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Women's Fiction & Chick Lit July 2026 |
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Beginning Middle End
by Valeria Luiselli
A writer and her 12-year-old daughter grapple with their family legacy while on a road trip through Sicily.
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Dangerland!
by Erin Singer
Kurt Richter, now in his fifties, has carried a lifelong attachment to Eugenie Zepp, whom he met as a child in Las Vegas. After two divorces and with four children, he is entangled in a neighborhood lawsuit and has not spoken to her in years, yet he decides to reconnect. Their shared history unfolds across decades in a city of casinos and late-night culture, as their adult children return with conflicts that complicate family ties and force both to reconsider past choices and enduring bonds.
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Everything to the Sea
by Alicia Upano
This deeply emotional epic of undying love follows Hawaiian lovers Jane and Kenji in the aftermath of a devastating tsunami.
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Famous Men
by Julie Buntin
Will Miles is trapped. Trapped in tiny Greening, Michigan, where a toxic high school rumor has turned her into a social exile. Trapped in the predictable routines of her mother, and under the unrelenting gaze of her mother's increasingly sinister boyfriend. But when Will stumbles across the early poems of Nathaniel Fellow, a famous writer forty years her senior who also grew up in Greening, she feels she's found a kindred spirit.
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The Forest Becomes Her
by Julie Carrick Dalton
In historic, bucolic Concord, Massachusetts, a centuries-old forest has been removed to make way for a new, eco-friendly housing development. The locals are upset by the destruction, but out-of-towners like Hazel Stoddard are flocking to put down roots in their new guilt-free dream homes. Soon a tragedy leaves Hazel unmoored in her new life, and she begins to feel the pull of the absent forest. Hazel is not alone--her neighbors, real estate agent Stella Flint and teenage environmentalist Polly Bauer, each have their own trauma and relationship to the land. The three women are drawn together to save the last remaining oak tree, or they risk losing themselves to lingering shadows that only they can see.
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The Good Parts
by Evann Normandin
An epic, unforgettable love story about a woman who takes a memory-erasing pill and the man she once loved who returns as a stranger, hoping to make her fall for him all over again.
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The Great Wherever
by Shannon Sanders
Aubrey Lamb is an underpaid gig worker in Washington, DC, grieving the end of a serious relationship and the recent loss of her father. When Aubrey learns she has inherited his stake in a sizable Tennessee farm she sees an opportunity to get out of the city. Watching her arrival with great interest are four ghosts--Aubrey's ancestors, who've staked their own claims to the farm and who never hesitate to pass judgment on the mistakes made by the living. As Aubrey reconnects with her living family, she learns the history of the land, beginning with its purchase her great-grandfather, one of the first Black landowners in his community.
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The Half Life
by Rachel Beanland
Newlywed Eileen arrives on the beautiful Italian island of La Maddalena in the 1970s, believing that her biggest challenges will be learning Italian and living up to the high standards expected of U.S. Navy wives. As she gets to know her neighbors, however, she learns that many Italians are far from pleased with the American presence on their island and that her ambitious husband may be keeping vital safety information away from the public. As Eileen learns more about the radiation risks posed by the navy's nuclear-powered submarines, she realizes that her rushed courtship kept her from fully understanding what she was getting into. Meanwhile, a handsome Italian journalist tempts her to sacrifice everything for a different future.
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Man Overboard!
by Kathleen Rooney
Patrick Kick Kilpatrick hates the ocean. Has always been terrified of it. And now he's in a real pickle. Drifting alone in the sea after falling (or jumping? He can't remember as the all-inclusive drinks on the cruise he was taking with his extended family were, well, inclusive) Kick must survive. Breath by breath, hour by hour in the lonely sea. As the waves crash over him, so too do the thoughts and memories of just how he got there.
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Matcha on Monday
by Michiko Aoyama
All throughout the week, customers flock to the Marble Cafe that's tucked away behind the trees--except when it's closed on Mondays, when the Matcha Cafe opens in its place, offering its clientele a warm cup of matcha and restoration to start the busy week ahead. On this one day of the week, people from all walks of life frequent this cozy haven and experience the joys of human connection. Among them include: A singer who has just broken up with his lover; an unsociable young owner of a tea wholesaler; a husband who has made his wife angry; a designer and owner of a lingerie shop; a Kamishibai artist who doesn't get along with his grandmother.
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Meet Me in Paris
by Kristin Harmel
Nine Americans in Paris. Seven intertwined love stories. These stories unfold over a few breathtaking spring days, as an unforgettable group of Americans in Paris must find their way to their own versions of happily ever after in the City of Light.
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The Mortons
by Justine Larbalestier
Meet the Mortons: In this family, murder is currency--and business is booming. They, along with the other crime families, send their progeny to Helshire College, where legacy students learn to exercise control over their wealthy peers. Jessica Morton has always excelled at Helshire, secure in the knowledge that she is the prodigy of her generation. Now, having committed her first kill, it should be Jessica's moment, her honor. But that kill will cut more ways than one, unknotting a series of revelations spanning the Mortons' country estate, the New York City art world, and Helshire itself.
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The New People
by Andrea Uptmor
Newlyweds Emma and Rachel move to a conservative town after a miscarriage. Rachel thrives as a professor, while adjunct Emma feels overshadowed and secretly pursues IVF though Rachel wants to wait. Their house becomes Emma's refuge until strange events suggest they are not alone. They aren't: Charlotte and Dirk, former owners displaced by the recession, are living in the attic. As Charlotte listens to the couple below, her resentment grows. Small acts of defiance - missing food, flipped breakers, scratched furniture - escalate into sabotage, and eventually Charlotte's and Emma's stories converge in an explosive climax that will reveal the lengths people will go to reclaim what they've lost.
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Perfect Life
by Meredith Lavender
Este Walker didn't move to Florida to make friends. Five years ago, she ghosted her life in California to reinvent herself among the lakefront estates of Florida's elite. Her husband, Beau, and her best friend, Nora, are the only company Este needs. But when someone she'd much rather forget resurfaces, the past begins to close on her. And then a mysterious death turns Winter Park upside down--and Beau, who's keeping secrets of his own, is implicated.
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Song for Another Home
by Bora Lee Reed
When news hits in 1950 that the Americans have entered the war between North and South Korea, Oksoon and her family believe the conflict will soon end. But then China joins the war, and they decide to flee their home in Pyongyang despite the freezing temperatures and lack of food. Journeying from the barren, war-torn streets of the North in the winter to the seedy back alleys of the South Korean capital of Seoul in the summer, the family falls in with an unlikely group of miscreants. Meanwhile, far to the south, Oksoon's cousin Junho seeks refuge at an orphanage for abandoned children. As the institution struggles to keep its doors open, Junho, with his elementary command of English, is tasked with drafting letters to American missionaries and benefactors to ask for money. When the enigmatic director brings her aristocratic niece to the orphanage, Junho finds himself caught between his impulse for survival and his growing affections for the young woman, even though his feelings put him at risk of being expelled from the only safe place he knows.
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The Story Keeper
by Kelly Rimmer
When a curious book, The Midnight Estate, catches her attention in her late uncle’s library, Fiona is plunged into a tale that mirrors her own—a story of love, loss and betrayal. But as the lines between fiction and reality blur, Fiona must ask herself: Is the true mystery the one hidden within the walls of her ancestral home, or is it within the pages of a book that chose her as much as she chose it?
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Tenderness
by Rowan Beaird
On a remote island off the coast of Virginia, family and friends gather to celebrate the wedding of Shay O’Connor and Andrew Pruitt. From the moment the guests arrive, all they can whisper about is the bride, who recently left the headline-making cult Synanon. Why would someone like Shay, an Ivy League graduate with a wealthy, doting fiancée, join Synanon? And has she really escaped their grasp? Told from the interwoven perspectives of Shay’s brother William, her longtime friend Joel, and Shay herself, Tenderness is a slow-burn mystery that excavates dark family histories and romantic regrets. As the wedding day approaches, Joel and William pull at the loose threads of Shay’s story, and it becomes clear there is an even greater threat on the island than the secrets each character is keeping from one another.
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