6 Books to Read for Fans of The Handmaid’s Tale
Looking for more literary fiction reads? Check out these compelling books that offer unique and thought-provoking perspectives on the human condition. Whether you’re a fan of The Handmaid’s Tale or simply enjoy literary fiction, these books are sure to provide a captivating and rewarding reading experience.
The Good Time Girls (Wild-Willed Women of the West)
by K.T. Blakemore
Release Date: April 4, 2023
1905 Kansas. When Ruby’s ex-dancehall partner shows up with news that an old enemy wants them dead, they take to the road to kill him first. But the trip is filled with mishaps, blunders, con artists, and the circling noose of the law. A novel of wild women, the bonds of friendship, a harrowing road trip, and help found in the least likely places.
Buy on AmazonThe Melancholy Strumpet Master
by Zeb Beck
Release Date: February 19, 2023
Gilmore Crowell’s anthropological study of Tijuana sex workers had his dissertation advisor cheering him on. But that was years ago, before his best sources in the streetwalker community up and vanished. Now he’s living in a downtown Los Angeles boarding house for seniors and listlessly trying to jumpstart his research anew.
Buy on AmazonHalfway to You
by Jennifer Gold
Release Date: April 1, 2023
An ambitious podcaster and her reclusive interviewee embark on a life-altering journey to uncover long-lost truths in this immersive story about love, travel, and family secrets.
Buy on AmazonSpring, Summer, Autumn, Us
by Fiona Collins
Release Date: April 3, 2023
Four decades. Four seasons. Four chance encounters with the same man. Spring 1986, Oxford. Rachel has landed on her feet: engaged to handsome author Jonny, soon to be stepmother to his young daughter Teddy, and with a dream to open her own art gallery. It’s everything she wished for during her unsettled childhood. So when she meets candid and carefree American artist Gabe at a party and feels a familiar spark, she knows she needs to resist…
Buy on AmazonKünstlers in Paradise
by Cathleen Schine
Release Date: March 14, 2023
There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
Buy on AmazonThe Lonely Hearts Book Club
by Lucy Gilmore
Release Date: March 28, 2023
A young librarian and an old curmudgeon forge the unlikeliest of friendships in this charming, feel-good novel about one misfit book club and the lives (and loves) it changed along the way.
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