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I want to make an effort to read more female writers (fiction, non-fiction, all genres...) But with a focus on contemporary writers.
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Don't Look Now and Other Stories
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The Golden Fleece
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The Gospel of Loki (Loki, #1)
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The Eagle & the Nightingales (Bardic Voices, #3)
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Under a Painted Sky
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The First Bad Man
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The Robin & The Kestrel (Bardic Voices, #2)
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Mercedes Lackey (Goodreads Author)
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Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
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Michelle Moran (Goodreads Author)
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The King's Pleasure
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The Evening Chorus
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The Green Mill Murder (Phryne Fisher, #5)
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Blue Is the Warmest Color
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The Lark and the Wren (Bardic Voices, #1)
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Sacred Ground (Jennifer Talldeer, #1)
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
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The Lute Player
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Herland (The Herland Trilogy, #2)
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Earthly Delights (Corinna Chapman, #1)
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The Summer Before the War
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The Heretic Queen
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Michelle Moran (Goodreads Author)
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The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
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Jonathan Eig (Goodreads Author)
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Watch How We Walk
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Jennifer LoveGrove (Goodreads Author)
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Murder Past Due (Cat in the Stacks #1)
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A God in Ruins (Todd Family, #2)
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
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The Eight (The Eight, #1)
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| 128 |
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Night Film
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Marisha Pessl (Goodreads Author)
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| 129 |
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Deathless
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
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| 129 |
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Epitaph
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Mary Doria Russell (Goodreads Author)
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| 129 |
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After Birth
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Split
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
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She Is Without Limits
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My Life As A Woman: World Edition: Women Inspiring Women In 2020 And Beyond
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A Very British Murder: The Story of a National Obsession
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Dietland
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The Interestings
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Wandering Son, Vol. 1
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Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
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The Turner House
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Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
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Russian Tattoo: A Memoir
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The History of Love
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Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
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The Sexual History of London: From Roman Londinium to the Swinging City—Lust, Vice, and Desire Across the Ages
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The Children of Henry VIII
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Under the Udala Trees
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Chinelo Okparanta (Goodreads Author)
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The Hacienda
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Men to Avoid in Art and Life
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How to Grow Up: A Memoir
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Gorsky
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Shadow Tag
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Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City
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Skim
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Greedy Little Eyes
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The Ladies of the House
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Bedlam: London and Its Mad
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3.57 avg rating — 1,134 ratings
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The Lacuna
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I Don't Care About Your Band: Lessons Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated
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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
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Frog Music
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The Boston Girl
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Longbourn
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Girl in a Band
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Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit
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The Book of Salt
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Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Birth of the Lesbian Rights Movement
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The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
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The Lifeboat
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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Saint Mazie
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Science ...For Her!
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Murder and Mendelssohn (Phryne Fisher, #20)
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Fever
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Adaptation (Adaptation, #1)
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Daughter of Fortune
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Everybody Rise
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2.94 avg rating — 6,442 ratings
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Murder on a Midsummer Night (Phryne Fisher, #17)
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Above All Things
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
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Gender: Antiquity and Its Legacy
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The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
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Murder in the Dark (Phryne Fisher, #16)
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Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
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Stones from the River (Burgdorf Cycle, #1)
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Tipping the Velvet
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Away with the Fairies (Phryne Fisher, #11)
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The mountain of immoderate desires
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Magic Beginnings (Magical Girls Academy, #1)
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In the Company of the Courtesan
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Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
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Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) Without a Date
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Girl at War
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Death Before Wicket (Phryne Fisher, #10)
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Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants
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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
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Something in the Water
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