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

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

some significant repetition (for example, the idea of “you’re allowed to ask questions, it would be strange

She'll just push down her strange feelings about Alex and pretend that fateful time never even happened

She goes to sleep one evening satisfied--but she wakes up in another life: with a strange apartment,

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

But Jaouad had developed a strange itch in her foot that spread.

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

of her own story or if there were another hand out there, unseen--god or author or fate--pulling the strings

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

This was strange and compelling. What did you think? Mitchell is one of a kind, and I love it.

She goes to sleep satisfied, but wakes up in another life: a strange apartment, a different boyfriend

The shift has made for strange bedfellows—and a prickly partnership between our main protagonist, Ellen

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

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

So as I started this book I realized something strange.

love a Gold Rush story, and a young adult story, and a story about "otherness" and about brave young women

navigates danger and helps achieve justice by using her smarts, eschewing societal tradition and limits on women

what many of her fellow female students put up with from young men who won't hear no and don't treat women

rural Idaho; Wendy Heard's fast-paced California-set thriller about an infatuation between two young women

Are the strange components intentional? Are they connections to a real-life murder from the past?

on each other's nerves work together to determine who is responsible for a puzzling murder and other strange

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

She'll just push down her strange feelings about Alex and pretend that fateful time never even happened

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

Kevin Wilson's latest gem, his quirky characters are irresistible and his heartwarming story is messy, strange

detail the hardscrabble life of a newly freed black person—and the often desperate circumstances of women (especially black women) without men to protect them at the time.

This is a clever, strange, dark, and often darkly funny fantasy.

loved one's particular interest (see: multiple bird books in past gift lists) or quirky curiosity (see: Strange

mentions of endless projects, ideas, collaborations, and plans make clear she's one of the hardest working women

Necessity makes for strange bedfellows; as crisis after crisis erupts, situations require ingenuity,

world for a recipient on your gift list. 06 Packing for Mars for Kids by Mary Roach "Who knows what strange

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

The women's discoveries of their inner strength during their desperation are wonderful lights in the

She goes to sleep satisfied, but wakes up in another life: a strange apartment, a different boyfriend This was strange and compelling.

Ruth's father, the founder of the colony, preached that men should marry as many women and have as many

rural art commission to a leisurely country-wide search, an unlikely obsession, moments of brutality, strange

otherness, Elise begins to see that the world outside of her claustrophobic high school is enormous, strange

He's kind of cute but seriously strange.

She goes to sleep one evening satisfied--but she wakes up in another life: with a strange apartment,

tracing the framework of and the growth and change of her relationship, Smith also explores gender roles, womanhood

Smith also explores gender roles, womanhood, motherhood, fury, loss, and looking out for one's self.

She goes to sleep one evening satisfied--but she wakes up in another life: with a strange apartment,

otherness, Elise begins to see that the world outside of her claustrophobic high school is enormous, strange

In The Distance from Four Points, Littell explores deep human connections, grief, womanhood, what strength In The Distance from Four Points, Littell explores deep human connections, grief, womanhood, what strength

inadvertently connects to unlikely characters in the town, and Littell explores this human connection, grief, womanhood

Faith by Rachel Held Evans Rachel Held Evans was the author of Faith Unraveled, A Year of Biblical Womanhood

Next on my to-read list from her is Enemy Women.