The Summer Before the Dark

Doris Lessing

Don't Be a Stranger

Susan Minot

Sandwich

Catherine Newman

The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Deborah Levy

Same As It Ever Was

Claire Lombardo

Big Swiss

Jen Beagin

Killers of a Certain Age

Deanna Raybourn

The Change

Kirsten Miller

She’s Come Undone

Wally Lamb

Convenience Store Woman

Sayaka Murata

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout

All's Well

Mona Awad

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Fannie Flagg

Breasts and Eggs

Mieko Kawakami

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

Jenny Lawson

Remnant Population

Elizabeth Moon

Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Magical Midlife Madness

K.F. Breene

Small Change

Elizabeth Hay

Britt-Marie Was Here

Fredrik Backman

Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

Ada Calhoun

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Maria Semple

Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert

The Rough Patch: Marriage and the Art of Living Together

Daphne de Marneffe

To Throw Away Unopened: A Memoir

Viv Albertine

Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions

Briallen Hopper

The Wild Oats Project

Robin Rinaldi

The Dangerous Age

Karin Michaëlis

Mrs. Fletcher

Tom Perrotta

I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

Glynnis MacNicol