Galentines: Books About Female Friendship
I feel so lucky to have amazing friends in my life. When it comes to this time of year, I love to celebrate them! I love Valentine’s Day for the roses and chocolates and fun but the best part is Galentine’s Day and Palentine’s Day. I believe in celebrating the little things and people in our lives!
Mom Jeans and Other Mistakes by Alexa Martin
If I haven’t raved about this 2021 release enough, I’m going to do it again. I LOVED this book and loved my interview with Alexa Martin on the podcast even more. I love Jude, an accidental influencer, and Lauren, a single mom, who are lifelong best friends both going through it. They decide to move in together with Lauren’s young daughter as they both navigate the next phase of their lives. It’s SO good. I flew through it!
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Two best friends with big dancing dreams, but only one has the talent to make it. This book spans continents as the two women find themselves struggling in their adult lives for different reasons. It’s about music, profound inequality, and what it truly means find yourself.
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
I haven’t read this book yet but it sounds heartbreaking and poignant, about the struggles faced by women, especially women of color, and the effect of trauma in the formative years, through the lens of another side of the place they call home.
A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
This COVER. 2. I think this book is particularly great on audio! It’s about a siren, Tavia, who must hide her powers, and Effie, who is working through (literal) demons from her past. Everything changes when their home is no longer safe after a siren murder and Tavia lets her voice out at the worst possible moment. It’s a story of everlasting sisterhood.
Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares
Who grew up reading The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants? I was quite obsessed. I remember when this book came out how excited I was to catch up with the girls. This book definitely takes a different turn than I would have ever imagined (Content Warnings for cancer, death, mentions of suicide, grief) but it still evokes that feeling we loved so much: we can grow apart but it will never take away what we had.
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
This is a book that is fresh and honest about a flawed character, which is the kind of character I love. None of us are perfect so who are we to judge? Queenie is a Jamaican British woman who feels she is straddling two cultures and after a break up with her long term white boyfriend, turns to the wrong people to find herself again.
The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
This is a recent read of mine and wow wow wow. It’s a luminous story about the people we meet along the way in life and how sometimes, people more than a place, can feel like home.
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
This is one of those books I feel like everyone or no one has read. It spans multiple decades between two friends and how their lives change. It’s also a Netflix series!
You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria
While this may be a Romance (and one of my favorites of all time) and the couple takes center stage, this is the first book in the Primas of Power universe. It follows a group of friends and cousins as they all find their happily ever afters.
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
And for my fans of dystopian fiction…look no further. In this society, girls are sent away for a year, their “Grace Year” and not everyone returns…