Hello! I am looking for books with good women characters, feminist (as in equal rights – not sexualisation of the female characters, women in science etc), which are also not violent or sexually violent or any sexual trauma..
something “light” like the movie Lady Bird to make a movie comparison if possible 😅
Do books like this even exist?? I’m tired of buying books based on reviews made clearly by man only and then getting disappointed.
by chrisfinance90
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violet evergarden
Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
>something “light” like the movie Lady Bird to make a movie comparison
Oh man, I don’t have any actual recs for you, but the movie Lady Bird is like a straight line to a mental breakdown to me, I cannot watch it without being messed up for weeks afterwards. Hits too close to home with her relationship with her mother I guess.
Actually on second thought, I’d recommend Terry Pratchett and especially his Discworld series if you haven’t read this. It’s humoristic fantasy, but it’s very good, deals with a surprising deal of current issues, and all the characters, male and female, are excellent.
the idiot by elif batuman
history of the rain
where’d you go bernedette
the edible woman
red at the bone
anything by amy tan, miriam toews or maggie o farrell maybe?
Barbara Kingsolver. This is her thing to a T.
Phryne Fisher books by Kerry Greenwood. About a well to do amateur detective in 1920s Australia.
Maybe The invisible library series?
If you want fairly light but lots of women characters, maybe some romance books. Emily Henry is usually pretty light. Susan Wiggs also.
Kristin Hannah – historical fiction but not really light though (but I don’t remember much violence in them); very good women characters in the ones I’ve read by her
The Girl in His Shadow – again maybe not light but a good story about a woman being raised by and taught to be a surgeon when women doctors were illegal in England (a little science/medical stuff but not the whole point of the book)
Well technically they are not violent, so go with the major religious myths