A calamity of noble houses

New York Times Best Historical Fiction of 2025 A finalist for the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, a compelling saga of two families that illuminates the lives of women in modern Tunisia Tunisia, 1930s. Against the backdrop of a country in turmoil, in search of its identity, the lives...

An untamed state

A Haitian American woman survives a brutal kidnapping in this "commanding debut novel" from the New York Times–bestselling author of Bad Feminist (The New Yorker).Author and essayist Roxane Gay is celebrated for her incisive commentary on identity and culture, as well as for her bestselling nonfi...

Blood red

The exhilarating English-language debut from celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Ponce, Blood Red centers the female body in a radical exploration of desire, choice, and consequences. In a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of Blood Red recounts the aftermath of ...

Call me ishmaelle

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Pick“Well worth your time . . . By adding in new characters while adhering to the original story, the author creates something new, strange and thrilling.”—Los Angeles Times“An astonishingly ambitious undertaking . . . you’re in the hands of a genuine storyte...

City of incurable women

In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored“City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria—and the curiously hysterical response to it com...

Cold nights of childhood

WINNER OF THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE TRANSLATION PRIZE “A profoundly moving account of desperation, exhilaration, and endurance.”—Kirkus Reviews The Bell Jar meets Good Morning, Midnight, by one of Turkey’s most beloved writers. The narrator of Tezer Özlü’s novel is between lovers. She...

Crocosmia

A revelatory novel (or parable) of art, adventure, and radical politics, set in a world on the precipice.A philosophical fable, Crocosmia centers on Maya as she recollects the “great turning”—a moment of radical social and ecological change effected in part by the art of her mother, Jane. As Maya...

Daughter of earth

This gritty, sweeping novel recreates the life story of an American working-class woman and burgeoning political activist in the early twentieth century.

Deadheading and other stories

From the brokenhearted to the afflicted, the women in these often macabre stories fight like hell to find their voices and survive the darkness inherent in the modern South.

December breeze

LONGLISTED FOR THE QUEEN SOFÍA SPANISH INSTITUTE TRANSLATION PRIZEA masterful novel exploring womanhood, class, and tradition in 1950s Colombia From her home in Paris, Lina recalls the story of three women whose lives unfold in the conservative city of Barranquilla in Colombia. Amid parties at th...

Empty wardrobes

A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese literature originally published in 1966, Maria Judite de Carvalho’s Empty Wardrobes introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and under-appreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensations Tove Ditlevsen, Lucia Berlin, Natalia Ginzbur...

Enough

Three Iranian women from different generations working at Toronto City Hall respond to institutional racism while the city champions inclusion.

Goya's glass

Not since The French Lieutenant’s Woman has a story captured the passion and desperation of love in different historical frames.

I who have never known men

***THE RUNAWAY BESTSELLER***"Each revelation is a small miracle."—The New York TimesDeep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As t...

Jane of battery park

Jane is a Los Angeles nurse who grew up in a Christian cult that puts celebrities on trial for their sins. Daniel is a has-been actor whose career ended when the cult family members nearly killed him for flirting with her. Eight years after a romantic meet-cute in Battery Park, both search for so...

Joss and gold

A piercing tale of a Malaysian woman’s quest for independence that combines “the nuance of a poet with the ear of a born storyteller” (Julia Watson, coeditor of Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader).Li An, a young Malaysian woman of Chinese descent, seeks to understand herself as the country ar...

Night of a thousand hells

A genre-defying feminist gothic novel blending Indonesian folklore, Islamic mysticism, horror, and political reckoning International literary sensation Intan Paramaditha returns with her most ambitious and haunting work to date. The novel opens with a devastating act: the youngest of three sister...

Pretty things

Rajmahal

The growth of modern India captured through the lives and loves of a Calcutta mansion's tenants.

Ravishing

A brilliant and compelling debut, Ravishing shines a light on the dark enticements of the beauty industry and how it capitalizes on our desire to be someone we are notA provocative, darkly surreal novel of two Indian American siblings caught in the clutches of a beauty tech company, Ravishing is ...

Sultana's dream

Sultana’s Dream, first published in 1905 in a Madras English newspaper, is a witty feminist utopia—a tale of reverse purdah that posits a world in which men are confined indoors and women have taken over the public sphere, ending a war nonviolently and restoring health and beauty to the world."T...

The book of affects

The Book of Affects is a collection of short stories devoted to uncovering the moving, complex, and often mystifying workings of the human heart.

The consequences

This award-winning, raucous debut novel follows young Minnie Panis, performance artist and existentialist, as she tries to refuse success and fame.

The end of this day's business

"One of the few serious role-reversal utopias we have. I read it in one sitting." —Joanna Russ, author of The Female ManIn a world ruled by women, men live alone and rear boys in a cheerful atmosphere of sports, physical labor, and healthy sexuality, but without the consciousness of anxiety of kn...

The fifth wound

NAMED A MUST READ BOOK OF 2023 BY NYLON, BOOKRIOT, VULTURE, THE MILLIONS, and MS. MAGAZINEA baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman’s interdimensional search for beauty and embodiment, through kaleidoscopic renderings of hospital corridors, brutal breakups, and passionate romance.The Fi...

The future of silence: fiction by korean women

Stories by Korean women from the 1960s to 2000s illuminate the complex lives, psyches and struggles of women.

The love children

How the daughters of The Women's Room generation make lives of their own.

The penelopiad

Penelope's slyly brilliant side of the story, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid's Tale

The red book of farewells

For fans of Claire-Louise Bennett and Eileen Myles, an enigmatic work of autofiction set in a time of leftist politics and criminalized sexuality.Pirkko Saisio’s autofictional novel, in Mia Spangenberg’s tender translation, is a mesmerizing account of radical politics and sexual awakening in a se...

The very secretive and passionate stella miles franklin

The first novel written about the enigmatic literary legend “A pure delight.”—Elle “Lapierre’s best novel so far.”—Le Nouvel Obs Australia, 1901. Miles Franklin, the young daughter of poor bush farmers, manages to publish her first novel against all odds. A work of remarkable boldness and passion...

The woman dies

Tales from Japan that blend humor, surrealism, and sharp societal critique, by the acclaimed author of Where the Wild Ladies Are “Piercing and sometimes surreal... Matsuda shines.”—Publishers Weekly In The Woman Dies, renowned author Aoko Matsuda approaches often-thorny subjects such as sexism, p...

Wild geese

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction Irish novelist Soula Emmanuel’s debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desire—charting the messy layers of love and loss that constitute a life.Phoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. An Ir...

You can't get lost in cape town

The South African novel of identity that "deserves a wide audience on a par with Nadine Gordimer."