Fiction - Feminist

The prescient feminist fable and international classic described as "The Handmaid's Tale for our age" (The Economist), from the Booker-shortlisted author of Stone Yard Devotional When the women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle...

A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess she's been forced to protect in this explosive queer thriller: Kill Bill meets The Handmaiden meets Thelma and Louise. Tokyo, 1979. Yoriko Shindo, a workhorse of a woman who has been an...

A young queer man finds love at a magical clothing shop-and the courage to stand up to the homophobic cops. A witch who makes custom nightmares wonders why all her victims are connected to the Black Panthers-and who she's really working for. A soon-to-be...

A wickedly funny work of depraved genius by one of Brazil's most radical twentieth-century writers; imagine the Marquis de Sade as written by Clarice Lespecter An electrifying masterpiece by one of modern Brazilian literature's most significant and controversial writers, Hilda Hilst takes us into...

One of the most visceral, profane, and distinctive reading experiences of the 21st century, The Orange Eats Creeps was praised as "beautiful and deranged" by Bookforum, while Shelley Jackson said it is "like something you read on the underside of a freeway overpass in...

From USA TODAY bestselling author Victoria Purman comes an engaging, clever story about women's work--often unseen--during Australia's golden years of radio broadcasting.Martha Berry is on the brink of fifty years old, unmarried, and one of an army of polite, invisible women who go to...

"Rich and resonant with women's voices and values, at once familiar and entirely new."-Rachel Barenblat, "The Velveteen Rabbi," and author of Texts to the Holy Female protagonists turn Jewish folktales on their heads!What happens when stories with traditional male protagonists are updated with female...

From award-winning author Katie Powner comes a funny, feel-good novel about a woman discovering her second chance at life. This charming and heartfelt story is perfect for readers who loved Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame. Fifty-two-year-old Meredith McGillicutty is not having a midlife crisis....

From award-winning author Katie Powner comes a funny, feel-good novel about a woman discovering her second chance at life. This charming and heartfelt story is perfect for readers who loved Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame. Fifty-two-year-old Meredith McGillicutty is not having a midlife crisis....

"This entrancing mix of feminism, queerness, magic and power-hungry villains makes for an intoxicating reading experience." --Nerd Daily In the second installment of Juno Dawson's "irresistible" fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of childhood friends and witches must choose between what is right and...

A brilliant queer dystopian novel from the author of Yours for the Taking, following a cast of characters on the margins of a strange and exclusive new society. The year is 2041, and it's a dangerous time to be a woman driving across the...

In this spellbinding Southern Gothic novel, three women weave together old Southern folklore and magic to fight sexism and educational discrimination in post-Civil War Alabama, perfect for fans of Hester Fox and Louisa Morgan. When Lucille, Catherine, and Victoria are invited to participate in...

In this spellbinding Southern Gothic novel, three women weave together old Southern folklore and magic to fight sexism and educational discrimination in post-Civil War Alabama, perfect for fans of Hester Fox and Louisa Morgan. When Lucille, Catherine, and Victoria are invited to participate in...

Love may transcend time, but life never follows the same path twice.Thirty years after The World is Decorated With Stars, Sarah Starbuck Coffin and her husband Samuel navigate a Nantucket transformed-whaling's decline, shifting fortunes, and the tightening expectations placed on women. Once bold and...

"I cannot recommend this series enough."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood Charlotte Holmes--aka Sherlock Holmes--becomes entangled in a puzzling missing person case that hits close to home for her beloved Mrs. Watson in this Victorian-set mystery from the USA Today bestselling author....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE In a small, sleepy town, a mediocre witch, in a mediocre marriage, tries to pass on her gifts to her twin daughters, who, it becomes immediately apparent, have skills far beyond her own. "The Witch is classic NDiaye....

"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...

This is not a story of magic. This is a story of persecution...The Far Isles are in a witch-hunting frenzy. Neighbour turns against neighbour, women are hanged from trees, and girls are thrown to the pyre. At the head of this fever is the...

"A fiery and dramatic novel, starring one of mythology's most notorious women." -- Jennifer Saint, internationally bestselling author of Ariadne and AtalantaFor readers of Costanza Casati and Circe comes a Medea like you've never known her before--a woman with improbable skill and the fiercest...

Tales from Japan that blend humor, surrealism, and sharp societal critique, by the acclaimed author of Where the Wild Ladies Are"Piercing and sometimes surreal... Matsuda shines."--Publishers WeeklyIn The Woman Dies, renowned author Aoko Matsuda approaches often-thorny subjects such as sexism, prejudice, the normalizing effect...