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I loved the key elements of this story: the capable con woman, the past coming back to haunt her, the Survival Story 02 Isola by Allegra Goodman Isola , based upon the story of a real-life sixteenth-century woman

she pokes fun at her fellow writer in a sketch about talented but average-looking men dating gorgeous women

characters ranging from activists to performers and murderers to idealists; a memoir about a young woman's hometown leads her into the middle of a missing person case there: the disappearance of a local young woman But when she arrives, she finds out that a young local woman has gone missing.

and I loved that the relationship between Clementine and her aunt is said to have been special and strong

04 Far from the Tree by Robin Benway In Far from the Tree, Benway examines the pain of a young woman’ I loved the strong female protagonists and their fire and grit and growth.

belatedly recognizes his parenting and household ineptitude and also falls into the arms of the local woman

French's book is starting off really strong, and One of Us Is Lying has me hooked.

Montague; an unorthodox woman with an open mind and brave disposition, Theodora; a young woman who has

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

out of the moment by multiple instances of odd tone shifts and what felt like repeated nonsensical or strange and youthful exclamation "I miss sex" seems to come out of nowhere; sexual innuendos seem to come at strange

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Nadia Hashimi's story of a young woman in Afghanistan during She's an unassuming middle-aged woman and a recovering alcoholic who has a compulsion: to locate missing

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Woman of Light, Kali Fajardo-Anstine's upcoming fantastical, indigenous 01 Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories

I was intrigued by the intersection of the women's personalities and lives, and Beagin kept me consistently

In the seven years since, Belle's mother has reinvented herself as a society woman and has remarried,

In the seven years since, Belle's mother has reinvented herself as a society woman and has remarried,

with studying biographies, other books, and conducting more extensive research—and she channels each woman

And oops again, their no-strings-attached agreement is quickly becoming complicated, serious, and full

an immersive online game; and for my book club I'm reading Charlotte McConaghy's Migrations, about a woman The Kingdoms is her second book. 02 Warcross by Marie Lu Emika Chen is an orphaned young woman in a futuristic

recent Kevin Wilson gem; his quirky characters are irresistible, and his heartwarming story is messy, strange

of The Mars Room , The Flamethrowers , and Telex from Cuba , as well as a book of short stories, The Strange

The woman's greed and desire for greater social standing mean that Luzia attracts the attention of more

Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Paper Palace, Miranda Cowley Heller's novel about a middle-aged woman A scholar of the occult, his assistant, a young woman with ghostly experiences, and the future heir of

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

of The Mars Room , The Flamethrowers , and Telex from Cuba , as well as a book of short stories, The Strange

friend in her last remaining roommate, who until then seemed primarily a source of rent; she finds a strange

Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something

Miller has a strong, passionate grasp of widely experienced inequalities—and ideas of how to chip away

Etaf Rum is also the author of A Woman Is No Man.

is caught in the bardo, a limbo between life and death, and she encounters other limbo characters in strange

These three women's stories seem like they couldn't be more disparate, and I imagine the tones will be

The men in this story largely control the women, including their abilities to voice concerns, contact

and class, a deadly fear of scandal, and terrible mistreatment of those in lower castes, especially women When Kacey disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire

story that also focuses on racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women

The Dragon keeps them safe from the Wood, but at a high price: each year he demands one young woman from

displaced and discounted them; and I'm reading Alice Hoffman's newest novel about a cult and a desperate woman

Summer War reads like a fable, with unexpected twists and turns; duty, clever evasion, and curses; a strange

a young volunteer, Bridie, over the course of three days as they work desperately to help both the women

Donal Ryan is also the author of The Queen of Dirt Island , The Spinning Heart , Strange Flowers ,

is difficult to pin down; there's dark humor, a haunting thread of tragedy, some irreverence, strange

—man just waiting for a woman to bring out his playful side).

Adunni is a tough young woman determined to have a voice and emerge from her oppressive situation, and She's a tough young woman determined to have a voice and emerge from her oppressive situation, and she's

She made me feel that I deeply understood the potential circumstances of how a woman without grand ambitions

reading Wiley Cash's upcoming Southern mystery, When Ghosts Come Home; A Thousand Ships, Natalie Haynes's woman-centric Morrow. 02 A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes I'm listening to Haynes read her highly entertaining woman-centric

she's taken will be taken from her, and because she's a petty, narcissistic, selfish, greedy young woman

And what on earth is her purpose in stringing along Hayden and Alice for a month--if she even intends

or acknowledge race; the differences between prejudice, discrimination, and racism; and how "white women's

She had never recognized any curiosity or attraction to women before, but in this memoir, Wizenberg recounts

In Kelly Link's strange, intriguing debut novel, The Book of Love , teenagers Mo, Daniel, and Laura have

She's asked to play the role of maid to an unassuming, wealthy young woman in a dastardly plot to take the woman's inheritance and leave her to rot in an insane asylum.

World War II Warsaw Ghetto, Jaryk Smith arrives in New York City and falls in love with a Southern woman