This February, Women's Fiction Writers Association is giving the spotlight to women of color. These must-read women's fiction titles are certainly worth celebrating.
Women's Fiction Writers AssociationFebruary 28, 2024
Sorry, this promotion has ended. Read on for another great recommendation from AuthorBuzz! Maame by Jessica George (St. Martin’s Griffin) Dear Reader, Exploring the idea that a ‘coming of age’ can occur at any age and a number of times is at the heart of Maame. An often introspective, often funny,…
AuthorBuzzFebruary 12, 2024
When I sat to write this review, I looked at a blank page for a long time — a really long time — because there is so much here. What Eyes Can’t See (Media Goddess Inc.) is Paulette Stout’s most layered and complex romantic women’s fiction story to date. The…
Y. M. NelsonFebruary 6, 2024
There are some novels so moving they demand a place in your memory and heart long after you have read them and you may become an evangelist pressing copies on friends. The House of Plain Truth (Zibby Books) is one such book. The writer’s name may not yet be familiar…
Linda HitchcockJanuary 30, 2024
Much like the dynamic and accomplished women in The First Ladies, Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray have forged an incredible friendship and partnership. Following the great success of The Personal Librarian, they have released their second collaboration, The First Ladies. Please find the video recording of the…
Jennifer BlankfeinOctober 4, 2023
Jendella Benson’s debut novel, Hope and Glory (William Morrow), celebrates Nigerian culture and close family ties. THE PLOT Glory Akíndélé’s family are Nigerian immigrants living in London. She’d always considered her older sister, Faith, “a Stepford Wife,” consumed with her husband and toddler twins. Glory craved independence and needed to make…
K.L. RomoJuly 7, 2022
With his latest novel, The Bootlegger’s Mistress (MLPR Books), Marc Curtis Little shines a compelling light on the difficult implications of America’s Great Migration, the decades-long exodus of African Americans from the racially oppressive South to the North and West. This is the tale of a fictional family’s 1940s journey…
Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 29, 2021
“At turns delightfully juicy and then stunningly wise, Black Cake is a winner.” — Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising “So beautifully written I’m struggling to believe it’s a debut ... the scenes are so well drawn I could almost taste the cake, feel the…
Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 30, 2022
Two strangers meet by chance, put just enough trust in one another to share bits of their past, spend one intense weekend together and end up saving each other … what’s not to love? This Close To Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith kept me engrossed from beginning to end and was…
Jennifer BlankfeinMay 12, 2021
Summer of No Rain is a fictional retelling of a disturbing true story. In Alabama in 1973, the sisters Minnie Lee and Mary Alice Relf were forcibly sterilized as minors in a federally funded, systemically racist and ableist program disguised as “experimental birth control.” Laura Hunter has reimagined this haunting…
BookTribOctober 5, 2022
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BookTribJune 4, 2021
Bestselling author and RITA Award-winning romance writer Kennedy Ryan shares the story of her new audiobook, Reel (Scribechick Media, LLC) the first in the Hollywood Renaissance series. Ryan worked with Lyric Audio to produce this historically inspired Black romance as an homage to the Black artists and entertainers whose stories…
Caitlin AugustaJune 30, 2021