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The Wild Beneath

Kelly Anderson

Raised on a sailboat, Annie MacLeod has always felt tied to the ocean. After a tsunami, a mysterious stranger awakens visions of an underwater world, leaving her torn between a familiar love and the extraordinary life calling her back to sea.

A Founding Mother

Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie

Abigail Adams raises a family, manages a farm, and builds financial independence while the American Revolution reshapes her world. This novel follows her political influence and partnership with John Adams, restoring a formidable woman's perspective to the country's founding.

A Pair of Aces

Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

In 1930s New York, pioneering Black prosecutor Eunice Carter and influential madam Polly Adler form an unlikely alliance against mob boss Lucky Luciano. Drawing on a network of women, they risk their safety to build a groundbreaking criminal case.

The Fine Art of Lying

Alexandra Andrews

Clare Bast has traded a difficult upbringing for a wealthy Manhattan marriage, but her desire to reclaim an artistic identity draws her into dangerous circles. A stolen masterpiece and a murder make her carefully constructed life the center of an investigation.

Into the Blue

Emma Brodie

Teenagers AJ Graves and Noah Drew form a powerful bond through their shared love of performing, until Noah disappears. Years later, a television production reunites them, forcing them to confront their unfinished relationship and the secret behind their separation.

Lady Tremaine

Rachel Hochhauser

Cinderella's supposedly wicked stepmother takes center stage in this reimagining. Twice widowed and responsible for a struggling household, Lady Tremaine fights to secure her daughters' futures, only to discover that a royal marriage may conceal a disturbing threat.

In Her Defense

Philippa Malicka

A celebrated television star accuses her daughter's therapist of manipulation, turning a family estrangement into a sensational trial. As competing accounts of trauma emerge, a former employee holds crucial knowledge that could expose what really happened.

The First Time I Saw Him

Laura Dave

Five years after Owen disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter Bailey have rebuilt their lives. His unexpected reappearance threatens that fragile safety, sending them on the run while Hannah searches for a way to protect Bailey and recover their future.

The Heir Apparent

Rebecca Armitage

A young doctor living in Tasmania learns that a family tragedy has made her heir to the British throne. Returning to palace life, Lexi must weigh duty, ambition, and complicated family loyalties against the independent life and love she left behind.

Wild Dark Shore

Charlotte McConaghy

On a remote island housing a vital seed bank, Dominic Salt and his children rescue a woman washed ashore during a storm. As she recovers, hidden histories and signs of sabotage complicate their growing bond while rising seas threaten their refuge.

Gone Before Goodbye

Reese Witherspoon, Harlan Coben

After devastating losses cost her medical career, combat surgeon Maggie McCabe accepts a secretive assignment for an extraordinarily wealthy client. When her patient vanishes, she is drawn into a lethal conspiracy and must fight to uncover the truth before she disappears too.

To the Moon and Back

Eliana Ramage

A Cherokee girl's determination to become an astronaut shapes the lives of her mother, sister, and girlfriend over several decades. Their intertwined stories explore ambition, belonging, Indigenous identity, and the sacrifices made in pursuit of an extraordinary future.

Once Upon a Time in Dollywood

Ashley Jordan

A playwright retreats to the Tennessee mountains after a disastrous year, hoping to escape her relationships and creative paralysis. Her attraction to a neighboring single father offers another beginning, but both must confront the losses and fears complicating their connection.

Spectacular Things

Beck Dorey-Stein

Two sisters raised by a single mother grow into sharply different roles: one becomes a caregiver, while the other pursues soccer greatness. Their close relationship is tested by ambition, family secrets, and the unequal sacrifices required to make a dream possible.

The Phoenix Pencil Company

Allison King

A young coder searching for her grandmother's lost cousin uncovers a remarkable history connected to a Shanghai pencil company. Across generations, the family's ability to recover words from pencils becomes entangled with war, espionage, and the ownership of other people's stories.

Stuck Up and Stupid

Angourie Rice, Kate Rice

Lily expects a relaxed summer in her Australian beach town until a Hollywood star and his entourage arrive. Her unfavorable first impression of Dorian gradually gives way to a more complicated attraction in this contemporary reworking of Pride and Prejudice.

Great Big Beautiful Life

Emily Henry

Two very different writers compete to tell the life story of a reclusive, scandal-shadowed heiress. Bound by secrecy and increasingly drawn to each other, Alice and Hayden discover that neither their subject's past nor their own relationship fits a simple narrative.

All That Life Can Afford

Emily Everett

A young American struggling to make a life in London becomes a tutor to a wealthy family's daughter. Swept into glamorous holidays and elite social circles, Anna must decide how much of her past and identity she will sacrifice to belong.

Heiress Takes All

Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-Broka

Disinherited teenager Olivia Owens plans to steal millions from her father's accounts during his latest wedding. With a makeshift crew and a carefully timed scheme, she faces meddling guests, competing agendas, and an ex-boyfriend who threatens to derail her revenge.

Broken Country

Clare Leslie Hall

Beth has built a quiet marriage in an English village, but the return of her first love reopens old wounds. As desire, grief, and jealousy collide, events move toward a crime that forces her to confront the choices defining her life.

Isola

Allegra Goodman

Inspired by Marguerite de la Rocque, this novel follows a privileged young woman whose guardian takes her to the New World. Punished for falling in love and abandoned on an isolated island, she must discover the strength to survive.

The Three Lives of Cate Kay

Kate Fagan

A famous novelist has built her success behind a concealed identity. When an actress connected to her books draws her toward the spotlight, Cate Kay must revisit the friendship, tragedy, and decisions that divided her life into different selves.

Throwback

Maurene Goo

After a fierce argument with her mother, Samantha Kang is transported to the 1990s, where her mother is still a teenager. Navigating an unfamiliar school and an unexpected romance, Sam gains a new understanding of her family's immigrant experience.

City of Night Birds

Juhea Kim

A once-celebrated Russian ballerina returns to the dance world after an accident and a period of personal collapse. Confronting old relationships, rivalries, and painful memories, Natalia must decide whether reclaiming her career will restore her life or repeat its damage.

We Will Be Jaguars

Nemonte Nenquimo, Mitch Anderson

Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo recounts her upbringing in the Ecuadorian Amazon and her path to defending Indigenous land. Her story connects family, ancestral knowledge, encounters with outsiders, and the fight against extraction threatening her people's survival.

Society of Lies

Lauren Ling Brown

Returning to Princeton for a reunion and her sister's graduation, Maya instead learns that Naomi has died. Her investigation leads back to an exclusive campus club, where belonging, privilege, and dangerous secrets connect the sisters' experiences across different years.

Looking for Smoke

K. A. Cobell

When a girl is murdered on the Blackfeet reservation, four teenagers become suspects. As they investigate her death and another girl's disappearance, mistrust and personal secrets expose the danger surrounding Indigenous young women in their community.

The Comfort of Crows

Margaret Renkl

Across a year of observations in her Tennessee backyard, Margaret Renkl reflects on birds, plants, seasonal change, and everyday loss. Her essays connect close attention to the natural world with aging, family life, ecological concern, and reasons to keep hoping.

Slow Dance

Rainbow Rowell

Shiloh and Cary once assumed their friendship would survive everything, but adulthood carried them apart. Reunited at a wedding years later, they must navigate divorce, parenting, distance, and the history that could make a second chance possible.

The Cliffs

J. Courtney Sullivan

An archivist returning to coastal Maine investigates the history of a familiar Victorian house that a wealthy newcomer has transformed. The lives of women connected to the property reveal grief, buried histories, and the lasting consequences of who gets to preserve the past.

The Unwedding

Ally Condie

A newly divorced woman takes the luxury resort holiday originally intended for her wedding anniversary. A death disrupts a lavish wedding, and a storm traps the guests, leaving her to navigate a dangerous mystery among strangers with secrets.

Twelfth Knight

Alexene Farol Follmuth

Vi's online gaming identity protects her from the sexism she encounters as a girl. When injured football player Jack unknowingly becomes her gaming partner, their growing connection complicates their real-world rivalry in this contemporary Shakespeare-inspired romance.

How to End a Love Story

Yulin Kuang

Helen Zhang and Grant Shepard have been linked by a devastating teenage tragedy for thirteen years. Working together on a television adaptation forces them to confront grief, guilt, and an attraction that could offer healing if they can face their shared past.

The Most Fun We Ever Had

Claire Lombardo

Four adult daughters have grown up in the shadow of their parents' enduring love. When a child placed for adoption reenters their lives, the Sorenson family must confront long-held secrets, competing loyalties, and the gap between appearances and private struggles.

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Xochitl Gonzalez

The forgotten story of an artist who died in 1985 intersects with a Latina art student's experience at an elite college. Across their narratives, the novel examines who is remembered, who controls cultural authority, and how love can become entangled with power.

Redwood Court

DéLana R. A. Dameron

Growing up in a Black working-class community in South Carolina, Mika learns from her parents, sister, grandparents, and neighbors. Their stories create a portrait of everyday resilience, family ambition, and the sustaining power of a place built around love.

First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

Evie Porter appears to have a boyfriend, a home, and an ordinary life, but her identity is an assignment. As a new job becomes tangled with her past and her mysterious employer's demands, she must outmaneuver the people controlling her story.

Before We Were Innocent

Ella Berman

Years after a friend's death during a Greek holiday turned them into tabloid villains, Bess and Joni have taken very different paths. Another troubling incident reunites them and forces Bess to question their shared history and the truth they have avoided.

Maybe Next Time

Cesca Major

After neglecting an important anniversary, an overwhelmed working mother loses her husband in an accident. Waking to the same day repeatedly, she tries to change its outcome, discovering how much of her life and marriage she has stopped noticing.

Starling House

Alix E. Harrow

In a struggling Kentucky town, Opal accepts work at the unsettling house linked to her favorite childhood book. Its reclusive heir and buried history draw her into a fight against sinister forces while she tries to build a safer future for her brother.

Mother-Daughter Murder Night

Nina Simon

Recovering from illness at her daughter's California home, a formidable businesswoman becomes fascinated by a local murder. When her granddaughter is drawn into the investigation, three generations of women must work together despite their difficult family relationships.

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

During a pandemic summer on their Michigan orchard, Lara tells her three daughters about a youthful romance with a future movie star. The memories invite the family to reconsider ambition, the lives they might have chosen, and the happiness available in the present.

Yellowface

R.F. Kuang

After witnessing a celebrated Asian American writer's death, an unsuccessful white novelist steals her unfinished manuscript. Her subsequent success traps her in escalating lies, creating a sharp examination of literary ambition, racism, cultural appropriation, and the publishing industry's incentives.

Cassandra in Reverse

Holly Smale

After losing her job and relationship, Cassandra discovers she can travel backward through her own recent life. Her attempts to fix everything uncover deeper patterns, leading her toward a better understanding of her needs, her relationships, and herself.

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

Crystal Smith Paul

A famous white actress leaves her fortune to three Black sisters, raising questions about her past and their connection. The mystery unfolds across generations, exposing the demands of Hollywood fame and the hidden costs of racial passing.

Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld

A comedy writer is skeptical that ordinary women can attract glamorous male celebrities, until a visiting pop star unsettles her assumptions. Their connection develops against the routines of a late-night television show and the vulnerabilities that complicate an unexpected romance.

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

In Nazi-occupied France, two sisters pursue different forms of resistance. Their choices reveal the danger faced by women protecting their families and neighbors, and the courage required to survive a war that transforms both their country and their relationship.

The House of Eve

Sadeqa Johnson

In 1950s America, two young Black women face sharply different possibilities for love, education, and security. Their lives converge through painful choices about motherhood, exposing the influence of class, racism, and social expectations on the futures they hope to claim.

The House in the Pines

Ana Reyes

Years after her best friend's unexplained death, Maya sees a video of another woman dying beside the same man. Returning to her hometown, she investigates lost memories, addiction, and a disturbing connection she has never been able to explain.

The Marriage Portrait

Maggie O’Farrell

In Renaissance Italy, teenage Lucrezia de' Medici is married to a powerful duke after her sister's death. As she struggles to understand her husband and the court's demands, she begins to fear that the marriage securing her family's position may threaten her life.

Tiny Beautiful Things

Cheryl Strayed

Drawing on her Dear Sugar advice columns, Cheryl Strayed responds to questions about love, grief, family, and personal failure. Her candid reflections combine practical counsel with stories from her own life, encouraging readers to meet difficult experiences with compassion and honesty.

Our Missing Hearts

Celeste Ng

In an America governed by nationalist fear, a boy searches for his missing poet mother. His journey reveals a system that removes children from supposedly disloyal families, and the quiet resistance of people preserving stories that the authorities want erased.

On the Rooftop

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

In 1950s San Francisco, a mother dreams of turning her three talented daughters into a successful singing group. As the young women pursue their own desires and their Black neighborhood faces redevelopment, the family must confront competing definitions of a better future.

Wrong Place Wrong Time

Gillian McAllister

A mother witnesses her teenage son kill a stranger, then wakes to find herself living earlier days in reverse. Searching backward for the event that led to the crime, she uncovers hidden connections in her family and questions what she thought she knew.

Honey & Spice

Bolu Babalola

A sharp-tongued student radio host warns her classmates against romantic distractions, then enters a fake relationship with the man she publicly criticized. As their arrangement becomes emotionally complicated, she must challenge her own defenses and ideas about love.

Counterfeit

Kirstin Chen

A dissatisfied lawyer reconnects with a former college roommate who has built a lucrative counterfeit handbag operation. Drawn into the scheme, she discovers that friendship, status, and the story told to investigators can all be carefully manufactured.

The Dictionary of Lost Words

Pip Williams

Growing up among the scholars compiling the Oxford English Dictionary, Esme notices that many words used by women and working-class people are discarded. She begins collecting those overlooked expressions, building a life around the question of whose experiences deserve to be recorded.

True Biz

Sara Nović

At a residential school for Deaf students, a teenager encountering Deaf culture for the first time forms connections with classmates and the headmistress. Their intersecting lives explore language access, identity, education, civil rights, and the threat of losing their school.

The Club

Ellery Lloyd

An exclusive celebrity club launches a luxurious island retreat, bringing together famous guests and an exhausted staff. Behind the polished hospitality lie resentments and carefully guarded secrets, and the celebration soon turns deadly.

The Christie Affair

Nina de Gramont

Agatha Christie's unexplained disappearance is retold through the perspective of her husband's mistress. The novel connects marital betrayal with another woman's hidden past, exploring what people risk for love and how a celebrated mystery might conceal a different story.

Anatomy

Dana Schwartz

In nineteenth-century Edinburgh, an aspiring female surgeon makes a bargain that requires her to study secretly. A young resurrection man supplies bodies, but their partnership exposes disturbing disappearances and a mystery reaching beyond the city's medical establishment.

Honor

Thrity Umrigar

An Indian American journalist returns to India to report on a woman attacked for marrying outside her religion. The assignment forces her to confront her own past and the tension between personal freedom, family loyalty, and the traditions shaping women's lives.

Lucky

Marissa Stapley

A con artist on the run discovers that her lottery ticket is worth millions. Claiming the prize would expose her crimes, so she must navigate her family's tangled history and decide whether she can build an honest future without losing her chance at freedom.

The Island of Missing Trees

Elif Shafak

A romance between a Greek Cypriot boy and a Turkish Cypriot girl unfolds amid the island's divisions, witnessed by a fig tree. Decades later, their daughter in London confronts the inherited grief, silences, and memories connecting her family to Cyprus.

Sankofa

Chibundu Onuzo

After her mother's death, a British woman discovers that the father she never knew became a powerful West African political leader. Traveling to meet him forces her to reconsider identity, inheritance, and the difference between a private parent and a public figure.

Within These Wicked Walls

Lauren Blackwood

An Ethiopian-inspired Jane Eyre retelling follows an exorcist hired to cleanse a wealthy man's haunted house. As terrifying manifestations intensify, her growing attachment to her employer clashes with the dangerous secrets that have driven every previous exorcist away.

L.A. Weather

María Amparo Escandón

A Mexican American family in Los Angeles faces marital breakdowns, private disappointments, and unexpected upheaval. As a father's obsession with the weather frustrates his wife and daughters, each must confront the secrets and choices disrupting their shared life.

We Were Never Here

Andrea Bartz

Two best friends' holiday ends with a man's death, repeating a disturbing event from an earlier trip. Back home, one woman begins to question the other's account, and their supposedly protective friendship becomes increasingly difficult to escape.

The Downstairs Girl

Stacey Lee

A Chinese American teenager working as a maid in 1890s Atlanta secretly writes a popular advice column. As her opinions challenge the city's prejudices, a search for her own origins draws her into danger and tests her willingness to claim a public voice.

The Paper Palace

Miranda Cowley Heller

After an intimate encounter with her childhood friend, Elle must choose between her marriage and a life she once imagined. Over one summer day on Cape Cod, memories of trauma, love, and family history reveal how she reached this crossroads.

Seven Days in June

Tia Williams

Two successful writers meet again after an intense teenage romance ended painfully. During a Brooklyn summer, they reconnect through the stories they have secretly written about each other, while confronting addiction, family responsibilities, and the possibility of lasting love.

Tokyo Ever After

Emiko Jean

A Japanese American teenager discovers that her absent father is Japan's crown prince. Traveling to meet him, she must learn royal customs, navigate a demanding public role, and decide where she belongs while falling for her guarded bodyguard.

The Last Thing He Told Me

Laura Dave

When Hannah's husband disappears after a financial scandal, he leaves a message asking her to protect his teenage daughter. The two begin an uneasy investigation into his true identity, discovering that the secrets behind his disappearance may endanger them both.

Northern Spy

Flynn Berry

A Northern Irish news producer sees her sister identified in footage of an IRA-related robbery. Her search for an explanation pulls her into a world of informants, divided loyalties, and dangerous choices about how far she will go to protect her family.

Firekeeper's Daughter

Angeline Boulley

After witnessing a murder, a biracial Ojibwe teenager becomes involved in an undercover drug investigation. Drawing on her scientific skills and cultural knowledge, Daunis must protect her community while questioning the loyalties of the people asking for her help.

Infinite Country

Patricia Engel

A Colombian family's search for security in the United States leads to undocumented life, deportation, and separation across borders. Told through several family members, the novel follows the emotional consequences of immigration policies and their determination to remain connected.

The Sanatorium

Sarah Pearse

A detective on leave visits a remote Swiss hotel converted from a sanatorium for her brother's engagement celebration. When a woman disappears and a storm isolates the guests, she must investigate a place whose unsettling history appears far from finished.

Outlawed

Anna North

In an alternate nineteenth-century America, a young midwife accused of witchcraft joins a gang of outcasts. Their leader dreams of a refuge for people excluded by conventional society, but a dangerous plan forces her to decide what that freedom is worth.

You Have a Match

Emma Lord

A DNA test reveals that Abby has an older sister her parents never mentioned. Meeting at summer camp, the girls investigate their family's past while clashing over their differences and navigating the friendships and romantic feelings complicating their plans.

The Chicken Sisters

KJ Dell’Antonia

Two rival fried-chicken restaurants have divided a Kansas town for generations. When a reality television competition arrives, sisters connected to opposing sides must confront old resentments, public scrutiny, and the family secrets hiding behind the feud.

The Light in Hidden Places

Sharon Cameron

Based on Stefania Podgórska's life, this novel follows a Polish teenager who hides thirteen Jewish people during the Holocaust. Caring for her younger sister while living under occupation, she faces increasingly dangerous choices that test her courage and resourcefulness.

Group

Christie Tate

Despite academic success, Christie Tate feels profoundly lonely and enters group therapy at her therapist's urging. Her account follows the difficult process of sharing her most private experiences, building trust, and learning that connection requires sustained vulnerability.

A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

Laura Taylor Namey

After a series of losses disrupts her plans, a Cuban American teenager is sent from Miami to relatives in England. Baking, an unexpected friendship, and a growing romance help her consider a future beyond the life she had carefully imagined.

His Only Wife

Peace Adzo Medie

A young Ghanaian seamstress accepts a marriage intended to improve her family's circumstances, then moves to Accra. Discovering that her husband is involved with another woman, she begins to challenge the arrangement and define independence on her own terms.

Fable

Adrienne Young

Abandoned on a dangerous island by her powerful trader father, Fable survives by salvaging valuable gems from the sea. She hires a young sailor to help her find her father, entering a world of rivalries, hidden identities, and precarious alliances.

The Last Story of Mina Lee

Nancy Jooyoun Kim

After finding her immigrant mother dead in Los Angeles, Margot begins investigating the life she barely understood. Her search intertwines with Mina's earlier experiences in Koreatown, revealing hidden relationships and the cost of pursuing a new beginning in America.

Furia

Yamile Saied Méndez

In Argentina, Camila secretly pursues her talent for soccer while living under her family's restrictive expectations. An opportunity to compete at a higher level and the return of a former love force her to choose what future she will fight for.

You Should See Me in a Crown

Leah Johnson

A Black teenager in a small Indiana town enters the prom queen race to win money for college. The campaign pushes her into an uncomfortable spotlight, while her attraction to a new girl who is also competing challenges her plans.

Everything Inside

Edwidge Danticat

These stories follow people connected to Haiti as they navigate love, migration, separation, and loss. Across different homes and generations, moments of crisis reveal how memory and belonging endure even when families and communities are divided.

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Austin Channing Brown

Austin Channing Brown recounts growing up Black, Christian, and female in spaces shaped by whiteness. Her experiences in schools, workplaces, and churches expose the gap between institutions' diversity claims and meaningful racial justice, while affirming Black dignity and identity.

The Guest List

Lucy Foley

Guests gather on an isolated Irish island for an elaborate wedding between a television star and a magazine publisher. As the celebration unfolds, competing viewpoints reveal grudges and hidden histories, until a death exposes the violence beneath the festivities.

The Henna Artist

Alka Joshi

In 1950s Jaipur, a woman who escaped an abusive marriage builds a livelihood as a henna artist to wealthy clients. The unexpected arrival of her younger sister threatens her carefully earned independence and forces her to reconsider family, ambition, and responsibility.

Untamed

Glennon Doyle

Glennon Doyle reflects on leaving behind expectations about marriage, motherhood, faith, and being a good woman. Through personal stories about love, divorce, and rebuilding a family, she explores the freedom and difficulty of trusting her own desires.

The Jetsetters

Amanda Eyre Ward

A seventy-year-old mother wins a Mediterranean cruise and invites her three estranged adult children. Their shared holiday brings old resentments and private disappointments into the open, offering the family a chance to understand the choices that pulled them apart.

The Scent Keeper

Erica Bauermeister

Raised on an isolated island by a father who preserves scents in glass bottles, Emmeline learns to understand the world through smell. Leaving that childhood behind sends her on a search for the truth about her family and the memories shaping her identity.

Such a Fun Age

Kiley Reid

When a young Black babysitter is accused of kidnapping the white child in her care, her employer tries to intervene. Their increasingly complicated relationship exposes racism, class inequality, performative allyship, and the self-serving stories people tell about their intentions.

Conviction

Denise Mina

A woman rebuilding her identity recognizes someone from her hidden past in a true-crime podcast about a sunken yacht. Her determination to investigate pulls her into a dangerous journey where old secrets and new threats refuse to remain separate.

The Giver of Stars

Jojo Moyes

In Depression-era Kentucky, women join a horseback library program bringing books to isolated mountain communities. Their work creates powerful friendships while challenging local expectations about women's independence, education, and the authority of men who want to control them.

Fair Play

Eve Rodsky

Eve Rodsky offers a practical system for dividing domestic responsibilities and making invisible household labor visible. Drawing on interviews and family experiences, she encourages couples to agree on ownership of tasks and create space for both partners' individual interests.

The Secrets We Kept

Lara Prescott

During the Cold War, women in the CIA's typing pool become involved in a campaign to circulate Doctor Zhivago in the Soviet Union. Their espionage intersects with Boris Pasternak's relationship with Olga Ivinskaya, connecting literary freedom, secrecy, and personal desire.

The Last House Guest

Megan Miranda

A local woman and a wealthy summer visitor form an unusually close friendship in a Maine resort town. After the visitor dies, suspicions gather around her friend, who investigates the town's power dynamics and hidden loyalties to learn what really happened.

Whisper Network

Chandler Baker

After their company's CEO dies, several women fear that a boss surrounded by misconduct rumors will replace him. Their decision to challenge his behavior triggers accusations, exposed secrets, and a chain of events that turns workplace solidarity into a dangerous reckoning.

The Cactus

Sarah Haywood

A highly controlled woman's orderly life is disrupted by her mother's death and an unexpected pregnancy. Forced into conflict with her brother and an uneasy friendship with his companion, she gradually learns that independence does not have to mean shutting others out.

From Scratch

Tembi Locke

After losing her Italian chef husband to cancer, Tembi Locke returns to his Sicilian hometown with their daughter. Her memories of their cross-cultural romance intertwine with food, family reconciliation, and the work of building a life around grief and enduring love.

The Night Tiger

Yangsze Choo

In 1930s Malaya, a young dressmaker and an eleven-year-old houseboy become connected through a missing finger and a series of unexplained deaths. Their intertwined quests move through colonial society, folklore, forbidden attraction, and rumors of men who become tigers.

Daisy Jones & The Six

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Told through fictional interviews, this novel reconstructs the rise and sudden breakup of a celebrated 1970s rock band. The chemistry between singer Daisy Jones and frontman Billy Dunne fuels artistic success while testing their loyalties, relationships, and control over their own lives.

The Proposal

Jasmine Guillory

After rejecting a public marriage proposal at a baseball game, a freelance writer accepts help from a charming doctor. What begins as a deliberately casual rebound grows into something neither has planned, challenging their assumptions about commitment and vulnerability.

The Library Book

Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean investigates the devastating 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Public Library and the unresolved questions surrounding it. Alongside the mystery, she explores the institution's history and the essential social role of libraries and the people who sustain them.

One Day in December

Josie Silver

A fleeting encounter through a bus window convinces Laurie that she has met someone extraordinary. When she later discovers he is dating her best friend, a decade of missed chances and changing relationships tests the meaning of timing, friendship, and love.

The Other Woman

Sandie Jones

Emily believes she has found her ideal partner in Adam, but his mother seems determined to sabotage their relationship. As the hostility escalates, Emily struggles to understand the family dynamic and the dangerous secrets hidden beneath its apparent devotion.

This Is How It Always Is

Laurie Frankel

A family's youngest child tells them she is a girl, prompting her parents and siblings to rethink the future they expected. Their effort to support her while keeping her identity private reveals the limits of secrecy and the complicated tenderness of family life.

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

An isolated girl grows up in the North Carolina marshes, learning from the natural world while the nearby town dismisses her. When a young man is found dead, suspicions focus on her, intertwining a murder investigation with her search for belonging and love.

Still Lives

Maria Hummel

An artist known for disturbing self-portraits disappears on the opening night of a major exhibition. A museum employee becomes involved in the search, uncovering rivalries, private agendas, and questions about the art world's fascination with violence against women.

Next Year in Havana

Chanel Cleeton

A Cuban American woman travels to Havana to scatter her grandmother's ashes and discovers the life she concealed. Alternating with her grandmother's experiences during the Cuban Revolution, the novel connects family history, forbidden love, exile, and belonging.

Something in the Water

Catherine Steadman

A newly married couple makes an unexpected discovery while diving on their honeymoon in Bora Bora. Their decision about what to do with it draws them into escalating deception and danger, testing the trust beneath their seemingly ideal relationship.

You Think It, I'll Say It

Curtis Sittenfeld

These stories examine the assumptions people make about friends, partners, strangers, and themselves. Through sharp, often uncomfortable encounters, Curtis Sittenfeld explores social status, desire, prejudice, and the distance between private thoughts and public behavior.

Happiness: A Memoir

Heather Harpham

Heather Harpham recounts the unexpected pregnancy that initially separated her from her partner and the serious illness threatening their daughter. Her memoir follows parenthood, reconciliation, medical uncertainty, and the effort to create a family through fear and love.

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

Balli Kaur Jaswal

A young British Punjabi woman takes a teaching job expecting to run a creative writing class, only to meet widows learning basic literacy. Their unexpectedly vivid stories become a source of connection and independence, even as a dangerous community secret emerges.

The Light We Lost

Jill Santopolo

Two students meet on September 11 and form a relationship shaped by their desire for meaningful lives. Over the following years, career ambitions, distance, and other commitments repeatedly test the bond they cannot entirely leave behind.

Braving the Wilderness

Brené Brown

Brené Brown examines the difference between fitting in and experiencing genuine belonging. Combining research with personal stories, she argues for maintaining integrity, facing vulnerability, and staying connected to others even when social divisions make that connection difficult.

The Last Mrs Parrish

Liv Constantine

An ambitious woman befriends a wealthy wife while secretly planning to take her place. As she works her way into the family's luxurious life, shifting perspectives reveal that the marriage she envies holds far more complicated and dangerous realities.

This is the Story of a Happy Marriage

Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett brings together personal essays about writing, relationships, family, friendship, and the commitments defining a life. Reflecting on experiences ranging from early career struggles to marriage, she considers the daily work involved in choosing what and whom to love.

The Rules of Magic

Alice Hoffman

Three Owens siblings grow up under rules designed to conceal their family's magical inheritance and protect them from a curse attached to love. As they discover their powers in 1960s New York, they must decide whether avoiding heartbreak is worth avoiding life.

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

An artist and her teenage daughter arrive in an orderly Ohio suburb, unsettling the wealthy family renting them a home. A custody dispute exposes conflicting beliefs about motherhood, race, privilege, and the consequences of insisting that every life follow the rules.

The Lying Game

Ruth Ware

A message summons three women back to the coastal village where they attended boarding school with a fourth friend. The discovery of human remains threatens a secret from their adolescence, forcing them to confront the lasting consequences of the lies that once united them.

The Alice Network

Kate Quinn

An American searching for her missing cousin after World War II joins forces with a former female spy haunted by betrayal. Their journey connects postwar recovery with the dangerous work of the real Alice Network in France during the First World War.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman

Eleanor lives by rigid routines that keep other people at a distance. After an unexpected act of kindness introduces new friendships, she begins to confront the painful history behind her isolation and discover the possibility of a life richer than merely fine.