Women’s Fiction Books Collection April 10, 2025

A grown-up love story told through ten years in the life of one woman as she finds a perfect partner, builds a longed-for family and career, and works desperately to be all things to all people without losing herself.

A young American woman navigates class, lies, and love amid London’s jet-set elite. I would arrive, blank like a sheet of notebook paper, and write myself new. Anna first fell in love with London at her hometown library—its Jane Austen balls a far cry from her life of food stamps and hand-me-downs. But when she finally arrives after college, the real London is a moldy flat and the same paycheck-to-paycheck grind—that fairy-tale life still out of reach.

“An uplifting tale of friendship, kindness, and connection. . . This joyful story of the unlikely friendship between five strangers and one remarkable cat is a must-read for cat lovers.”—Marianne Cronin, author of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot Núria, a single-by-choice barista with a little resentment for the “crazy cat lady” label, is a member of The Meow-Yorkers, a group in Brooklyn who takes care of the neighborhood’s stray cats.

Sunny Moritz needs a change. She’s thirty-three, single, weary of tedious romances with the wrong kind of men and, according to her disappointed parents, drifting about like a tumbleweed. Her former high school crush, orthopaedic surgeon Adam Harrison, might be meeting all her physical demands (and requiring a subtotal of zero emotional headspace), but what about the rest of her life?

Water, sand, hills, sky: the painter was out at sea, looking towards the shore. Impossible to say whether he was coming in or going out. When Sylvie, a single mother yearning for a creative spark, meets Michael, a renowned painter, she feels something she hasn’t felt in years. Impulsively she decides to uproot her life and move to Isaiah, an artists’ colony, with her teenage daughter, Alice.

In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping.

An unsettling, unputdownable dark and witty crime thriller that’s perfect for fans of Bella Mackie, Katy Brent, Alex Michaelides’ The Silent Patient and true crime like Mindhunter. I’m psychologist Dr Emy Rose, but that’s not my real name. I work with serial killers who’ve hidden their victims. My job is to find the bodies – and I’m kind of awesome at it.

An unsettling, unputdownable dark and witty crime thriller that’s perfect for fans of Bella Mackie, Katy Brent, Alex Michaelides’ The Silent Patient and true crime like Mindhunter. I’m psychologist Dr Emy Rose, but that’s not my real name. I work with serial killers who’ve hidden their victims. My job is to find the bodies – and I’m kind of awesome at it.

An unsettling, unputdownable dark and witty crime thriller that’s perfect for fans of Bella Mackie, Katy Brent, Alex Michaelides’ The Silent Patient and true crime like Mindhunter. I’m psychologist Dr Emy Rose, but that’s not my real name. I work with serial killers who’ve hidden their victims. My job is to find the bodies – and I’m kind of awesome at it.

This part-historical part-literary novel allows us a personal look into the Third Reich through a letter from a lost twin and the reminiscences of a grandmother whose memories remain trapped in an old regime. ‘A captivating romantic thriller that spans decades, continents, generations and a world war’ Lee Goldberg, Bestselling author and the writer and producer of Diagnosis Murder.

‘Finished in one sitting. Had no idea where it was going but knew there was something lurking. Incredible twist. Ends with a final lap of the ride when you think it is all over . . . I will be recommending this to friends’ Ericka Waller At seven o’clock one Tuesday evening, in a perfectly ordinary tower block near Westminster, four strangers meet for the first time.

Gerard is twelve. He hates his name, but loves flying round the streets of Glasgow on his bike, or mucking about with his gang, the Broncos. He’s a bright kid, but trouble seems to follow him. No one really knows what it’s like at home for Gerard; he’s used to carrying a lot on his small shoulders.