Desperate Housewives

The television show “Desperate Housewives” has spawned an interest in fiction that portrays realistic women. These titles were originally part of a list compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction List mailing list. Books on the list below show only those titles owned by MCPL.

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Ali, Monica - Brick Lane
Aristophanes - Lysistrata
Atwood, Margaret - Lady Oracle
Berg, Elizabeth - Open House
Binchy, Maeve - Tara Road
Blume, Judy - Wifey
Braselton, Jeanne - A False Sense of Well-Being
Buchan, Elizabeth - Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
Cannell, Dorothy - The Widow's Club
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Coll, Susan - Rockville Pike
Crittenden, Danielle - Amanda.bright@home
Delinsky, Barbara - The Summer I Dared
Despres, Loraine - The Scandalous Summer of Sissy Le Blank
Deveraux, Jude - Summerhouse
Doherty, Berlie - The Vinegar Jar
Fielding, Joy - The First Time
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Fraser, Laura - An Italian Affair
Frazen, Jonathan - The Corrections
Gaffney, Patrica - The Saving Graces
Gertler, Stephanie - Jimmy's Girl
Graham, Laurie - The Future Homemakers of America
Greene, Graham - The End of the Affair
Guterson, Mary - We Are All Fine Here
Haigh, Jennifer - Mrs. Kimble
Hannah, Kristin - Distant Shores
Hearon, Shelby - Footprints
Heller, Jane - Cha Cha Cha
Henry, Patti Callahan - Losing the Moon
Hill, Susan - Mrs. De Winter
Isaacs, Susan - Compromising Positions
Kabak, Carrie - Cover the Butter
Kelly, Cathy - Someone Like You
King, Cassandra - The Sunday Wife
Kelly, Susan - Even Now
King, Stephen - Dolores Claiborne
Lamb, Wally - She's Come Undone
Landvik, Lorna - Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
Leroy, Margaret - Postcards from Berlin
Levin, Ira - The Stepford Wives
Macomber, Debbie - Thursdays at Eight
McBride, Regina - The Marriage Bed
Metalious, Grace - Peyton Place
Nunez, Sigird - Naked Sleeper
Persotta, Tom - Little Children
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Preston, Caroling - Lucy Crocker 2.0
Ray, Jeanne - Step-Ball Change
Small, Beatrice - Private Pleasures
Smith, Haywood - Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch
Soloman, Nina - Single Wife
Stegner, Wallace - Crossing to Safety
Sullivan, Faith - Mrs. Demming and the Mythical Beast
Thayer, Nancy - The Hot Flash Club
Tolstoy, Leo - Anne Karenina
Trigiani, Adrienne - Lucia, Lucia
Trollope, Joanna - The Rector's Wife
Tyler, Anne - Ladder of Years
Viorst, Judith - Murdering Mr. Monti
Waldman, Ayelet - Nursery Crimes
Wells, Rebecca - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
West, Dorothy - The Wedding
Wolitzer, Meg - The Wife
Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway