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Women's Fiction & Chick Lit April 2025 |
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New and Upcoming Releases
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Bad Nature
by Ariel Courage
Armed with a terminal diagnosis, a grudge, and a rental car, forty-year-old Hester sets out to fulfill her lifelong dream of killing her father in this brilliantly subversive and bleakly funny novel It's Hester's fortieth birthday when she's diagnosed with terminal cancer, and she knows immediately what she must do: abandon her possessions and drive to California to kill her estranged father. With no friends or family tying her to the life she's built in New York City, she quits her wildly lucrative jobin corporate law and sets off. She hasn't made it far when she runs into John, an environmental activist in need of a ride to different superfund sites across the United States. From five-star Midwestern hotels to cultish Southwestern compounds, the two slowly make their way across the country. But will the revelations they make along the way dissuade Hester from her final goal? Ragingly singular and surprisingly moving, Bad Nature is a story of stunning detours and twists until its final destination. Part road trip novel, part revenge tale, part a lament of our ongoing ecological crisis, it's ultimately a deft examination of the indulgence of holding grudges, moral ambivalence, and the eternal possibility of redemption.
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Cat's People
by Tanya Guerrero
A stray cat brings together five strangers over the course of one fateful summer in this heartwarming novel about love, found family, and the power of connection.
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The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans
At 73, retired lawyer and devoted letter writer Sybil Van Antwerp navigates her daily life and reflects on her past, but when unexpected letters open old wounds, she must confront a painful chapter that reshapes her understanding of herself and her world.
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Counting Backwards
by Binnie Kirshenbaum
Leo, a research scientist, is diagnosed with early onset dementia, shattering his life's plans and dreams, leaving his wife to navigate a heartbreaking journey through grief, isolation and watching his life diminish amidst fleeting moments of beauty.
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Didn't You Use to be Queenie B?
by Terri-Lynne DeFino
Regina "Queenie B" Benuzzi was flying high. She was a culinary success, beloved by many, and simultaneously spinning out of control due to her drug and alcohol addiction. After her husband divorces her and takes their child, Regina opens up a soup kitchen in a seedy part of her hometown in the hopes of giving back and keeping a low profile. Meanwhile, Gale is a line chef with big aspirations and a history of drug addiction. He has been clean for a while, but is still haunted by his friend's overdose. While Gale struggles to get by financially, he visits Regina's soup kitchen and helps her serve food. Their friendship flourishes as Gale competes in a TV culinary competition. When Regina is out gathering items to help Gale prepare, she sees Marco, an old flame, and realizes she might not be able to keep her true identity a secret, so she makes a plan to come out of hiding.
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The Family Recipe
by Carolyn Huynh
Duc Tran, the eccentric founder of the Vietnamese sandwich chain Duc’s Sandwiches, has decided to retire. No one has heard from his wife, Evelyn, in two decades. She abandoned the family without a trace, and clearly doesn’t want anything to do with Duc, the business, or their kids. But the money has to go to someone. With the help of the shady family lawyer, Duc informs his five estranged adult children that to receive their inheritance, his four daughters must revitalize run-down shops in old-school Little Saigon locations across America: Houston, San Jose, New Orleans, and Philadelphia—within a year. But if the first-born (and only) son, Jude, gets married first, everything will go to him. Each daughter is stuck in a new city, battling gentrification, declining ethnic enclaves, and messy love lives, while struggling to modernize their father’s American dream. Jude wonders if he wants to marry for love or for money—or neither. As Duc’s children scramble to win their inheritance, they begin to learn the real intention behind the inheritance scheme—and the secret their mother kept tucked away in the old fishing tackle box, all along.
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Favorite Daughter
by Morgan Dick
When estranged half-sisters, Mickey and Arlo, unknowingly connect as therapist and patient due to their late father's manipulative will, secrets unravel, tensions ignite and they face a collision course that could either destroy or heal their fractured lives.
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The Float Test
by Lynn Steger Strong
The Kenner siblings are at odds. Jenn is a harried mom struggling under the weight of family obligations. Fred is a novelist who can’t write, maybe because she’s lost faith in storytelling itself. Jude is a recovering corporate lawyer with her own story to tell, and a grudge against her former favorite sister, Fred. George, the baby, is estranged from his wife and harboring both a secret about his former employer and an ill-advised crush on one of his sisters’ friends. Gathered after a major loss, each sibling needs the others more than ever—if only they could trust each other. Over the course of a sweltering Florida summer, the Kenner siblings will revisit what it means to be a family.
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Gabriële
by Anne Berest
Anne Berest and her sister Claire jointly write a novel based on the life of their great-grandmother, Gabriele Buffet-Picabia. In 1908, during the height of the Belle Epoque, artist Gabriele marries artist Francis Picabia. When they meet Marcel Duchamp and all become involved, they change art forever.
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The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits
by Jennifer Weiner
Sisters Cassie and Zoe were born just a year apart but could not have been more different. Zoe yearned for fame while Cassie was a musical prodigy who never felt at home in her own skin and preferred the safety of the shadows. In the early 2000s, destiny intervened, catapulting the sisters into the spotlight as the pop sensation the Griffin Sisters. But after a year, the band abruptly broke up. Two decades later, Zoe’s a housewife; Cassie’s off the grid. The sisters aren’t speaking. Zoe’s teenage daughter, Cherry, who’s determined to be a star, is on a quest to learn the truth about what happened to the band all those years ago.
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Happy Land
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
When Nikki visits her estranged grandmother in Western North Carolina, she uncovers a hidden legacy tied to a forgotten kingdom of freed people, unraveling her family’s secrets and her own identity while fighting to protect their endangered heritage.
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The Influencers
by Anna-Marie McLemore
When influencer matriarch May Iverson's husband is murdered and her mansion burned down, her five estranged daughters, each grappling with the fallout of their commodified childhoods, face mounting suspicions, public scrutiny and buried family secrets.
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The Library of Lost Dollhouses
by Elise Hooper
Tildy Barrows, Head Curator at a San Francisco archival library, is dedicated to the century’s worth of inventory housed there. But her life changes when she discovers two never-before-seen dollhouses, just as the library approaches bankruptcy. After finding clues hidden within these dollhouses, Tildy decides to decipher their secret history, and salvage her library in the process. Her journey introduces her to gifted women in Belle Epoque Paris, a group of scarred World War I English veterans, and Walt Disney’s Burbank studio in the 1950s. As Tildy unravels the mystery, she finds not only hidden history, but also a future for herself - and an astonishing familial revelation.
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Lucky Night
by Eliza Kennedy
Nick Holloway and Jenny Parrish have been meeting monthly for sex for six years despite being married to other people, but when a fire starts outside their hotel room, fear strips away their defenses, and they are forced to be honest with each other and themselves.
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The Page Turner
by Viola Shipman
A young romance writer makes a discovery that throws her elitist family into chaos in this sharp, witty and entirely delightful family drama.
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Summer Light on Nantucket
by Nancy Thayer
Divorced mother of four Blythe Benedict takes her family to Nantucket, her island home-away-from-home, but she must contend with teenage angst, her ex-mother-in-law's declining health, and a troubling secret involving her ex-husband—meanwhile, she reconnects with former high school sweetheart Aaden, but their romance becomes complicated when another man enters the picture.
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The Usual Desire to Kill
by Camilla Barnes
Miranda’s parents live in a dilapidated house in rural France that they share with two llamas, eight ducks, five chickens, two cats, and a freezer full of food dating back to 1983. Married for fifty years, they are uncommonly set in their ways. Miranda plays the role of translator when she visits, communicating the desires or complaints of one parent to the other and then venting her frustration to her sister and her daughter. At the end of a visit, she reports “the usual desire to kill,” in this wry, propulsive story about a singularly eccentric family and the sibling rivalry, generational divides, and long-buried secrets that shape them.
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