Share a Book with Your Besties for Galentine's Day

Choose from 14 powerful titles that focus on female friendships

Women's friendships are like a renewable source of power.–Jane Fonda

Getting ready to celebrate Galentine's Day on February 13 with your BFFs? This year, we've got exclusive new Galentine's Day designed ThriftBooks e-Gift Cards for you to send to all your closest gal pals, because what's better than bonding over a good book with your girlfriends. Or select something perfect for your ride-or-dies from this list of fourteen powerful books that focus on female friendships.

The best books for (and about) BFFs

Parks and Recreation: The Official Galentine's Day Guide
Join America's most upbeat public servant, Leslie Knope, in the year's best tradition—ladies celebrating ladies! Complete with food and drink recipes, DIY decorations, ideas for party activities, and more, this official guide will help you throw an inspired Galentine's Day party for the women in your life.

Yes Please by Amy Poehler
From the comedy genius who brought Leslie Knope to hilarious life, this delightful memoir offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much), like when to be funny and when to be serious.

Wahala by Nikki May
When the high-flying, charismatic Isobel explodes into their group, it seems at first she's bringing out the best in Anglo-Nigerian best friends Ronke, Simi, and Boo. But the more Isobel intervenes, the more chaos she sows and soon the group's long-standing bonds begin to crack.

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
At a poetry performance one night in Dublin, performers and best friends Frances and Bobbi catch the attention of a well-known photographer who draws the younger women into her sophisticated world. Written with gemlike precision and a sly sense of humor, this novel traces the messy edges of female friendship.

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Born a generation apart, Mariam and Laila are two Afghan women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them, they come to form a bond that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation.

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
The acclaimed first installment of the sweeping Neapolitan quartet establishes the lifelong bond between the fiery and unforgettable Lila and Elena, the bookish narrator. After meeting as ten-year-olds in post-war Italy, the two maintain a complex friendship as they grow into women, wives, mothers, and leaders.

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
In 1949 four Chinese women—drawn together by the shadow of their past-begin meeting in San Francisco to play mahjong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Now forty years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter has come to take her place.

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
The hosts of the hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend tell the story of their equally messy and life-affirming bond. Known for their frank and intimate conversations, they bring that energy to this honest and hilarious book—a testament to the power and importance of friendship.

Sula by Toni Morrison
Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma's girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear.

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writer's Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. This tender, brutal memoir is a portrait of their unwavering decades-long commitment to one another.

The Color of Our Sky by Amita Trasi
India, 1986: In an attempt to escape her fate of following her mother and grandmother into prostitution, ten-year-old Mukta becomes a house girl for an upper-middle class family in Mumbai. There she finds a healing friendship in eight-year-old Tara. But one fateful night, everything changes forever.

Everything I Know about Love by Dolly Alderton
Glittering with heart and humor, this witty, insightful memoir weaves together a mix of stories, insights, and more that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age. Like Bridget Jones's Diary but all true, this is a book about bad dates, good friends and—above all else—realizing that you are enough.

Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes
Nisha Cantor and Sam Kemp are two women with very different lives. But when Sam accidentally grabs Nisha's black gym bag instead of her own, they suddenly  find themselves standing, quite literally, in one another's shoes. This is a story of mix-ups, mess-ups, and finding friends in unexpected places. 

The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
In the male-dominated field of animation, Mel and Sharon, best friends and artistic partners since college, are a dynamic duo. Now, after a decade of striving, they stand on the cusp of making it big. But with success comes doubt and destruction, threatening the delicate balance of their partnership.

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