We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman
Jen Silverman | We Play Ourselves | Not too long ago, Cass was a promising young playwright in New York, hailed as “a fierce new voice” and “queer, feminist, and ready to spill the tea.”
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The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
Tess Sharpe | The Girls I’ve Been | A deliciously commercial YA page-turner about the daughter of a con artist who is taken hostage in a bank heist. Nora O’Malley is a lot of things. A s
Did God Die on the Way to Houston? by David B. Myers
David B. Myers | Did God Die on the Way to Houston? | James Friedman, a retired philosophy professor living in Houston, receives an invitation from a woman, identifying herself only as Shekhinah, who clai
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue | The Pull of the Stars | From the international bestselling author of Room. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospita
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
Emma Straub | All Adults Here | A warm, funny and keenly perceptive novel about the lifecycle of one family — as the kids become parents, grandchildren become teenagers, and a matri
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue | The Pull of the Stars | In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in ‘Donoghue’s best nov
Passing by Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen | Passing | Generally regarded as Nella Larsen’s best work, Passing was first published in 1929 but has received a lot of renewed attention because of its close e
The Pure And the Impure by Colette
Colette | The Pure And the Impure | Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, ‘the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography.’ This guided tour of the
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf | Mrs. Dalloway | ‘Fear no more the heat of the sun.’ Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 192
More Women Than Men by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Ivy Compton-Burnett | More Women Than Men | More Women Than Men takes place in a girls’ school, although the students are rather secondary (none of the girls say anything in the novel). It is th