Strong Women


Lessons in Chemistry
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Circe
The Secret Life of Bees
Jane Eyre
The Nightingale
The Help
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Pride and Prejudice
The Handmaid's Tale
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
The Women
Becoming
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Alanna by Tamora PierceIn the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora PierceThe Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora PierceLioness Rampant by Tamora PierceFirst Test by Tamora Pierce
Sword-Wielding Heroines in Fantasy
26 books — 12 voters
The Blue Bar by Damyanti BiswasNext Girl to Die by Dea PoirierThe Salinger Contract by Adam LangerWhen Mimi Went Missing by Suja SukumarElegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
Mystery Lover's List
142 books — 79 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsGraceling by Kristin CashoreMoon Called by Patricia BriggsVampire Academy by Richelle MeadBlood Red Road by Moira Young
Female Hunters
132 books — 26 voters

Tangled Hearts by Catherine ValeThe Huntress by Michelle O'LearyHere Kitty, Kitty! by Shelly LaurenstonBleacke's Geek by Lesli RichardsonPack Challenge by Shelly Laurenston
Alpha Heroines in romance
45 books — 37 voters

C. JoyBell C.
I believe in strong women. I believe in the woman who is able to stand up for herself. I believe in the woman who doesn't need to hide behind her husband's back. I believe that if you have problems, as a woman you deal with them, you don't play victim, you don't make yourself look pitiful, you don't point fingers. You stand and you deal. You face the world with a head held high and you carry the universe in your heart. ...more
C. JoyBell C.

Roman Payne
I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her. ...more
Roman Payne, The Wanderess

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