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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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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
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Wuthering Heights
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The Poisonwood Bible
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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Fingersmith
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The House of the Spirits
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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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4.09 avg rating — 384,551 ratings
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Notorious Rbg: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The Light Between Oceans
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M.L. Stedman (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 475,880 ratings
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Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
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Louise Penny (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 278,579 ratings
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Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
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Jojo Moyes (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,778,522 ratings
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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The Mountain Story
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Lori Lansens (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 11,868 ratings
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
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The Book of Unknown Americans
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Cristina Henríquez (Goodreads Author)
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
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Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 35,263 ratings
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Innocent Traitor
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Our Endless Numbered Days
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Claire Fuller (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 17,463 ratings
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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The Luminaries
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The Snow Child
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Eowyn Ivey (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 168,674 ratings
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5 to 1
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Holly Bodger (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 2,679 ratings
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The Portable Dorothy Parker
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How to Be a Woman
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Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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Susan Cain (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 469,765 ratings
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Watching the English : The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
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Come to the Edge
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Christina Haag (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 3,351 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 1,248,215 ratings
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
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3.95 avg rating — 268,107 ratings
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Heartburn
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The Passion
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What Alice Forgot
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Liane Moriarty (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 508,329 ratings
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The Last Runaway
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 39,006 ratings
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Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 136,086 ratings
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Unbecoming
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Rebecca Scherm (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 8,790 ratings
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Fugitive Pieces
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3.92 avg rating — 17,239 ratings
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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Karen Joy Fowler (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 126,291 ratings
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
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All My Puny Sorrows
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The Boleyn Inheritance (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #10)
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Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 94,789 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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Malala Yousafzai (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 616,804 ratings
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Remarkable Creatures
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 55,037 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 271,893 ratings
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At the Water's Edge
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Sara Gruen (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 84,319 ratings
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The Virgin Cure
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Ami McKay (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 16,072 ratings
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The Signature of All Things
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 123,794 ratings
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Farthing (Small Change, #1)
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Jo Walton (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 5,630 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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Fiercombe Manor
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Kate Riordan (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 5,449 ratings
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Frances and Bernard
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Girl in the Dark
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Necropolis: London and Its Dead
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Catharine Arnold (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 2,224 ratings
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Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
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Lavinia
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Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 70,385 ratings
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Hild (The Hild Sequence, #1)
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Nicola Griffith (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 12,703 ratings
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
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Dept. of Speculation
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Jenny Offill (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 58,625 ratings
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery
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3.20 avg rating — 328 ratings
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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
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Jessica Valenti (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 8,588 ratings
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Eva Luna
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
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Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
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Yes Please
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When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)
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Sandhya Menon (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 55,037 ratings
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Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters
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You're Never Weird on the Internet
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Salt to the Sea
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4.35 avg rating — 249,447 ratings
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Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy
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3.91 avg rating — 80,232 ratings
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
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Emily M. Danforth (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 59,442 ratings
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Please Ignore Vera Dietz
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A.S. King (Goodreads Author)
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Hark! A Vagrant
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The Book of Speculation
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Cleopatra's Daughter
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Michelle Moran (Goodreads Author)
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#Girlboss
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Sophia Amoruso (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 76,338 ratings
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Notes on a Scandal
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The Children's Book
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The Marriage of Opposites
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Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
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Rebecca
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Kristin Lavransdatter
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The Scapegoat
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I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
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One Good Hustle
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Billie Livingston (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Cleopatra
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Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 122,340 ratings
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The House on the Strand
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Jamaica Inn
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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
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4.28 avg rating — 13,265 ratings
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Why Not Me?
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Mindy Kaling (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 224,891 ratings
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Dwarves in Space
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S.E. Zbasnik (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 75 ratings
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How to Build a Girl (How to Build a Girl, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 36,734 ratings
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Secrets of the Tides
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Hannah Richell (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 4,398 ratings
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author)
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