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gloriously unapologetic competitor, an emotionally closed off romantic partner, a dedicated daughter, and a woman And her dedicated manager Gwen is an inspiring, strong, independent woman who believes in any goal Carrie

character-driven mystery offers an imperfect, unassuming heroine obsessed with solving the cold cases of missing women She's an unassuming middle-aged woman and a recovering alcoholic who has a compulsion: to locate missing women and girls the authorities haven't been able to find. Frankie travels the country tracking lost women, moving into communities with little more than a change She cares about the women she's seeking, and she's not afraid to ask uncomfortable questions.

Namesake is the second and, sadly, final book in Young's duology about the wonderfully strong, ruthless , clever young seafaring woman, Fable.

Stephenson was a con man and womanizer who had told enough enormous lies to reinvent himself into one He was no protector of women’s virtue, but a violent predator. But when he met a young woman and promised her career assistance, then abused his position, she threatened

hand, and dabbling in the Sami traditions of runes, poppets, or the playing of drums—or simply being a strong-willed woman helping to feed a village by manning fishing boats when the men are all lost—is enough to lead said to be humorous, and it includes Vikings, seafaring adventure, “nefarious company,” a town run by women The main protagonist Kristin is a headstrong woman, and she escapes a convent for love. Check.

Greene was a fair-skinned Black woman who hid her heritage in order to serve in this powerful role—one that was unusual for a woman to serve in at the time, and which would have been all but impossible for a Black woman to fill because of racism and the race-based constraints of the day. Morgan's potential open-mindedness about race seem wildly optimistic in light of his voiced views about women Christie, The Only Woman in the Room, Carnegie's Maid, and Lady Clementine.

02 The Last Legacy by Adrienne Young In Young's story, loosely set in the world of her Fable series, strong I was thrilled to find that Young's wonderful, signature strong-young-female protagonist-in-a-man's-world A strange fellow offers to lead Ollie to Gwen. In Hartman's Tess of the Road, Tess doesn't fit the mold of an obedient, quiet young woman in her medieval

Hartnett evokes a sense of place so strong, the town felt like a character itself. Unlikely Animals is sweet and wonderfully strange, and Hartnett employs a light touch and thoughtful

For my full review, check out The Love of My Life. 03 A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock #1) by A Study in Scarlet Women, the first in her Lady Sherlock series, presents Charlotte Holmes, a clever, forward-thinking, independent woman trapped in the Victorian age, a time in which women have little Click here for my full review of A Study in Scarlet Women. 04 Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier , she uses a fascinating story structure to explore different potential paths for interlinked young women

The first in the series sets up a strong young Black heroine who bucks tradition as she explores her wholly independent network of magic, inheritance, bucking expectations, and pending danger for her strong

There's an enormous career shift that felt an awful lot like a woman giving up a career for a guy, although As a former Mainer, I loved that the book was set in Maine, but I didn't get a strong sense of the place

are lied to about their bodies; where women are objects of sexual desire but not subjects of sexual pleasure; where sex is used as a weapon against women; and where women believe their bodies are broken And I am done living in a world where women are trained from birth to treat their bodies as the enemy Come As You Are is about the way women's sexuality works and why. how feelings are at the center of women's sexuality; and explain how women's sexuality is as varied

The women realize they may know too much about where the bodies are buried--literally--to be allowed I loved the women's complicated bonds, their crafty planning, their fights for justice, and their ability Yet Kingsolver keeps Demon's voice strong even as he falters and as everything he has counted on seems morning self-greeting), but I thoroughly enjoyed and felt calmed by listening to this wise, kind, savvy woman

One standout for me was the strength of the women in the face of men's abuses of power and physical cruelty gender roles and the reimagining of a rigid faith, marriage/child/parental/educational expectations for women , adventure, strong female loyalty and friendship, love, and lots of fascinating details of life at the a young volunteer, Bridie, over the course of three tumultuous days as the fiery, complex, capable women Donoghue immersed me so fully in the moment-by-moment health and emotional crises; the women's determined

company...but she and her grandmother are folded into what feels like an oddly tight-knit community of women about the premise of a sleek, powerful company serving as a front for a coven of witches pulling the strings

I was taken with the first half of this book--a rural cult, a teen mother, a strong female protagonist Self-pity from a man was something she could not abide, not when she had a woman's issues to deal with The Invisible Hour begins with the story of Ivy, a feisty young woman who becomes pregnant, is threatened

The friends-like-family element and deep loyalty is strong among the members of Jack's group, and the

and the rigid views of the period about women, marriage, sex, politics, public and private behavior—and between what feels frivolous and what is Ava's meaningful growth, including her important role in the women Meanwhile, privileged Charlotte has her own secrets, and when both women's true situations begin to be detail the hardscrabble life of a newly freed black person—and the often desperate circumstances of women (especially black women) without men to protect them at the time.

01 Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian Bohjalian's newest book takes place in 1662 Boston, where strong-willed women like young Mary Deerfield are suspicious and frequently considered dangerous.

late grandmother, based on voicemails from and exchanges with with the formidable, fiercely loving woman She's reporting on the case of Meena, a Hindu woman who was brutally punished by her village and her Through Bell's voice we also learn what has shaped the other women of the family: we hear rich stories the difficult relationship between Bobby and her daughter (Kalb's mother) and how it affected each woman's Rebecca Donner's nonfiction work All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days is The True Story of the American Woman

series by Rachel Hartman; and I'm listening to Harrow the Ninth, the second in Tamsyn Muir's very dark, strange It's the perfect reentry to the wonderfully cheeky, strong, faulted character of Tess as she tries yet

Story, Dana Schwartz's young adult gothic mystery, it's 1817 in Edinburgh, and Hazel Sinnett is a young woman desperate to become something women in her time do not: a surgeon. But when she's kicked out of his lectures because she's a woman, she realizes a chance encounter with particularly inclined to search for opioid drug addicts like her--in fact, no one seems to believe the young woman

The Books I'm Reading Now For my book club I'm reading Lady Tan's Circle of Women, Lisa See's newest story of women in ancient China; I'm reading Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge, Lizzie Pook's upcoming 01 Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See No mud, no lotus. Lady Tan's Circle of Women is my first book club read of 2024, and wow, does this one start off with

It's part historical fiction with wonderful World War II details and part sassy modern-day tale about women But as the first woman admitted into Harvard's library, the first female foreign news correspondent for

I adored how Harrow intermingled the women's suffrage movement with the reemergence of witching and women's situations or dialogue distracted me from what felt like the heart of the story (the Eastwoods' helping women 02 The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden This is the third and final book in Katherine Arden's strong reading the Wicked Witch of the West story turned on its head as Maguire traced the origins of Elphaba, a strong-willed

Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey This sci-fi thriller is about betrayal and revenge, but it's not the other-woman Divya has crafted strong female main protagonists who navigate the sometimes dark, always complicated When her mother disappears, Josie begins to track down the other Girls, and together the young women discover strange, unique powers as they rely on each other and attempt to unravel their shared history

robot-focused story (A Psalm for the Wild-Built), the newest novel by the fantastic Blake Crouch (Upgrade), a strange The strong, ruthless, intelligent women in Harrow the Ninth absolutely steal the show--which is saying The story is full of heart and strange, captivating details of Chambers's imagined world--and of an unorthodox

This selection might be the perfect coffee-table perusal for the vinyl lover in your life. 06 The Only Woman by Immy Humes The Only Woman is made up of 100 group photographs, each showing a lone woman in a male-dominated present and from countries around the world, Hume highlights photos emphasizing the concept of "the only woman Visually striking, The Only Woman features unknown and famous women who are astronauts, conductors, writers

Johansen offers monsters, elaborate escape plans and rescue plots, and two strong, clever queens savvily Would Get Easier by Abbi Waxman Jessica is a single mom, successful lawyer, and wise mentor to other women

Hamptons village to be a nanny, but the community has recently been rocked by the disappearance of a young woman Strangely, Anna looks a lot like Zoe, so she's faced with the village's pain and suspicion everywhere youngadult, #mystery, #siblings 03 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder ​ It's been years since a local young woman #youngadult, #mystery 04 Mad, Bad, & Dangerous to Know Samira Ahmed offers two story lines of young women Two hundred years in the past, Leila is a young Muslim woman struggling to survive.

I love a spy book, a book about Russia, and a feisty, strong young female protagonist, and The Traitor

For my full review of this book, please see Nothing to See Here. 05 A Woman Is No Man In A Woman Is No are bright points: rare friendships emerge, sisters build intense loyalty to each other, girls and women throughout the book--the food, spices, and meals that are a framework for much of the structure of the women A Woman Is No Man explores the incredible drive and bravery required by Rum's female characters to write She goes to sleep one night feeling satisfied, but she wakes up in another life: in a strange apartment

manner in which Violet attempted to free herself from the shackles of marriage and the subsummation of a woman me of the measures taken by the main protagonist in another book I recently read, A Study of Scarlet Women

Gwendoline has strong opinions and is feeling constricted in her prescribed royal role even without the

When her mother disappears, Josie begins to track down the other Girls, and together the young women discover strange, unique powers as they rely on each other and attempt to unravel their shared history abilities repeatedly shield them from the most grave danger--and unlock remarkable freedom for each of the women

They part ways, but the thought of her keeps him strong during the hardships and uncertainty that follow loved, News of the World and The Color of Lightning, as well as one I haven't read but intend to, Enemy Women

his 1940 Ford, driving fast, avoiding federal agents, and living with his grandmother, a healer with strong

Veronica is a strong and unorthodox main protagonist who finds herself entangled in a dangerous set of Veronica to benefit from the author's own modern sensibilities in A Curious Beginning, but Veronica is a strong

I was intrigued by the intersection of the women's personalities and lives, and Beagin kept me consistently Big Swiss. 04 Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall Marshall's debut historical fiction centers around women's Looking for Jane is a story of women living in three timelines who are linked through decades by a mysterious letter--and by enormously important, recurring dilemmas for women through the ages: unexpected pregnancies parts of themselves away; she doesn't shy away from sharing the sometimes-tragic outcomes of pregnant women's

bright points: some rare friendships emerge, sisters build intense loyalty to each other, girls and women find joy in secret reading and in books, women find strength and demand truth rather than secrecy, and thread throughout the book of the food, spices, and meals that create much of the structure of the women --but also many other real-life women in comparable situations--to write a new history, one in which For my full review of this book, please see A Woman Is No Man.

Frankie and Zeke want to create something--something strange, something people will notice, yet something The retelling swirls with family drama, intrigue, bravery--all centered around a young woman determined Years of Lenni and Margot. 06 The Change by Kristen Miller The Change explores the power of menopausal women In Kristen Miller's novel The Change, set in Mattauk, Long Island, three women cope with various challenges The tone of The Change is largely campy, as middle-aged women heroines unite against the book's sometimes

science fiction Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow; and Kelly Barnhill's speculative fiction, When Women book, to be published tomorrow, courtesy of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group and NetGalley. 03 When Women but is being denied by the government and historians alike: a Mass Dragoning, in which thousands of women This is a gloriously feminist tale in which women force the world to consider rethinking their roles and worth by taking control and power and by making faulted men and meek women fear their wrath.

situation of trapped girls devolving into paranoia, mayhem, fury, and destruction, with a wonderfully strong thought the teen girls’ “magic” and their perception of it (and especially the perceptions of the men and women

I had a tough time with the implausible details but appreciated the strong female characters and the broken mother-daughter relationship, and elements of misogyny, battle for control of the self, and the strong strongest and most cohesive part of the story came toward the end, with a search and some resolution, strong

Our Woman in Moscow, Beatriz Williams's historical fiction mystery, based on real-life double agents favorite read of the month); How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu's fascinating, disturbing, strange 01 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams This was my favorite read of the month! In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow, it's 1948, and Iris Digby, her American , she uses a fascinating story structure to explore different potential paths for interlinked young women

The author has created two independent, defiant, appealingly strong young women split by time (and, secondarily , complex male characters the women love as family or romantic partners). Equation. 05 Normal People by Sally Rooney In Rooney's novel Normal People, Marianne, a solitary young woman

The war and all its deprivations seem relentless, but for Cristabel, there is a strange and guilty thrill later timeline takes place in the time of World War II as Daphne, an intelligent and educated young woman Unsinkable. 05 Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino In Beautyland, Bertino offers a poignant, funny, strange Gwendoline has strong opinions and is feeling constricted in her prescribed royal role even without the

highlights of Big Time for me were two clever, funny stories I really liked, "The Secret Meeting of the Women " (featuring various real-life female celebrities as part of a private club through which they pull strings

then I began listening to the book's relentless, churning roller coaster of hopes, dashed dreams, and strong

can to help those in need--including giving away her own papers and ration cards to a hungry Jewish woman You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World