Fiction - Feminist

With an introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cuban feminist writer Alba de C駸pedes, whose work inspired contemporary writers like Elena FerranteIn this modern translation by acclaimed Elena Ferrante translator Ann Goldstein, The Forbidden Notebook centers the...

Fact-driven fiction. Speculative. Provocative. What could've been. What should've been.*DamagesHome for Unwed Fathers Fighting Words ComedownWhat Sane Man Sweet SixteenBallsyJustified It's a BoyMen Need SexHow We Survived The Knitting GroupThe Mars ColoniesA PostTrans PostPandemic WorldUnlessAlleviationThe Women's PartyMy Last YearAuthor: Peg TittleISBN-10: 1990083005ISBN-13: 9781990083006Publisher: MagentaLanguage:...

In a re-wilded, near-future England, a group of activists led by a writer try to make a noise in a society that refuses to hear its people. A re-wilded, half-submerged England is home to a divided society split into "haves" and "have-nots." Susan, once...

When Athena was a young girl in the 60s, she lost her hearing to a childhood fever but was misdiagnosed as "profoundly retarded" and institutionalized for thirty years. Now she's out of the institution, awkward and bookish, and learning to integrate with mainstream society...

It's a fairy tale come true for Julia Jones, a stalled artist living in Boston's Old World Italian neighborhood, the North End. She's engaged to marry the impossibly wonderful (and impossibly wealthy) Asher Bartlett - in a Swiss castle, no less. And after the...

A short story collection, translated from Urdu, from a prominent Pakistani feminist, leftist writer The Monkey's Wound and Other Stories is a collection of sixteen short stories by Hajra Masroor that are illustrative of her uncompromising tone, her piercing portrayals of the bitter realities...

"Gracefully crosses the borders of plausibility into a luminous metaphysical realm."--Publishers Weekly"A highly sexual, highly sensual spiritual realm...Passionate and unified at the same time."--Woodstock TimesThe Goddess is returning! She takes shape in the hands of an Episcopal priest's shy, retiring wife. She invades the...

1860 - In a small town on Lake Ontario, at a time when an affluent young girl is forbidden to have any ambition of her own, Sarah defies her social-climbing mother to marry Joe, the Scottish farmer she loves, convinced he is the only...

Over the course of one fateful day, Trisha Donahue begins to reclaim her courage and discovers secrets in a familiar place. A surprising, quietly dramatic adventure story infused with Ellen Cooney's warm humor and wisdom. After years of skilled work and dedication, Trisha Donahue...

Author: Alison B. HartISBN-10: 888578013XISBN-13: 9798885780131Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2022Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 1.02dLarge Print

An NPR, Washington Post, Time, People, Vulture, Guardian, Vox, Kirkus Reviews, Newsweek, LitHub, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year * "Delightful...cathartic, devious, and terrifically entertaining." --The New York Times * "Timely, whip-smart, and darkly funny." --People (Book of the Week)...

Gita Chithra embarks on a mission through space to save the robot she loves as a daughter--or risk losing her in the depths of Loki's Ring--in this intergalactic space adventure from beloved author Stina Leicht. Gita Chithra, the captain of the intergalactic ship The...

A centuries-long peace is shattered in a matriarchal society when a decade passes without a single girl being born in this sweeping epic fantasy that's perfect for fans of Robin Hobb and Circe. Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably...

WINNER OF THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE TRANSLATION PRIZE"A profoundly moving account of desperation, exhilaration, and endurance."--Kirkus ReviewsThe Bell JarGood Morning, Midnight, by one of Turkey's most beloved writers.The narrator of Tezer Özlü's novel is between lovers. She is in and out of...

The California desert hasn't changed, but everything else in Blue McCarron's life is about to. After the inevitable break-up with partner Roxie in Philadelphia, Blue drags herself home--to the tumbleweeds, sidewinders, and emptiness. A part-time job teaching Social Psychology at a private university in...

LONGLISTED FOR THE QUEEN SOFﾍA SPANISH INSTITUTE TRANSLATION PRIZEA masterful novel exploring womanhood, class, and tradition in 1950s ColombiaFrom her home in Paris, Lina recalls the story of three women whose lives unfold in the conservative city of Barranquilla in Colombia. Amid parties at...

A haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradictions of the twentieth-century female experience.A close friend and protégé of Marguerite Duras, Barbara Molinard (1921-1986) wrote and wrote feverishly, but only managed to publish one book in her lifetime: the...

CBC BOOKS - CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023Peter Greenaway meets Angela Carter: a Gothic tale of secrets and revenge When the curtain rises on Malmaison, it reveals a once-enchanting estate, quietly falling into darkness and ruin, and at the...

New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889) is a novel by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett. In June 1889, British novelist and President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League Mary Augusta Ward published her reactionary essay "An Appeal Against Female Suffrage" in The Nineteenth Century....

Unveiling a Parallel (1893) is a novel by Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant. Alongside Mary E. Bradley Lane's Mizora (1890) and Elizabeth Corbett's New Amazonia (1889), Unveiling a Parallel is an important early work of feminist utopian science fiction. "Having launched my aeroplane...

Gloriana; or, The Revolution of 1900 (1890) is a novel by Lady Florence Dixie. A member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, Dixie believed in the emancipation of women through radical cultural and political change. Gloriana; or, The Revolution of 1900, a...

​"If anything bad happens to me, I want you to get him." Those were Sasha's words. Now that she's gone, can Eleanor Birch do what it takes to avenge her friend?Author: A. R. TaylorISBN-10: 164742223XISBN-13: 9781647422233Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2022Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize:...

Andrea Hoffman is an overeducated, underemployed, and unmotivated recent college graduate--until an unexpected robbery blasts her out of her funk and into a job in the finance world of early-1980s Chicago. At first, it seems like a bad fit. But the world of finance...

"Superb characterizations round out this captivating production."--Library Journal, Best Audiobooks of 2022On her 30th birthday, Yale-educated Zoe Greene was supposed to be married to her high-school sweetheart, pregnant with their first baby, and practicing law in Chicago. Instead, she's planning an abortion and filing...

A brilliant, feminist twist on the Book of Genesis from Carmen Boullosa. What if everything they've told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and ninety-one parts, Eve decides to tell...

Ischia is a portrait of an unnamed narrator and her friends: wandering through the margins of different cities, especially Buenos Aires, they search for purpose in an increasingly uncertain world.An intricate, gutsy, and raw novel, Ischia is populated with outsiders who navigate the vicissitudes...

Named a must read book of 2023 by Nylon, BookRiot, Vulture , The Millions, and Ms. Magazine!A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman's interdimensional search for beauty and embodiment, through kaleidoscopic renderings of hospital corridors, brutal breakups, and passionate romance.The Fifth Wound...

"Expect a few chills to run down your spine as you work your way through this sharp debut" (CrimeReads) about a young mother who can't shake the feeling that her son's imaginary friend is putting him in very real danger--perfect for fans of Lisa...

Peaky Blinders meets Ocean's 8 in The Forty Elephants, an epic novel set in Roaring Twenties London, based on the real-life, all-female gang of the same name who specialized in crime as high art, targeting posh department stores and elites.London in the 1920s is...

A coven races--literally--to fight off the magic smog that threatens their city. A janitor at the last rocket launch site on a dying planet sends the rocket up with a special spell of comfort. Instead of casting the resiliency spell she asked for, a...

The Award-Winning Novel Series: Bronze Medal - IPPY Awards Best Second Novel Finalist - Next Generation Indie Book Awards There's a secret society of professional women called the Ceiling Smashers. And Smashers Synched is a brilliant tale that brings into sharp focus what it...

Sylvie wants her freedom, but The Deme is forever.In a world where natural birth is a violation of The Biocratic Mandate and midwives are considered terrorists, Sylvie's life is a deadly game of cat-and-mouse which she did not choose.Months after the violent death of...

Gunfire Lullabies-written by former diplomat, political advisor and press secretary, Nore Hoogstad-is a riveting and gut-wrenching account of two women caught in a war inspired by real life events.Jakarta, 1998. Junior Australian diplomat Ava Vuyk is on her first overseas posting when she's assigned...

Against the unforgiving landscape of Alaska, Sharon Wolf, a single mother, struggles to reclaim her life from alcohol abuse and regain the custody of her daughter. But first she must overcome dwindling funds and find a place to live before the harsh winter sets...

Peaky Blinders meets Ocean's 8 in The Forty Elephants, an epic novel set in Roaring Twenties London, based on the real-life, all-female gang of the same name who specialized in crime as high art, targeting posh department stores and elites.London in the 1920s is...

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...

"Poster Girl is a captivating story full of twists and turns--and no easy answers. I couldn't put this book down." --Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Girl, Forgotten From #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth, a dystopian novel set in...

Inspired by Picasso's great masterpiece, Guernica, New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards returns with a riveting story of intrigue, deception and bravery in the face of war... On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small...

Mizora (1890) is a novel by Mary E. Bradley Lane. Originally serialized between 1880 and 1881 in the Cincinnati Commercial, the novel was rediscovered a decade later and printed by prominent editor Murat Halstead. While little is known about Lane, she seems to have...

2023 International Latino Book Award Winner A TODAY.COM MOST ANTICIPATED LATINX BOOK OF 2022! Three sisters. Three vastly different lives. A maelstrom of family secrets. For fans of Mar僘 Amparo Escand and Laurie Frankel, Margo Candela pens a riotous, provocative tale of family and...

A NATALIE PORTMAN BOOK CLUB PICK FINALIST FOR THE 2022 LA TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION. "The electrifying fiction debut that has been called 'a modern Mrs. Dalloway.'"--THE ATLANTIC "Mind-bending and utterly original."--Brandon Taylor "Slim in the hand, but its impact is...

Jeanette, a graduate student on scholarship and majoring in art history, arrives on the West Coast intending to be embraced by endless sunshine. She finds comfort in her studies and in her new apartment, drinking cheap Scotch and enjoying casual hookups.From her youth slowly...

When precocious Lilly, an eleven-year-old, undergoes an inexplicable and startling growth spurt, her father and doctors decide to take drastic action to curb what they see as a dangerous development. Faced with condescending treatment and cruelty, Lilly escapes and embarks on a journey to...

Patches tells the tale of one woman's life, Wilma, through a series of interwoven short stories. The stories begin in 1943 when we learn that Wilma's father, recently drafted into the army, is about to leave for boot camp. Wilma, an infant and the...

Radically imaginative and intense, challenging language to be slow and fast, soft and hard, drunk and sober, What Are You performs its own destruction and recreation. Hypnotic, dreamlike, lyrical essays tell the story of a woman trapped in a destructive love affair with the...

What if your life was spinning out of control? Where would you turn?A silent meditation retreat, deep in the Thai jungle, promises to restore peace and help its visitors achieve joy in the midst of a chaotic world.Lured by this tantalising promise, a Brazilian...

2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist For readers of My Dark Vanessa, a mesmerizing, disturbing, and thoroughly compelling novel about one woman's role in preserving--or destroying--her famous father's legacy. In front of me are hundreds of pages of work. Already I feel it leaving me....

A poignant, unflinching debut story collection set in northern Canada.SUCH A LOVELY AFTERNOON is a dazzling debut collection from award-winning Yukon writer Patti Flather.A feisty young tomboy grapples with gender roles with sometimes hilarious results, a refugee single dad struggles for dignity in his...

What if your life was spinning out of control? Where would you turn?A silent meditation retreat, deep in the Thai jungle, promises to restore peace and help its visitors achieve joy in the midst of a chaotic world.Lured by this tantalising promise, a Brazilian...

I couldn't put this book down and I loved spending time in the lives of Nonso, Remi, Aisha, and Solape. Truly this book will grab hold of your heart and mind and everything in between.--Roxane Gay, author of Hunger and Bad FeministNigerian author Omolola...