female friendship

The Real Love Story? 6 Powerful Books That Celebrate Female Friendship

We talk endlessly about romantic love. We chart it, market it, monetize it. We measure our lives by it. But female friendship — the kind that begins in school corridors, in shared bedrooms, in whispered secrets and borrowed clothes — rarely gets the same cultural reverence. It is treated as…

BookTribFebruary 17, 2026

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ITW Spotlight: Four 60-Year-Old Female Assassins Must Kill or Be Killed

New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn had her feet firmly planted in the past when her editor called with a challenge she couldn’t pass up: Write a book featuring an older badass woman. Raybourn accepted the challenge and made it even more difficult. She created four badass women, made them assassins, and for the first…

Dawn IusSeptember 13, 2022

Miscellany

Books for the Soul, “A Star is Bored:” Memoir From Carrie Fisher’s PA and the Virtual Reading Events Trend

BookTrib wants to keep you in the book news loop! Each week our editors take a pulse on what’s happening in the book world and hand pick stories, tidbits and reviews you may have missed. Imagination Is the Limit: How to Create an Entirely New Experience Through Virtual Reading Events…

BookTribJuly 31, 2020

Fiction

Three Frenemies Fulfill Their Best Friend’s Dying Wish in “Brunch and Other Obligations”

Brunch and Other Obligations (She Writes Press) by Suzanne Nugent is a bright and witty debut novel — and what readers will hope is her first of many. Committed to writing about women’s lives and relationships, Nugent has introduced us to four totally disparate young women. Three are grieving the…

Sherri DaleyMay 6, 2020

Fiction

11 Unforgettable Female Friendships in Literature

Celebrate the unsung heroine of books: friendship. Though Valentine’s Day typically evokes the idea of celebrating romantic relationships, it is slowly but surely evolving to include friendship as well, with the cheesy, yet appropriate, identifier: Galentine’s Day. Regardless of if you’ll be spending this year with a significant other, these…

Early Bird BooksFebruary 21, 2018

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Retired Artist in Savannah Valley Redefines Generational Wealth

Life in the Savannah Valley has the potential to be different from anything Adelia ever dreamed of. On the surface, it looks picture-perfect. But when she arrives in the retirement community, she feels like an impostor. The rich locals don’t take kindly to a woman who they don't think belongs…

Megan BeauregardOctober 26, 2022

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Renaii West on Greek Mythology and the Power of Female Friendship

What do you get when you combine 1970s iterations of ancient Greek goddesses, a Californian College, and just a little bit of murder? You get Death by Chaos. Four remarkable-in-her-own-unique-way young women become roommates at the fictional Parnassus Canyon University in Southern California. Each is modeled after a goddess of…

Judy MorenoJuly 26, 2021

Fiction Listicles

8 Stories About Sisterhood That Will Steal Your Heart

During this time of distancing, our connections — even if they happen via phone and Zoom — are more important than ever. For writers, the bonds we have formed with our influencer friends in the book community are not only a saving grace for our sanity but also, in a…

Kristy Barrett and Kristy Woodson HarveyMarch 4, 2021

Fiction Listicles

6 Books Featuring Transformative Female Friendships

C.S. Lewis wrote “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” Life without a friend would indeed still be life, but such a sad one that it would barely count as life at…

BookTribDecember 22, 2020