Ten Favorite Novels of Female Friendship

(alphabetically by author)

 

  • Emma by Jane Austen

  • Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle

  • The Party Upstairs by Lee Conell

  • The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante (Ferrante considers the quartet a single book, published serially)

  • Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy

  • The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

  • Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore

  • Loving Sabotage by Amélie Nothomb

  • We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida

  • Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells

— February 13, 2021


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