If you're anything like us, The Hunting Wives has suddenly (and very fully) taken up your TV time. There's just something about this sapphic, soap-inspired series that just hits right as a late summer binge. If you've already finished the season and are still reeling from that ending, here are 6 books you can read while you wait for season 2!
Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis
This award winning debut novel follows a young woman and her partner as they go on a 10-day trip with two other queer-couples. What follows is a mess of seduction, infatuation, and propuslive rage.
What makes this The Hunting Wives core?
- Older, rich lesbians
- Late night confessionals
- Shifting motivations
- Infatuation
- Destruction
- Unbridled female rage
Sedating Elaine by Dawn Winter
This dark comedy about a young woman looking for a way to escape her girlfriend (and her drug dealer) for a few days is one of the zanniest books we've read. Its brash. It's funny. It's also, shockingly emotional.
What makes this The Hunting Wives core?
- Sexy, grief-filled, and guilt-ridden women with bones to pick with drug dealers
- Sketchy ends justifying even sketchier means
A Good Happy Girl by Marissa Higgins
A women with a habit towards self-destruction pursues a charged relationship with a married lesbian couple. This is a provocative, intimate story that will leave you reeling.
What makes this The Hunting Wives core?
- Emotionally intense relationship with a married couple
- Women doing whatever they can to get whatever they want
One of Us Is Dead by Jeneva Rose
This is Desperate Housewives in book form. The wives of high society are out for revenge no matter the cost. This book takes the term "mean girl" to a whole other level.
What makes this The Hunting Wives core?
- Schemes, murder, & mean girls
- Rich housewives with too much time on their hands
- Roxic friendships
- Scandal galore
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
A sex-therapist's assistant becomes obsessed with a married patient and is determined to do whatever she must to continue seeing her. This book took the literary fiction scene by storm and it's hard to not see why.
What makes this The Hunting Wives core?
- Infatuation with a repressed married woman
- Guilt and enmeshment
My Summer Darlings by May Cobb
We may be cheating a bit, because this one is another book by May Cobb, the original author of The Hunting Wives. It's another sultry, Texas-based thriller about wealthy women with too much time on their hands.
What makes this The Hunting Wives core?
- East Texas locale
- Tight-knit friendships
- Day drinking & gossip sessions
- Sinister obsessions
And, of course, if you haven't already, make sure to read the book that inspired the Netflix Series.
