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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,263,909 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,326,100 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,867,866 ratings — published 2010
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,410,358 ratings — published 1847
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,001,263 ratings — published 1813
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,034,845 ratings — published 2012
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,680,164 ratings — published 2012
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,484,888 ratings — published 2011
Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,758,985 ratings — published 2014
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,976,756 ratings — published 2013
Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.06 — 484,428 ratings — published 2008
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,539,099 ratings — published 1868
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.40 — 414,329 ratings — published 2014
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.23 — 472,097 ratings — published 2013
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as heroines)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,151,136 ratings — published 2012
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,154,052 ratings — published 1908
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,213,867 ratings — published 2007
Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.27 — 138,442 ratings — published 1983
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,465,571 ratings — published 2018
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as heroines)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,165,317 ratings — published 2013
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as heroines)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,655,117 ratings — published 2012
Uglies (Uglies, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as heroines)
avg rating 3.84 — 715,691 ratings — published 2005
Poison Study (Study, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.08 — 178,906 ratings — published 2005
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,645,581 ratings — published 1995
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,555,135 ratings — published 1985
Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.16 — 221,751 ratings — published 1995
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,524,326 ratings — published 2005
Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.10 — 688,427 ratings — published 2007
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.02 — 427,362 ratings — published 1997
A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as heroines)
avg rating 3.80 — 226,316 ratings — published 2003
Wild Magic (Immortals, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.31 — 83,564 ratings — published 1992
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,094,149 ratings — published 2009
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,467,529 ratings — published 2016
Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.41 — 320,302 ratings — published 2015
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as heroines)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,220,276 ratings — published 2015
Legend (Legend, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.15 — 573,893 ratings — published 2011
Blood Red Road (Dust Lands #1)
by (shelved 9 times as heroines)
avg rating 3.91 — 62,421 ratings — published 2011
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.13 — 803,591 ratings — published 2002
City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,010,948 ratings — published 2008
Fire (Graceling Realm, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.09 — 195,764 ratings — published 2009
Trickster's Queen (Daughter of the Lioness, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.28 — 61,823 ratings — published 2004
In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.24 — 103,571 ratings — published 1984
Wonder Woman: Warbringer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as heroines)
avg rating 3.99 — 38,114 ratings — published 2017
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,573,885 ratings — published 2015
The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass, #0.1-0.5)
by (shelved 8 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,350,137 ratings — published 2014
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.11 — 966,361 ratings — published 1878
Seraphina (Seraphina, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as heroines)
avg rating 3.94 — 90,013 ratings — published 2012
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as heroines)
avg rating 3.99 — 388,434 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,325,383 ratings — published 1947
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as heroines)
avg rating 4.30 — 889,209 ratings — published 2010
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“Ligeia, Annabel Lee, and Berenice,
Supernal beauties, pleasing to the eye,
Were temporary mates and marble-cheeked
Like timeless funerary monuments.
Tremaine’s Rowena, Lady Madeline,
Insidiously felled and pushed offstage,
Had met goth’s Mister Goodbar on the page.
First, females got top billed — — then burying.
What makes an author kill his heroines?
[Source: "Poe and His Women" a poem by LindaAnn LoSchiavo; first published by Bewildering Stories Magazine, 2019]”
― A Route Obscure and Lonely
Supernal beauties, pleasing to the eye,
Were temporary mates and marble-cheeked
Like timeless funerary monuments.
Tremaine’s Rowena, Lady Madeline,
Insidiously felled and pushed offstage,
Had met goth’s Mister Goodbar on the page.
First, females got top billed — — then burying.
What makes an author kill his heroines?
[Source: "Poe and His Women" a poem by LindaAnn LoSchiavo; first published by Bewildering Stories Magazine, 2019]”
― A Route Obscure and Lonely
“She had tried when she turned sixteen to think of herself as a woman, like Jane Eyre or Elizabeth Bennet or the multitudes of heroines who lived in her books, but in her head she wasn't there. They were all older than her, and had all, even Jane, seen more of life. And yet she was too old to be Sara Crewe or Alice or Wendy Darling either. She was a liminal person, trapped between a world she'd grown out of and another that wouldn't let her in. It was one reason why she wanted to leave the island so badly--- the hope that leaving the place she'd grown up would help her leave her childhood behind. Not forever, not yet. But for a visit, to see what it was like.”
― The Magician’s Daughter
― The Magician’s Daughter
