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

Updated March 2, 2026
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New and Recommended Adult Fiction to Read During Women's History Month and Beyond

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The Academy
Hilderbrand, Elin/ Cunningham, Shelby
'Discovering the secret world of American boarding schools for both teaching staff and pupils was endlessly entertaining. I absolutely loved this book and can't wait to read the sequel!' JILL MANSELL NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ...
The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Ebook
And then there were none
Christie, Agatha
Paper Book
Agatha Christie's masterpiece, and the best-selling murder mystery book of all time, celebrates its 80th birthday with this gorgeous hardback Special Edition. 'We're not going to leave the island. None of us will ever leave. It's the end, you see - the end of everything...'<...
Atlas shrugged
Rand, Ayn.
Paper Book
A towering philosophical novel that is the summation of her Objectivist philosophy, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is the saga of the enigmatic John Galt, and his ambitious plan to 'stop the motor of the world', published in Penguin Modern Classics. Opening with the enigmatic...
Atmosphere : A Love Story
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
***THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*** 'Tipped as the read of the summer' SUNDAY TIMES 'A richly drawn page-turner' OBSERVER 'Quite possibly our favourite TJR novel yet' COSMOPOLITAN 'I absolutely adored this' BRYONY GORDON...
Beloved : a novel
Morrison, Toni.
Paper Book
A beautiful hardback edition of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel, from the great Toni Morrison. Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, Sethe is haunted by...
Best offer wins : a novel
Kashino, Marisa
Paper Book
'I finished it in a day because I couldn't stop reading!' Freida McFadden 'Not since Gone Girl have I been so gripped' Alex Michaelides 'I promise you, you have no idea where this story is going' Taylor Jenkins Reid, recommended for her Must...
The Bewitching
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
Boleyn Traitor
Gregory, Philippa
Sister. Liar. Witness. Spy. Traitor? Her secrets shaped a kingdom. The truth will change history. Sunday Times bestseller Jane Boleyn watches from the shadows of the Tudor court. Where nothing is more powerful than a secret. And power rests on the edge of a...
The book club for troublesome women : a novel
Bostwick, Marie
Paper Book
USA TODAY BESTSELLER · SOUTHERN INDIE BESTSELLER · A BRENDA NOVAK BOOK GROUP PICK · GLOSS BOOK CLUB PICK · THE GIRLFRIEND BOOK CLUB PICK · A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 (SheReads) · Margaret never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution, for that matter in...
Broken Country
Hall, Clare Leslie
Paper Book
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Schwab, V. E.
Paper Book
The Heart-Stopping International Sensation! Instant No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller No. 1 New York Times Bestseller The Radio 2 Book Club Pick From V. E. Schwab, a genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into . . .
The correspondent : a novel
Evans, Virginia
Cursed daughters : a novel
Braithwaite, Oyinkan
Paper Book
THE SECOND NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE GLOBAL MEGA-SELLER, MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER
Dear Debbie
McFadden, Freida
A brand new twisted thriller that will have you cheering "good for her!" from the #1 New York Times bestselling and global sensation Freida McFadden, author of The Housemaid! Sometimes, enough is enough... Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years,...
Don't Let Him in
Jewell, Lisa
Paper Book
PREPARE TO BE HOOKED BY THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM LISA JEWELL. 'Gripping. Shocking. Masterful.' FREIDA McFADDEN 'Lisa Jewell is a stone-cold genius and Don't Let Him In deserves to win mainstream literary prizes. Her best book yet. A...
Dream Count
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Paper Book
'Reads like a feminist War and Peace. A magnificent novel' SUNDAY TIMES 'A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary' NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 A publishing event...
The Everlasting
Harrow, Alix E.
Paper Book
From Alix E. Harrow, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest.A legend. A lie. A love story.A lady-knight whose legend built a nation meets a retiring historian in awe of her fame. He's sent back...
The First Time I Saw Him
Dave, Laura
*A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB SELECTION!* *AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV SERIES - The Last Thing He Told Me. Season Two, based on The First Time I Saw Him, out now!* Get ready to be gripped by the edge-of-your...
Frankenstein
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paper Book
Scientist Victor Frankenstein learns how to create life, but his discovery goes quickly awry when he creates a monster larger and stronger than an ordinary man. As the monster uses its power to destroy everything Victor loves, the young scientist is forced to embark on a treacherous journey to end...
Girl Dinner
Blake, Olivie
Paper Book
From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Olivie Blake, this is a powerful and darkly fun novel about ambition, lust and eating your fill - as wealthy moms and sorority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend . . .Good girls deserve a treat.The House...
Gone with the wind
Mitchell, Margaret
Paper Book
'Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.' Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War, Margaret Mitchell's magnificent historical epic is an unforgettable tale of love and loss, of a nation mortally divided and a...
Great big beautiful life
Henry, Emily
Paper Book
The dazzling new love story and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from the TikTok sensation and Sunday Times bestselling author of Beach Read and Funny Story. AN INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! 'Emily knows how...
Half His Age
McCurdy, Jennette
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER Half His Age is a highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power - and the (often misguided) lengths we'll go to to get what we want, from Jennette McCurdy, the three-million copy bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom...
Heart the Lover
King, Lily.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, loss, and the lasting impact of first love.
Heartwood
Gaige, Amity
Paper Book
The Heir Apparent
Armitage, Rebecca
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK An absolutely delicious, compulsively readable, stylish novel about a young aristocratic woman, who has to choose between duty and her heart - think The Crown meets Taylor Jenkins Reid. 'I loved it. I devoured every page of this glorious novel.' Holly Ringland ...
Hidden Nature
Roberts, Nora
Paper Book
House of day, house of night
Tokarczuk, Olga
A woman settles in a remote Polish village. It has few inhabitants, now, but it teems with the stories of its living and its dead. There's the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There's...
The Irish goodbye : a novel
O'Neill, Heather Aimee
Paper Book
Three adult sisters reunited at their childhood home must confront a shared tragedy in The Irish Goodbye - the devastatingly beautiful debut novel from Heather Aimee O'Neill.It's been years since the three Ryan sisters were all home together at their family's beloved house on Long...
Isola : a novel
Goodman, Allegra
Paper Book
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "A shocking story, made all the more stunning by the fact that it has its roots in true history."--Jodi Picoult, author of By Any Other Name "A new generation of survival story . . . an extraordinary book that reads like a...
Jane Eyre
Brontë, Charlotte
Paper Book
With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting...
Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia
Paper Book
As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that...
The names : a novel
Knapp, Florence
Paper Book
Tomorrow - if morning comes, if the storm stops raging - Cora will register the name of her son. Or perhaps, and this is her real concern, she'll formalise who he will become. It is 1987 and in the aftermath of a great storm, Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter to register...
Not Quite Dead Yet
Jackson, Holly
Paper Book
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A roller coaster ride of page-turning suspense and knock-out twists!' FREIDA MCFADDEN 'A thrilling, twisting, heartbreaker' CHRIS WHITAKER 'An original and unique thriller'...
Pride and prejudice
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later...
Rebecca
Du Maurier, Daphne
Paper Book
NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily Collins. 'The moment I finished this story, I turned to page one and started it over again' MALORIE BLACKMAN 'Excellent entertainment . . . du Maurier created a...
The talented Mr. Ripley
Highsmith, Patricia
Paper Book
A beautiful, hardback edition of the iconic crime classic, now a MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES. Tom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life - and he's willing to kill for it. Struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors, and the law, Ripley leaps at the...
A tree grows in Brooklyn
Smith, Betty
Ebook
Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the lowly
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Ebook
Selling more than 300,000 copies the first year it was published, Stowe's powerful abolitionist novel fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852. Denouncing the institution of slavery in dramatic terms, the incendiary novel quickly draws the reader into the world of slaves and their...
We Are All Guilty Here
Slaughter, Karin
Paper Book
The gripping and exciting first book in a brand new crime thriller series from the No.1 bestselling author. 'Quite simply, Karin Slaughter is the best of us' Dervla McTiernan Welcome to North Falls. A small town where everyone knows everyone. But nobody knows...
The wedding people : a novel
Espach, Alison
Paper Book
'WICKEDLY FUNNY' JENNY JACKSON'A PERFECT NOVEL' CATHERINE NEWMAN'HILARIOUS AND WITTY' JENNIFER CLOSEIt's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at a grand beachside hotel wearing her best dress and least comfortable shoes. Immediately she is mistaken...
Wild dark shore
McConaghy, Charlotte
Paper Book
REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2025! 'At once a gripping mystery, an exquisitely written ode to the natural world, and a taut, psychological thriller, Wild Dark Shore is a triumph. Charlotte McConaghy is masterful in her ability to show the...
Wuthering Heights
Bront©±, Emily
Paper Book
From the moment of his adoption by the Earnshaws, the foundling boy Heathcliff devotes himself to their young daughter Catherine. Growing up together, the two share a love that blossoms into romance, until Catherine's hurtful betrayal. But Heathcliff's emotions know no bounds and acknowledge no...
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