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Books about female friendship.

Updated February 8, 2024
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The animators : a novel
Whitaker, Kayla Rae
Paper Book
"A wildly original novel that pulses with heart and truth . . . That this powerful exploration of friendship, desire, ambition, and secrets manages to be ebullient, gripping, heartbreaking, and deeply deeply funny is a testament to Kayla Rae Whitaker's formidable gifts. I was so sorry to...
Best beach ever
Wax, Wendy
Paper Book
Forced to rent out or lose their beloved Bella Flora after the loss of their renovation-turned-reality-TV show Do Over, Maddie, Nikki, Avery, Kyra, and Bitsy move into cottages at the Sunshine Hotel and Beach Club believing the worst is over. Only to discover just how uncertain their futures really...
Best friends forever
Weiner, Jennifer.
Paper Book
Some bonds can never be broken. Addie Downs & Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That's what Addie believes after Valerie moves in across the street when they're both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd, while mousy,...
Big friendship
Sow, Aminatou
Paper Book
Big Swiss : a novel
Beagin, Jen
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND CULT FAVORITE Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, Time, NPR, Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post, NBC News, Lit Hub, theSkimm, Condé Nast Traveler, Town & Country, and more!...
Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
Ellis, Helen
Paper Book
The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny, deeply felt collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women. When Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera, they...
Embroideries
Satrapi, Marjane
Paper Book
From the best-selling author ofPersepoliscomes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women.Embroideriesgathers together Marjane’s tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of...
The equivalents : a story of art, female friendship, and liberation in the 1960s
Doherty, Maggie
Paper Book
The timely, never-before-told story of five brilliant, passionate women who, in the early 1960s, converged at the newly founded Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study and became friends as well as artistic collaborators, and who went on to shape the course of feminism in ways that are still...
Last summer on State Street : a novel
Wolfe, Toya
Paper Book
PEN Open Book Award finalist Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award winner Stephen Curry Underrated Literati Book Club Pick Named a Best Book of Summer by Good Housekeeping, Chicago Magazine, The St. Louis Post Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, Veranda,...
The lido
Page, Libby
Paper Book
Lost along the way
Duffy, Erin
Paper Book
A fresh, funny, and insightful novel about what it really means to be "friends forever" from the acclaimed author of Bond Girl and On the Rocks. All through childhood and adolescence, Jane, Cara, and Meg swore their friendship would stand the test of time. Nothing would come between them,...
Lost roses : a novel
Kelly, Martha Hall
Paper Book
The runaway international bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St Petersburg to Paris...
Never too real
Wong, Carmen Rita
Paper Book
Cat, Magda, Gabi, and Luz. They've helped each other up the ladder with unshakable encouragement--and raw honesty--since forever. But lately, trouble is throwing everything these formidable women thought they knew into doubt. When outspoken Cat's high-flying T.V. career crashes and...
The Office BFFs : tales of The Office from two best friends who were there
Fischer, Jenna
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of Esquire's Best Celebrity Memoirs of All Time An intimate, behind-the-scenes, richly illustrated celebration of beloved The Office co-stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey's friendship, and an insiders' view of Pam Beesly, Angela Martin, and the...
The one hundred years of Lenni and Margot : a novel
Cronin, Marianne
Paper Book
"A beautiful debut, funny, tender, and animated by a willingness to confront life's obstacles and find a way to survive. . . . It celebrates friendship, finds meaning in difficulty and lets the reader explore dark places while always allowing for the possibility of light. Lenni and Margot are...
She matters : a life in friendships
Sonnenberg, Susanna
Paper Book
From the bestselling "immensely gifted" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) author of Her Last Death comes a stunningly candid, compulsively readable, intensely provocative book about female friendships. The New York Times called Susanna...
The sweet spot
Poeppel, Amy
Ebook
Amy Poeppel brings her signature "big-hearted, charming" (The Washington Post) style to this wise and joyful novel that celebrates love, hate, and all of the glorious absurdity in between. In the heart of Greenwich Village, three women form an accidental sorority...
Swing time
Smith, Zadie
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller  Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize for Fiction 2017 Man Booker Prize Longlist An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from northwest London to...
Text me when you get home : the evolution and triumph of modern female friendship
Schaefer, Kayleen
Ebook
"Text Me has the thrills and laughs of a romantic comedy, but with an inverted message: 'There just isn't only one love story in our lives,' Schaefer writes. If you're lucky, friends will be the protagonists in these multiple love stories. It's high time that we start seeing it that...
Truth & beauty : a friendship
Patchett, Ann.
Paper Book
"A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can't distinguish burden from embrace." -- People New York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett's first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically...
Foreign fruit
Moyes, Jojo
Paper Book
A newly rejacketed edition of the 2003 novel Foreign Fruit by Jojo Moyes, the bestselling author of Me Before You and two-time winner of the RNA Novel of the Year award. In the 1950s seaside town of Merham, everyone knows their place. Lottie Swift, an evacuee...

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