The Piano Tuner is a strange, slowly paced adventure story but also an anti-imperialist, pro-music take

book in Martha Wells's Murderbot series (this is the first full-length book in the set) starts off strong

This was sweet and strange, and I really liked it.

forgotten the heartbreak of that day, nor has there been very much healing from the pain of a young woman's

This is a novel, but the spirit of the book felt authentic to what we know about Carrie Fisher's strong

chokehold of addiction to drugs and alcohol, his struggles to quit using, and the many (beautiful) women Perry spends much of the page time focusing on the many (beautiful) women who got away.

she pokes fun at her fellow writer in a sketch about talented but average-looking men dating gorgeous women

seventeen-year-old Ada is a newlywed, following contentedly the path set out for her as a young married woman

mentions of endless projects, ideas, collaborations, and plans make clear she's one of the hardest working women Another Dolly-focused book I'd like to read is She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who

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).

There are fascinating, strange elements (for example, the existence of another version of Eli and Laurel

within Ig, with the Auks themselves, with young Bridget, and in the world surrounding their spare, strange

This is charming, creative, and wonderfully strange so far.

fact that Cathy and Joe immediately stepped in to do what they did for Frannie, despite her thin and strange

Kimmery Martin's Doctors and Friends begins with a group of seven women, friends since medical school As the story progresses, Martin mentions each of women and their families, but keeps the story relatively

Hazel is a strong personality, but I found myself bristling at her questioning whether she's too much

Meanwhile, privileged Charlotte has her own secrets, and when both women's true situations begin to be the Irish and other immigrant groups, as well as introducing a heart-wrenching unrequited love of one woman

Set in sixth century Scotland, The Forgotten Kingdom traces the story of Languoreth, a strong, imprisoned

indicate Cozy Mystery (well, aside from the blood in the teacup), while the story feels more intricate and strange

They were all strange. They were all flawed. Together, they managed to survive.

twentieth century New York and his mysterious death; and a science fiction-slanted story about young women Her mother's disappearance leads Josie to track down the other Girls, and together they discover strange

A rebellious young woman who left her Amish culture behind and became estranged from her family has returned

I loved the dark academia setting; the brilliant, socially awkward, unlikely heroine Neema; and the strange

Korean heritage and her white GI father's complicated connection as part of the white oppression of women

surprisingly limited, and her witchiness less pronounced than her identity as a thief and as a young woman

The book explores clashes of ideology; the challenges of a woman pursuing spy work; and general, often

--and strange, out-of-this-world occurrences puzzle Ari for years to come.

Clever beavers feature heavily in this book, and I never felt as though this strange element gelled with

The swirl of events draws other innocent young women into Miryem's complicated web and toward potential

school filled with evil and darkness; and Very Sincerely Yours, lovely light fiction about a young woman

The other twin marries a dark-skinned black man and lives as a black woman.

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

Can she revisit the strange island from her youth, and does she even want to unravel the secrets of that

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

Is it strange that I was so fascinated by a book about tuberculosis that I kept setting it aside so that

Her In Pieces account of her relationship with Burt Reynolds reflects a controlling man and a woman without

You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World

A rebellious young woman who left her Amish culture behind and became estranged from her family has returned

When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--her persistent presence attended prenatal classes before the birth of her first child and noted the immediate intimacy between the women

Fizzy is a straight talker, a sex-positive woman, and a successful romance writer, but she's never been

She loves true crime podcasts and dates a variety of women from dating apps.

type immersed in her own sometimes dark writing, she is disgusted by the rest of her cohort--childish women look at the music business, musical creativity and songwriting processes, and body-image pressures on women

A woman he'd invited to their home. Vanessa.

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

Sabbath and what doing so means to her; she considers alternative interpretations regarding some of the women Rachel Held Evans was the author of Jesus Feminist, Faith Unraveled, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Searching

Each of the three young women is in the middle of her own high-stakes crisis, and none of them expects The women must decide whether to ignore what's occurred or to harness and master the spells they've been difficulties of their own--an out-of-wedlock pregnancy; involvement in the much-maligned and persecuted women's There's also a theme running through all three of women striving for more--more opportunities, justice

characters are presented as selfless but are shown to in truth be horribly selfish; some of those who seem strange

receives oral sex from a stranger with his soulmate sitting next to him rather than having sex with the woman

and unrest--which spurs on some citizens to attempt to shift the kingdom toward becoming a land with strong

Girls, the newest novel by Rachel Hawkins (author of The Wife Upstairs), Lux is a frustrated young woman