Intuition
by Allegra Goodman
The Peabody Sisters
by Megan Marshall
The Emperor’s Children
by Claire Messud
Liars and Saints
by Maile Meloy
The Whole World Over
by Julia Glass
Something Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America
by Laura Shapiro
Imperial Reckoning
by Caroline Elkins
[Also see Atlantic Interview with Caroline Elkins]
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
The News from Paraguay
by Lily Tuck
A Changed Man
by Francine Prose
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
by Margaret Atwood
Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families
by Leslie Morgan Steiner
Dispatches from a Not-so-Perfect Life
by Faulkner Fox
My Father Is a Book
by Janna Malamund Smith
A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
by Catherine Allgor
The Hazards of Good Breeding
by Jessica Shattuck
Tolstoy Lied
by Rachel Kadish
The Secret Daughter
by June Cross
A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars
by Cristina Rathbone
The Tequila Worm
by Viola Canales
Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women’s Changing Lives
by Anna Fels
This Side of Married
by Rachel Pastan
I Had Brain Surgery, What’s Your Excuse?
by Suzy Becker
No Hair Day
by Elsa Dorfman
Inheritance
by Lan Samantha Chang
Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths
by Mary Lefkowitz
Making an Exit
by Elinor Fuchs
Quirky Kids
by Perri Klass and Eileen Costello
The Unsayable
by Annie G. Rogers
Pearl
by Mary Gordon
Truth, Torture and the American Way
by Jennifer K. Harbury
North of Ithaka
by Eleni N. Gage
Mistress Bradstreet
by Charlotte Gordon
The Other Insect Societies
by James T. Costa
Once Removed
by Mako Yoshikawa
Also, at The Atlantic.com…
The Best Book I Read This Year: Adam Goodheart’s 1861
Also see:
* Atlantic interviews by Sage Stossel
* More Atlantic and Atlantic.com writings by Sage Stossel