50 Books like The Female Persuasion

Among Friends

by Hal Ebbott

His oldest friend assaulted his daughter. Everyone he loves is choosing comfort over her.

2.83

11k+

🖤 Literary Suspense 💔 Assault Aftermath 🏠 Family Complicity 🏛️ Class Privilege 👁️ Abuser's Perspective

Among Friends 91%

His oldest friend assaulted his daughter. Everyone he loves is choosing comfort over her.

by Hal Ebbott 2025

2.83

11k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Suspense 💔 Assault Aftermath 🏠 Family Complicity 🏛️ Class Privilege 👁️ Abuser's Perspective

Clutch

by Emily Nemens • 2026

Five college friends reunite in Palm Springs, each hiding a crisis beneath her polished surface.

3.30

4k+

🖤 Female Friendship 🏜️ College Reunion 🔄 Midlife Crisis 💼 Ambitious Women 🎭 Ensemble Cast

Clutch 93%

Five college friends reunite in Palm Springs, each hiding a crisis beneath her polished surface.

by Emily Nemens 2026

3.30

4k+ ratings

🖤 Female Friendship 🏜️ College Reunion 🔄 Midlife Crisis 💼 Ambitious Women 🎭 Ensemble Cast

Rich and Pretty

by Rumaan Alam • 2016

One marries into Manhattan privilege, the other stagnates. Their lifelong friendship starts to fray.

2.77

11k+

🫂 Female Friendship 🛤️ Diverging Paths 🌫️ Quiet Melancholy 🗽 New York City 📖 Book Club Fiction

Rich and Pretty 92%

One marries into Manhattan privilege, the other stagnates. Their lifelong friendship starts to fray.

by Rumaan Alam 2016

2.77

11k+ ratings

🫂 Female Friendship 🛤️ Diverging Paths 🌫️ Quiet Melancholy 🗽 New York City 📖 Book Club Fiction

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus

by Emma Knight • 2025

In Scotland, a student searches for her father's past and finds a family she belongs to.

3.43

28k+

🎓 Campus Novel 🔒 Family Secrets 🏰 Country Estate 💕 Slow Burn Romance 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Dynamics

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus Summary

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus 91%

In Scotland, a student searches for her father's past and finds a family she belongs to.

by Emma Knight 2025

3.43

28k+ ratings

🎓 Campus Novel 🔒 Family Secrets 🏰 Country Estate 💕 Slow Burn Romance 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Dynamics

Home of the American Circus

by Allison Larkin • 2025

A bar worker inherits a decaying house and a niece who needs saving from their broken family.

4.06

16k+

🎭 Family Drama 💔 Generational Trauma 🫂 Found Family 👭 Sister Rivalry 😢 Bittersweet

Home of the American Circus 91%

A bar worker inherits a decaying house and a niece who needs saving from their broken family.

by Allison Larkin 2025

4.06

16k+ ratings

🎭 Family Drama 💔 Generational Trauma 🫂 Found Family 👭 Sister Rivalry 😢 Bittersweet

Slags

by Emma Jane Unsworth • 2025

She quit drinking. Her sister settled down. On a motorhome trip through Scotland, both come undone.

3.35

14k+

🚐 Sister Road Trip 🎭 Wild Sister Good Sister 🕰️ Midlife Reckoning 🍃 Sobriety Journey 🏔️ Scottish Highlands

Slags 91%

She quit drinking. Her sister settled down. On a motorhome trip through Scotland, both come undone.

by Emma Jane Unsworth 2025

3.35

14k+ ratings

🚐 Sister Road Trip 🎭 Wild Sister Good Sister 🕰️ Midlife Reckoning 🍃 Sobriety Journey 🏔️ Scottish Highlands

The Happiest Girl in the World

by Alena Dillon • 2021

A gymnast's Olympic dream demands silence about her best friend's abuse and her own breaking body.

3.69

2k+

🏅 Elite Gymnastics ⚠️ Institutional Abuse 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Tension 💔 Best Friends To Rivals 🗣️ Survivor Speaks Out

The Happiest Girl in the World 91%

A gymnast's Olympic dream demands silence about her best friend's abuse and her own breaking body.

by Alena Dillon 2021

3.69

2k+ ratings

🏅 Elite Gymnastics ⚠️ Institutional Abuse 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Tension 💔 Best Friends To Rivals 🗣️ Survivor Speaks Out

Mrs. Everything

by Jennifer Weiner • 2019

Two sisters. One loves women in secret. One buries her past. A lifetime of becoming themselves.

3.85

95k+

🏡 Family Saga 👭 Sisterhood 🏳️‍🌈 Repressed Sexuality 🩹 Trauma And Healing 🇺🇸 Midcentury America

Mrs. Everything 90%

Two sisters. One loves women in secret. One buries her past. A lifetime of becoming themselves.

by Jennifer Weiner 2019

3.85

95k+ ratings

🏡 Family Saga 👭 Sisterhood 🏳️‍🌈 Repressed Sexuality 🩹 Trauma And Healing 🇺🇸 Midcentury America

A Gate at the Stairs

by Lorrie Moore • 2009

She nannies for a couple adopting a child and watches a family in quiet collapse.

3.18

19k+

🏛️ Campus Novel 👪 Transracial Adoption 👶 Nanny Narrative 💔 Sibling Loss 🗽 Post 9/11 America

A Gate at the Stairs 90%

She nannies for a couple adopting a child and watches a family in quiet collapse.

by Lorrie Moore 2009

3.18

19k+ ratings

🏛️ Campus Novel 👪 Transracial Adoption 👶 Nanny Narrative 💔 Sibling Loss 🗽 Post 9/11 America

L'amica geniale. Edizione completa

by Elena Ferrante • 2015

Two dolls vanish in a Naples courtyard. What replaces them is a friendship fiercer than love.

4.55

8k+

🫂 Female Friendship ⚒️ Class Struggle 📚 Education As Escape 🧠 Intellectual Rivalry 👩‍👧 Ambivalent Motherhood

L'amica geniale. Edizione completa Summary

L'amica geniale. Edizione completa 90%

Two dolls vanish in a Naples courtyard. What replaces them is a friendship fiercer than love.

by Elena Ferrante 2015

4.55

8k+ ratings

🫂 Female Friendship ⚒️ Class Struggle 📚 Education As Escape 🧠 Intellectual Rivalry 👩‍👧 Ambivalent Motherhood

An Uncommon Education

by Elizabeth Percer • 2012

Her flawless memory gets her into Wellesley, but a secret society teaches her the limits of rescue.

3.14

1k+

🏛️ College Secret Society 🎭 Shakespearean Theatre 🧳 Elite College Outsider 🧠 Extraordinary Memory ✡️ Jewish American Family

An Uncommon Education 90%

Her flawless memory gets her into Wellesley, but a secret society teaches her the limits of rescue.

by Elizabeth Percer 2012

3.14

1k+ ratings

🏛️ College Secret Society 🎭 Shakespearean Theatre 🧳 Elite College Outsider 🧠 Extraordinary Memory ✡️ Jewish American Family

Olive

by Emma Gannon • 2020

A journalist questioning motherhood faces a broken engagement and drifting friendships.

3.67

22k+

🤱 Motherhood Choice 👪 Chosen Family 🤝 Friendship Evolution 🏙️ London Life 🍂 Bittersweet

Olive 92%

A journalist questioning motherhood faces a broken engagement and drifting friendships.

by Emma Gannon 2020

3.67

22k+ ratings

🤱 Motherhood Choice 👪 Chosen Family 🤝 Friendship Evolution 🏙️ London Life 🍂 Bittersweet

Bad Habits

by Amy Gentry • 2021

At a conference, two former friends must confront the grad-school death they spent years avoiding.

3.50

2k+

🎓 Toxic Academia 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 💰 Class Divide 🎭 Mentorship Gone Wrong 🔥 Slow Burn Tension

Bad Habits 91%

At a conference, two former friends must confront the grad-school death they spent years avoiding.

by Amy Gentry 2021

3.50

2k+ ratings

🎓 Toxic Academia 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 💰 Class Divide 🎭 Mentorship Gone Wrong 🔥 Slow Burn Tension

Workhorse

by Caroline Palmer

A fashion magazine assistant steals her way into a Fifth Avenue family whose glitter hides rot.

3.56

12k+

🪜 Social Climbing 👠 Fashion Industry 🔪 Female Antihero 💔 Obsessive Friendship 🎨 Stolen Art

Workhorse 90%

A fashion magazine assistant steals her way into a Fifth Avenue family whose glitter hides rot.

by Caroline Palmer 2025

3.56

12k+ ratings

🪜 Social Climbing 👠 Fashion Industry 🔪 Female Antihero 💔 Obsessive Friendship 🎨 Stolen Art

We Are Not Like Them

by Christine Pride • 2021

A Black journalist's best friend is married to the officer who killed a Black teen.

4.06

53k+

🫂 Female Friendship 🤝 Interracial Friendship 👥 Dual Perspective 🚔 Police Brutality ⚖️ Moral Complexity

We Are Not Like Them 90%

A Black journalist's best friend is married to the officer who killed a Black teen.

by Christine Pride 2021

4.06

53k+ ratings

🫂 Female Friendship 🤝 Interracial Friendship 👥 Dual Perspective 🚔 Police Brutality ⚖️ Moral Complexity

Firefly Lane

by Kristin Hannah • 2008

Best friends since fourteen, Kate and Tully navigate thirty years of love, ambition, and loss.

4.20

486k+

🤝 Opposite Best Friends 🦋 Friendship Saga ⚖️ Ambition Vs Family 😢 Tearjerker Ending 💔 Mother Wounds

Firefly Lane 90%

Best friends since fourteen, Kate and Tully navigate thirty years of love, ambition, and loss.

by Kristin Hannah 2008

4.20

486k+ ratings

🤝 Opposite Best Friends 🦋 Friendship Saga ⚖️ Ambition Vs Family 😢 Tearjerker Ending 💔 Mother Wounds

I'll Follow You

by Charlene Wang • 2025

A poor girl's best friend invades her elite campus, dragging their fake Instagram life with her.

3.65

5k+

🖤 Dark Academia 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 🏛️ Elite College Campus 😶‍🌫️ Morally Gray Narrator 📱 Internet Fame

I'll Follow You 90%

A poor girl's best friend invades her elite campus, dragging their fake Instagram life with her.

by Charlene Wang 2025

3.65

5k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Academia 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 🏛️ Elite College Campus 😶‍🌫️ Morally Gray Narrator 📱 Internet Fame

Girl Made of Stars

by Ashley Herring Blake • 2018

Mara's twin brother is accused of rape, and her family's fierce denial leaves her standing alone.

4.18

30k+

⚠️ Sexual Assault 👯 Twin Siblings 🫂 Found Family ✊ Feminist Activism 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Questioning

Girl Made of Stars 90%

Mara's twin brother is accused of rape, and her family's fierce denial leaves her standing alone.

by Ashley Herring Blake 2018

4.18

30k+ ratings

⚠️ Sexual Assault 👯 Twin Siblings 🫂 Found Family ✊ Feminist Activism 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Questioning

Come and Get It

by Kiley Reid • 2024

A visiting professor's relationship with a student RA upends her research and her sense of self.

3.32

47k+

🏫 Campus Novel 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Protagonist 🌀 Blurred Boundaries 💸 Financial Anxiety 🎭 Social Satire

Come and Get It 90%

A visiting professor's relationship with a student RA upends her research and her sense of self.

by Kiley Reid 2024

3.32

47k+ ratings

🏫 Campus Novel 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Protagonist 🌀 Blurred Boundaries 💸 Financial Anxiety 🎭 Social Satire

Badjens

by Delphine Minoui • 2024

In Iran, after a woman dies in custody, an unwanted girl joins the uprising.

4.25

2k+

🌱 Political Coming-Of-Age 👭 Female Solidarity 🧕 Hijab Rebellion 🕌 Religious Patriarchy 🇮🇷 Post-Revolution Iran

Badjens 90%

In Iran, after a woman dies in custody, an unwanted girl joins the uprising.

by Delphine Minoui 2024

4.25

2k+ ratings

🌱 Political Coming-Of-Age 👭 Female Solidarity 🧕 Hijab Rebellion 🕌 Religious Patriarchy 🇮🇷 Post-Revolution Iran

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

by Alison Espach • 2022

A teenager loses her older sister in a crash, then spends years confessing to her ghost.

3.81

41k+

👯 Sister Bond 🪦 Sibling Loss 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🌱 Coming-Of-Age Grief 💔 Complicated Love

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance Summary

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance 90%

A teenager loses her older sister in a crash, then spends years confessing to her ghost.

by Alison Espach 2022

3.81

41k+ ratings

👯 Sister Bond 🪦 Sibling Loss 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🌱 Coming-Of-Age Grief 💔 Complicated Love

Juventud en éxtasis, Vol. 2

by Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez • 1997

A student's confession reveals exploitation on campus; her parents launch a course on sexual ethics.

3.16

2k+

🎓 Didactic Fiction ⚖️ Sexual Ethics 🏛️ Campus Drama 👨‍👧 Father Daughter Bond 👴 Intergenerational Story

Juventud en éxtasis, Vol. 2 90%

A student's confession reveals exploitation on campus; her parents launch a course on sexual ethics.

by Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez 1997

3.16

2k+ ratings

🎓 Didactic Fiction ⚖️ Sexual Ethics 🏛️ Campus Drama 👨‍👧 Father Daughter Bond 👴 Intergenerational Story

The Three Lives of Cate Kay

by Kate Fagan

A woman with three names and a blockbuster novel must face the friend she left behind.

3.73

115k+

📖 Anonymous Author 🔥 Slow Burn Sapphic Romance 🏡 Small Town Homecoming 🚫 Controlling Relationship 💕 Second Chance Love

The Three Lives of Cate Kay 90%

A woman with three names and a blockbuster novel must face the friend she left behind.

by Kate Fagan 2025

3.73

115k+ ratings

📖 Anonymous Author 🔥 Slow Burn Sapphic Romance 🏡 Small Town Homecoming 🚫 Controlling Relationship 💕 Second Chance Love

The Interestings

by Meg Wolitzer • 2013

At arts camp, six teenagers decide they are exceptional. Forty years of ordinary life disagree.

3.60

124k+

🎨 Creative Ambition 💰 Class And Privilege 🕰️ Long Friendship 💔 Unrequited Love 🫂 Found Family

The Interestings 91%

At arts camp, six teenagers decide they are exceptional. Forty years of ordinary life disagree.

by Meg Wolitzer 2013

3.60

124k+ ratings

🎨 Creative Ambition 💰 Class And Privilege 🕰️ Long Friendship 💔 Unrequited Love 🫂 Found Family

Mothers and Other Strangers

by Corey Ann Haydu • 2026

Best friends since preschool, Mae and Sydney are torn apart by an affair between their parents.

3.61

1k+

📜 Generational Trauma 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 🎨 Art Born From Grief 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🏘️ Suburban Secrets

Mothers and Other Strangers 91%

Best friends since preschool, Mae and Sydney are torn apart by an affair between their parents.

by Corey Ann Haydu 2026

3.61

1k+ ratings

📜 Generational Trauma 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 🎨 Art Born From Grief 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🏘️ Suburban Secrets

The Girls Who Grew Big

by Leila Mottley • 2025

Banished to Florida, a pregnant teen finds home among the mothers she was warned to avoid.

3.99

29k+

👶 Teen Motherhood 🤲 Found Family ✍️ Lyrical Prose 🏚️ Rural Poverty 🌈 Queer Awakening

The Girls Who Grew Big 90%

Banished to Florida, a pregnant teen finds home among the mothers she was warned to avoid.

by Leila Mottley 2025

3.99

29k+ ratings

👶 Teen Motherhood 🤲 Found Family ✍️ Lyrical Prose 🏚️ Rural Poverty 🌈 Queer Awakening

The Cows

by Dawn O'Porter • 2016

Train camera exposes a mother; viral shame entangles a childfree blogger and a grieving woman.

3.89

32k+

🎥 Viral Shaming 🩺 Bodily Autonomy 👩‍👧 Complicated Motherhood 👭 Unlikely Sisterhood 🖤 Grief And Obsession

The Cows 90%

Train camera exposes a mother; viral shame entangles a childfree blogger and a grieving woman.

by Dawn O'Porter 2016

3.89

32k+ ratings

🎥 Viral Shaming 🩺 Bodily Autonomy 👩‍👧 Complicated Motherhood 👭 Unlikely Sisterhood 🖤 Grief And Obsession

Flat Earth

by Anika Jade Levy • 2025

A broke graduate student commodifies her body, her labor, her envy of her filmmaker best friend.

3.10

2k+

📝 Autofiction 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 😞 Self Loathing 💰 Transactional Intimacy 🎭 Literary Satire

Flat Earth 90%

A broke graduate student commodifies her body, her labor, her envy of her filmmaker best friend.

by Anika Jade Levy 2025

3.10

2k+ ratings

📝 Autofiction 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 😞 Self Loathing 💰 Transactional Intimacy 🎭 Literary Satire

Seduction Theory

by Emily Adrian • 2025

A campus affair, a shattered marriage, and the graduate student who will write it all down.

3.11

12k+

🏛️ Campus Novel 💔 Literary Infidelity 💍 Marriage In Crisis 👁️ Academic Obsession ✍️ Writing Program

Seduction Theory 90%

A campus affair, a shattered marriage, and the graduate student who will write it all down.

by Emily Adrian 2025

3.11

12k+ ratings

🏛️ Campus Novel 💔 Literary Infidelity 💍 Marriage In Crisis 👁️ Academic Obsession ✍️ Writing Program

Homesick

by Silvia Saunders • 2025

A librarian's inheritance buys a flat and a reckoning with the boyfriend who no longer fits.

3.73

2k+

🌱 Millennial Coming Of Age 💰 Inheritance Windfall 💔 Failing Relationship 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Bond 🧠 Mental Health Decline

Homesick 90%

A librarian's inheritance buys a flat and a reckoning with the boyfriend who no longer fits.

by Silvia Saunders 2025

3.73

2k+ ratings

🌱 Millennial Coming Of Age 💰 Inheritance Windfall 💔 Failing Relationship 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Bond 🧠 Mental Health Decline

Vladimir

by Julia May Jonas • 2022

A campus scandal takes her husband. An aging professor's obsession with a young novelist undoes her.

3.43

41k+

🏛️ Dark Campus Novel 📜 Academic Scandal 🖤 Female Obsession 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 💋 Older Woman Desire

Vladimir 90%

A campus scandal takes her husband. An aging professor's obsession with a young novelist undoes her.

by Julia May Jonas 2022

3.43

41k+ ratings

🏛️ Dark Campus Novel 📜 Academic Scandal 🖤 Female Obsession 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 💋 Older Woman Desire

Bitter Sweet

by Hattie Williams • 2025

A grieving assistant falls for her married literary idol, and the secret affair nearly destroys her.

3.82

15k+

🕰️ Age Gap Relationship ⚖️ Power Imbalance 🤫 Secret Affair 🫂 Found Family 😢 Mother Loss

Bitter Sweet 91%

A grieving assistant falls for her married literary idol, and the secret affair nearly destroys her.

by Hattie Williams 2025

3.82

15k+ ratings

🕰️ Age Gap Relationship ⚖️ Power Imbalance 🤫 Secret Affair 🫂 Found Family 😢 Mother Loss

Love by the Book

by Jessica George • 2026

A lonely novelist befriends a teacher with a secret, then mines her life for fiction.

3.92

6k+

💛 Platonic Love 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🏠 Found Family 💔 Estranged Sisters 🎭 Secret Double Life

Love by the Book 91%

A lonely novelist befriends a teacher with a secret, then mines her life for fiction.

by Jessica George 2026

3.92

6k+ ratings

💛 Platonic Love 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🏠 Found Family 💔 Estranged Sisters 🎭 Secret Double Life

A House Without Windows

by Nadia Hashimi

Her husband is dead, blood covers her hands, but this Afghan mother stays silent.

4.00

16k+

🏔️ Afghan Women 🔗 Prison Sisterhood 🤫 Protective Silence 🪬 Folk Magic ✈️ Diaspora Return

A House Without Windows 90%

Her husband is dead, blood covers her hands, but this Afghan mother stays silent.

by Nadia Hashimi 2016

4.00

16k+ ratings

🏔️ Afghan Women 🔗 Prison Sisterhood 🤫 Protective Silence 🪬 Folk Magic ✈️ Diaspora Return

The Last Housewife

by Ashley Winstead • 2022

A housewife goes undercover in a cult of powerful men after her best friend's suspicious suicide.

3.69

65k+

🕯️ Cult Thriller 🔪 Feminist Suspense 🏛️ Dark Academia 🎙️ Podcast Investigation ⚖️ Morally Ambiguous

The Last Housewife 90%

A housewife goes undercover in a cult of powerful men after her best friend's suspicious suicide.

by Ashley Winstead 2022

3.69

65k+ ratings

🕯️ Cult Thriller 🔪 Feminist Suspense 🏛️ Dark Academia 🎙️ Podcast Investigation ⚖️ Morally Ambiguous

Careering

by Daisy Buchanan • 2022

A sex-blogging intern and a passed-over editor chase a media dream, finding the ladders are rigged.

3.31

5k+

🏢 Toxic Workplace 📰 Media Satire ✍️ Confessional Writing 👩‍🏭 Working Class Woman 👯 Female Friendship

Careering 90%

A sex-blogging intern and a passed-over editor chase a media dream, finding the ladders are rigged.

by Daisy Buchanan 2022

3.31

5k+ ratings

🏢 Toxic Workplace 📰 Media Satire ✍️ Confessional Writing 👩‍🏭 Working Class Woman 👯 Female Friendship

Cat’s Eye

by Margaret Atwood • 1988

A painter's Toronto return forces a reckoning with the girlhood friend who nearly destroyed her.

3.95

73k+

🎨 Artist Protagonist 👧 Girlhood Cruelty 🖼️ Art As Survival 🕰️ Memory And Trauma 🤔 Psychological Realism

Cat’s Eye 90%

A painter's Toronto return forces a reckoning with the girlhood friend who nearly destroyed her.

by Margaret Atwood 1988

3.95

73k+ ratings

🎨 Artist Protagonist 👧 Girlhood Cruelty 🖼️ Art As Survival 🕰️ Memory And Trauma 🤔 Psychological Realism

Wayward Girls

by Susan Wiggs • 2025

In a 1968 Catholic laundry, lost girls discover their only way out is each other.

4.18

24k+

✝️ Catholic Reform Schools 🍼 Forced Adoption 👯 Found Sisterhood 🔗 Generational Trauma ⚖️ Slow-Burn Justice

Wayward Girls 90%

In a 1968 Catholic laundry, lost girls discover their only way out is each other.

by Susan Wiggs 2025

4.18

24k+ ratings

✝️ Catholic Reform Schools 🍼 Forced Adoption 👯 Found Sisterhood 🔗 Generational Trauma ⚖️ Slow-Burn Justice

Bring the House Down

by Charlotte Runcie • 2025

A critic sleeps with a performer, then destroys her show. The Edinburgh Fringe erupts.

3.57

6k+

📖 Metafiction 🎭 Theatre World 🫣 Complicit Narrator 📢 Cancel Culture 🔥 Female Rage

Bring the House Down 90%

A critic sleeps with a performer, then destroys her show. The Edinburgh Fringe erupts.

by Charlotte Runcie 2025

3.57

6k+ ratings

📖 Metafiction 🎭 Theatre World 🫣 Complicit Narrator 📢 Cancel Culture 🔥 Female Rage

If I Ruled the World

by Amy Dubois Barnett • 2026

A Black editor stifles herself in fashion media until a defiant urban magazine calls her real.

3.92

3k+

🎬 Media Workplace Drama 🎭 Code Switching 🤎 Black Sisterhood 🔗 Toxic Mentorship 🪞 Black Enoughness

If I Ruled the World 90%

A Black editor stifles herself in fashion media until a defiant urban magazine calls her real.

by Amy Dubois Barnett 2026

3.92

3k+ ratings

🎬 Media Workplace Drama 🎭 Code Switching 🤎 Black Sisterhood 🔗 Toxic Mentorship 🪞 Black Enoughness

Heart the Lover

by Lily King

She loves two best friends in college. The one who leaves doesn't know what she's carrying.

4.19

403k+

💔 Literary Love Triangle 🎓 Campus Novel 🤰 Secret Pregnancy ⏰ Missed Timing 🥀 Bittersweet

Heart the Lover 90%

She loves two best friends in college. The one who leaves doesn't know what she's carrying.

by Lily King 2025

4.19

403k+ ratings

💔 Literary Love Triangle 🎓 Campus Novel 🤰 Secret Pregnancy ⏰ Missed Timing 🥀 Bittersweet

Dream Count

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • 2025

A Nigerian writer in lockdown tallies her lost loves while women around her face private reckonings.

3.77

53k+

🎭 Polyphonic Novel 🦠 Pandemic Fiction 👭 Female Friendship 🧳 Immigrant Experience 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters

Dream Count 91%

A Nigerian writer in lockdown tallies her lost loves while women around her face private reckonings.

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2025

3.77

53k+ ratings

🎭 Polyphonic Novel 🦠 Pandemic Fiction 👭 Female Friendship 🧳 Immigrant Experience 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters

Friends Like These

by Meg Rosoff • 2022

A small-town intern in 1983 New York is remade by a magnetic friend, then must remake herself.

3.30

3k+

🖤 Toxic Female Friendship 🗽 1980s New York 🐠 Fish Out Of Water ☀️ Summer Coming Of Age 🥀 Loss Of Innocence

Friends Like These 91%

A small-town intern in 1983 New York is remade by a magnetic friend, then must remake herself.

by Meg Rosoff 2022

3.30

3k+ ratings

🖤 Toxic Female Friendship 🗽 1980s New York 🐠 Fish Out Of Water ☀️ Summer Coming Of Age 🥀 Loss Of Innocence

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

by E. Lockhart • 2008

Her boyfriend's secret society won't admit her, so she runs its pranks from the shadows.

3.80

51k+

🏫 Boarding School 🤫 Secret Society 🧠 Teen Mastermind ✨ Golden Boy ✊ Feminist Rebellion

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks Summary

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks 90%

Her boyfriend's secret society won't admit her, so she runs its pranks from the shadows.

by E. Lockhart 2008

3.80

51k+ ratings

🏫 Boarding School 🤫 Secret Society 🧠 Teen Mastermind ✨ Golden Boy ✊ Feminist Rebellion

In Five Years

by Rebecca Serle • 2020

A Manhattan lawyer's perfect plan shatters after a vision reveals a different man in her future.

3.78

659k+

👭 Female Friendship 🎗️ Terminal Illness 💔 Bittersweet 🔮 Premonition 💫 Fated Meeting

In Five Years 90%

A Manhattan lawyer's perfect plan shatters after a vision reveals a different man in her future.

by Rebecca Serle 2020

3.78

659k+ ratings

👭 Female Friendship 🎗️ Terminal Illness 💔 Bittersweet 🔮 Premonition 💫 Fated Meeting

June Baby

by Shannon Garvey • 2026

After her mother dies, Ruth is sent to Block Island, into a decade of borrowed home and almost-love.

3.57

7k+

🫂 Found Family 💔 Almost Lovers 👩‍👧 Surrogate Mother 🌊 Melancholic Summer ⛵ Coastal New England

June Baby 90%

After her mother dies, Ruth is sent to Block Island, into a decade of borrowed home and almost-love.

by Shannon Garvey 2026

3.57

7k+ ratings

🫂 Found Family 💔 Almost Lovers 👩‍👧 Surrogate Mother 🌊 Melancholic Summer ⛵ Coastal New England

Call It What You Want

by Alissa DeRogatis • 2023

A college senior's no-labels romance follows her to New York, and she can't let go.

3.35

36k+

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Call It What You Want 90%

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3.35

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Woodworking

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Woodworking 90%

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4.23

16k+ ratings

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She traded premonitions for PTA, until her twin predicted a disaster on live TV.

3.38

42k+

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Sisterland 90%

She traded premonitions for PTA, until her twin predicted a disaster on live TV.

by Curtis Sittenfeld 2013

3.38

42k+ ratings

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3.91

9k+

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Pages for You 90%

A college freshman falls for her mesmerizing female TA, and the consuming affair rewrites her world.

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3.91

9k+ ratings

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