Fiction - Feminist

Fates and Furies meets The Silent Patient when movie star Lila Crayne and her film director fianc? embark on a feminist adaptation of Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, prompting Lila to enter therapy in preparation for her leading role--but in doing so, she finds...

Sydney Garcia has the perfect life, the perfect family, and the perfect friends. She's known what she has been meant to do since she was a young child, set in place by her father who is the police chief of her small town in...

A wartime explosion in Halifax harbour has wrecked the city killing 2,000, injuring 9,000 and destroying 1,600 houses. Toronto Advocate cub reporter Kate Dawson is sent to Halifax to cover the explosion's aftermath and in the process prove herself equal to any male journalist....

When Sarah's only friend in her graduate program is found dead of an alleged heroin overdose, she is forced back into the orbit of the man in their department who assaulted her. A hurtling ride of a novel--darkly funny and propulsive. At a PhD...

In a stunning work of feminist historical fiction for readers who loved Dawn Tripp's Georgia and Whitney Scharer's The Age of Light, Jude Berman brings painter Angelica Kauffman to life. Accused of dressing as a boy to study in the prestigious galleries of eighteenth-century...

Return to Hawk Island and the village of Two Brooks in Manuela DaCosta's fifth book in the Hawk Island series... After a series of crimes, the villagers of Two Brooks continue to question their notions of love, justice, and courage.In the middle of the...

"A lovely, immersive, elegiac novel for a lost way of life. I revelled in the author's gorgeous descriptions of the natural world and her knowledge of the arts of dyeing cloth using native plants, and felt as if I learned a lot from her...

15 horror stories and 5 poems about women, written by 5 women, facing down the grim tipping point of humanity and offering a glimpse of the hope to come. Horror stories about women, written by women. This anthology focuses on the strength of women...

To whom do Monsters pray when burdened with the cruelty of the world who so named them "monster"? An unholy unicorn meets a defiled sacrifice; an engineer embraces and abuses inorganic body enhancements for her family; and Frankenstein's creature, on his quest for death,...

A lost classic of feminist dystopian fiction, the forerunner to The Handmaid's Tale, back in print at lastAfter an economic collapse, the dictator Gorston has risen to power by blaming women for taking men's jobs. In Gorston's new society, girls are assigned at age...

Set in the late 1970s, Trudy finds herself abandoned at a truck stop by Harold Faust, the attorney who counseled her through an unwanted pregnancy and adoption. The unlikely hero of the story is Mac, a trucker, Vietnam Vet and survivor of Post Traumatic...

Author: Tlotlo TsamaaseISBN-10: 1645661016ISBN-13: 9781645661016Publisher: Erewhon BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/24/2024Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbs

Antoinette is a concert violinist and opera singer. She travels and advocates for causes that aim to make the world a better place.She has a friend, Lilith, who does that as a lawyer, politician...and witch.A few months into the year, they receive a surprise...

From Bram Stoker Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes an "emotionally devastating, character driven ghost story" (CrimeReads) about three childhood friends who miraculously survive the night everyone in their suburban hometown turned to ghosts--perfect for fans of Yellowjackets. The Velkwood Vicinity was the topic of...

A wartime explosion in Halifax harbour has wrecked the city killing 2,000, injuring 9,000 and destroying 1,600 houses. Toronto Advocate cub reporter Kate Dawson is sent to Halifax to cover the explosion's aftermath and in the process prove herself equal to any male journalist....

"A lovely, immersive, elegiac novel for a lost way of life. I revelled in the author's gorgeous descriptions of the natural world and her knowledge of the arts of dyeing cloth using native plants, and felt as if I learned a lot from her...

Edith Wharton's Controversial Coming-of-Age NovelA story full of spirit and scandal...Charity Royall longs for more in life. She can't stand her sleepy little village or the people who walk its streets. Then, Lucius Harney strolls into town. He awakes an excitement within Charity that...

Edith Wharton's Controversial Coming-of-Age NovelA story full of spirit and scandal...Charity Royall longs for more in life. She can't stand her sleepy little village or the people who walk its streets. Then, Lucius Harney strolls into town. He awakes an excitement within Charity that...

Harriet Walter, one of Britain's most esteemed Shakespearean actors, has played most of Shakespeare's women. She Speaks! is her inventive reimagining of what these women might have said, and the result is a rewarding, fun interpretation of these classic plays, perfect for contemporary audiences...

When a white family moves to the affluent Black community of New Nigeria County, a "misunderstanding" between neighbors escalates until the entire town is swept up in the drama in this hilarious and whip-smart full-cast audiobook, written and performed by TikTok star Clare Brown.New...

Building on the huge popularity of mythological retellings, here is the story of the much misunderstood Medusa, told through ancient and modern minds, in a beautiful collectable edition. Variously described as a fiend, a monster, a charming seductress who was felled by the righteous...

A debut collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny stories about Mexican women who fight, skirt, cheat, cry, kill, and lie their way to survival. "Life's a bitch. That's why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she's foaming at the mouth." In the...

Gulf Dreams is the story of a Chicana who comes of age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsessive love for a young woman, her best friend since childhood. Gulf Dreams is Emma P?rez's signature work. Not...

Phoebe Hicks owes her unexpected career as a spiritualist to a photograph taken of her through her bedroom window after having eaten spoiled clams. What comes out of her mouth is taken to be ectoplasm, and word spreads that she is able to commune...

For fans of Kate White suspense novels, Will End in Fire is a heart-racing domestic thriller about an alienated young woman who must find an arsonist before her own life goes up in smoke. Twenty-seven-year-old climate journalist Ellie Stone has spent her life locked...

A gripping courtroom drama that explores the struggle between morality vs. professional obligation, Devil's Defense will appeal to fans of female-lead courtroom dramas like The Good Wife. Jessica Fischer wants nothing more than to build her law practice in small-town Ashton, Georgia. She's well...

It's multi-level murder in this darkly funny mystery novel about the glamorous world of MLM "huns"--and the dangerous secrets at the top of the pyramid. Drew thought she was destined to rise above her small New Jersey hometown and make it as a serious...

An inverse The Handmaid's Tale that asks: What if women took over the world? It is the New Time, a time not so different from ours except that the men are gone. All but eleven percent, that is, the minimum required to avoid inbreeding....

A gripping, provocative, and sensual debut novel about an art historian who journeys to a Greek island in pursuit of a found sculpture and quickly finds herself immersed in a cultural tug-of-war and a complicated love affair.1999: An island off the southern coast of...

In the vein of riveting historical novels such as Hamnet and Circe--with a touch of Dracula--a propulsive, feminist reimagining of the story of Erzsébet Báthory, the infamous sixteenth-century Hungarian aristocrat known as the "Blood Countess", who was rumored to have murdered hundreds of peasant...

What protection do females have from the social culture moulding the humans they develop into? The fourteen sharply perceptive tales in A Feminine Perspective celebrate the quiet courage within each woman's heart.Author: Margaret PearceISBN-10: 1761096702ISBN-13: 9781761096709Publisher: Debbie LeeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/12/2024Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 8.50h...

What I searched all these years for myself-and I only found Ahalya, the woman I was supposed to be born as: unblemished, without any faults. I had no hala in me, no sin, no crime, no guilt. What I had done was to respond...

A strange voice forces its way into a young woman's head the day she turns eighteen. He tells her that she can touch the stars, transcend humanity, if she jumps off a cliff. He says that he created her world. The scariest part is...

A page-turning debut mystery that's as addictive as a late-night Reddit binge, about a grieving woman obsessed with solving her sister's cold-case disappearance via the true crime fandom Perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, My Favorite Murder, and Fleabag Ten years ago, Theodora "Teddy"...

A thrilling and eccentric novel about what it means to make art as a woman, and about the powerful forces of voyeurism, power, obsession, and online performance Woo Woo follows Sabine, a conceptual artist on the verge of a photo exhibition she hopes will...

In Unlucky Mel, PhD candidate Melody Hollings is in the final year of her creative writing program in upstate New York. Her dream life of landing the perfect academic job somewhere far away from her small hometown and publishing her first novel is so...

The Masquerade has only two rules: depart by morning and never reveal your identity.He is London's most eligible bachelor ...The Earl of Kent is at the top of every debutante's list for marriage. James is handsome, wealthy, and on the lookout for a bride....

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year - A New York Times Editors' Choice - An Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense "The most fascinating debut I've read in years--enigmatic, biting, absurd, and right when you think you've got it...

A PEOPLE MAGAZINE PICK! "Shocking--and shockingly good. It is thought-provoking, anger-provoking, guilt-provoking, and--most importantly--it is a brilliantly written novel."--Roddy Doyle Thrown together by a harrowing twist of fate, two girls will find hope and redemption in friendship in this award-winning, emotional gut punch of...

A post-apocalyptic retelling of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Who will survive when the world is destroyed? Can stories from the distant past teach us how to change a dismal present? Merchant shifts perspective between three survivors of a flooded world as they...

Olivia Foster always believed in striving for perfection, but life had a different plan. "The Imperfect Advocate," follows Olivia's unexpected journey as she discovers the profound intricacies of dyslexia and giftedness through her daughter, Natalie, and her son, Jonathan.Natalie, a bright and gifted child,...

A brilliant queer dystopian novel from the author of Yours for the Taking, following a cast of characters on the margins of a strange and exclusive new society. The year is 2041, and it's a dangerous time to be a woman driving across the...

A controversial LA author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this hilarious nod to 1950s lesbian pulp fiction.Having recently moved both herself and her formidable perfume bottle collection into a tiny bungalow in Los Angeles, mid-list author Astrid Dahl...

A young queer man finds love at a magical clothing shop-and the courage to stand up to the homophobic cops. A witch who makes custom nightmares wonders why all her victims are connected to the Black Panthers-and who she's really working for. A soon-to-be...

She's out for adventure. He's out for blood. The world of your favorite fantasy novels is real, and you're invited to visit. The only catch? It's filled with thirsty vampires. Devour this page-turning romance from the bestselling author of One to Watch. Tess Rosenbloom...

"A very real, passionate retelling of Morgan le Fay's story, with detail about political and magical lives, and the women who are such a vital part of the tale." --Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author From the author of Morgan Is My...

The Awakening charts Edna Pontellier's journey of self-discovery. The time spent with a younger friend on a summer holiday on Grand Isle in Lousiana unlocks a feeling in her that she can't close away again. On returning to her family home in New Orleans,...

Go Play In Traffic (A Writer's Life), is a tale of writing, loss, friendship and telepathy during the COVID Pandemic. Reba, a 74-year-old lesbian, finds herself in a state of limbo after a year of writer's block, the beginning of retirement, and the break-up...

Laana returns to her small hometown following the death of her grandmother and becomes obsessed with the local ghost story of Carolyn Hayward. Who was she? Why does every reference or local memory of her give conflicting information about her life, work, and the...

*A Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Bustle, Lit Hub, and more!* A surreal novel with "a dark, delicious edge" (Time) about a woman in Silicon Valley who must decide how much she's willing to give up for success--from an award-winning writer whose...