Books Worth Reading

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Top Ten Empowering Books for Girls: Mother Daughter Book Clubs (just so I don't forget or if this list is different than the others I've seen)
What Should I Read Next? Book recommendations from readers like you
This is so cool!! Type in a book or author you like and it will give you a list of similar books/authors that you may enjoy. I'm bookmarking this one :)
The Summer Without Men: A Novel by Siri Hustvedt - One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia’s husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a “pause.” This abrupt request sends her reeling and lands her in a psychiatric ward. The June following Mia’s release from the hospital, she returns to the prairie town of her childhood, where her mother lives in an old people’s home. (Bilbary Town Library: Good for Readers, Good for Libraries)
The Book Borrower: A Novel by Alice Mattison - Young mothers with babies, Toby and Deborah become instant friends. It is a relationship that will endure for decades, through the vagaries of marriage, career, and child-rearing, through heated discussions of politics, ethics, and life, until an insurmountable argument takes the two women down divergent paths. (Bilbary Town Library: Good for Readers, Good for Libraries)
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: A Novel by Heidi W. Durrow - This searing and heartwrenching portrait of a young biracial girl dealing with society's ideas of race and class is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice.