Raybourn's Killers of a Certain Age series was a fun, darkly funny, feminist story about a retiring female

take long for them to realize that Art has been kissing a boy and that Gwen has a crush on the only female

Bovalino Bovalino's story hooked me with a main protagonist who's a female knight, her best-friend mage Simran is a strong female knight sworn to the queen, and Vina is a witch of the woods.

01 The Huntress by Kate Quinn I'm all in for World War II-set books with tough, brave female protagonists to fly, and when Nazis begin to wreak havoc on the Soviet Union, she joins the Night Witches, an all-female thought this character-driven post-WWII story was wonderful, with compelling and lush detail about tough female of a Queen by Sarah Bird Bird's Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen is based on the story of an actual female

I'm reading Lessons in Chemistry, a novel about a 1960s female scientist and cooking show host by Bonnie She's using science to inspire the upending of the status quo for her largely female audience.

This love story about an emotionally sensitive NFL player and his quirky, irresistible female agent is

fascination with humans and her keen eye for detail to becoming an investigator, despite the fact that a female

recently published historical fiction The War Librarian is inspired by the real-life stories of the first female World War I, and 1976, when another young woman is determined to gain acceptance as one of the first female

This time she tells the World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female She weaves in interesting aspects of the time such as the contrast between active female roles in the

take long for them to realize that Art has been kissing a boy and that Gwen has a crush on the only female I loved the strong female protagonists and their fire and grit and growth.

I was taken with the first half of this book--a rural cult, a teen mother, a strong female protagonist And Hawthorne allows for a female character's passion and independence, although these were condemned

by Shannon Chakraborty I loved every bit of Chakraborty's first story of willful, sometimes grumpy pirate

largely, on Harrison Ford); I'm reading Agent Sonya, Ben Macintyre's nonfiction book about a famous female If you like reading about female spies, you might like the Greedy Reading List Six Books about Brave Female Spies. 02 The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher The Princess Diarist was Fisher's last book, published If you like reading about female spies, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Book about Brave Female Spies, which I also mentioned above in the peek at Agent Sonya.

ICYMI: This five-star retelling of the story of Rumpelstiltskin offers kickass female protagonists, haunting

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

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

take long for them to realize that Art has been kissing a boy and that Gwen has a crush on the only female

Ninth House is sometimes dark, especially as related to male-female power dynamics and sex, and the story

You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Books about Brave Female Spies and Six More Books about Brave Female Spies. 01 The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy The Skylark's Secret

Briar Club by Kate Quinn The Briar Club  employs nine points of view to tell the story of life in a female-only historical fiction novel, Smith offers a Victorian England tableau featuring a wonderfully complex female

But her female sex holds her back from being able to find the knowledge she seeks, and she dresses as Peril . 03 I'll Be Right Here by Amy Bloom I'm a huge Amy Bloom fan, and I appreciated the strong main female

The female characters are often strong, and there's often lush historical fiction detail.

listening to a historical fiction story in two timelines, one on The Titanic and one centering around a 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 .

Tan Yunxian's grandmother is one of only a few female doctors in 15th century China, and Yunxian is learning

than almost anyone around, is hired by a shadowy, powerful militia group to take out One-Eleven, the female review of Wolvers. 03 All in Her Hands (Nora Beady #3) by Audrey Blake I love historical fiction about female You might also like these novels that include female physicians. 04 Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke The

And a typical day might involve facing mortal danger from roving pirates, cyborg animals, certain AI worries about her orphaned state, her cold relationship with her sister, her lack of autonomy as a female

01 Go As a River by Shelley Read Victoria is the last surviving female in a family of complicated men

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

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Light Pirate, Lily Brooks-Dalton's upcoming novel (to be published 01 The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton In Lily Brooks-Dalton's upcoming (to be published December 6) novel The Light Pirate, pregnant Frida and her husband and kids prepare for a catastrophic hurricane

I felt that some of the more animated female characters sounded like caricatures and almost anime-style

An aspect that is ever-present and essential to the shaping of each of the main characters are the female

Voyage of the Damned by Frances White This wonderfully creepy lesbian vampire story is largely about female I loved each time period and the evolution of each strong female character .

Victoria's somewhat secret advisory committee, which affords her a certain power, and she is also the Alpha female

She begins to fall for a stoic female client Greta affectionately thinks of as Big Swiss (Greta gathers The female characters' stories are deeply intertwined; I saw some of the events coming but not others Victoria's somewhat secret advisory committee, which affords her a certain power, and she is also the Alpha female

Victoria is the last surviving female in a family of difficult men, living on a rural Colorado peach

In the story, Ellice Littlejohn is coping with the challenges of being a Black female lawyer in what

Long's first novel was Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, a science fiction novel about a tough young female

Wang I loved the dark academia setting, Sciona's bid to become the first female in the High Magistry, The book opens in a prison, with female inmates participating in their weekly book club in rural Abbott

Female detective Bridie sets off on a desperate search for a missing child in Victorian London--and must Bridie is a strong female protagonist, and Things In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of Curious Beginning, and it shares some of these elements of historical fiction, mystery, and badass female

If you like reading about female spies, you might like some of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Books about Brave Female Spies.

pair with him, and she enters into a rushed marriage on the eve of the first day of classes with her female-only

worries about her orphaned state, her cold relationship with her sister, her lack of autonomy as a female

story of a deep friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing

In A Woman Is No Man, Etaf Rum explores the often powerless and essentially voiceless status of her female Female characters--as well as their female friends and relatives who appear in retold stories and histories Rum also explores the perpetuated cruelty of her female characters against their daughters, daughters-in-law A Woman Is No Man ultimately explores the superhuman drive and bravery required by Rum's female characters

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

married young and is about to become a mother, while Riley is poised to become one of the first Black female

They must be careful, as packs of feral dogs--and packs of desperate humans, the Lost--will try to take Land of Milk and Honey, The Great Transition, and The Light Pirate are three other climate-change novels

Threads of Power; and I'm listening to Lone Women, Victor LaValle's Western, which so far features strong female

If you like reading about female spies, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Books about Brave Female Spies.