Our 2024-2025 genre study provides an overview of relationship fiction by looking at key authors, tropes, and themes. The study will also explore crossover appeal with various genres.
Relationship Fiction Genre Study: Issue-Oriented
The meeting will be on Thursday, June 6th from 2-4pm in-person at the Lisle Library District. We will be discussing Issue-Oriented Relationship Fiction. Read two books with this theme. Below is a list of suggestions of titles and authors, but feel free to choose your own as well.
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen
The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
How to Walk Away by Katherine Center
The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky
One Month of You by Suzanne Ewart
A Good Neighborhood by Therese Ann Fowler
Family Family by Laurie Frankel
Summer Secrets by Jane Green
Our Best Intentions by Vibhuti Jain
The Object of Your Affections by Falguni Kothari
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
We Are the Light by Matthew Quick
All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner