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really liked; and other books set in the American West (such as Epitaph); historical fiction (2019's Women

The Humans is funny, strange, deep, and lovely. I loved it. on each other's nerves work together to determine who is responsible for a puzzling murder and other strange But the young woman he has found may have died of an ancient virus, and thawing the body for study could

But the revealed backstory in the second part of the novel was dark and strange and creepy, with surprises

I love a Gold Rush story, a young adult story, a story about brave young women meeting challenges.

04 Far from the Tree by Robin Benway In Far from the Tree, Benway examines the pain of a young woman’ I loved the strong female protagonists and their fire and grit and growth.

Rebecca Serle's love letter to Italy plays with time to allow a grieving young woman to know her mother I enjoyed how Serle played with time to allow a young woman to know her mother at her same age.

out of the moment by multiple instances of odd tone shifts and what felt like repeated nonsensical or strange and youthful exclamation "I miss sex" seems to come out of nowhere; sexual innuendos seem to come at strange

characters ranging from activists to performers and murderers to idealists; a memoir about a young woman's hometown leads her into the middle of a missing person case there: the disappearance of a local young woman But when she arrives, she finds out that a young local woman has gone missing.

nonfiction book about a famous female Russian spy during the Cold War; and I'm reading The Invisible Woman Princess Diarist was Fisher's last book, published in 2017 and based upon the diaries she kept as a young woman It was fun but also poignant, and I loved it. 03 The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck The Invisible Woman

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.

Chona is one link between the two groups, serving as the key nonjudgmental middle-woman in the story.

It also features racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women, an element Women explore traditional roles and push back against infuriating chauvinism; characters consider their

Montague; an unorthodox woman with an open mind and brave disposition, Theodora; a young woman who has

Veronica and Stoker; the allusions to each of their complicated pasts; their hilarious banter; and their strong-willed

1960s girl groups, their often working-class backgrounds, and the power disconnects between the young women

Miller has a strong, passionate grasp of widely experienced inequalities—and ideas of how to chip away

and I loved that the relationship between Clementine and her aunt is said to have been special and strong

Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something

The Bright Hour is a North Carolina woman's thoughtful account of events, written with an aim of preserving Bowler recently spoke at a virtual women's retreat I attended.

The men in this story largely control the women, including their abilities to voice concerns, contact

These three women's stories seem like they couldn't be more disparate, and I imagine the tones will be

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Nadia Hashimi's story of a young woman in Afghanistan during She's an unassuming middle-aged woman and a recovering alcoholic who has a compulsion: to locate missing

an immersive online game; and for my book club I'm reading Charlotte McConaghy's Migrations, about a woman The Kingdoms is her second book. 02 Warcross by Marie Lu Emika Chen is an orphaned young woman in a futuristic

a young volunteer, Bridie, over the course of three days as they work desperately to help both the women

and class, a deadly fear of scandal, and terrible mistreatment of those in lower castes, especially women When Kacey disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire

Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Paper Palace, Miranda Cowley Heller's novel about a middle-aged woman A scholar of the occult, his assistant, a young woman with ghostly experiences, and the future heir of

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Woman of Light, Kali Fajardo-Anstine's upcoming fantastical, indigenous 01 Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories

is difficult to pin down; there's dark humor, a haunting thread of tragedy, some irreverence, strange

But the year-old mysterious disappearance of Kim Gillespie, a young woman from the area, hooks Falk and

with studying biographies, other books, and conducting more extensive research—and she channels each woman

Adunni is a tough young woman determined to have a voice and emerge from her oppressive situation, and She's a tough young woman determined to have a voice and emerge from her oppressive situation, and she's

She had never recognized any curiosity or attraction to women before, but in this memoir, Wizenberg recounts

or acknowledge race; the differences between prejudice, discrimination, and racism; and how "white women's

She's asked to play the role of maid to an unassuming, wealthy young woman in a dastardly plot to take the woman's inheritance and leave her to rot in an insane asylum.

reading Wiley Cash's upcoming Southern mystery, When Ghosts Come Home; A Thousand Ships, Natalie Haynes's woman-centric Morrow. 02 A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes I'm listening to Haynes read her highly entertaining woman-centric

She's falling for her famous client, the musician Trace Thorne--but when a woman shows up claiming to

story that also focuses on racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women

love a Gold Rush story, and a young adult story, and a story about "otherness" and about brave young women

navigates danger and helps achieve justice by using her smarts, eschewing societal tradition and limits on women

reasons for their fractured relationship (ahem, Doug wanted a "cuddle bunny" robot instead of a complex woman

belatedly recognizes his parenting and household ineptitude and also falls into the arms of the local woman

what many of her fellow female students put up with from young men who won't hear no and don't treat women

She made me feel that I deeply understood the potential circumstances of how a woman without grand ambitions

The war and all its deprivations seem relentless, but for Cristabel, there is a strange and guilty thrill

Theatre by Joanna Quinn The war and all its deprivations seem relentless, but for Cristabel, there is a strange

—man just waiting for a woman to bring out his playful side).

particularly urgent to stop the current-day killing--was necessary for the story, yet throughout, this seemed strange

I’m not sure how to feel about the construct of having a young woman’s desire to gain acknowledgment her brother’s likely future levels—which she also deserved but which were seemingly impossible for a woman

Stout's recently published middle-grade story is irresistibly strange, full of difficulties and a tough

rural Idaho; Wendy Heard's fast-paced California-set thriller about an infatuation between two young women