Smart Vs. Pretty
10 best books like Smart Vs. Pretty (Valerie Frankel): Five Quarters of the Orange, The Friday Night Knitting Club, The Last Girls, The Courts of Love, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood, The Quality of Mercy, The Saving Graces, City of Masks, Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Odd Apocalypse
Five Quarters of the Orange
| Author | Joanne Harris |
| ISBN | 0060958022 |
The novels of Joanne Harris are a literary feast for the senses. Five Quarters of the Orange represents Harris's most complex and sophisticated work yet - a novel in which darkness and fierce joy come together to create an unforgettable story.
When Framboise Simon returns to a small village...
The Friday Night Knitting Club
| Author | Kate Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0399154094 |
Once a week, an eclectic group of women comes together at a New York City yarn shop to work on their latest projects - and share the stories of their lives...
At the center of Walker and Daughter is the shop's owner, Georgia, who is overwhelmed with juggling the store and single-handedly raising...
| Author | Lee Smith |
| ISBN | 0345464958 |
Revered for her powerful female characters, Lee Smith tells a perceptive story of how college pals who grew up in an era when they were still called "girls" have negotiated life as women. Harriet Holding is a hesitant teacher who has never married (she can't explain why, even to herself). Courtney Gray...
| Author | Jean Plaidy |
| ISBN | 1400082501 |
When I look back over my long and tempestuous life, I can see that much of what happened to me—my triumphs and most of my misfortunes—was due to my passionate relationships with men. I was a woman who considered herself their equal—and in many ways their superior—but it seemed that I depended...
Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
| Author | Ann Brashares |
| ISBN | 0385729367 |
With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer.
Lena: Immerses herself in her painting and an intoxicating summer fling, fearing that the moment she forgets about Kostos will be the moment she sees him again.
Carmen: Falls under the...
| Author | Faye Kellerman |
| ISBN | 0380732696 |
Rebecca Lopez enjoys a life of privilege in Elizabeth's England -- yet she guards secrets she dares not reveal. The beautiful, tempestuous daughter of the queen's own physician, Rebecca is also a converso -- a Jew who practices her prohibited religion clandestinely -- helping others of her banned...
| Author | Patricia Gaffney |
| ISBN | 0060598328 |
Meet The Saving Graces, Four Of The Best Friends A Woman Can Ever Have.
For ten years, Emma, Rudy, Lee, and Isabel have shared a deep affection that has helped them deal with the ebb and flow of expectations and disappointments common to us all. Calling themselves the Saving Graces, the quartet...
| Author | Mary Hoffman |
| ISBN | 1582349177 |
Lucien is seriously ill but his life is transformed when an old Italian notebook gives him the power to become a stravagante, a time traveller with access to 16th century Italy. He wakes up in Bellezza (Venice) during carnival time and meets Arianna, a girl his own age who is disguised as a boy in the hope...
A professor invites a colleague from the art department to his home to view a painting he has kept secret for decades in Susan Vreeland's powerful historical novel, Girl in Hyacinth Blue. The professor swears it's a Vermeer -- but why exactly has he kept it hidden so long? The reasons unfold in a gripping...
| Author | Dean Koontz |
| ISBN | 0307990672 |
Once presided over by a Roaring ’20s Hollywood mogul, the magnificent West Coast estate known as Roseland now harbors a reclusive billionaire financier and his faithful servants—and their guests: Odd Thomas, the young fry cook who sees the dead and tries to help them, and Annamaria, his inscrutably...
| Author | Joseph Kanon |
| ISBN | 0312426089 |
With World War II finally ending, Jake Geismar, former Berlin correspondent for CBS, has wangled one of the coveted press slots for the Potsdam Conference. His assignment: a series of articles on the Allied occupation. His personal agenda: to find Lena, the German mistress he left behind at the outbreak...
| Author | Clare Naylor |
| ISBN | 0345465393 |
Yesterday, Liv Elliot had it all: a great flat in London’s Notting Hill, an actual career (okay, as an accountant), and a coveted fiancé. Every girl’s dream, right? But then Tim declared that the wedding was off—leaving Liv shell-shocked. Luckily, she’s got her best friend’s fab Australian...
| Author | Sarah Sundin |
| ISBN | 0800727975 |
In 1944, American naval officer Lt. Wyatt Paxton arrives in London to prepare for the Allied invasion of France. He works closely with Dorothy Fairfax, a "Wren" in the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), who pieces together reconnaissance photographs with holiday snapshots of France—including...
| Author | Lucy Sykes |
| ISBN | 0385541805 |
From the bestselling authors of The Knockoff, an outrageously funny novel about one woman's attempt--through clay diets, naked yoga, green juice, and cultish workout classes--to win back her career, save her best friend, and lose thirty pounds.
When Janey Sweet, CEO of a couture wedding...
| Author | Sarah Stonich |
| ISBN | 0316815586 |
An intimate story of friendship, a portrait of marriage, and a glimpse into the depths of loss - set in 1930's USA.
On her deathbed, Isobel—mother, wife, and hat maker—recalls the haunting and fateful summer of 1936 when her world was transformed. After her husband Victor takes their sons...
| Author | Reynolds Price |
| ISBN | 0743204182 |
Having given voice in previous novels to the extraordinary Kate Vaiden, Blue Calhoun, and Roxanna Slade, Reynolds Price -- one of America's most respected men of letters -- adds Noble Norfleet to his gallery of compelling portraits.
A few days before Noble Norfleet's eighteenth birthday, his...
| Author | Lydia Adamson |
| ISBN | 0451167872 |
Well, that was a strange experience.
This is not your typical "cat cosy mystery." The cats themselves don't participate in the detection process at all, thank goodness. The human amateur doesn't really do much detecting as such--she tends to happen on things quite by chance, corpses as well...
| Author | Martha Grimes |
| ISBN | 0451205235 |
"We all have cracks and don't know it; we are all pretty windy."
Emma Graham is one of my all-time favorite characters in literature. I love her unique wisdom that fits like a perfect puzzle piece with her youthful imagination.
The way Martha Grimes writes is like having a voice in your...
