Thirteen titles that celebrate female friendship

Elizabeth Wellington Rollins is a writer and author of the forthcoming novel The Three Graces of Pearl Street, slated for publication in fall 2026. Her work has appeared in BBC, Condé Nast Traveler, The Week, Travel + Leisure, and Vogue.

At People magazine she tagged thirteen novels "that capture the complex friendships between women in every shade of light and dark." One title on the list:

Kin by Tayari Jones

In this breathtaking dual coming-of-age story, two motherless girls from the Jim Crow South take different paths into adulthood while holding onto the bond that sustained them through childhood.

Read about the other novels on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue