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Women's Summer Recommended Reading

FICTION

JAMRACH'S MENAGERIE

by Carol Birch

Jaffy’s experience could well move the reader as profoundly as it changed the narrator. Full review >

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FICTION

I KNEW YOU'D BE LOVELY

by Alethea Black

“Nothing ventured, nothing gained” could be the unofficial motto of the sensitive young adults who inhabit Black’s... Full review >

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FICTION

SISTERHOOD EVERLASTING

by Ann Brashares

“Pants” fans who have grown up with the girls and love them will no doubt overlook the improbabilities, unrealized... Full review >

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FICTION

THE SUMMER WITHOUT MEN

by Siri Hustvedt

Lighthearted but not lightweight—a smart, sassy reflection on the varieties of female experience. Full review >

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FICTION

BREAK THE SKIN

by Lee Martin

An intoxicating small-town thriller that quickly gets under your skin. Full review >

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FICTION

THE GIRL IN THE BLUE BERET

by Bobbie Ann Mason

Like Marshall himself, the novel maintains a reserved, laconic, even pedantic tone—off-putting at times yet often moving. Full review >

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FICTION

TIGERLILY'S ORCHIDS

by Ruth Rendell

A tragicomedy that follows very much the same formula as Portobello (2010). No new ground is broken, but fans will be... Full review >

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