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6 Fiction Books to Read for Women’s History Month
By Mary Kay McBrayer
If you’re craving works of fiction by women and about women for Women’s History Month, here’s a list of six novels that might start you off!
When Pauline Sinclair turns ninety-nine years old, the house she built stone by stone on the ruins of a plantation in her rural Jamaican village starts to rattle and shake. She knows she won’t make it to one hundred, so she enlists her American granddaughter and a nearby teenager, Lamont, to help her search for the people she has wronged to try to make right the secrets of her past… even as more secrets are revealed.
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Ciara Fay is pregnant when she gets the impulse to take her two daughters and leave her husband. To everyone else, her life is perfect, but she knows she’s doing the right thing as she grabs clothes off the line, straps the kids into the car, and flees her husband’s rages and emotional abuse. The broken housing system to which she leaves has the three of them living on takeout in a hotel where they have to do laundry in the sink, and it’s then that her husband’s gaslighting and win-you-back behaviors start to make her falter.
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The new Mayor, Delizia Miccuci realizes just after she barely wins the election against an elderly donkey, that her Italian town is dying. While the few locals gather at the rustic Bar Celebrita to rehash the same arguments and down espresso, the truffle hunter Giovanni Scarpazza finds a giant truffle that might change their fates forever.
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Fidelis Ewerike settles his family in Florida after the traumatizing Nigerian Civil War. He’s a barrister now, but when his survivor’s guilt and post-traumatic stress start to see too many similarities between his daughter and his sister who went missing during the war, he locks his child in her room to protect her. Her mother doesn’t agree, but her efforts to free their child don’t help, so she’s convinced the generational curse on her family has resurfaced. She asks for help from the local preacher and they all try to find their footing in the aftermath of trauma.
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The Sables have controlled St. Louis’ African American vote for decades, but when tragedy disrupts the legacy of their prosperous funeral home, the political boss and patriarch has to turn to an unconventional solution.
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After a fatal car accident took the lives of her father and baby sister—but allowed her, her older sister, and mother to survive—Aria’s relationship with them becomes strained through grief. Now, she teaches literacy and shares an apartment with her best friend. But when Aria unexpectedly conceives, she has to reevaluate the life she’s built for herself as it reels in an unprecedented direction.
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Mary Kay McBrayer is the author of Madame Queen: The Life and Crimes of Harlem’s Underground Racketeer, Stephanie St. Clair and America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster. You can find her short works on history, true crime, and horror at Oxford American,Narratively, Mental Floss, and FANGORIA, among other publications. She hosts the podcast about women in true crime who are not just victims, The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told. Follow Mary Kay McBrayer on Instagram and Twitter, or check out her author site here.
