Category: Women’s Fiction

Narrated by Amy McFadden By the Book is a loose modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Because I am a Philistine, I have not read any Austen, but I have seen the various movie versions so I know the basic…

Narration by Therese Plummer If you’re looking for a women’s fiction title full of stories that remind of you of the ties that bind sisters and mothers and daughters, as well as family in general, with a good dollop of romance,…

Narrated by Xe Sands Nora Stuart left her small town of Scupper Island, Maine, after high school to head to the Big City with a full scholarship to Tufts U. She also left her identity as an overweight, awkward and…

Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld When I read The Jane Austen Project a few months back, I admit that I approached it with some trepidation. Two people travelling back in time to meet Jane Austen and retrieve a previously unpublished manuscript…

Narrated by Julie McKay and Dara Rosenberg The Wicked City tells the story of two very different women who live in New York City at very different times. In 1998, Ella Gilbert has just left her husband, and in 1924,…

Narrated by Joelle A. Jacob As I was perusing the new releases at Audible, the cover of The Breakup Doctor caught my eye – it’s pure Chick Lit, promising wit and whimsy in a cute, contemporary romance. So I took the…

Narrated by Teri Clark Linden Rescue Me, Maybe is marketed under the Romance Category at Audible.com as Chick Lit – a genre that I usually associate with young career women in an urban area wearing expensive brand name shoes, told…

Narrated by Xe Sands and Amy Rubinate Kristan Higgins took a little step outside of her usual humorous small-town romance with If You Only Knew, which is more of a women’s fiction genre book than romance. The story is written…

Narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal I liked the blurb of Life After Perfect when I read it. I hoped for a book similar to Robyn Carr’s Virgin River. There were some similarities in the set up; a woman moves to…