Books with strong female leads.
Strong Women
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The Palace of Eros: A Novel
by Caro De Robertis
Hardcover: Aug 2024
Paperback: Jun 2025
Perfect for fans of Circe and Black Sun, this bold and subversive feminist retelling of the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros explores the power of queer joy and freedom.
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The Night of Baba Yaga
by Akira Otani, Sam Bett
Hardcover: Jul 2024
Paperback: Jun 2025
A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess she's been forced to protect in this explosive queer thriller: Kill Bill meets The Handmaiden meets Thelma and Louise.
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Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea
by Hannah Stowe
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: May 2025
A book to sweep you away from the shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight— to experience what it's like to sail for weeks at a time with life set to a new rhythm.
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Exhibit: A Novel
by R O. Kwon
Hardcover: May 2024
Paperback: May 2025
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between her desires and her life.
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The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye: A Novel
by Briony Cameron
Hardcover: Jun 2024
Paperback: May 2025
This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color's rise to power as one of the few purported female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and the forbidden love story that will shape the course of history.
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This Is Your Mother: A Memoir
by Erika J. Simpson
Hardcover: May 2025
From "a writer who's absolutely going places" (Roxane Gay), a remarkable, inventive debut memoir about a mother-daughter relationship across cycles of poverty, separation, and illness, exploring how we forge identity in the face of imminent loss.
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Daughters of Shandong
by Eve J. Chung
Hardcover: May 2024
Paperback: May 2025
A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story.
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Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis
by Suzanne Cope
Hardcover: Apr 2025
The gripping, true, and untold history of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during World War II, told through the stories of four spectacularly courageous women fighters.
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The Alternatives: A Novel
by Caoilinn Hughes
Hardcover: Apr 2024
Paperback: Apr 2025
From the writer Anthony Doerr calls "a massive talent," the story of four brilliant Irish sisters, orphaned in childhood, who scramble to reconnect when the oldest disappears into the Irish countryside.
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The Creation of Half-Broken People: A Novel
by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
Paperback: Apr 2025
Stupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University's Windham–Campbell Prize.
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It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
by Mary Louise Kelly
Hardcover: Apr 2023
Paperback: Apr 2025
Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly that is destined to become a classic—about the year before her son goes to college—and the joys, losses and surprises that happen along ...
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A Short Walk Through a Wide World: A Novel
by Douglas Westerbeke
Hardcover: Apr 2024
Paperback: Apr 2025
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a mysterious curse that will destroy her if she stops moving.
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