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Women's Fiction & Chick Lit January 2026 |
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Dandelion Is Dead
by Rosie Storey
When Poppy discovers unanswered messages from a charming stranger in her late sister's dating app, she makes an impulsive choice: she'll meet him, just once, on what would have been Dandelion's fortieth birthday. It's exactly the kind of wild adventure her vivacious sister would have pushed her toward. Jake is ready to find something real--and not least because his ex-wife's twenty-something boyfriend has moved into their old family home. When he meets the intriguing woman who calls herself Dandelion, their connection is undeniable, and he can think of little else. As their relationship deepens, Poppy finds herself trapped in a double life she never meant to create.
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The Devil's Daughter
by Danielle Steel
Graduating from MIT is the happiest day of Billie Banks’s life, although her family is not a part of it. Her mother died when Billie was seventeen. Since then, her father has been slowly drinking himself to death on the family farm in Iowa, and she and her younger sister Mickie have grown even more estranged. Growing up, the siblings could not have been more different. Billie was shy, small, bookish, more like their mother; tall, blonde Mickie was boldly sexual, craving attention, and lacking empathy for anyone, like their father. So when Mickie invites Billie to move in with her in Los Angeles, she is both wary and hopeful. But their difficult history once again rises to the surface.
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The Fair Weather Friend
by Jessie Garcia
It's always sunny in Detroit for Faith Richards. The popular TV meteorologist, endearingly referred to as 'The Fair Weather Friend' by her viewers, has the world by the tail. But one night, Faith leaves work on a dinner break and never returns. Her body is found the next morning. The town is reeling, suspects emerge, and long-buried secrets are uncovered. While her allies rally, her list of adversaries also grows. Little does anyone know that only the deepest secrets will expose the truth.
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The First Time I Saw Him
by Laura Dave
Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter, Bailey, have settled into a new life in Southern California. Together, they’ve forged a relationship with Bailey’s grandfather Nicholas and are putting the past behind them. But when Owen shows up at Hannah’s new exhibition, she knows that she and Bailey are in danger again. Hannah and Bailey are forced to go on the run in a relentless race to keep their past from catching up with them. As a thrilling drama unfolds, Hannah risks everything to get Bailey to safety—and finds there just might be a way back to Owen and their long-awaited second chance.
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The Future Saints
by Ashley Winstead
Following the death of their manager, the band Future Saints is on the brink. That is, until a new music executive is sent to get them back on course.
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Half His Age
by Jennette McCurdy
Waldo is ravenous. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn’t? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does. Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.
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Lost Lambs
by Madeline Cash
Lost Lambs follows a suburban family of five unspooling at the seams, navigating a disastrous open marriage, teenage rebellion, and an unexpected human trafficking/body-hacking crime conspiracy.
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Meet the Newmans
by Jennifer Niven
For two decades, Del and Dinah Newman and their sons, Guy and Shep, have ruled television as America's Favorite Family. Millions of viewers tune in every week to watch them play flawless, black-and-white versions of themselves. But now it's 1964, and the Newmans' perfection suddenly feels woefully out of touch. Ratings are in free fall, as are the Newmans themselves. When Del--the creative motor behind the show--is in a mysterious car accident, Dinah decides to take matters into her own hands. But Dinah and her new collaborator have wildly different perspectives about what it means to be a woman, and a family, in 1964. Can the Newmans hold it together to change television history?
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A Midnight Pastry Shop Called Hwawoldang
by Book Author
Twenty-seven-year-old Yeon-hwa has inherited a neighborhood bakery from her grandmother. Curiously, her grandmother's will spells out two conditions: Yeon-hwa must keep the shop going for at least another month and only open it to customers from 10 PM until midnight. Yeon-hwa is hesitant at first; her grandmother was always distant, raising Yeon-hwa after her parents died in a car accident. But she agrees to the terms, hoping that running the bakery will help her to finally understand her grandmother after all these years.
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Missing Sam
by Thrity Umrigar
One night after a party, married couple Aliya and Sam end the night with a heated argument. Sam goes for a run early the next morning to clear her head—and doesn’t come back. Aliya reports her wife missing, but as a gay, Muslim daughter of immigrants, she can’t escape the scrutiny and suspicion of those around her. She must fight to prove her innocence in the public eye even as she is torn between her fear that Sam is dead and her desire to find and save her wife. But is safety ever truly possible for them? Missing Sam captures the terror manifested in today’s political climate, and the real dangers, both physical and psychological, of being brown and queer in America.
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No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done
by Sophie Hannah
When a neighbor’s accusation shatters Sally Lambert’s world, she’ll do the unthinkable to protect her family --and their beloved dog. In this twisty psychological thriller, loyalty and desperation collide, forcing the Lamberts into a nightmare no one could imagine.
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Room 706
by Ellie Levenson
A married woman is trapped with her lover in a hotel under siege: If she knew it would end this way, would it ever have begun? Kate's children and her husband are her whole world. Since marrying young, she's dedicated her life to making her little family grow. But in the last few years, she's carved out something just for herself: hours stolen away with another man. After one midday tryst with her lover, Kate's double life is thrown into chaos when she turns on the TV to find their hotel has been overtaken by an unnamed, dangerous group. As Kate's life hangs in the balance, she is faced with a gripping exploration of the murky grey areas of marriage, relationships, and womanhood.
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The Seven Daughters of Dupree
by Nikesha Elise Williams
It’s 1995, and fourteen-year-old Tati is determined to uncover the identity of her father. But her mother, Nadia, keeps her secrets close, while her grandmother Gladys remains silent about the family’s past, including why she left Land’s End, Alabama, in 1953. As Tati digs deeper, she uncovers a legacy of family secrets, where every generation of Dupree women has posed more questions than answers. Bound by a mysterious malediction that means they will only give birth to daughters, the Dupree women confront a legacy of pain, resilience, and survival that began with an enslaved ancestor who risked everything for freedom.
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This Is Where the Serpent Lives
by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Moving from Pakistan's sophisticated cities to its most rural farmlands, This is Where the Serpent Lives captures the extraordinary proximity of extreme wealth to extreme poverty in a land where fate is determined by class and social station.
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Anne of a Different Island
by Virginia Kantra
Anne Gallagher has always lived by the book. Anne of Green Gables, that is. She followed in Anne Shirley’s fictional footsteps, chasing dreams of teaching and writing, and falling for her very own storybook hero. But when a string of real-life plot twists pulls her back to the island she once couldn’t wait to leave, Anne is forced to face a truth no story ever prepared her for.
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Sheer
by Vanessa Lawrence
It's 2015 and Maxine Thomas, founder of the makeup company Reveal, has been suspended by her own Board for a scandalous transgression. Awaiting the verdict on her future, Max recounts her version of the events that have brought her to this moment. From her start as a child in the 80s to her decades as a workaholic visionary, Max proselytizes a sheer, dewy look - cosmetics through a female gaze - all while battling sexist investors, cultural change, and pressure to keep her sexuality a secret. But when Max's story catches up to her present, she must contend with the cost of true transparency. Who has she become in her relentless pursuit of success? And what will happen if she loses it all?
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