New book group. Focus is women. Recommend a book please

[DoItTooJulia]

It's not my group, but we are meeting for the first time next week.

I've read the first book, but we need recommendations for subsequent books.

I loved American Wife and would like to recommend something in that vein. I've looked at her new novel, sistersland, but the reviews aren't great. Any ideas?

Anne Tyler books are usually very good.

The prodigal summer. Barbara Kingsolver

Oh I LOVED Prdigal Summer. Properly loved it.

AppleSnow I came on here specifically to say The Red Tent!

Isn't is brilliant?

*it brilliant. I'm posting while having contractions! Not great!

Oooh, good luck Koala! How exciting!

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farell. Very relevant to your "women" theme I think, and thought-provoking and moving too.

Nb. I've never heard of American Wife so my recommendation is probably not in a similar vein

The Poisonwood Bible

These is my Words

Apple Tree Yard

I really enjoyed The Red Tent by Anita Diamant applesnow

The good women of China was hard going, but very good

Not Apple Tree yard! I hated it!!

Each to their own

From my sister's lips from na'ima Roberts i think

The Group by Mary McCarthy.

It's a book that was published in the 60s. It's about a group of American female students who graduate in the 30s and follows their lives post graduation. It's really a comment on how these bright, independent woman are forced to struggle during a time when they were expected to be nothing more than wives and mothers.

It's a brilliant read :)

The Wednesday Sisters - Meg Clarke Clayton.

Admittedly it wasn't to my taste, but it seems to have excellent reviews.

And there's another great one I read for a book club ages ago - but of course, while I can remember the plot, some of the writing and even what the front of the book looked like, I can't remember either the author or the title

Ah, I got it. Sofi Oksanen: Purge.

It isn't strictly just about women, but the relationship between one of the main characters and her sister is key, as is the framing relationship between the old woman and the younger "runaway".

It's pretty intense, but worked really well in our book club.

Wild Swans
Significant Sisters

The Caitlin Moran non fiction book, "How to Be a Woman" (Is that the right title?) brilliant!

Yes to Reading Lolita in Tehran.

another vote for Red tent

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. Women-focused, fascinating, memorable.