![]() ![]() We definitely want to look at Flowers in the Attic (1979) for no other reason than Kate has never read it. Some of it will be bestselling fiction written by women that may not have been categorised as “women’s fiction” when published or even now.Īt the moment we’re not considering any books published later than the early 1990s because we want at least twenty years distance from what we read. Yet now some of these books are being taught in university and they’re all back in print or have remained in print.īut we’ll be pretty broad in what we consider as women’s fiction. ![]() Because usually books like Valley of the Dolls (1966) and Rona Jaffe’s The Best of Everything (1958) and Grace Metalious’s Peyton Place (1958) are considered to be, at best, middle brow. And, of course, we also wanted to see how well the bestselling and most long lasting of the books with that label stand up. We’re both curious about the whole idea of the publishing category of “women’s fiction.” Particularly how and when that label started. We’d love to hear your thoughts on it too. A post with both our takes on it will go up here on 12 March (in the USA) 13 March (in Australia). First book we’ll discuss is Jacqueline Susann’s The Valley of the Dolls. Kate Elliott and I have started a book club to talk about bestselling women’s fiction. ![]()
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