May is Mental Health Awareness month. To promote a supportive community and reduce stigma, we are featuring women’s fiction that depicts mental health struggles.
Women's Fiction Writers AssociationMay 27, 2026
Women’s fiction has long been a space for exploring relationships, identity and personal transformation — but what happens when you add a layer of danger, deception or the unknown? The result is a genre blend that delivers both emotional depth and page-turning tension. In these novels, ordinary lives are upended…
Women's Fiction Writers AssociationApril 22, 2026
Some stories unfold in a place and time; others are shaped by it. In these ten novels, setting isn’t just a backdrop — it breathes, pulses and presses in on every choice the characters make. From sun-drenched vineyards and historic European streets to windswept rivers, quiet coastal towns and even…
Women's Fiction Writers AssociationMarch 25, 2026
Angry about the state of the world? That might just be main-character energy. From political spectacle to academic precarity, from Tudor courts to domestic betrayal, fictional women are no longer swallowing their fury — they’re reshaping it. The rage of women has moved from subtext to spotlight, and our TBR…
BookTribFebruary 25, 2026
There’s so much to love about a novel that gives us insight into what it was like to be a woman during a certain time in history. Even better if that time was pivotal, unforgettable and hovering on the brink of seismic shifts that will leave the world forever changed.…
Jessica StrawserJuly 22, 2021
Road trips are full of fun, adventure and lasting memories. After over a year of being stranded by the pandemic, many of us are anxious to dust off our traveling boots and head … anywhere. While you’re waiting out the restrictions and making your wish lists, what better way to…
Heather WebbJuly 8, 2021
An incredibly engaging and addictive read, I highly recommend The Forest of Vanishing Stars (Gallery Books)! Author of recent bestseller The Book of Lost Names and many others, Kristin Harmel brings us the story of Yona, a girl taken from her home in Germany at two years old and raised…
Jennifer BlankfeinSeptember 22, 2021
This current novel is an expansion of her New York Times article: A Year in Paris that Transformed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis published in June, 2019. Vast numbers of biographies, newspaper and magazine articles have been published about the former First Lady and her storied life. Although Jacqueline in Paris is…
Linda HitchcockSeptember 29, 2022
For April, the Women's Fiction Writers Association is focusing on fiction that highlights the lives of women in the 19th century.
Women's Fiction Writers AssociationApril 24, 2024
It’s the most wonderful time of the year — and it just might be the most wonderful time for books as well! In addition to sharing a few of my can’t-miss sweet reads for the holiday season, I asked favorite book influencers to share what stories are making them feel…
Kristy Woodson HarveyDecember 16, 2021
This month, WFWA celebrates fiction that highlights women’s strength and resilience: stories of women surviving — and thriving — when the cards are stacked against them.
Women's Fiction Writers AssociationSeptember 24, 2025
Women had very little power in Victorian England. They couldn’t vote, they seldom had a voice, and they were even restricted in the books they were allowed to read. And yet, there were intrepid women who found quiet ways to resist. A bloom pressed into a bouquet, a powder stirred…
Madeline MartinAugust 26, 2025
One of the most significant shifts in the post-pandemic publishing environment was a push for more cultural representation fueled by the growing influence of social media voices navigating reader selection. Popular accounts on TikTok and Instagram that focused on book recommendations were often hosted by people representing a diverse range…
C. I. JerezAugust 7, 2025
"Epic and transporting, a stirring story of hardship and love ... Majestic and absorbing." — USA Today —∞— "A timely novel highlighting the worth and delicate nature of Nature itself." — Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing —∞— The Four Winds (St. Martin’s) by Kristin Hannah is a sweeping…
Jodé MillmanFebruary 9, 2021
“Family histories repeat,” and try as we might, “maybe the only fate there is is the temptation of reliving their mistakes.” Perhaps, though, as tempting as it feels to trace over the crooked lines our parents have drawn, we’re free to sketch on fresh paper. Easier said than done, right?…
Chelsea CicconeJune 1, 2021
Fate is not an option. Instead, she takes charge of the when, where and how — though, as she soon learns, not everything can be so tightly scripted. In Dava Shastri’s Last Day (Grand Central), author Kirthana Ramisetti weaves a world in which the secrets of Dava’s past are free…
Karina Holosko, M.A. English LitNovember 30, 2021