Genre Study – Relationship Fiction: Crossovers – Literary & Historical Fiction
June 5 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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: Crossovers: Literary & Historical Fiction
The meeting will be on Thursday, June 5 from 2-4pm in-person at the Lisle Library District and will kick off our venture into relationship fiction crossovers with other genres. Read two books, one literary fiction and one historical fiction. Below is a list of suggestions of titles and authors; feel free to choose your own as well.
Literary Fiction
- The Mothers by Brit Bennett
- Class Mom by Laurie Gelman
- Three Junes by Julia Glass
- The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
- Bear by Julia Phillips
- Dream State by Eric Puchner
- Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran
- My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
- Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Historical Fiction
- In a League of Her Own by Kaia Alderson
- Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
- Sister Mother Warrior by Vanessa Riley
- Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
- The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
- The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
- Goodnight, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea
- Husbands & Lovers by Beatriz Williams