Carrie Adams
The Stepmother

Elizabeth Berg
Home Safe
We Are All Welcome Here

Pearl Cleage
Babylon Sisters

Barbara Delinsky
The Secret Between Us

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Queen of Dreams

Janet Fitch
White Oleander

Mary Gordon
Pearl

Kate Jacobs
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Knit Two

Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees

Kate Long
The Bad Mother's Handbook

Laura Moriarty
The Center of Everything
The Rest of Her Life

Joyce Carol Oates
Missing Mom

Sheri Reynolds
Firefly Cloak

Alice Seebold
The Almost Moon

Carol Shields
Unless

Amy Tan
The Bonesetter's Daughter

Poppy Adams
The Sister

Elizabeth Berg
What We Keep

Rebecca Flowers
Nice to Come Home To

Julia Glass
I See You Everywhere

Kristin Hannah
Between Sisters
True Colors

Elizabeth Noble
Things I Want My Daughter to Know

Jodi Picoult
My Sister's Keeper

Francine Prose
Goldengrove: A Novel

Anna Quindlan
Rise and Shine

Luanne Rice
The Geometry of Sisters

Emilie Richards
Sister's Choice

Jennifer Weiner
In Her Shoes

Marcia Willett
The Children's Hour

 
A Note About Women & Family

Books that capture the beauty, fragility, competitiveness, heartache, and solidarity that bond mothers and daughters and sisters.
The role of mother, daughter, and/or sister dramatically shapes who and what a woman will be and how she will live her life. A woman’s experiences with the female relationships within her nuclear family determine who she will be today and tomorrow. The close personal relationships (both positive and negative) and female bonding within the intimacies of family prepare women for the rigors of life and the complex relationships that will ensue.