Fiction - Feminist

"Engaging and mysterious, The Emerald Necklace sheds light on that inevitable time when lovers, family, friends and circumstances change and force you to reinvent yourself whether you want to or not." -Rebecca Rosenberg, award-winning Champagne Widows seriesThree months after her husband's death in 1969,...

Human civilization is in trouble. How come? The fault lies with some men, who have a genetic defect caused by eons of human evolution where strong men prone to violence were biologically selected because they were needed to protect women, children, and the tribe...

The most exciting historical retelling of 2023: a subversive, powerful untelling of Romeo and Juliet by New York Times bestselling author Natasha SolomonsWas the greatest ever love story a lie?The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love. Rosaline,...

Camus once stated that fiction is a lie through which we tell the truth. The main characters in Heart and Salt all have truths, lies, and in-betweens, similar to every human being you've ever met. We all carry scraps of our past in our...

A village kitchen girl has few choices in life until a slip of her knife causes invading barbarian pirates to think she's a witch. They kidnap her to get the "witch" bounty offered by their home coven. She goes willingly enough with only the...

"Crackling and bighearted...A powerhouse [that] echoes with the truth that we find harmony when we listen first to ourselves." --Oprah Daily * "Takes off with magnificent speed and never lets up." --The New York Times * "Revolutionary." --NPR's Morning Edition * A Los Angeles...

Bluebeard gets a feminist Gothic makeover in this subversive take on the famous French fairy tale -- from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, and for fans of Jane Eyre When the successful British mystery writer Judith Moore meets Gavin, a handsome and...

A woman desperate to achieve the life she's always dreamed of orders an AI baby online. Mounting workplace misogyny helps an introvert unlock her innate power. A woman obsessed with skincare goes to great lengths to rid her face of imperfections. A frat boy...

**Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022!**A COSMOPOLITAN, BBC, STYLIST, DAILY MAIL, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING and GUARDIAN BEST BOOK PICK! 'Astounding. Heart-breaking but hopeful, and a fresh new voice' PANDORA SYKES'Moving and beautifully written'LIBBY PAGE'A rare new talent'THE GUARDIAN'A book that deserves to be...

Rediscover one of America's best SF writers in a definitive hardcover edition gathering all her finest work together for the first time A LGBTQIA+ pioneer joins the Library of America series An incandescent stylist with a dark sense of humor and a provocative feminist...

From an award-winning writer whose work Roxane Gay calls "utterly unique and remarkable" comes a surreal novel about a woman in Silicon Valley who must decide how much she's willing to give up for success--perfect for fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation...

"Fans of Circe and Elektra should pick up this powerful Greek myth retelling." --CosmopolitanFor fans of Madeline Miller, a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious villainess of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen.As for queens, they...

"A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces." --Madeline Miller "A shining tour de force about a long friendship's respects, disrespects, loyalties and moralities." --Ali Smith From the acclaimed author of Home Fire, the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendship...

"Portrait of the artist as a broke and brilliant, hungry and funny young woman" (Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want), this hilarious and incisive coming-of-age novel about an art student from a poor family struggling to find her place in a new social class...

The author of the "suspenseful, chilling, unsettling, and creepy" (Mystery and Suspense Magazine) The Woman Outside My Door returns with another spine-tingling domestic thriller about a nanny whose new job working for the perfect family is not everything it seems.Amy jumps at the opportunity...

After the passing of Tionna's mother she was left to figure out how to navigate through this world on her own without the advice of her dear beloved mother. After such loss and getting away from her dead-beat husband Tionna took the streets of...

"A fearless novel that probes ideas of surveillance, misogyny and class. . . . Tsamaase brilliantly tackles ideas of motherhood and autonomy. The author seamlessly blends a body-hopping ghost story about revenge with a narrative about the importance of memory. It's such an original...

A bewitching collage of fiction, memoir, and mythography from the author unique in her "ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we don't even know we are living." (Parul Sehgal, New York Times Magazine) Mary Gaitskill is unique among American...

A triumphantly feminist retelling of ancient creation myths in the tradition of Madeline Miller and Claire North. Lyrically rendered, this epic U.S. debut tells the story of the woman known as Adam's first wife and her fall from Paradise and quest for revenge. Before...

For readers of Madeleine Miller and Claire Heywood comes the story of the most infamous monster of Greek mythology: Medusa. First, they loved her. Then, they abused her. Finally, they made her a villain.Gifted and burdened with stunning beauty, young Medusa seeks sanctuary with...

Would you risk everything to be home again?Poland, 1935. When Syma - a young, outspoken physician decides to leave home and embark on an adventure in a strange land, she cannot imagine the powerful emotional whirlpool she'll find herself in.When the conflict between the...

Irish novelist Soula Emmanuel's debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desire--charting the messy layers of love and loss that constitute a life.Phoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. An Irish transplant and PhD...

A thrilling novel from Germany with plenty of suspense, new perspectives, and a dash of eroticism.Immerse yourself in the always exciting and liberal atmosphere of contemporary Berlin and Germany. Berlin, 2022. Anja, a bisexual lawyer, had done everything right. But her successful life as...

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Originally published in 1909, Beatrice the Sixteenth: Being the Personal Narrative of Mary Hatherley, M.B., Explorer and Geographer is the debut feminist science fiction novel by Irene Clyde.Mary Harthereley is lost. After being struck by a camel's hoof, Mary finds herself thrown into an...

Soon to be a full-length motion picture directed, produced, and filmed by womenDominatrix Renee Lane and her submissive husband live in Memphis, Tennessee, disguised as an average married couple. In private life, they are mistress and slave. For the last ten years, Ms. Renee...

From author Deryn Collier comes a smart, charming postwar historical novel based on the true story of an aspiring writer who dares to dream big.Montreal, 1947. To support her once-prosperous family, June Grant joins a steno pool in a prestigious advertising firm. For June,...

"[A] knockout debut.... Vengefully delicious." --PeoplePeople Magazine Book of the Week * New York Post Hottest Book of the Season * Newsday Notable Book of Summer * USA Today Book of the Week * Salon Best Book of the YearThree fierce women connected to...

"A lush page-turner about two women who fight for their futures in a patriarchal society" --Janet Skeslien Charles, author, The Paris Library"An engrossing tale of superstition, rebellion and love"--Esther Freud, author, Love Falls"Storytelling at its best" --Ellen Keith, author, The Dutch WifeIn medieval Moldova,...

To the Lighthouse is a book of interrelationships among people. Those who reject To the Lighthouse as inferior to Mrs. Dalloway because it offers no one with half the memorable lucidity of Clarissa Dalloway must fail to perceive its larger and, artistically, more difficult...

Madge didn't mean to kill her best friend, but what happens when the only choices you get to make are bad ones? Following the interwoven fates of three women and set in the North of England at the turn of the 20th century, Spirit...

"A delicate weaving of myth and history, The Witch and the Tsar breathes new life into stories you think you know."-Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf In this stunning debut novel, the maligned and immortal witch of legend known...

From multi-award-winning author Yan Ge, a shimmering, genre-bending English-language debut that announces the next phase in a major literary career.In twenty years, Yan Ge has authored thirteen books written in Chinese, working across an impressive range of genres and subjects. Now, Yan Ge transposes...

An outsider graduate student forges her way into an exclusive Law and Literature cohort and plots a takedown of its popular professor in this provocative campus novel about power, privilege, and obsession."A standout dark academia thriller, with shades of Donna Tartt's modern classic The...

This book is selection of my work as an author since the time I quit my tenured position as a university professor to become an independent writer. The selection includes both fictional books and a lone nonfiction piece, which is about the remarkable achievements...

The highly acclaimed author of Accidentally Engaged delivers a delightful rom-com of one woman trying to shed her perfect image at a destination wedding with hilarious--and moving--results, perfect for fans of Abby Jimenez and Jasmine Guillory. Jana Suleiman has never really fit in--everyone always...

Anna Koob was born into a middle-class German family in 1566. A bright and spirited girl, she became a favorite of her village of Kleinostheim. As an eight-year-old, she is summoned to the home of a prominent baron. The baron's daughter has asked for...

In the 1920s, suffragist Edith fights to climb the ladder at Victoria's Daily Colonist, while trying to live the life of a free, modern woman in a society that isn't quite ready for it.In the 1910s, Edith sees the love of her life head...

A previously unpublished novel of the reflections of a deeply scarred and reclusive woman, from the cult icon Katherine Dunn, the author of Geek Love. Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the...

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middleaged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controverdsial modern classic, Will and Testament 'To mother is to...

DeScriPtionIt is the early 1900s in Mumbai. Educated and financially independent, Kalindi Daggedreams of living in a casteless and equitable society as a single mother-a life far removedfrom the one she had in the stifling world she left behind. A world where she was...

"One of the great novels of world literature...to the Chinese as Proust is to the French or Karamazov to the Russians." --Anthony West, literary critic Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is renowned for its epic scope,...

Winner of the Aurora Award for Best NovelHell is empty and all the devils are here.The Chatelaine has come.The year is 1328 and Hell has overrun Bruges. Demons stalk the streets and revenants swarm the walls. The city's men have fallen and only widows...

"At 19, she was an Instagram celebrity. Now, at 35, she works behind the cosmetic counter at the "black and white store," peddling anti-aging products to women seeking physical and spiritual transformation. She too is seeking rebirth. She's about to undergo the high-risk, elective...

Revenge meets Promising Young Woman in this thrilling debut about a vigilante on a mission to take down predatory men, perfect for fans of Jeneva Rose and Layne Fargo. Dylan Truman, better known under her alias Lady Justice, is the bane of every grifter,...

Fierce, poignant sci-fi, about hacking, love, and resistance. Jumping to alternate realities sounds great, if you're in control. But what if you're not? What if you're propelled away from the people and places you love the most in the blink of an eye? And...

The Sthory of Two Wimmin Kalyani and Dakshayani traces luminous paths of female friendship in the rural worlds of north Malabar, through the lives of two rural women, Kalyani and Dakshayani. Rebelling against the patriarchy in school at the age of six ('Rot in...

Jack is on his way home from collecting firewood in the San Jacinto mountains when he sees a woman pushing a bike along a back country road. For a split second something about her reminds him of his dead wife. She looks vulnerable and...

A Story of Love, Fear, and MisogynyDive into second-wave feminism, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, gurus, hippies, Mafiosi, the Pill, the Beatles, class distinctions, astrology, but most of all, the eternal mystery of what's going on between men and women. Ann Medlock's roman á...

The night of London's grandest ball, a bold group of women downstairs launch a daring revenge heist against Mayfair society in this dazzling historical novel about power, gender, and class.Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves,...