New and Recommended Adult Fiction to Read During Women's History Month and Beyond

Updated March 2, 2026
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The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
And then there were none
Christie, Agatha
Paper Book
A collectable hardback of the world's best-selling crime novel, with a facsimile of the first jacket design from 1939 to bear the legendary title 'And Then There Were None'. Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N...
Beloved : a novel
Morrison, Toni.
Paper Book
Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend...
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Schwab, V. E.
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestseller * #1 USA Today bestseller * #1 National Indie bestseller * #1 IndieNext List, June 2025 * 2025 Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Fantasy A genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger from V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York...
Cat's eye
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
Controversial painter Elaine Risley returns from Vancouver for a retrospective of her work. Here, in Toronto, the city of her youth, she confronts the submerged layers of her past – her unconventional family, her eccentric and brilliant brother, the self-righteous Mrs. Smeath, and the two men...
Dream Count
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Paper Book
* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST A searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists--the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires <...
Faces in the crowd
Luiselli, Valeria
Ebook
From the author of Lost Children Archive: "Masterful...a novel in which people die many times just to wake up right where they left off."―The Paris Review In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. In Harlem, a translator is desperate to...
Frankenstein : or, The modern Prometheus
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paper Book
Although on one level this book is a story in the Gothic horror tradition, it is also a philosophic novel influenced by the ideas of Godwin and Shelley and the rationalist Enlightenment.
House of day, house of night
Tokarczuk, Olga
Paper Book
The English debut of one of Poland's most popular contemporary writers.
Jane Eyre
Brontë, Charlotte
Paper Book
In conjunction with the New York Public Library, Doubleday is proud to introduce a very special collector's series of literary masterpieces. Lavishly illustrated with rare archival material from the library's extensive resources, including the renowned Berg collection, these editions will bring the...
A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains
Bird, Isabella L.
Ebook
After the success of The Englishwoman in America (also reissued in this series), the indefatigable Isabella Bird (1831-1904) continued her travels - first to Scotland, then to Australia and Hawaii - before returning to the United States and taking up residence in what was then the newest state,...
Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia
Paper Book
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she...
My A ntonia
Cather, Willa
Ebook
From "undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's greatest American writers:" The moving story of one woman's struggles and triumphs on the Nebraska frontier ( The Observer ). In the breathtaking final volume of her acclaimed Prairie Trilogy, Pulitzer Prize...
Parable of the sower
Butler, Octavia E.
Paper Book
Forced to flee an America where anarchy and violence have completely taken over, empath Lauren Olamina--who can feel the pain of others and is crippled by it--becomes a prophet carrying the hope of a new world and a new faith christened "Earthseed". A stirring portrait of 21st-century America by the...
Pride and prejudice
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
'his perfect indifference, and your pointed dislike, make it so delightfully absurd!' Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of...
The talented Mr. Ripley.
Nagy, Phyllis.
Ebook
The first stage adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's famous crime novel TomRipley is a criminal with an ambiguous past. He is sent to Italy by awealthy financier to try and coax home the rich man's son. In theprocess Ripley becomes both attracted and seduced, finding the murderthe only way...
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Ebook
Uncle Tom's cabin
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Paper Book
Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily
Paper Book
Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.

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