4 women ages 30-45. We read anything and everything but I prefer fiction.
Books we’ve read in the past that I’ve liked
To paradise.
No time to spare.
Hamnet.
Women talking.
The color purple.
Never let me go.
All the light we cannot see.
Parable of the sower.
Trust.
Tender is the flesh.
I who have never known men.
Station 11.
by Justcallmekasey
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The Handmaid’s Tale sounds right up your alley!
I run an indie book imprint and our debut novel, A Million Tomorrows by Kris Middaugh, is out and available on print on demand, ebook, and Kindle Unlimited. It’s a romance/scifi(ish) with a great female lead and empathetic male lead.
We even have some book club questions on our website — or we did … I could send them to you if not. Anyhow. It’s a great, fairly quick read and we’ve gotten good reviews from men and women, so I think it’s just a nice story. No spice. A sweet and hopeful love story.
Margo’s Got Money Troubles
Tom Lake
Eleven Percent
Kitchens of the Great Midwest
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
City of Girls
The Round House
Geek Love
The Summer That Melted Everything
The Book Thief (similar to All the Light We Cannot See)
Ministry of Time (a little time travel romance but make it a dystopian thriller)
The Book Eaters (vampires but they eat books but also some eat people – TW for some violence)
Midnight Library (mixed reviews but I liked the audiobook a lot- woman explores all the lives she would have lived if her choices had been different – a TW for s*icide)
A Little Paris Bookshop (lonely French man running a bookshop on his houseboat in Paris and goes on an adventure – super cozy and one of my favorites of all time)
A Man Called Ove / Britt Marie Was Here (either of these are great– old curmudgeons learning to love)
A Gentleman in Moscow (recommended reading for all humanity – a Russian aristocrat sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life in a once-glamorous hotel, shenanigans ensue)
Homecoming by Kate Morton (anything by Kate Morton, but this is her latest and most popular– all of her works are beautifully written historical fiction novels set either on the Cornish coast or in Australia, and all of them deal with dark family secrets)
The Vanishing Half (awesome story about colorism, race, and sisterhood – will make for very engaging conversation at the book club wine nights!)
Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende (another great historical fiction with a very sweet, understated romance – she’s my favorite author and the Japanese Lover is one of my favorites of hers)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (an absolute classic of Southern fiction, about a woman at the end of her wits, and the old woman who saves her through storytelling. TW for some minor descriptions of domestic ab*se but otherwise a very cozy read)
Age of Innocence (this is an early 20th century novel by Edith Wharton so it might not be to everyone’s taste, but Edith Wharton walked so books like Trust could run – it’s the story of upper class New York at the turn of the century, and the star-crossed love that became its downfall)
Those are just a few of my recs! I have so, so many more but I had to stop myself. I used to work in a bookstore, so questions like this itch my brain just right.