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Isabel Allende draws deeply on South America's turbulent history and personal experience to craft magical multigenerational sagas, novels, short stories, and memoirs. Allende is known for her vibrant characterization of women and lyrically descriptive prose.
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Jennifer Chiaverini writes heart-warming character-centered Gentle Reads with a focus on the dynamics of small-town life and intergenerational conflict and the traditional art of quilting.
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Jenny Colgan is a Scottish author who creates engaging stories that celebrate the importance of self-fulfillment, family, and community featuring likable and authentic characters in richly detailed settings. Her resilient female characters bounce back, pursue their passions, and find romance along the way.
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Using Nantucket Island as a location in all of her books, Hilderbrand's works offer the hallmarks of an ideal summer vacation read–romance, friendship, family relationships, a beautiful setting, conflict, and women facing and overcoming personal challenges.
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Balli Jaswal’s books are an enjoyable blend of women's fiction, romance, comedy, thriller, and modern day Indian culture with friendship and family always at the center. Her relatable characters are easy to root for.
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Kelly’s sweeping historical fiction takes readers on journeys into the past and into the lives of strong women who face and survive unbelievable challenges. Her richly detailed, well-researched books are hard to put down, and her compelling characters are unforgettable.
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Terry McMillan's characters are intelligent, attractive, successful women of all ages who are dealing with everyday problems at work and at home. She evokes sympathy for the challenges they face to define themselves in (and outside of) love relationships and as whole people.
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Mary Monroe’s hard-hitting domestic novels reveal her Southern and Christian roots. Godly and gritty, Monroe's stories feature tough African-American women in bitter circumstances striving to reconcile their tempestuous, powerful relationships.
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Monroe is known for her poignant Southern novels featuring women dealing with everyday trials and tribulations. Her relaxed pace sets a gentle, heartwarming mood, with a few tears along the way.
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Moyes writes character-driven fiction featuring women on the path to self-discovery. The novels are warm, moving, and insightful without overt sentimentality or cloying simplicity.
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Ng writes modern literary fiction with well-crafted prose that tackles issues related to family, motherhood, and the Asian American experience. Ng addresses issues of race, multiculturalism, and Asian/Asian American identity, weaving them seamlessly into the broader scope of her work.
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Whether writing family chronicles, psychological suspense, or gothic horror, Joyce Carol Oates offers provocative, often political, novels and short stories that address social issues. Many of her works focus on women's struggles to achieve personal identity.
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Jodi Picoult's stories take controversial newsworthy issues and examine them through the eyes of ordinary people, and she allows readers to feel sympathetic towards characters on opposing sides of a conflict. Readers identify with and care about her characters while swiftly turning pages to a finale that delivers one last satisfying twist.
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In her historical fiction, mysteries, and nonfiction, Lisa See explores China and the Chinese American experience. Her depictions of strong women who dare to question their place in society and strive for more is at the heart of her works.
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Thayer's fiction revolves around women's families and friendships. Her characters are realistic, everyday women, and she employs a sense of humor, both snappy and gentle, in her novels.
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Wax offers her trademark style of fiction-the beach read with substance. Her novels explore women’s friendships and take readers on unexpected journeys with her funny and heartwarming writing style.
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