Has anyone read any good books? I like to read books about women. I don't care for romance novels.?

Question

I do have the PERFECT husband, but every girl needs her time alone!

Thank you to all are serious! I enjoy reading and it is nice to see others do to.

Answer 1

Some very great novels about women for you:

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Nana by Emile Zola

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

(no romance novels here)

Answer 2

My favorite book is Katherine by Anya Seton. It's about a love story, but I wouldn't call it a "romance" novel.

It's actually based on a true story of a common-born girl in medieval England who goes to court and falls in love with a prince. Over the next thirty years she grows up, marries, puts her husband's decrepit estate back to rights, meets the prince again and realizes he's in love with her too, resists the impulse to commit adultery... and so forth. One of the best things about this novel for me is how well Katherine is portrayed. She really grows and changes as a person. The middle-aged woman at the end of the book is quite different from the teenage girl she was at the beginning - but she's also lived through a lot of interesting times.

I'll second the recommendation for "Outlander" too. That's another book (actually a series) based around a love story - but there's so much more to it than that. I heard Diana Gabaldon say once that she wanted to write the story of a marriage, not just a courtship. And I think she's done that.

Answer 3

I am not much of a romance fan either, so when a friend at work gave me her copy of "The Outlander" (by Diana Gabaldon) I was not all that excited to read it. I am glad that I did because it was a great story, and it was so much fun to read. Their is some romance and passion, but their is so much more to the story. Another good book is the one written by Melissa Bank called "A Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing". It was a good read and made me laugh. The last book that has a female main character that I will suggest, is called "Icy Sparks" and it was written by Gwyn Hyman Rubio.

Answer 4

Have you read any of the books written by:
Jane Kirkpatrick?

Most recent is: Mystic Sweet Communion (Paperback)

She's also written others:
# A Gathering of Finches (Dreamcatcher)
# Love to Water My Soul (Dreamcatcher)
# A Sweetness to the Soul (Dreamcatcher)
# A Land of Sheltered Promise
# Hold Tight the Thread (Tender Ties Historical Series)

She writes mostly historical novels; I've enjoyed all that she's written so far.

Answer 5

If you can find these books you might enjoy reading them they are from Canada. They are series of books written by a Canadian female writer named Margaret Laurence. They are A Bird in The House, The Diviners and The Stone Angel. Hope you can find them they are enjoyable read which deals with the depression to the 60's in Canada.

Answer 6

A Vision of Light by Judith Merkle Riley - this is a historical novel, and while it ends with a romance of sorts it is by no means a romance novel. It is a fascinating look at the Middle Ages through the eyes of a woman who learns to be strong and independent.

Answer 7

Anil's Ghost
The Historian
Parched

Answer 8

Try Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Angry Housewives eating bonbons
Sarah Jane's House of Curl
PS, I love you
Secret Life of Bees
Memoirs of a Geisha

Answer 9

The door to december by Dean Koontz.A psychiatrist's daughter was kidnapped by her ex-husband years ago. When the daughter is finally found, the real fight begins. One by one the people who held her captive become mysteriously tortured and killed. Everyone is afraid the young girl will be next.

The mystery unravels as to what happened to the young girl while she was kidnapped. The young girl, Melanie, is unable to speak, but her mother soon learns that the young girl went through extreme torture as her father used her for a rat in his experiments.

The First Wives Club-olivia Goldsmith.(From Publishers Weekly)
This empowering romp will delight and invigorate nearly any woman who's ever stewed over a bad breakup. In late-'80s Manhattan, three well-to-do, middle-aged divorcees are brought together by the suicide of a friend whose spouse, a bigoted Wall Street shark, abandoned her and later wed his ambitious protegee. Annie, a gentle, generous novelist, was dumped by her ad-exec husband for the woman who was their marriage counselor; Elise is a hard-drinking actress whose ex now dates a young artist/heiress; and Brenda is a compulsive overeater who was left by a crass salesman she had helped succeed in the retail biz. Calling themselves the First Wives Club, the three attend society functions together and seek methods of winning not only revenge but the nobler reward of justice for themselves and, posthumously, for their friend. As they stylishly, systematically and nonviolently foil the schemes of their callous former partners, they conquer their own weaknesses and find appreciative friends and lovers who complement rather than rule them.

Answer 10

The Secret Life of Bees