Fiction - Feminist

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...

Mad Men meets Nancy Drew in this delightful romp through the scandalous and sometimes criminal world of 1960s New York advertising!Rachel Newman has left her small town in Iowa to seek out a different life, one elevated by the glitz and glamour of New...

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,...

Optioned for film and published in sixteen countries, this British sensation explodes the myth that all people need to be truly happy is love and marriage. Meet thirty-three-year-old Clara Hutt: irreverent, sometimes unkind, always self-deprecating. Clara is a part-time magazine writer with a perpetually...

Giresun Island is a science fiction novel with third-world overtones. Carsem is a young Kurdish soldier whose family has been killed in the eternal conflict between Kurds and their neighbors. After the decimation of her village, she drifts into the desert only to emerge...

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...

'We have gone so far down the slippery slope of progress, that we all now need to call a halt. We are slaves to technology, we are polluting our planet at an alarming rate, and too many of our leaders are concerned with lining...

A Roadmap To Life's Enduring PassagesReckonings, regrets, longings. Life's turning points. Sometimes redemptive, sometimes heartbreaking, these crossroads are familiar to us all. The yearning for a different path, a better ending, is uniquely human.You Can't Get There From Here explores these pivotal moments. In...

Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) is a novel by English writer and feminist Mary Hays. Inspired by events from her own life, as well as by her acquaintance with radical political philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, Hays's novel received mixed reviews and was...

Set in 2126, The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century explores a society led by advanced technology but driven by ego, greed and self-preservation. It's a vivid clash of genres featuring an old tale with a new twist. In the distant future, society...

Fey Anderson has always dreamt about escaping the crowded streets of Saint Paign. Soura Heights appears to be the picture-perfect place to run to: A place where the sun is always shining, the people are welcoming, and the quirky charm of every locally owned...

After meeting a mysterious stranger, a sickly woman drinks a powerful potion that opens her eyes, heart and mind to the wonders of the supernatural. Once she's been exposed, she's eager to learn more about the spiritual world. A Romance of Two Worlds follows...

Born into a large family of Asian ethnicity in Canada, Marion Ascough always felt like an outsider, not just because of her heritage, but also because of her aspiration to be an artist. At home, her siblings often take notice in the ways she...

The Wanderer or Female Difficulties follows a woman fleeing France to escape a painful past, only to be met with new obstacles along the way. It's an honest depiction of eighteenth-century life without the presence of political or familial support. A wandering woman emigrates...

In this mystery-romance, widowed baby boomer, Judy Howard, encounters the ghosts of her tortured past when she takes a journey on Rt 66 across the country in her motorhome with her cat, Sportster and a life-sized stuffed doll she calls Cowboy Jack.Her destination? Her...

A missing daughter. A menacing family secret. A betrayal of the worst kind.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Reviewer: "Riveting The plot is dark and engrossing. The danger and intrigue kept me on the edge of my seat; a definite page-turner "The day her bakery gets an order...

The Academy is the first book in duology Two Worlds: Magic Squad. Elisa arrives in the Guardian Academy to become a detective. Even though she hasn't quite tamed her Lightning Gift, she believes that her natural curiosity along and attention to detail will help...

"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...

"Winner of the 2019 Orange Book Prize, The Impatients is a powerful novel about three women living in Cameroon who have grown impatient with the unrelenting oppression-patriarchy, polygamy, and the perpetual cry for patience-that dominates their lives"--Author: Djaili Amadou AmalISBN-10: 0063141647ISBN-13: 9780063141643Publisher: HarperviaLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

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,...

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,...

Shortlisted for the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award - Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction - Shortlisted for the New Brunswick 2023 Mrs. Dunster's Award for Fiction -One of the Globe and Mail's "Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall" - Listed...

This "genre-shredding" (Tor.com) feminist dystopian eco-horror, perfect for fans of The Last of Us, traces a girl's coming-of-age on a post-apocalyptic trek through the Southwest. In a bleak, desiccated future, eleven-year-old Magdala and her father are forced to flee through the desolate landscape of...

One takeaway dinner. Two lonely hearts. Did somebody order a rom com? 'A really sweet, warm-hearted read - a winner for fans of Jasmine Guillory or Beth O'Leary!' Niamh Hargan, author of Twelve Days in May'A delicious rom com!' Kate Bromley, author of Talk...

Mad Men meets Nancy Drew in this delightful romp through the scandalous and sometimes criminal world of 1960s New York advertising!Rachel Newman has left her small town in Iowa to seek out a different life, one elevated by the glitz and glamour of New...

"A courageous novel, beautifully imagined and written." --Elena Lappin, The Washington Post "De Cespedes' work has lost none of its subversive force"--The New York Times Book Review * "De C駸pedes's melancholy testament to a hidden life feels timeless and vital." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)...

One romance, two faiths, many forms of love... Spanning from England's anti-fascism protests of 1936 through the aftermath of WWII, this moving, intricately wrought historical novel brings together a young Irish Catholic photographer and a British Jewish medical student, each discovering the price of...

Rediscover a 20th-century classic of feminist fantasy... After surviving a shipwreck, five men are stranded on a deserted island...until they are discovered by five beautiful, winged women. Instantly, the men become infatuated with the women's abilities and attempt to lure them in with all...