Favourite Female Authors

Hi guys, I hope you are all well. So it was International Women’s day yesterday and in honour of that, I wanted to shout-out some amazing female authors. I’ve read one or more books by all of the authors mentioned today and I would highly recommend checking out their books. I have linked all the books to their Goodreads page and, for the ones I’ve reviewed, I’ve linked to my full reviews.  Let’s get started

 

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Favourite fantasy books by amazing female authors:

• The Sword of Kaigen / M. L. Wang / ★★★★★ / full review

• The Goblin Emperor / Katherine Addison / ★★★★

• The Beast Player / Nahoko Uehashi / ★★★★★ / full review

• Daughter of the Forest / Juliet Marillier / ★★★★

• Blood of Heirs / Alicia Wanstall-Burke / ★★★★ / full review

• The Gift / Alison Croggon / ★★★★

• The Magician’s Guild / Trudi Canavan / ★★★★ / trilogy review

• Fudoki / Kij Johnson / ★★★★★ / full review

• The Bear and the Nightingale / Katherine Arden / ★★★★ / full review

• The Forgotten Beasts of Eld / Patricia McKillip / ★★★★★ / full review

• The Ninth Rain / Jen Williams / ★★★★ / full review

• Circe / Madeleine Miller / ★★★★

• Fool’s Errand / Robin Hobb / ★★★★

• Wolf Brother / Michelle Paver / ★★★★ / series review

• Green Rider / Kristen Britain / ★★★★ / full review

• A Memory Called Empire / Arkday Martine / ★★★★ / full review

• The Crystal Ribbon / Celeste Lim / ★★★★ / full review

• A Winter’s Promise / Christelle Dabos / ★★★★ / full review

• A Natural History of Dragons / Marie Brennan / ★★★★ / full review

• The Demon King / Cinda Williams Chima / ★★★.5 / series review

 

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Favourite fiction (not fantasy) books by amazing female authors:

• Persuasion / Jane Austen / ★★★★

• Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte / ★★★★★

• A Tenant of Wildfell Hall / Anne Bronte / ★★★★★

• North and South / Elizabeth Gaskell / ★★★★★

• To Kill A Mockingbird / Harper Lee / ★★★★★

• A Handmaid’s Tale / Margaret Atwood / ★★★★

• Do Not Say We Have Nothing / Madeleine Thien / ★★★★★ / full review

• Wolf Hall / Hilary Mantel / ★★★★.5 / full review

• The Siege / Helen Dunmore / ★★★★

• Between Shades of Grey / Ruta Sepetys / ★★★★

• The Moon in the Palace / Weina dai Randall / ★★★★ / full review

• Jade Dragon Mountain / Elsa Hart / ★★★★ / 2 book review

 

That’s it for today. All of these books are fantastic and I highly recommend checking them out. I definitely want to check out even more female authors this year. Who are your favourite female authors? Let’s chat in the comments. I hope you are all having a wonderful day and I will see you next time.

 

 

Pippa