Books with strong female leads.
Strong Women
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A Sorceress Comes to Call
by T. Kingfisher
Hardcover: Aug 2024
Paperback: Jul 2025
From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call―a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's The Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic.
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The Briar Club: A Novel
by Kate Quinn
Hardcover: Jul 2024
Paperback: Jul 2025
The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by Victoria E. Schwab
Hardcover: Jun 2025
From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.
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Atmosphere: A Love Story
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Hardcover: Jun 2025
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Space Shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love ...
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Endling: A Novel
by Maria Reva
Hardcover: Jun 2025
Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-...
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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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