Chick Lit for Old Hens
Looking for something thought-provoking? Want to move away from escapist fluff and breathless melodrama? Here we have something for the more mature girl – intelligent, well-rounded, pitch perfect dialogue, rich and delicious: women’s fiction, or for that matter, anybody’s fiction. These books feature three dimensional characters that help readers realize they are not alone in the world, and that their struggles with life's unexpected turns and detours have been or will be experienced by other men and women; these are stories of friendship, empowerment and survival.
- Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral
- Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn
Lee Smith
- Last Girls
- Fair and Tender Ladies
Fannie Flagg
- Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
Elizabeth Berg
- Home Safe : a Novel
- Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: and Small Acts of Liberation
Jodi Picoult
- Handle with Care
- Change of Heart
Joanna Trollope
- Friday Nights
- Second Honeymoon
Alice Hoffman
- Third Angel
- Local Girls
Edna O’Brien
- Light of Evening
- Country Girls Trilogy : Country girls; Lonely girl; Girls in their Married Bliss
Alice Munro
- Alice Munro’s Best: Selected Stories
- View from Castle Rock: Stories
Isla Dewar
- Consequences of Marriage
- Getting Out of the House
Mary Ann Schaffer & Annie Burrows
- Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Crewe, Lesley
- Shoot Me
- Relative Happiness
Mary Lawson
- Other Side of the Bridge
- Crow Lake
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- Referred Pain: and Other Stories
- Disturbances in the Field
Alice McDermott
- After This
- Charming Billy
Patricia Gaffney
- Mad Dash
- Saving Graces
Donna Morrissey
- What They Wanted
- Sylvanus Now
Muriel Barbery
- Elegance of the Hedgehog
Wallace Stegner
- Crossing to Safety
Lisa Moore
- February
- Alligator