Women's Domestic Life Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors
- by Maurene Goo
- Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
A funny and fresh love story of a woman thrown a curveball by fate, and the family secret that will make her question everything. She knows what her happily ever...
- by Aria Aber
- Fiction, Friendship Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery—“a stunning coming-of-age story” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a portrait of the artist as a...
- Coming of Age, Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife—in the...
- Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A bold and inventive novel about real romance in the virtual workplace—bringing Castillo’s trademark wit and sharp cultural criticism to an irresistible story about the possible future of love. Girlie...
- Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A darkly whimsical debut about women daring to live and create with impunity. Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother...
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom—and her family’s ties to it—in this enthralling novel by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Nikki hasn’t seen her grandmother in years. So...
- Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive novel...
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Inspired by the life of Easton’s grandmother, White Mulberry is a rich, deeply moving portrait of a young Korean woman in 1930s Japan who is torn between two worlds and...
- Family Life, Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
In this “rare feast” of a novel, a young Indian American book editor inherits her estranged family’s ancestral home–and their long-buried secrets (Rachel Lyon, author of Self-Portrait With Boy). It...
- by Lisa Ko
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life? In the early 1980s, Giselle...
- by Kevin Kwan
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
From the iconic internationally bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy: A forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding in this outrageous comedy of manners. Rufus Leung...
- by Yasmin Zaher
- City Life Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman’s unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags,...
- by Weike Wang
- Family Life, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be anyone but herself. Joan is a thirtysomething ICU doctor at a busy New York City...
- by Sonali Dev
- Fiction, Friendship Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
Living on their own terms means being there for one another. When sixty-five-year-old Bindu Desai inherits a million dollars, she’s astounded―and horrified. The windfall threatens to expose a shameful mistake...
- Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2022
Despite an embarrassing, alcoholic mother, Noomi Wadia is loathe to change her own hard-partying ways simply because it’s what’s expected in Kamalpur high society. As her peers begin to marry...
- by Cho Nam-joo
- Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2021
One of the most notable novels of the year, hailed by both critics and K-pop stars alike, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of...
- by Kevin Kwan
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, Romantic Comedy, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2020
The author of the international phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians takes us from Capri to NYC, where a young woman finds herself torn between two men—and two very different cultures. On...
- by Yaa Gyasi
- Black Fiction, Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2020
A powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.
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- Fiction, Murder Thrillers, Thrillers & Suspense, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2018
A short, darkly funny, hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. “Femi makes three, you know....