Books We Love

Women to Read

In honor of Women’s History Month, we share our favorite new books by female authors. —Megan O’Neill Melle

An up-and-coming musician reconnects with her estranged father on an Alaskan cruise while mourning her mother’s sudden death in The Unsinkable Greta

James (Ballantine) by Jennifer E. Smith. $28

In The Tobacco Wives

(William Morrow) by Adele Myers, a young seamstress in post-WWII North Carolina discovers some dark secrets about the big-business tobacco empire ruling the South. $28

Perfect for your next book club, Rosie Walsh’s The Love of

My Life (Pamela Dorman Books) is a love story meets thriller about the complexities of deceit within marriage. $28

Twelve interlocking stories of inequity, family and relationships portray a Southern middle class Black community in The Last Suspicious Holdout (Amistad) by Ladee Hubbard. $25

An unconventional therapist knows too much about a power couple’s rocky marriage in The Golden Couple (St. Martin’s Press), a psychological thriller by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. Will her boundary-invading practices divert disaster or lead to more danger? $29

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