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Escapist Literary Books with Strong Female Characters
These fiction books written for adults leave you wanting more of that warm feeling inside. May include Mary-Sue like women with few faults (they don't have to), but are also women who stand up for themselves. While many literary romance titles fall into this category, books that might be more women's and regular fiction and without romance may be included. Literary is meant broadly so as to mean books without the formulas often found in genres. May include different styles of writing, both contemporary and historical fiction. Titles may be written by men. Novels that celebrate feminist women welcome but they must also be escapes for the reader, a high bar.
If in a series, please just include the first title.
Please no YA novels, category romance novels, or erotica. Thank you.
If in a series, please just include the first title.
Please no YA novels, category romance novels, or erotica. Thank you.
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Overseas
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Beatriz Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 8,419 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (Cecelia and Kate, #1)
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Patricia C. Wrede (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 21,542 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden
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3.78 avg rating — 61,017 ratings
score: 195,
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2 people voted
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Forbidden (Old West, #1)
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Beverly Jenkins (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 5,495 ratings
score: 193,
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2 people voted
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The Royal We (Royal We, #1)
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Heather Cocks (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 68,509 ratings
score: 191,
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2 people voted
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Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
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Jacqueline Winspear (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 121,232 ratings
score: 189,
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2 people voted
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A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
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Marie Brennan (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 45,249 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Kelly and the Pirates (Kelly Winchester #3)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 100,
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A Lady's Formula for Love (The Secret Scientists of London, #1)
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Elizabeth Everett (Goodreads Author)
3.37 avg rating — 6,636 ratings
score: 100,
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Land of the Beautiful Dead
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R. Lee Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 7,078 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 78,099 ratings
score: 99,
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A Reliable Wife
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3.28 avg rating — 80,096 ratings
score: 98,
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Twisted in a Positive Way
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Chikamso C. Efobi (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 44 ratings
score: 97,
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Secrets of the Tower
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Debbie Rix (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 671 ratings
score: 96,
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Valor's Choice (Confederation, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 8,847 ratings
score: 94,
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