Fictional Wives……
Not All Housewives… Or Desperate!

The Housewife Blues
Warren Adler

Brick Lane
Monica Ali

Lady Oracle
Margaret Atwood

Inappropriate Men
Stacey Ballis

Open House
The Pull Of The Moon
Elizabeth Berg

Turning On The Girls
Cheryl Benard

Tara Road
Maeve Binchy

Wifey: An Adult Novel
Judy Blume

The Passion Of Dellie O'Barr
Cindy Bonner

A False Sense of Well Being
Jeanne Braselton

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
Elizabeth Buchan

The Widows Club
Dorothy Cannell

The Awakening
Kate Chopin

Rockville Pike: A Suburban Comedy Of Manners
Susan Coll

Amanda bright@home
Danielle Crittenden

The Summer I Dared
Barbara Delinsky

The Scandalous Summer of Sissy Le Blanc
Loraine Despres

The Summerhouse
Jude Deveraux

The Vinegar Jar
Berlie Doherty

Having It And Eating It
Sabine Durrant

The Mr. & Mrs. Club
Alan Emmet

The First Time
Joy Fielding

Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert

The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen

My Year With The Stork Club
Maureen Freely

The Saving Graces
Patricia Gaffney

Laelia
Ruth-Miriam Garnett

Jimmy's Girl
Stephanie Gertler

First Wives Club
Switcheroo
Olivia Goldsmith

The Perfect Wife
Jane Goodger

The Future Homemakers Of America
Laurie Graham

The End Of The Affair
Graham Greene

We Are All Fine Here
Mary Guterson

Mrs. Kimble
Jennifer Haigh

Distant Shores
Kristin Hannah

Footprints
Shelby Hearon

Cha Cha Cha
The Club
An Ex To Grind
Jane Heller

Losing The Moon
Patti Callahan Henry

Mrs. De Winter
Susan Hill

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

Compromising Positions
Susan Isaacs

Cover The Butter
Carrie Kabak

Diary Of A Mad Housewife
Sue Kaufman

Someone Like You
Cathy Kelly

The Sunday Wife
Cassandra King

Even Now
Susan Kelly

Dolores Claiborne
Stephen King

She's Come Undone
Wally Lamb

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
Lorna Landvik

Postcards From Berlin
Margaret Leroy

The Stepford Wives
Ira Levin

Thursdays At Eight
Debbie Macomber

The Marriage Bed
Regina McBride

Peyton Place
Grace Metalious

Fourplay
Jane Moore

Naked Sleeper
Sigrid Nunez

Playing Away
Adele Parks

Little Children
Tom Perrotta

The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath

Lucy Crocker 2.0
Caroline Preston

Step-Ball-Change
Jeanne Ray

Queen Bee Of Mimosa Branch
Haywood Smith

Single Wife
Nina Solomon

Crossing To Safety
Wallace Stegner

The Dieter
Susan Sussman

The Hot Flash Club
Nancy Thayer

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy

Lucia, Lucia
The Queen Of The Big Time
Adriana Trigiani

The Rector's Wife
Joanna Trollope

Ladder Of Years
Anne Tyler

Murdering Mr. Monti: A Merry Little Tale Of Sex And Violence
Judith Viorst

Nursery Crimes
Ayelet Waldman

The Lives And Loves Of A ‘She-Devil’
Fay Weldon

Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Little Altars Everywhere
Rebecca Wells

The Wedding
Dorothy West

Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf

St. Charles Public Library
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6/05