Galentine's Day

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...
Big friendship : how we keep each other close
Sow, Aminatou
Paper Book
A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don't talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul. Now...
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!...
The break-up book club
Wax, Wendy
Paper Book
On paper, Jazmine, Judith, Erin and Sara have little in common - they're very different people leading very different lives. And yet at book club meetings they bond over a shared love of reading as well as the growing realisation that their lives are not turning out like they expected. With the help...
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...
The friendship crisis : finding, making, and keeping friends when you're not a kid anymore
Paul, Marla.
Paper Book
When Marla Paul returned to a Chicago suburb after a 5-year stint in Dallas, she found herself without the true core of friends she once had there or the close circle of pals she enjoyed while in Dallas. Bewildered and frustrated at how hard it was to make new friends, Paul felt like the only one...
LAST SUMMER ON STATE STREET
WOLFE, TOYA
Audiobook
The lido : a novel
Page, Libby
Paper Book
**INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** "In many ways, this meditation on community and swimming follows in the footsteps of the enormously popular A Man Called Ove... Both are charming and heartwarming."--Kirkus Reviews WE'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO MAKE NEW...
Lost roses : a novel
Kelly, Martha Hall
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER . The million-copy bestsellerLilac Girlsintroduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. NowLost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from...
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 : a novel
Poeppel, Amy
Paper Book
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
"Smith's thrilling cultural insights never overshadow the wholeness of her characters, who are so keenly observed that one feels witness to their lives." --O, The Oprah Magazine "A sweeping meditation on art, race, and identity that may be [Smith's] most ambitious work...
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...
Windfallen
Moyes, Jojo
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You, the basis for the major motion picture, comes a breathtaking drama of two women whose lives entwine through a lovely English seaside house. For Lottie Swift, Arcadia has always been magical. The breathtaking art deco house...

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