LibraryAware Women's Literature Feb 2025

Recent books about and (mostly) by women:

Three Days In June
by Anne Tyler

As Gail navigates the chaos of her daughter Debbie's wedding preparations—including a job loss, exclusion from family events, and the unexpected arrival of her ex-husband Max—she faces a crisis that threatens the wedding and forces both parents to confront unresolved issues from their past.

More or Less Maddy
by Lisa Genova

Maddy Banks, an NYU student recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder after experiencing a wild and terrifying mania, rejects the stability of a “normal” life for a career in stand-up comedy, in a novel from a Harvard-trained neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author Lisa Genova.

Forever Home
by Graham Norton

When Declan, the love of her life, becomes ill, Carol, a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, is forced out of their beloved home by his untrusting and cruel children and moves back with her parents where her mother becomes determined to get to the bottom of things.

City of Night Birds
by Juhea Kim

After a career-halting accident, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St. Petersburg to confront her past and to decide whether to rejoin the stage amidst the cutthroat world of Russian ballet.

The Three Lives of Cate Kay
by Kate Fagan

Cate Kay, a reclusive bestselling author, has concealed her identity for years, but when a devastating tragedy from her past resurfaces, she's forced to confront the secrets that derailed her dreams and return to the place she's been running from.

Rental House
by Weike Wang

Keru and Nate first meet in college. Keru is the only child of strict, well-educated Chinese immigrant parents who hold her to impossible standards even as an adult. Nate is from a rural, white, working-class family that has never trusted his intellectual ambitions or - now - the citizenship status of his "foreign" wife. Nevertheless, Keru and Nate find themselves incorporating their families into two carefully planned vacations. The results are both disastrous and revealing.

All Fours
by Miranda July

Ditching her California life for the open road, a restless, semi-famous artist leaves her husband, child and career and reinvents herself in a motel room, embarking on a journey of self-discovery and what it means to be alive and free.

Like Mother, Like Mother
by Susan Rieger

Populated by unforgettable, complex characters, a novel about three generations of strong-willed women shaped by the secrets buried in their family's past is a portrait of family, marriage, ambition, power, the stories we inherit and the lies we tell to become the people we believe we're meant to be.

Last Twilight In Paris
by Pam Jenoff

In London, 1953, a secondhand shop necklace bears the name Lévitan, a Paris department store-turned-Nazi prison camp, leading Louise and former romantic partner Ian to investigate her friend Franny's war death and the fate of Helaine, a woman imprisoned at Lévitan when the Germans invaded France.

The Stolen Queen
by Fiona Davis

In 1978, as a valuable Egyptian artifact disappears during the Met Gala, Met curator Charlotte Cross and young assistant Annie Jenkins embark on a high-stakes search that leads them to Egypt, where Charlotte must confront an ancient curse and the haunting tragedy of her past.