Ready for Week Three in my revealing of the RUSA’s Genre Awards for 2008…?

First we tackled the Adrenaline winners, then the best in Historical Fiction. This week:  Women’s Fiction!  So, I think we should probably discuss what this genre means in an upcoming post…  with the obvious follow-up question regarding what would be considered “Men’s Fiction” — I bet we all know what both of these genres would most likely contain, but naming can be so tricky, can’t it!?

Anyway, we will table that discussion for a future post…  Here are the RUSA’s picks for the best Women’s Fiction for 2008:

Every Last Cuckoo by Kate Maloy

Set against the richly textured landscape of rural Vermont, Maloy’s optimistic and heartwarming novel chronicles one woman’s experience of widowhood as she remembers the pains and pleasures of her long marriage and moves into a new phase of her life.

Read-Alikes:

• Broken for You byStephanie Kallos  (loved this!!)
• The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys
• The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg

Shortlist

• Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos  (my review of Belong to Me)
• Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner   (my review of Certain Girls)
• The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen  (loved Garden Spells…)
• Thank You for All Things by Sandra Kring

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