Anthologies and Collections
Abercrombie, Barbara. A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration & Encouragement
(reviewed by Linda Wisniewski)
Anthologies/Collections; Creative Life
Albert, Susan Wittig & Dayna Finet, editors. With Courage and Common Sense: Memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles
(reviewed by PJ Pierce)
Anthologies/Collections; Elders ; Memoir
Albert, Susan Wittig, Susan Hanson, Jan Epton Seale, Paula Stallings Yost, editors. What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest
(reviewed by Linda Wisniewski)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir ; Nature/Place/Environment
Albert, Susan Wittig, Susan Hanson, Jan Epton Seale, Paula Stallings Yost, editors. What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir ; Nature/Place/Environment
Aldersmith, Nancy. Crocheted Gestures
(reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner)
Mainstream Fiction ; Anthologies/Collections
Anderson, Kyra & Vicki Forman, editors. Gravity Pulls You In: Perspectives on Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum
(reviewed by Judy Miller)
Anthologies/Collections; Life Lessons ; Relationships
Austin, People of. Writing Austin's Lives: A Community Portrait
(reviewed by Christine Gilbert)
Anthologies/Collections; Nature/Place/Environment
Avakian, Arlene Voski. Through the Kitchen Window: Women Writers Explore the Intimate Meaning of Food and Cooking
(reviewed by Trilla Pando)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir
Bell-Scott, Patricia, editor. Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women's Lives
(reviewed by Jazz Jaeschke)
Memoir ; Cultural/Gender Focus ; Anthologies/Collections
Blachman, Linda. Another Morning: Voices of Truth and Hope from Mothers with Cancer
(reviewed by Paula Stallings Yost)
Body Language ; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration ; Anthologies/Collections
Black, Hilary, editor. The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships
(reviewed by Susan M. Andrus)
Anthologies/Collections; Relationships ; Life Lessons
Bryson, Karen Mueller, Ph.D. Those They Left Behind: Interviews, Stories, Essays and Poems by Survivors of Suicide
(reviewed by Trilla Pando)
Memoir ; Anthologies/Collections; Life Lessons
Buley, Karen, RN, BSN. Nurses on the Run: Why They Come, Why They Stay
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
Anthologies/Collections; Life Lessons
Chittister, Joan. The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Anthologies/Collections; Life Lessons ; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration
Coyote, Ivan E. & Zena Sharman, editors. Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme
(reviewed by Mary Ann Moore)
Anthologies/Collections; Cultural/Gender Focus ; Lesbian/Bisexual/Transexual
Davis, Cynthia and Verner D. Mitchell, editors. Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman
(reviewed by Sharon Wildwind)
Anthologies/Collections; Ethnic Fiction ; Historical Fiction
Drouin, Wil and Jennifer Thomas. Butterfly Tears: Stories of Entrapment to Empowerment
(reviewed by Shawn LaTorre)
Life Lessons ; Memoir ; Anthologies/Collections
Edgar, Robin. Personal Legacies: Surviving the Great Depression
(reviewed by Peggy Talley)
Memoir ; Anthologies/Collections; History/Current Events
Flatau, Susie Kelly. From My Mother's Hands
(reviewed by Paula Stallings Yost)
Memoir ; Anthologies/Collections; Relationships
Flynn, Carolyn Brigit. Sisters Singing: Blessings, Prayers, Art, Songs, Poetry and Sacred Stories by Women
(reviewed by Becca Taylor)
Furman, Laura. The Mother Who Stayed
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
Anthologies/Collections; Mainstream Fiction
Ganahl, Jane. Single Women of a Certain Age: Romantic Escapades, Shifting Shapers, and Serene Independence
(reviewed by Trilla Pando)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir ; Cultural/Gender Focus
Giles, Laura. The Other Child: Children of Affairs
(reviewed by Lisa Shirah-Hiers)
Anthologies/Collections; Relationships ; Life Lessons
Goldman, Paula, editor. Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women
(reviewed by Duffie Bart)
History/Current Events ; Anthologies/Collections
Gubar, Susan. True Confessions: Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School
(reviewed by Judy Alter)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir ; Life Lessons
Hanauer, Cathi, editor. The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood and Marriage
(reviewed by Lisa Shirah-Hiers)
Anthologies/Collections; Relationships ; Life Lessons
Hasselstrom, Linda M. Between Grass and Sky: Where I Live and Work
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir ; Nature/Place/Environment
Hasselstrom, Linda M., Gaydell Collier, and Nancy Curtis. Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Memoir ; Anthologies/Collections; Nature/Place/Environment
Hegi, Ursula. Tearing the Silence
(reviewed by Duffie Bart)
Memoir ; History/Current Events ; Anthologies/Collections
Holmes, Kenneth L., editor. Best of Covered Wagon Women
(reviewed by Stephanie Barko)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir ; Travel/Adventure
Hudson, Kathleen. Women in Texas Music: Stories and Songs
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir ; Creative Life
Kreinin, Tamara & Barbara Camens. Girls' Night Out: Celebrating Women's Groups Across America
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Anthologies/Collections; Life Lessons
Lambright, Jeanie Sutton. They Also Served: Women's Stories from the World War II Era
(reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner)
History/Current Events ; Anthologies/Collections
Lamott, Anne. Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
(reviewed by Stephanie Barko)
Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration ; Anthologies/Collections
Lamott, Anne. Plan B
(reviewed by Susan Ideus)
Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration ; Anthologies/Collections
Lewis, Helen M. and Monica Appleby. Mountain Sisters: from Convent to Community in Appalachia
(reviewed by Sharon Wildwind)
Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration ; Anthologies/Collections
Mankiller, Wilma. Every Day is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women
(reviewed by Khadijah A.)
Life Lessons ; Nature/Place/Environment ; Cultural/Gender Focus ; Anthologies/Collections
Margolis, Elaine. Something Hidden
(reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner)
Martin, Courtney E. Martin & J. Courtney Sullivan, editors. Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists
(reviewed by B. Lynn Goodwin)
Anthologies/Collections; Cultural/Gender Focus
Martin, Wendy, editor. We Are the Stories We Tell: The Best Short Stories by North American Women Since 1945
(reviewed by Carolyn Blankenship)
Historical Fiction ; Anthologies/Collections
McCauley, Lucy, Amy G. Carlson & Jennifer Leo, editors. A Woman's Path
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Anthologies/Collections; Travel/Adventure ; Nature/Place/Environment
Miller, Susan Cummins, editor. A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir ; History/Current Events
Monosson, Emily, editor. Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out
(reviewed by Susan M. Andrus)
Anthologies/Collections; Cultural/Gender Focus ; Memoir
Munro, Alice. Too Much Happiness
(reviewed by Linda Joy Myers)
Literary/Classic Fiction ; Anthologies/Collections
Packer, Ann. Swim Back to Me
(reviewed by B. Lynn Goodwin)
Anthologies/Collections; Literary/Classic Fiction
Packer, ZZ. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Phillips, EJ. Woman: What She Has Done With Where She Has Been
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Life Lessons ; Anthologies/Collections
Pierce, PJ. Let Me Tell You What I've Learned: Texas Wisewomen Speak
(reviewed by Donna Van Straten Remmert)
Life Lessons ; Active Life ; Anthologies/Collections
Rose, Phyllis. The Norton Book of Women's Lives
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Ross, M. Jane, editor. Kitchen Table Stories
(reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner)
Anthologies/Collections; Food/Cooking/Kitchen ; Memoir
Rycraft, R.A. and Leslie What, editors. Winter Tales II: Women on the Art of Aging
(reviewed by Mary Ann Moore)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir ; Elders
Rycraft, R.A. and Leslie What, editors. Winter Tales II: Women on the Art of Aging
(reviewed by Ann McCauley)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir ; Elders
Scheffler, Judith, editor. Beyond the Corner Office: Essays by NineWomen
(reviewed by Carolyn Blankenship)
Anthologies/Collections; Active Life
Seale, Jan Epton. Airlift: Short Stories
(reviewed by Melanie Alberts)
Seale, Jan Epton. Airlift: Short Stories
(reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner)
Small, Betsy. Poems of Awakening: An International Anthology of Spiritual Poetry
(reviewed by Trilla Pando)
Anthologies/Collections; Poetry ; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration
Smallwood, Carol and Cynthia Brackett-Vincent. Contemporary American Women
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir
Smallwood, Carol and Suzann Holland. Women Writing on Family: Tips On Writing, Teaching, and Publishing
(reviewed by Judy Whelley)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir
Taylor, Carolyn Anne Taylor, Emily Dial-Driver, Carole Burrage, Sally Emmons-Featherston (editors). Voices from the Heartland
(reviewed by Joan Shaddox Isom)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir
Weinberg, Janet Amalia, editor. Still Going Strong: Memoirs, Stories, & Poems About Great Older Women
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir ; Elders
Yost, Paula Stallings and Pat McNees, editors. My Words are Gonna Linger: The Art of Personal History
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir
Zackheim, Victoria. Exit Laughing
(reviewed by Janet Caplan)
Anthologies/Collections; Life Lessons ; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration
Zirkelbach, Thelma, Barbara B. Rollins, Becky Haigler, Robyn Conley, editors. On Our Own: Widowhood for Smarties
(reviewed by Donna B. Russell)
Anthologies/Collections; Life Lessons