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10 best books like Keepsake (Kristina Riggle): Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol), The Rise of Life on Earth, Objects of My Affection, One Good Friend Deserves Another, Ten Girls to Watch, Trouble, Boys of Life, The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories, Original Bliss, A Carnivore's Inquiry

Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol)
AuthorBreanne Fahs
ISBN1558618481
Too drastic, too crazy, too "out there," too early, too late, too damaged, too much—Valerie Solanas has been dismissed but never forgotten. She has become, unwittingly, a figurehead for women's unexpressed rage, and stands at the center of many worlds. She inhabited Andy Warhol's Factory scene,...
The Rise of Life on Earth
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0811212130
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable portrait of one of the "insulted and injured" of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches...
Objects of My Affection
AuthorJill Smolinski
ISBN1451660758
In the humorous, heartfelt new novel by the author of The Next Thing on My List, a personal organizer must somehow convince a reclusive artist to give up her hoarding ways and let go of the stuff she’s hung on to for decades.

Lucy Bloom is broke, freshly dumped by her boyfriend, and forced to sell...
One Good Friend Deserves Another
AuthorLisa Verge Higgins
ISBN1455500305
How Many of These Dating Rules Have You Broken?

1. Choose Your Own Man
2. Make Sure Your Friends Approve
3. No One-Night Stands
4. Trust Your Instincts
5. Never Make the Same Mistake Twice
6. After a Break-Up, Wait Six Months Before Dating Again.

Dhara, Kelly,...
Ten Girls to Watch
AuthorCharity Shumway
ISBN1451673418
A radiant debut novel about stumbling through the early years of adulthood; and a love letter to the role models who light the way.

Like so many other recent graduates, Dawn West is trying to make her way in New York City. She's got an ex-boyfriend she can't quite stop seeing, a roommate who views...
Trouble
AuthorKate Christensen
ISBN0385527306
A vibrant story of female friendship and midlife sexual awakening from the acclaimed author of The Great Man

Josie is a Manhattan psychotherapist living a comfortable life with her husband and daughter—until, while suddenly flirting with a man at a party, she is struck with the sudden...
Boys of Life
AuthorPaul Russell
ISBN0452268370
To begin with, this is a very difficult book to read. The subject matter is very controversial and gritty. Following the main character, Tony Blair, a teenager who is fustrated with his small town life in Kentucky, he runs away with a movie crew to New York City. Falling in love with the leader of the group,...
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories
AuthorNella Larsen
ISBN0385721005
A light-skinned beauty who spends years passing for white finds herself dangerously drawn to an old friend's Harlem neighborhood. A restless young mulatto tries desperately to find a comfortable place in a world in which she sees herself as a perpetual outsider. A mother's confrontation with tragedy...
Original Bliss
AuthorA.L. Kennedy
ISBN0375702784
Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently left her. She spends her days performing banal domestic chores in front of a blaring television. On the BBC one day she watches a self-help guru expound on, among other...
A Carnivore's Inquiry
AuthorSabina Murray
ISBN0802142001
Twenty-three year old Katherine has just left Italy for New York City, but what has propelled her there is a mystery. She strikes up an affair with an older Russian �migr� novelist met on the subway and moves into his apartment. But her allusions to a frighteningly eccentric mother and tyrannical...
The Ferguson Affair
AuthorRoss Macdonald
ISBN0553635182
A young lawyer Bill Gunnarson ended up being a public defender for a nurse. She was caught trying to sell a stolen ring. There was a big series of robberies of rich people homes and the police was desperate for any help. No wonder they kept the woman in jail trying to get her to confess. She refused even to talk....
State of Grace
AuthorJoy Williams
ISBN0679726195
Nominated for the National Book Award in 1974, this haunting, profoundly disquieting novel manages to be at once sparse and lush, to combine Biblical simplicity with Gothic intensity and strangeness. It is the story of Kate, despised by her mother, bound to her father by ties stronger and darker than...
More Like Her
AuthorLiza Palmer
ISBN0062007467
A brilliant, hilarious, and touching story from the author of Conversations with the Fat Girl, Liza Palmer’s More Like Her is smart, funny, though-provoking women’s fiction in the vein of Emily Giffin, Marian Keyes, Meg Cabot, and Jane Green. More Like Her is the story of a seemingly perfect woman...
What You Wish For
AuthorKerry Reichs
ISBN0061808148
If what you wish for is a delightfully bittersweet novel filled with endearing, eccentric characters and situations in the vein of Jennifer Weiner, Jane Green, Marian Keyes, and Meg Cabot, then Kerry Reichs’s What You Wish For is the answer to your prayers. The daughter of forensic crime fiction...
A Simple Thing
AuthorKathleen McCleary
ISBN0062106236
A Simple Thing is a lovely, truly heartwarming novel about the drastic measures two mothers take to keep their families safe. Kathleen McCleary, the critically acclaimed author of House and Home, tells the intertwining stories of Susannah Delaney and Betty Pavalak. Susannah moves her family to remote...
The Things I Do For You
AuthorMary Carter
ISBN0758253370
After years of supporting her husband Brad's generally ill-fated career ventures, Bailey Jordan has a job and a life she loves, working as a high profile real estate agent in Manhattan. Things are wonderful, and she's ready to start a family. Everything changes when Brad is involved in a car crash and...
You Are the Love of My Life
AuthorSusan Richards Shreve
ISBN0393345947
It’s 1973 and the Watergate scandal is on everyone’s lips. Lucy Painter, a children’s book illustrator and single mother of two, leaves New York and the married father of her children to return to Washington, DC, to the neighborhood where she grew up and the house where her father committed suicide....
All the Truth
AuthorLaura Brodie
ISBN0425247635
One night can alter a life forever… 
Emma Greene enjoys living in rural solitude with her husband and five-year-old daughter, Maggie, far away from her college students in Jackson, Virginia. But late one night, with her husband away and her daughter upstairs in bed, some of Emma’s students...
The Big Girls
AuthorSusanna Moore
ISBN1400041902
Helen is serving a life sentence at Sloatsburg women's prison for the murder of her children.

Dr. Louise Forrest, a recently divorced mother of an eight-year-old boy, is the new chief of psychiatry there.

Captain Ike Bradshaw is the corrections officer who wants her.

And...
The Glass Butterfly
AuthorLouise Marley
ISBN0758265689
In The Glass Butterfly, Louise Marley winds together a tale of subtle danger lurking in the past and a mother's sacrifice for her son's future. . ..
A new life. A new name. A complete break with the past. It's the only way therapist Victoria Lake can think to protect her son--and herself--from a case...
Windward Heights
AuthorMaryse Condé
ISBN1569472165
Windward Heights is a retelling of Wuthering Heights, set in the Caribbean just after the abolition of slavery in the late 19th and early 20th century. In Maryse Condé’s hands the classic gothic tragedy becomes more politically charged, taking in decades of turbulent history and social change...
Being Lara
AuthorLola Jaye
ISBN0062069349
A poignant and provocative story of adoption, self-discovery, and the meaning of family, Being Lara by author Lola Jaye (By the Time You Read This) is an unforgettable tale of three women—British mother, Nigerian birth mother, and 30-year-old daughter—the choices they made, and the fragile...
The First Warm Evening of the Year
AuthorJamie M. Saul
ISBN0061449725
Following his extraordinary debut novel, Light of Day (“An exhilarating emotional roller-coaster ride” —Washington Post), author Jamie Saul now explores the intricate relationships between friends and siblings, husbands and wives.

The First Warm Evening of the Year is a breathtakingly...
Virgin Soul
AuthorJudy Juanita
ISBN0670026581
From a lauded poet and playwright, a novel of a young woman's life with the Black Panthers in 1960s San Francisco

At first glance, Geniece’s story sounds like that of a typical young woman: she goes to college, has romantic entanglements, builds meaningful friendships, and juggles her schedule...
Homework
AuthorMargot Livesey
ISBN0312420447
Celia Gilchrist believes that she has finally found the right man in Stephen, but when she moves in with Stephen and his young daughter Jenny, things begin to go subtly, menacingly wrong. Money disappears, a sweater is ruined, small, common-place lies escalate into awkward confrontations. Livesey's...
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