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- [11 Funny Women: A Reading List That Will Make You Laugh Out Loud](https://bookwomen.net/11-funny-women-a-reading-list-that-will-make-you-laugh-out-loud/) - Quick — who comes to mind when you think of a great humorist? Did you think of a woman? Many of us do not, yet women have been writing funny books for centuries — and some of the most brilliantly comic novels, essays and memoirs ever written were penned by women. If you're looking for
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## Books

- [36 Views of Mount Fuji](https://bookwomen.net/books/36-views-of-mount-fuji/) - By turns candid, witty, and poignant, 36 Views of Mount Fuji is an American professor's much-praised memoir about her experiences of Japan and the Japanese.
- [Triangle: A Novel](https://bookwomen.net/books/triangle/) - The last living survivor of a 1911 sweatshop fire, 106-year-old Esther Gottesfeld passes away leaving numerous questions about the fire, the truth of which is investigated by her granddaughter Rebecca, Rebecca's composer partner, and a zealous feminist historian with a personal agenda. By the author of Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear.
- [The Journey](https://bookwomen.net/books/journey/) - In the autumn of 1942, two young Polish women flee the ghetto and embark on a journey into the heart of enemy territory, working as hired laborers in the factories, farms, and villages of wartime Germany.
- [Animal Dreams](https://bookwomen.net/books/animal-dreams/) - Hallie Nodine fights for justice in Nicaragua while her sister, Codi, returns to Arizona to confront her dying father, as myths, dreams, and flashbacks blend to examine life's commitments
- [Almanac of the Dead](https://bookwomen.net/books/almanac-of-the-dead/) - “To read this book is to hear the voices of the ancestors and spirits telling us where we came from, who we are, and where we must go.” —Maxine Hong Kingston From critically acclaimed author Leslie Marmon Silko, an epic novel about people caught between two cultures and two times: the modern-day Southwest, and the
- [Americanah](https://bookwomen.net/books/americanah/) - NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction • A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home. • From the award-winning author of Dream Count, We Should All Be Feminists, and
- [Ancestral Truths](https://bookwomen.net/books/ancestral-truths/) - Unable to recall the accident in which two other hikers were lost and she lost her hand on Mount Nyangani, Clare returns to Scotland, where her large, loving and nosy family becomes unbearable.
- [Annapurna, a Woman's Place](https://bookwomen.net/books/annapurna-a-womans-place/) - This is the 20th-anniversary edition of team leader Arlene Blum's best-selling account of the history-making 1978 ascent of Annapurna by the American Women's Himalayan Expedition.A classic story in the annals of women's achievements, "Annapurna" was the first account of mountaineering triumph and tragedy to be told from a woman's perspective. A huge critical and commercial
- [Anything We Love Can Be Saved](https://bookwomen.net/books/anything-we-love-can-be-saved/) - The beloved author of "The Color Purple" writes of her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is salvageable--if only we will act. She offers advice to Bill Clinton, to Fidel Castro, and to young women growing up. She comments on culture and cats, feminism and race, writing
- [Becoming](https://bookwomen.net/books/becoming/) - An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In a life filled
- [Beloved](https://bookwomen.net/books/beloved/) - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize
- [Aphrodite](https://bookwomen.net/books/aphrodite/) - New York Times-bestselling author Isabel Allende celebrates the pleasures of the sensual life in this rich, joyful and slyly humorous book, a combination of personal narrative and treasury of erotic lore. Under the aegis of the Goddess of Love, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly in Aphrodite to evoke the delights of food and
- [Bastard Out of Carolina](https://bookwomen.net/books/bastard-out-of-carolina/) - Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family-rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with
- [Bel Canto](https://bookwomen.net/books/bel-canto/) - Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gunwielding terrorists takes the
- [Breath and Shadows](https://bookwomen.net/books/breath-and-shadows/) - Breath and Shadows is about three pairs of people who live in widely separated periods of time -- the late 1700s, late 1800s, and late 1900s. These people, as gradually becomes clear, are three generations of the same family, none of which has any knowledge of the other two. But there exists down through these
- [Broken Soup](https://bookwomen.net/books/broken-soup/) - Positive. Negative. It's how you look at it. . . . Someone shoves a photo negative into Rowan's hands. She is distracted but, frankly, she has larger problems to worry about. Her brother is dead. Her father has left. Her mother won't get out of bed. She has to take care of her younger sister.
- [Cactus Thorn](https://bookwomen.net/books/cactus-thorn/) - Set primarily in the lonesome southwest desert lands of the 1920s, this previously unpublished novella is a powerful story in which landscape reflects and defines character. In this beautifully written tale, a promising young politician, Grant Arliss, flees from his complicated and pressure-ridden life in New York City to the serenity of the desert's open
- [Caleb's Crossing](https://bookwomen.net/books/calebs-crossing/) - In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.
- [Cellophane](https://bookwomen.net/books/cellophane/) - Don Victor Sobrevilla, a lovable, eccentric engineer, always dreamed of founding a paper factory in the heart of the Peruvian rain forest, and at the opening of this miraculous novel his dream has come true—until he discovers the recipe for cellophane. In a life already filled with signs and portents, the family dog suddenly begins
- [Ceremony](https://bookwomen.net/books/ceremony/) - The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years More than thirty-five years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is
- [City of Light](https://bookwomen.net/books/city-of-light/) - NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Breathtaking . . . a remarkable blend of murder mystery, love story, political intrigue, and tragedy of manners.”—USA Today The year is 1901. Buffalo, New York, is poised for glory. With its booming industry and newly electrified streets, Buffalo is a model for the century just beginning. Louisa Barrett
- [Daughters of Copper Woman](https://bookwomen.net/books/daughters-of-copper-woman/) - Collected stories of the Nootka tribe of Vancouver Island which portray the traditional way of life as remembered by the women of the tribe.
- [Death Comes for the Archbishop](https://bookwomen.net/books/death-comes-for-the-archbishop/) - The story of a Friench priest who goes to New Mexico and with another priest win the Southwest for the Catholic Church. After forty years, he dies--the archbishop of Santa Fe.
- [Dreaming the Dark](https://bookwomen.net/books/dreaming-the-dark/) - Featuring narrative, chants, songs, and rituals, Dreaming the Dark has helped many thousands of women use magic, spirituality, and community to bring about political and social change. This anniversary edition of the best-selling classic includes a new preface reflecting on the fifteen years since the book's original publication.
- [Drinking the Rain](https://bookwomen.net/books/drinking-the-rain/) - At 50, Alix Shulman left a life dense with political activism, family and literary community and went to live alone on an island off the coast of Maine. Without plumbing, power, or a telephone, and foraging for wild greens and shellfish, she faced challenges that helped redefine her notions of independence and courage, confidence and
- [Dwellings](https://bookwomen.net/books/dwellings/) - Award-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan explores her lifelong love of the living world and all its inhabitants. "We want to live as if there is no other place," Hogan tells us, "as if we will always be here. We want to live with devotion to the world of waters and the universe of
- [Educated](https://bookwomen.net/books/educated/) - #1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University “Extraordinary . . . an act of courage
- [All Passion Spent](https://bookwomen.net/books/all-passion-spent/) - Irreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late. After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane—a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India—everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade away in her grief,
- [Astrid and Veronika](https://bookwomen.net/books/astrid-and-veronika/) - "Readers of Anne Tyler and Jodi Picoult will appreciate the lyrical prose and expert rendering of the themes of heartbreakk and loss."—Booklist An unforgettable novel about friendship, love and loss. With extraordinary emotional power, Linda Olsson’s stunningly well-crafted debut novel recounts the unusual and unexpected friendship that develops between two women. Veronika, a young writer
- [Bailey's Cafe](https://bookwomen.net/books/baileys-cafe/) - Set in a diner where the food isn't very good and the ambience veers between heaven and hell, this bestselling novel from the author of Mama Day and The Women of Brewster Place is a feast for the senses and the spirit. "A virtuoso orchestration of survival, suffering, courage and humor."--New York Times Book Review.
- [Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine](https://bookwomen.net/books/eleanor-oliphant-is-completely-fine/) - #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger; I think you
- [Eleanor Roosevelt](https://bookwomen.net/books/eleanor-roosevelt/) - A definitive biography of the most important woman in American political history that shows Mrs. Roosevelt in all her roles.
- [Etta and Otto and Russell and James](https://bookwomen.net/books/etta-and-otto-and-russell-and-james/) - Embarking on a more than 3,000-kilometer walking journey from rural Canada to the East coast so that she can see the ocean for the first time in her life, an octogenarian woman has experiences that blur her perspectives between illusion, memory and reality.
- [Evidence of Things Unseen](https://bookwomen.net/books/evidence-of-things-unseen/) - This poetic historical novel, set between the world wars, tells the story of an American couple and their adopted son, Lightfoot.
- [Ex Libris](https://bookwomen.net/books/ex-libris/) - A collection of essays discusses the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life.
- [Finna](https://bookwomen.net/books/finna/) - Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the multiverse has to offer with the everyday awfulness of low-wage work. It explores queer relationships and queer feelings, capitalism and accountability, labor and love, all with a bouncing sense of humor and a commitment to the strange. When an elderly customer at a
- [Four Souls](https://bookwomen.net/books/four-souls/) - After taking her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange, compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She seeks restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her reservation. But revenge is never simple, and her intentions are complicated by her dangerous
- [Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe](https://bookwomen.net/books/fried-green-tomatoes-at-the-whistle-stop-cafe/) - A folksy, funny and endearing story of life in a small town in Alabama in the Depression and in the 1980s. However, the novel's laughter and tears are interrupted by a strange murder and a still stranger trial.
- [Fugitive Pieces](https://bookwomen.net/books/fugitive-pieces/) - A tale of Holocaust survival whose protagonist is Jakob Beer, a Jewish boy in Poland. He is saved from death by a Greek scientist who takes him home to his island, where Beer develops an interest in archeology. He describes the way the Nazis manipulated archeology to prove the superiority of the Aryan race. A
- [Full Tilt](https://bookwomen.net/books/full-tilt/) - The diary of Dervla Murphy's bicycle trek from Dunkirk, across Europe, the Middle East, and the Himalayas, to India. An amazing narrative from an amazing woman.
- [Gathering Moss](https://bookwomen.net/books/gathering-moss/) - "Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering moss is a mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Kimmerer leads general
- [Gibbon's Decline and Fall](https://bookwomen.net/books/gibbons-decline-and-fall/)
- [God's Hotel](https://bookwomen.net/books/gods-hotel/) - Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now! For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, a medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” (The San Francisco Chronicle). San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God’s
- [Going Blind](https://bookwomen.net/books/going-blind/) - Memoir and meditation on blindness.
- [Gone to Soldiers](https://bookwomen.net/books/gone-to-soldiers/) - Interweaves the stories of ten characters who wage memorable and passionate public and private battles, as World War II casts them into their ultimate dreams and nightmares.
- [Geek Love](https://bookwomen.net/books/geek-love/) - National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has
- [Gift from the Sea](https://bookwomen.net/books/gift-from-the-sea/) - 70th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • With meditations on youth and age, love and marriage, peace, solitude, and contentment, here is an inimitable classic that guides us to find a space for contemplation and creativity in our own lives. "Gift from the Sea is like a shell itself in its small and perfect form ... It tells
- [Alias Grace](https://bookwomen.net/books/alias-grace/) - Takes readers into the life and mind of Grace Marks, one of the most notorious women of the 1840s, who is serving a life sentence for murders she claims she cannot remember. Y.
- [A Chorus of Stones](https://bookwomen.net/books/a-chorus-of-stones/) - Written by one of America's most innovative and articulate feminists, this book illustrates how childhood experience, gender and sexuality, private aspirations, and public personae all assume undeniable roles in the causes and effects of war.
- [84, Charing Cross Road](https://bookwomen.net/books/84-charing-cross-road/) - "Those who have read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a novel comprised of only letters between the characters, will see how much that best-seller owes 84, Charing Cross Road." -- Medium.com A heartwarming love story about people who love books for readers who love books This funny, poignant, classic love story unfolds
- [A Map of the World](https://bookwomen.net/books/a-map-of-the-world/) - NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the widely acclaimed The Book of Ruth comes a harrowing, heartbreaking drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives. "It takes a writer of rare power and discipline to carry off an achievement like A Map of the World. Hamilton proves
- [A Thousand Acres](https://bookwomen.net/books/a-thousand-acres/) - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A "powerful and poignant" twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear (The New York Times Book Review) that takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride—and centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest daughter objects, she
- [Women's Reality](https://bookwomen.net/books/womens-reality/) - Defines the Female System as an emerging reality--a system in which women are valued, first-class citizens. Now with a new foreword by Carol S. Pearson.
- [Wonder](https://bookwomen.net/books/wonder/)
- [Writing a Womans Life](https://bookwomen.net/books/writing-a-womans-life/) - Of the two basic plots that shape our lives, the quest and the erotic script, the quest has been, for centuries, reserved for men only. A woman's journey ended at the altar. Professor Heilbrun notes that the diversity of women's lives now makes it possible for women to dare to choose their own scripts.
- [Woman on the Edge of Time](https://bookwomen.net/books/woman-on-the-edge-of-time/) - Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures—and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before. Connie Ramos
- [The Woman Warrior](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-woman-warrior/) - An outstanding autobiography about growing up female and Chinese American in California. An ALA Outstanding Book for the College Bound.
- [Women Who Run with the Wolves](https://bookwomen.net/books/women-who-run-with-the-wolves/) - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than 2.7 million copies sold! • “A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women.”—The Washington Post Book World Book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless
- [Why be Happy when You Could be Normal?](https://bookwomen.net/books/why-be-happy-when-you-could-be-normal/) - Biography.
- [Wild Swans](https://bookwomen.net/books/wild-swans/) - Memoir of three Chinese women, Jung Chang, her mother, and her grandmother in twentieth-century China.
- [Woman and Nature](https://bookwomen.net/books/woman-and-nature/) - In this famously provocative cornerstone of feminist literature, Susan Griffin explores the identification of women with the earth—both as sustenance for humanity and as victim of male rage. Starting from Plato's fateful division of the world into spirit and matter, her analysis of how patriarchal Western philosophy and religion have used language and science to
- [To Kill a Mockingbird](https://bookwomen.net/books/to-kill-a-mockingbird/) - One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and
- [When Women Were Birds](https://bookwomen.net/books/when-women-were-birds/) - In 54 chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother's journals in a book that keeps turning around the question, "What does it mean to have a voice?"
- [Where the Crawdads Sing: Reese's Book Club](https://bookwomen.net/books/where-the-crawdads-sing-reeses-book-club/) - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE—The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 18 million copies sold, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature.” New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best
- [White Teeth](https://bookwomen.net/books/white-teeth/) - NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Updated for the 25th Anniversary with a new introduction by the author • The blockbuster debut novel from “a preternaturally gifted” writer (The New York Times) and author of On Beauty and Swing Time—set against London's racial and cultural tapestry, reveling in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, and
- [We Need to Talk About Kevin](https://bookwomen.net/books/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin/) - The inspiration for the film starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, this resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them remains terrifyingly prescient. Eva never really wanted to be a mother. And certainly not the mother of
- [What I Loved](https://bookwomen.net/books/what-i-loved/) - From the author of "The Enchantment of Lily Dahl" comes a powerful and heartbreaking novel that chronicles the epic story of two families, two sons, and two marriages.
- [When Everything Changed](https://bookwomen.net/books/when-everything-changed/) - Chronicles the revolution of women's civil rights throughout the past half century, drawing on oral history and research in a variety of disciplines while celebrating Hillary Clinton's recent presidential campaign.
- [When the Emperor Was Divine](https://bookwomen.net/books/when-the-emperor-was-divine/) - From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times. On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a
- [The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-vanishing-act-of-esme-lennox/) - Iris Lockhart receives news that her great-aunt Esme is being released from Cauldstone Hospital, where she has been confined for more than sixty years, and soon discovers that Esme holds the key to long-hidden family secrets that could change her life for
- [Waist-High in the World](https://bookwomen.net/books/waist-high-in-the-world/) - In a blend of intimate memoir and passionate advocacy, Nancy Mairs takes on the subject woven through all her writing: disability and its effect on life, work, and spirit.
- [Turn Here Sweet Corn](https://bookwomen.net/books/turn-here-sweet-corn/) - When the hail starts to fall, Atina Diffley doesn't compare it to golf balls. She's a farmer. It's "as big as a B-size potato." As her bombarded land turns white, she and her husband Martin huddle under a blanket and reminisce: the one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds; the eleven-inch rainfall ("that broccoli turned out gorgeous"); the hail disaster
- [Two Old Women, 20th Anniversary Edition](https://bookwomen.net/books/two-old-women-20th-anniversary-edition/) - Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute,
- [Vacationland](https://bookwomen.net/books/vacationland/) - "From the author of Two Truths and a Lie and The Islanders, a delicious summer read set in midcoast Maine, tackling family secrets, marriage, motherhood and privilege"--
- [These is my Words](https://bookwomen.net/books/these-is-my-words/) - A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her upon—from child to determined young adult
- [The Wedding](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-wedding/) - In her final novel, “a beautiful and devastating examination of family, society and race” (The New York Times), Dorothy West offers an intimate glimpse into the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's Black bourgeoisie on Martha’s Vineyard in the 1950s. Within this inner circle of
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- [Signature of All Things](https://bookwomen.net/books/signature-of-all-things/) - In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker—a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in
- [The Road Home](https://bookwomen.net/books/road-home/) - In the story of Lev, newly arrived in London from Eastern Europe, Rose Tremain has written a wise and witty book about the contemporary migrant experience. On the coach, Lev chose a seat near the back and he sat huddled against the window, staring out at the land he was leaving. . . . Lev
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- [The Starless Sea](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-starless-sea/)
- [The telling](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-telling/)
- [The Seed Keeper](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-seed-keeper/)
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- [The song poet](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-song-poet/)
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- [The robber bride](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-robber-bride/)
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- [The Samurai's garden](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-samurais-garden/)
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- [The Longshining Waters](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-longshining-waters/)
- [The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-house-at-otowi-bridge/) - Winner of the Richard Harris Award for Publishing Excellence from the New Mexico Book Association This is the story of Edith Warner, who lived for more than twenty years as a neighbor to the Indians of San Ildefonso Pueblo, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. She was a remarkable woman, a friend to everyone who knew
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- [History of Love](https://bookwomen.net/books/history-of-love/) - Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
- [The Prowler](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-prowler/) - A powerful postmodern novel combining the elements of a psychological thriller with the history of a people trapped by landscape and politics. A poetically charged text prowls the isolation and heartbreak of a girl growing up in Iceland in the post-war years, and her later experiences as an immigrant in North America. What emerges is
- [The Road Back to Sweetgrass](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-road-back-to-sweetgrass/) - Set in northern Minnesota, this novel follows a trio of American Indian women, from the 1970s to the present, observing their lives intersect on the fictional Mozhay Point reservation. Linda LeGarde Grover connects the sense of place with the experience of Native women who came of age during the days of the federal termination policy
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- [The Orchard](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-orchard/) - THE ORCHARD is the story of a street-smart city girl who must adapt to a new life on an apple farm after she falls in love with Adrian Curtis, the golden boy of a prominent local family whose lives and orchards seem to be cursed. Married after only three months, young Theresa finds life with
- [The Painted Drum](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-painted-drum/) - While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful
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- [The Night Watchman](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-night-watchman/) - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF 2020 AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2020 NPR BEST BOOK OF 2020 CBS SUNDAY MORNING BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST FICTION OF 2020 CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY'S BEST OF THE BEST GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOK OF 2020 Based on the extraordinary life of National Book
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- [The Light Between Oceans](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-light-between-oceans/) - A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore.
- [The Map of Love](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-map-of-love/) - Booker Prize Finalist Here is an extraordinary cross-cultural love story that unfurls across Egypt, England, and the United States over the course of a century. Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist, has fallen in love with a gifted and difficult Egyptian-American conductor. Shadowing her romance is the courtship of her great-grandparents Anna and Sharif nearly
- [The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-last-report-on-the-miracles-at-little-no-horse/) - For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To further complicate his
- [The Latehomecomer](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-latehomecomer/) - One Hmong family's harrowing escape from war in Laos to the uncertainty of a new home as refugees in Minnesota.
- [The God of Small Things](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-god-of-small-things/) - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An affluent Indian family is forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness “[The God of Small Things] offers such magic, mystery, and sadness that, literally, this reader turned the last page and decided
- [The Invention of Wings](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-invention-of-wings/) - From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees and the forthcoming novel The Book of Longings, a novel about two unforgettable American women. Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice
- [The Forest Lover](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-forest-lover/) - In her acclaimed novels, Susan Vreeland has given us portraits of painting and life that are as dazzling as their artistic subjects. Now, in The Forest Lover, she traces the courageous life and career of Emily Carr, who—more than Georgia O'Keeffe or Frida Kahlo—blazed a path for modern women artists. Overcoming the confines of Victorian
- [The Fresco](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-fresco/) - The Fresco The bizarre events that have been occurring across the United States--unexplained "oddities" tracked by Air Defense, mysterious disappearances, shocking deaths--seem to have no bearing on Benita Alvarez-Shipton's life. That is, until the soft-spoken thirty-six-year-old bookstore manager is approached by a pair of aliens asking her to transmit their message of peace to the
- [The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-girl-who-sang-to-the-buffalo/) - A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the “old ones” still have powers beyond our understanding. In this moving narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Ojibwe, where we encounter a
- [The Giver](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-giver/) - Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade
- [The Empress of One](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-empress-of-one/) - A girl's struggle to cope with her mother's crying sickness, a mental disorder which turns the woman into the laughing stock of a small town. The girl too sinks into depression. The time is the 1930s.
- [The Fires of Bride](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-fires-of-bride/) - "Set in the remote Scottish island with a rambling castle and a ruined monastery harking back to more matriarchal times, The Fires of Bride is Ellen Galford's second novel. The author of the rollicking Moll Cutpurse spins a tale of misty legend and mysterious reality in this one. Maria, a visiting artist from the mainland,
- [The Floor of the Sky](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-floor-of-the-sky/) - The inner worlds of characters isolated by geography and habit are revealed in a novel, set in the Nebraska Sandhills, about an aging widow on the verge of losing her family's ranch and her sixteen-year old pregnant granddaughter who visits her for the summer. Original.
- [Sula](https://bookwomen.net/books/sula/) - The intense friendship shared by two Black women raised in an Ohio town changes when one of them leaves to roam the countryside and returns ten years later.
- [Tales of Burning Love](https://bookwomen.net/books/tales-of-burning-love/) - Louise Erdrich’s Tales of Burning Love is a darkly humorous novel of wild romance and heartbreak set against a raging North Dakota blizzard as five Native American women bond over their shared connection to one man. Stranded in the storm just outside of Fargo, Jack Mauser’s former wives pass the night by remembering how each
- [Snow Flower and the Secret Fan](https://bookwomen.net/books/snow-flower-and-the-secret-fan/) - Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the
- [Solar Storms](https://bookwomen.net/books/solar-storms/) - From Pulitzer Prize finalist Linda Hogan, Solar Storms tells the moving, “luminous” (Publishers Weekly) story of Angela Jenson, a troubled Native American girl coming of age in the foster system in Oklahoma, who decides to reunite with her family. At seventeen, Angela returns to the place where she was raised—a stunning island town that lies
- [Spoonhandle](https://bookwomen.net/books/spoonhandle/) - Spoonhandle, Ruth Moore's second novel, spent 14 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List and was made into the movie Deep Waters. Spoonhandle is about Maine, brilliantly authentic, but the story told is universal, as old as time as it deals with the struggle between love and meanness of spirit, between human dignity and
- [Shadow Tag](https://bookwomen.net/books/shadow-tag/) - When Irene America discovers that her artist husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and marriage, while turning her Red Diary—hidden where Gil will find it—into a manipulative charade. As Irene and Gil fight to
- [Silences](https://bookwomen.net/books/silences/) - A landmark survey of disenfranchised literary voices and the forces that seek to silence them--from the influential activist and author of Tell Me a Riddle. With this groundbreaking work, Olsen revolutionized the study of literature by shedding critical light on the writings of marginalized women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors' letters
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- [Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert](https://bookwomen.net/books/red/) - In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Williams makes a stirring case for the preservation of America’s Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah. As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams, the beloved author of Refuge, is one of the country’s most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood.
- [Remarkable Creatures](https://bookwomen.net/books/remarkable-creatures/) - From the New York Times bestselling novelist, a stunning historical novel that follows the story of Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, two extraordinary 19th century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world forever. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye"
- [Riverwalking](https://bookwomen.net/books/riverwalking/) - Twenty essays offer observations on rivers, life, love, loss, motherhood, happiness, evolution, and country music.
- [Running the Rift](https://bookwomen.net/books/running-the-rift/) - Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.
- [Red Azalea](https://bookwomen.net/books/red-azalea/) - A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, this is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, Min was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read, write, or love as she
- [Possession](https://bookwomen.net/books/possession/) - BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets that's an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. “Gorgeously written … A tour de force.” —The New York Times Book Review Winner of England’s Booker
- [Prodigal Summer](https://bookwomen.net/books/prodigal-summer/) - Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, this novel's intriguing protagonists face
- [Purple Hibiscus](https://bookwomen.net/books/purple-hibiscus/) - **DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!** A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author. 'A tale for our times' DAILY MAIL 'Immensely powerful' THE TIMES The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high
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- [Pigs in Heaven](https://bookwomen.net/books/pigs-in-heaven/) - Picking up where her modern classic The Bean Trees left off, Barbara Kingsolver’s bestselling Pigs in Heaven continues the tale of Turtle and Taylor Greer, a Native American girl and her adoptive mother who have settled in Tucson, Arizona, as they both try to overcome their difficult pasts. Taking place three years after The Bean
- [Possessing the Secret of Joy](https://bookwomen.net/books/possessing-the-secret-of-joy/) - A "New York Times" bestseller, this novel tells the story of a tribal African woman now living in North America, who tries to reconcile her African heritage with her experience as a modern woman in America.
- [Paris Was a Woman](https://bookwomen.net/books/paris-was-a-woman/) - Originally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, Paris Was a Woman is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the century. Now with a new preface and illustrations, this "scrapbook" of their work—along with Andrea Weiss' lively commentary—highlights the political, social, and
- [Paula](https://bookwomen.net/books/paula/) - "Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful."--Los Angeles Times In this literary classic, New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende recalls the story of her beloved daughter and her remarkable family's past. When her daughter, Paula, became gravely ill
- [Pavilion of Women](https://bookwomen.net/books/pavilion-of-women/) - On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China,
- [Origin](https://bookwomen.net/books/origin/) - New York-based fingerprint expert Lena investigates a series of crib deaths that may actually be the work of a serial killer, a case that reminds Lena of the mystery surrounding her own childhood, marked by her orphaned status and her intuitive talents.
- [Out of Time](https://bookwomen.net/books/out-of-time/) - A handsomely repackaged version of an award-winning debut novel that won the 1990 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction and was a Finalist for the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award.
- [Outercourse](https://bookwomen.net/books/outercourse/) - This philosophical autobiography of the world's foremost radical feminist philosopher offers an imaginative chronicle of Mary Daly's voyage. Daly sees her work as that of a pirate, righteously plundering treasures of knowledge that have been stolen and hidden from women. In this inventive blend of autobiography and visionary philosophy, she reveals her struggles to smuggle
- [Olive Kitteridge](https://bookwomen.net/books/olive-kitteridge/) - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Lucy Barton and the Oprah’s Book Club pick Olive, Again “Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her.”—USA Today “Strout animates the ordinary with
- [One Amazing Thing](https://bookwomen.net/books/one-amazing-thing/) - "Divakaruni is a brilliant storyteller; she illuminates the world with her artistry; and shakes the reader with her love." --Junot Diaz Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A
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- [Nomadland](https://bookwomen.net/books/nomadland/) - The inspiration for Chloé Zhao's 2020 Golden Globe award-winning film starring Frances McDormand. "People who thought the 2008 financial collapse was over a long time ago need to meet the people Jessica Bruder got to know in this scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny) book." —Rebecca Solnit From the beet fields of
- [North Spirit](https://bookwomen.net/books/north-spirit/) - In 1973 Paulette Jiles arrived in Northern Ontario to run a community radio station for the CBC. Romantic notions of primitive life quickly faded in the harsh setting. The first night, her axe bounced off frozen logs, and she would have frozen without a willing husky pup who shared her bed. She relied on helpful
- [Now in November](https://bookwomen.net/books/now-in-november/) - A lost gem of twentieth-century literature, Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize–winning “exquisite…heartbreakingly real” (The New York Times Book Review) novel follows a year in the life of a family struggling to survive the Dust Bowl. Published when Josephine Johnson was only twenty-four years old, Now in November made Johnson the youngest ever winner of the
- [My Year of Meats](https://bookwomen.net/books/my-year-of-meats/) - A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love—the breakout hit by the celebrated author of A Tale for the Time Being and The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozeki’s mesmerizing debut novel has captivated readers and reviewers worldwide. When documentarian
- [Nickel and Dimed](https://bookwomen.net/books/nickel-and-dimed/) - "With a new foreword by Matthew Desmond"--Cover.
- [Nine Parts of Desire](https://bookwomen.net/books/nine-parts-of-desire/) - INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize winning author presents the stories of a wide range of Muslim women in the Middle East. As an Australian American and an experienced foreign correspondent, Brooks' thoughtful analysis attempts to understand the precarious status of women in the wake of Islamic fundamentalism. "Frank, enraging, and captivating." - The New York
- [Mean Spirit](https://bookwomen.net/books/mean-spirit/) - SELECTED BY THE LITERARY GUILD "Extraordinary...If you take up no other novel this year, or next, this one will suffice to hold, to disturb, to enlighten and to inspire you." NEWSDAY Early in this century, rivers of oil were found beneath Oklahoma land belonging to Indian people, and beautiful Grace Banket became the richest person
- [Moon Tiger](https://bookwomen.net/books/moon-tiger/) - Claudia Hampton, dying in a hospital, remembers a war-time affair with a young tank officer killed in the North African desert war.
- [Janet Frame: An Autobiography](https://bookwomen.net/books/an-autobiography/) - New Zealand's preeminent writer brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections.
- [Mama Day](https://bookwomen.net/books/mama-day/) - A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense, this book "resonates with genuine excitement … a big, strong, admirable novel” (New York Times Book Review). On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa,
- [The Long-Shining Waters](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-long-shining-waters/) - Now with expanded content--including reader's group guides, a Q&A, an essay from the author about her love affair with Lake Superior--this is the ideal read for anyone traveling to the Great Lakes, in body or spirit.
- [Lost in Translation](https://bookwomen.net/books/lost-in-translation/) - “A marvelously thoughtful book . . . It is not just about emigrants and refugees. It is about us all.” –The New York Times When her parents brought her from the war-ravaged, faded elegance of her native Cracow in 1959 to settle in well-manicured, suburban Vancouver, Eva Hoffman was thirteen years old. Entering into adolescence,
- [Love Medicine](https://bookwomen.net/books/love-medicine/) - A story of the intertwined fates of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines near a North Dakota reservation from 1934 to 1984.
- [Lovesick](https://bookwomen.net/books/lovesick/) - A spectacularly rich novel spanning 50 years in the history of a nation, a family, and a love affair, this #1 bestselling novel by the author of "Tear This Heart Out" offers a "large, lyrical, evocation of life and love during the Mexican Revolution" ("San Francisco Chronicle").
- [Laughter of Aphrodite](https://bookwomen.net/books/laughter-of-aphrodite/) - Examines the patriarchal nature of Christianity and Judaism and describes the author's search for a meaningful goddess tradition
- [Letters from Yellowstone](https://bookwomen.net/books/letters-from-yellowstone/) - In 1898, a young Cornell medical student joins a Smithsonian-sponsored field study in Yellowstone National Park and describes in a series of letters her relationships with fellow naturalists who had expected a male colleague, her experiences, and her encounters with a colorful assortment of characters. A first novel. Reprint.
- [Like Water for Chocolate](https://bookwomen.net/books/like-water-for-chocolate/) - A romantic and poignant tale of love and family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico.
- [The Lacuna](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-lacuna/) - In this powerfully imagined, provocative novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is the poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as well as an unforgettable portrait of
- [Lambs of God](https://bookwomen.net/books/lambs-of-god/) - Three eccentric, secluded nuns live on a remote island, forgotten by time and the Church--until a priest unwittingly happens upon them. Father Ignatius is as surprised to see the nuns as they are to see a flesh-and-blood man, and what follows is the strange, moving, and often hilarious story of their struggle--a struggle of wills,
- [LaRose](https://bookwomen.net/books/larose/) - Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Finalist for the 2017 PEN Faulkner Award In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of
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- [Kindred](https://bookwomen.net/books/kindred/) - Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. ("You have to read them.") From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American
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- [Housekeeping (Fortieth Anniversary Edition)](https://bookwomen.net/books/housekeeping-fortieth-anniversary-edition/) - Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house
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- [Gyn/Ecology](https://bookwomen.net/books/gyn-ecology/) - This revised edition includes a New Intergalactic Introduction by the Author. Mary Daly's New Intergalactic Introduction explores her process as a Crafty Pirate on the Journey of Writing Gyn/Ecology and reveals the autobiographical context of this "Thunderbolt of Rage" that she first hurled against the patriarchs in 1979 and no hurls again in the Re-Surging
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- [The Dollmaker](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-dollmaker/) - The Dollmaker was originally published in 1954 to immediate success and critical acclaim. In unadorned and powerful prose, Harriette Arnow tells the unforgettable and heartbreaking story of the Nevels family and their quest to preserve their deep-rooted values amidst the turmoil of war and industrialization. When Gertie Nevels, a strong and self-reliant matriarch, follows her
- [The Dovekeepers](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-dovekeepers/) - A cloth bag containing ten paperback copies of the title and a discussion folder.
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- [The Changelings](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-changelings/) - Into the neighborhood, into a midwestern city of the early 1950's come the first blacks seeking a better place to live. The turmoil that follows is seen through the eyes of two teenage girls, one Jewish, one black, who forge a friendship in an atomsphere of anger and rage.
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- [The Archivist](https://bookwomen.net/books/the-archivist/) - A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel -- a story of marriage and madness, of faith and desire, of jazz-age New York and Europe in the shadow of the Holocaust. The Archivist was a word-of-mouth bestseller and one of
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