A recent murder victim's DNA matches a long-dead serial killer, and a string of bodies hold clues that

In Reckless Girls, the newest novel by Rachel Hawkins, Lux is a frustrated young woman who's just done

have felt overused from use in other stories (a tough, closed-off investigator, broken by her past; a strong

Barker's novel features Janet, a misunderstood, mocked, badly treated young woman coming of age in a

But her adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might just

Pines , the first book in Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines trilogy, secret agent Ethan Burke wakes up in a strange But as Ethan learns more about the car accident and about the strange town of Wayward Pines, he develops

I’m not sure how to feel about the construct of having a young woman’s desire to gain acknowledgment her brother’s likely future levels—which she also deserved but which were seemingly impossible for a woman

tomorrow; I'm reading Looking for Jane, Heather Marshall's debut novel that links multiple timelines and women's timelines linked through decades by a mysterious letter and enormously important recurring dilemmas for women

lives have gone in different directions, and they've always been very different in many ways, yet the women But when Jen's police officer husband is involved in the shooting of a Black teenager, the women's friendship

deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women It's kill or be killed, and the seasoned women will have to use their years of expertise and experience

But a strange feeling pervades everything on the island. Meanwhile, flashes of her past seem to be resurfacing on this strange island, the other couple staying

twisty mystery is set against the backdrop of an unforgiving winter on an Australian island, with two women Only when the two women's worlds intersect can they piece together the full stories of their husbands

In Cult Classic, a woman leaving a reunion dinner one night in New York City’s Chinatown runs into a

The two women at the heart of the story are tough as nails but vulnerable with each other.

violence is so out of character for Luke, the hostages are never identified, and Luke was behaving strangely Are the strange coordinates she's receiving on her phone after seven years a message from Luke?

and I'm listening to the always-excellent Kate Quinn’s The Rose Code, historical fiction about the women The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun story of three very different women who answer the wartime call to The book jumps between 1940, the beginning of the women's forays into their secret duties and responsibilities

Sharratt I've been reading Mary Sharratt's Revelations over the course of this "school year" with my women's Their lives have gone in different directions, but the women still care about each other. When Jen's police officer husband is involved in the shooting of a Black teenager, the women's friendship

Carrie Fisher The Princess Diarist is based upon the diaries Carrie Fisher kept while she was a young woman A Writer's Life by Lee Smith “...the linear, beginning-middle-end form doesn’t fit the lives of any women

Emika Chen is an orphaned young woman in a futuristic New York City.

from Kirsten Miller about middle-aged women coming into their power and coming into their own; Sea of novel The Change, set in Mattauk, Long Island, three women cope with various challenges surrounding aging together and use their newfound abilities to try to solve the mystery of a missing girl: middle-aged women

But Jordan is entranced by Yash, who acts oddly around other women but seems to be himself around her

unconventionally built family and a broad surrounding cast of characters--and it's all centered around independent women with unconventional women's roles in society at the time. The Gilded Hour explores how these women's abilities and constraints intersect with women's rights of

anonymity and an escape to the woods to grieve and be alone, but she quickly finds out that a young local woman

by Tiffany McDaniel In Tiffany McDaniel's novel Betty, set in the foothills of Appalachia, a young woman

which peripherally involved Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Sedaris's order for a custom vestment; and offers a strange

eccentric family and a broad surrounding cast of characters--and it's all centered around independent women with unconventional women's roles in society in nineteenth century New York City. The Gilded Hour explores how these women's abilities and constraints intersect with women's rights of

just-published young adult novel Body of Stars, the patterns of freckles, moles, and birthmarks on women extremely invasive and intrusive, especially when the boys and men felt entitled to examine the young women most intriguing aspects of the story for me were related to characters' dreams of a world in which women Body of Stars reminded me in some ways of The Power because of the young women's influence over society , but women ultimately seemed more empowered in that book.

But at one point in the book, when he's preparing to have a woman at his house, he looks around at how

depth and, at times, darkness. “...the linear, beginning-middle-end form doesn’t fit the lives of any women

It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have

In Beautyland, Bertino offers a poignant, funny, strange story full of extraterrestrial observations Beautyland is strange, poignant, and funny.

I also loved seeing two strong, clever, diametrically opposed queens savvily playing with the lines of

codependence on her adolescent daughter, and how the author unraveled the many smothering ties to the woman

memoir by Matthew McConaughey; a thriller that's about a cheating husband, genetic cloning, and the strong

Festival Days is not light reading: "Cheri" delves into the last days of a woman who is terminally ill

famed, sought-after "boy player" in Shakespeare's company, and his roles skillfully playing lovely women

The Princess Diarist is based upon the diaries Carrie Fisher kept while she was a young woman stumbling

exploring trust, betrayal, the unexpected bubbling up of grief, and the bone-deep tiredness of a young woman

Charlie begins to realize he feels more of a connection to Dev than to any of the twenty beautiful women

But Jordan is more entranced by Yash, who acts oddly around other women but seems to be his naturally

his 1940 Ford, driving fast, avoiding federal agents, and living with his grandmother, a healer with strong

be cruel, ruthless, and he's Wren's sworn enemy, a deadly force who has destroyed her countrymen and women side note: the title felt so oddly vague that I kept forgetting what the book was called, which felt strange

A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious

The Humans is funny, strange, deep, and lovely. I loved it. The young women's wartime experiences take Viv to glamorous Harrod's, settle Grace in a dusty old bookshop II stories, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women

and Irish Stories Donal Ryan is also the author of The Queen of Dirt Island ,  The Spinning Heart ,  Strange

vineyard and also features racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women Women explore traditional roles and push back against infuriating chauvinism; characters consider their Blush also focuses on racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women,

In the charming story We'll Prescribe You a Cat , a winding, hard-to-find Kyoto alleyway leads to a strange

In her spare time, Enid loves true crime podcasts and dates a variety of women from dating apps.

It had shaped who she was in many senses, but now she was a grown woman with a full life, and she was

I'm happy to tell you that this one lived up to its strong start.