CHAPTER 1. 90 Titles for Discussion. The house in Amalfi / Elizabeth Adler -- Garden spells / Sarah Addison -- Bending the rules / Susan Andersen -- Deep dish / Mary Kay Andrews -- A year on Ladybug Farm / Donna Ball -- The lace makers of Glenmara / Heather Barbieri -- The Floramamba Ladies' Auxiliary and Sewing Circle / Lois Battle -- The year of pleasures / Elizabeth Berg -- The fiction class / Susan Breen -- Revenge of the middle-aged woman / Elizabeth Buchan -- Jane Austin in Boca / Paula Morantz Cohen -- The Wildwater Walking Club / Claire Cook -- The Chili Queen / Sandra Dallas -- A match made on Madison / Dee Davis -- Family tree / Barbara Delinsky -- Belong to me / Marisa de los Santos -- Lavender morning / Jude Deveraux -- Good Harbor / Anita Diamant -- The kept woman / Susan Donovan -- Secrets to happiness / Sarah Dunn -- The first time / Joy Fielding --
Murphy's law / Lori Foster -- The Jane Austen Book Club / Karen Joy Fowler -- Bulls Island / Dorothea Benton Frank -- Fire and ice / Julie Garwood -- Mommy tracked / Whitney Gaskell -- Something borrowed / Emily Giffin -- I see you everywhere / Julia Glass -- Domestic affairs / Eileen Goudge -- The other woman / Jane Green -- Firefly Lane / Kristin Hannah -- Female intelligence / Jane Heller -- The baker's apprentice / Judi R. Hendricks -- The art of keeping secrets / Patti Callahan Henry -- A summer affair / Elin Hilderbrand -- Beach trip / Cathy Holton -- The knitting circle / Ann Hood -- The Friday night knitting club / Kate Jacobs -- Scot on the rocks: how I survived by ex-boyfriend's wedding with my dignity ever-so slightly intact / Brenda Janowitz -- The Botox diaries / Janice Kaplan -- The last of something / Susan Kelly -- The same sweet girls / Cassandra King -- Prodigal summer / Barbara Kingsolver -- Remember me? / Sophie Kinsella -- Smooth talking stranger / Lisa Kleypas -- Blue shoe / Anne Lamott -- Angry housewives eating bon-bons / Lorna Landvik -- Heiress for hire / Erin McCarthy -- Twenty wishes / Debbie Macomber -- Under her skin / Susan Mallery -- Bad Girl Creek / Jo-Ann Mapson -- That's amore / Wendy Markham -- The chocolate lovers' club / Carole Matthews -- The scoop / Fern Michaels -- The world below / Sue Miller -- Twelve times blessed / Jacquelyn Mitchard -- While I'm falling / Laura Moriarty -- The baby trial / Sinead Moriarty -- Things I want my daughters to know / Elizabeth Noble -- Sister mine / Tawni O'Dell -- The dive from Claussen's pier / Ann Packer -- Hot number / Carly Phillips -- La Cucina: a novel of rapture / Lily Prior --
The perfect poison / Amanda Quick -- Annie Freeman's fabulous traveling funeral / Kris Radish -- Step ball change / Jeanne Ray -- The deep blue sea for beginners / Luanne Rice -- Wish you were here / Lani Diane Rich -- Love Hampton / Sherri Rifkin -- Red lily / Nora Roberts -- The true and outstanding adventures of the Hunt sisters -- The goddess of Kitchen Avenue / Barbara Samuel -- Now Flower and the secret fan / Lisa See -- Drowning Ruth / Christina Schwarz -- Vanessa and Virginia / Susan Sellers -- The secret's in the sauce / Linda Evans Shepherd and Eva Marie Everson -- Body surfing / Anita Shreve -- American wife / Curtis Sittenfeld -- The Last girls / Lee Smith -- Age before beauty / Virginia Smith -- Amy and Isabelle / Elizabeth Strout -- Lucia, Lucia / Adriana Trigiani -- Friday nights / Joanna Trollope -- Single in Suburbia / Wendy Wax -- In her shoes / Jennifer Weiner -- Chasing Harry Winston / Lauren Weisengerger -- Mad girls in love / Michael Lee West -- The wedding girl / Madeleine Wickham -- Staling home / Sherryl Woods -- L. A. Woman / Cathy Yardley --
CHAPTER 2. 24 Additional Women's Fiction, Chick Lit, and Romance Titles to Consider for Discussion: Summer breeze / Catherine Anderson
The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood
Invisible lives / Anjali Banerjee
The wonder spot / Melissa Bank
Midwives / Chris Bohjalian
Babylon sisters / Pearl Cleage
Hot and bothered / Annie Downey
The concubine's daughter / Pai Kit Fai
The land of mango sunsets / Dorothea Benton Frank
You have to kiss a lot of frogs / Laurie Graff
The future homemakers of America / Laurie Graham
One for sorrow, two for joy / Elise Juska
Fashionably late / Beth Kendrick
Such a pretty face / Cathy Lamb
With or without you / Carole Matthews
The good mother / Sue Miller
The second wives club / Jane Moore
Mafia chic / Erica Orloff
She's gone country / Jane Porter
The Hindi-Bindi Club / Monica Pradhan
Home repair / Liz Rosenberg
Family blessings / LaVyrle Spencer
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