Kristin Hannah's book The Nightingale and mentioned it in my Greedy Reading List Six Books about Brave Female including The Nightingale, which I loved and mentioned in my Greedy Reading List Six Books about Brave Female

I'm a huge Amy Bloom fan, and while I appreciated the strong main female character here and the World

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I loved the strong female protagonists and seeing their fire and grit and growth.

(Side note, the imbalance of power of men and women and the females' responsibility to keep up appearances

But her female sex holds her back from being able to find the knowledge she seeks, and she dresses as

innermost thoughts of a grumbly hermit ornithologist who is thrust into a parenting role, then must face a pirate local suppliers row over not only his (rifled-through, partially stolen) supplies but also a small, feral Bridget's mother is said by the untrustworthy rowboat operators to be the most dangerous, fabled, infamous pirate In some ways, the messy, chaotic Flynn family reminded me of the sometimes feral Herdman family in The

Elizabeth Zott has worked hard in her scientific pursuits, often as the only female in the room, either She's using science to inspire the upending of the status quo for her largely female audience. Females are overshadowed, abused, and generally wronged throughout the book, a reflection of realistic

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story offered sassy banter that I loved, a great enemies-to-(not-quite)-lovers setup, a strong young female protagonist with a heart of gold, female power all over the place, captivatingly creepy elements, and

I love a story driven by a female investigator main protagonist, and in book one of this small-town mystery

Bovalino's story hooked me with a main protagonist who's a female knight, her best-friend mage, intriguing

The female characters' stories are deeply intertwined; I saw some of the events coming but not others equivalent responsibility for the activities of their sperm as compared to women and their eggs', and females

story of a deep friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious

The painting referenced in Dominic Smith's novel title is a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter-

The Power, Naomi Alderman offers a dark and fascinating look at a world where the traditional male-female

I loved the dark academia setting, Sciona's bid to become the first female in the High Magistry, and

Divya has crafted strong female main protagonists who navigate the sometimes dark, always complicated But Divya is too busy crafting strong female main protagonists (complete with working mother guilt, which

than almost anyone around, is hired by a shadowy, powerful militia group to take out One-Eleven, the female

A Woman Is No Man , Etaf Rum explores the often powerless and essentially voiceless statuses of her female A Woman Is No Man ultimately explores the superhuman drive and bravery required by Rum's female characters

In this second novel of adventure, the pirate faces seemingly impossible challenges and must do the unthinkable I loved every bit of Chakraborty's first novel about willful, sometimes grumpy pirate Amina al-Sirafi She imagines a fairly stress-free escape across the sea with her pirate crew, an efficient recovery, You might also be interested in these Bossy reviews of novels about pirates and life at sea.

She felt that once she developed a strong female character with her own rich backstory, Fortune was able

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But the book opens in a prison, with female inmates participating in their weekly book club in rural

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn This fun, darkly funny, feminist story about a retiring female #2) by Sherry Thomas Book two of Thomas's Lady Sherlock series offers a robust dual mystery, clever female I love a spy book, a book about Russia, and a feisty, strong young female protagonist, and The Traitor Victoria's somewhat secret advisory committee, which affords her a certain power, and she is also the Alpha female

women's rights, race, and more within two timelines featuring spirited, determined, underestimated females

characters are weak and careless enough to make you want to scream with the debt they incur for our female

Schwab This wonderfully creepy lesbian vampire story is largely about female empowerment, but also about I loved each time period and the evolution of each strong female character. But her female sex holds her back from being able to find the knowledge she seeks, and she dresses as

An aspect I liked: Breq doesn't see gender and identifies everyone as "she"; while Breq inhabits a female

And "The Long Way Round" is a tantalizing peek into Novik's next world, with a savvy, gruff female captain

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first novel was Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, a science fiction novel about Sena, a tough young female cold and unforgiving planet, and her desperate journey across the ice along with Iska, her formerly feral

Elizabeth Zott has worked hard in her scientific pursuits, often as the only female in the room, either She's using science to inspire the upending of the status quo for her largely female audience. Females are overshadowed, abused, and generally wronged throughout the book, a reflection of realistic Kate Quinn tells the World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper She weaves in interesting aspects of the time such as the contrast between active female roles in the

together several timelines, rich family history, intriguing discoveries, an overarching mystery, and a female

Wang I loved the dark academia setting, Sciona's bid to become the first female in the High Magistry, Jensen The first in Jensen's fantasy series ticked many of my boxes--strong female main character, a This is my kind of "romantasy": adventure, fate, a strong main female character, a Chosen One setup--

intriguing turnabout within the family, her daughter Nina, the author of this book, became the first female For historical fiction about female spies, you might want to check out the Greedy Reading List Six Books about Brave Female Spies.

villain's career, heavily featuring savvy and communicative cats; a historical fiction novel featuring female Lisa See offers a vivid peek at the lives of women in 15th century China, complete with a fascinating female-doctor Tan Yunxian's grandmother is one of only a few female doctors in 15th century China, and Yunxian is learning I love a female-doctor and medical storyline, and I was particularly captivated by that aspect of Lady

Bovalino's non-swooning romantasy novel (featuring a female knight, one of my current-favorite elements

A Woman Is No Man , Etaf Rum explores the often powerless and essentially voiceless statuses of her female A Woman Is No Man ultimately explores the superhuman drive and bravery required by Rum's female characters

historical fiction novel, Smith offers a Victorian England tableau featuring a wonderfully complex female

So many elements of this premise are favorites for me--a strong young female main protagonist, ship life

Two female characters in a priory and in a wealthy nearby estate (where the present-day historians are

ways than just two, wider possibilities than hidden or betrayed, stalled or brokenhearted, male or female

The character-driven post-WWII story was wonderful, with compelling and lush detail and a gutsy female to fly, and when Nazis begin to wreak havoc on the Soviet Union, she joins the Night Witches, an all-female thought the character-driven post-WWII story was wonderful, with compelling and lush detail about tough female I'm in for World War II-set books with tough, brave female protagonists, and especially female pilots

This story ticked so many of my boxes--a strong, young, underestimated female; an important quest; forbidden

Christian White's The Wife and the Widow offers two intersecting storylines centering around female protagonists

But her female sex holds her back from being able to find the knowledge she seeks, and she dresses as

Sarah Adams This love story about an emotionally sensitive NFL player and his quirky, irresistible female take long for them to realize that Art has been kissing a boy and that Gwen has a crush on the only female

In the fall of our female narrator's senior year in college, she becomes friends with Sam and Yash, two

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