David, and Erika confront local legends and their own buried pasts as suspicion grows and generational secrets threaten to pull them under.
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Love Forms
by Claire Adam
Now 58 and divorced with her sons busy with their own lives, Dawn yearns to reconnect with the baby she gave up for adoption in Trinidad when she was sixteen, and she retraces her steps in an emotional journey to find her child.
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Maggie Or, a Man and a Woman Walk into a Bar
by Katie Yee
A woman discovers her husband is having an affair with someone named Maggie. A short while after, her chest starts to ache, and it's not heartbreak - it's a tumor, which she calls Maggie. The narrator embarks on a journey of grief, healing, and reclamation, talking to and getting acquainted with Maggie (the tumor). She creates a "Guide to My Husband: A User's Manual" for Maggie (the other woman), and turns her children's bedtime stories into retellings of Chinese folklore passed down by her own mother, in an attempt to make them fall in love with their shared culture - and to maybe save herself in the process. A master class in transforming personal tragedy into a form of defiant comedy.
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Mean Moms
by Emma Rosenblum
Meet Frost, Morgan, and Belle—a wealthy, gorgeous group of New York City moms, the queen bees of downtown Manhattan. Their children attend Atherton Academy, the top private school in the city, and their social lives revolve around elaborate themed parties. On the first day of school, the arrival of a new mom and mysterious beauty from Miami named Sofia shakes up their world. When Sofia quickly integrates herself into their clique, inexplicably bad things start to happen to the women. Is someone at school out to get them?
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The Peculiar Gift of July
by Ashley Ream
Ebey’s End is a small town on an island off the Pacific coast, reachable only by ferry (assuming the gods are with you and it’s not a Tuesday). It’s a comfortable, familiar (but okay, fine, sometimes lonely) life for its resident grocer Anita Odom. That is, until fourteen-year-old July shows up on her doorstep. Taking in the recently orphaned daughter of an estranged cousin had not been on Anita’s to-do list. In fact, it’s a terrible idea. Anita is ill-suited, ill-prepared, and absolutely certain the entire enterprise will end in disaster—for both of them. From the moment she arrives, July seems to “know” what each customer at the Island Grocery needs.
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The Satisfaction Cafe
by Kathy Wang
Joan Liang never thought she would leave Taiwan for California, nor did she expect her first marriage to implode as quickly as it did. She definitely did not expect to fall in love with an older, wealthy American and become his fourth wife and mother to his youngest children. Through all this she wrestles with one persistent question: Will she ever truly feel satisfied? As Joan and her children grow older, she makes a drastic change: she opens the Satisfaction Cafe, a place where people can visit for conversation and to be heard and understood. Through this radical yet pragmatic business, Joan constructs a lasting legacy.
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That Last Carolina Summer
by Karen White
Years after fleeing to the West Coast, Phoebe Manigault returns to the South Carolina Lowcountry to help her sister care for their mother, confronting childhood tensions, unsettling visions, and a deepening bond with a grieving family nearby.
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These Summer Storms
by Sarah MacLean
Alice Storm hasn’t been welcome at her family’s magnificent private island off the Rhode Island coast in five years—not since she was cast out and built her life beyond the Storm name, influence, and untold billions. But the shocking death of her larger-than-life father changes everything.
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Vera, or Faith
by Gary Shteyngart
A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, the Bradford-Shmulkins love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds: Daddy, a struggling, cash-thirsty editor whose Russian heritage gives him a surprising new currency in the upside-down world of twenty-first-century geopolitics; his wife, Anne Mom, a progressive, underfunded blue blood from Boston who's barely holding the household together; their son, Dylan, whose blond hair and Mayflower lineage provide him pride of place in the newly forming American political order; and, above all, the young Vera, half-Jewish, half-Korean, and wholly original.
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The View from Lake Como
by Adriana Trigiani
After a painful divorce and family upheaval in working-class Lake Como, New Jersey, draftswoman Jess Capodimonte Baratta flees to Carrara, Italy, where artistic ambition, and new relationships reshape her understanding of love, loyalty, and personal fulfillment
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The Wayward Girls
by Susan Wiggs
In 1968 Buffalo, six teenage girls are sent to the Good Shepherd Refuge, an institution controlled by the Sisters of Charity, for reasons ranging from being gay to rebellious, where they face forced labor, exploitation, and personal struggles while finding strength and solidarity.
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