My friends and I have a book club, so far we have only read non-fiction books. It’s my turn to pick a book for us and I want to do a fiction book this time, preferably historical with a female lead. I LOVE Amy Harmon’s books (they give me American girl for adults vibes). I know there’s a ton of options but I’m feeling pressure on choosing a book for us!!!
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American Princess by Stephanie Marie Thorton, maybe! It’s a historical fiction about Alice Roosevelt.
Check out the League of Extraordinary Women by Evie Dunmore!
The Midwife’s Revolt and series by Jodi Daynard. New England during the Revolutionary War
You could try *The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek* by Kim Michele Richardson. Its a fictionalized account of real subjects with themes of prejudice and discrimination.
The Last Aloha by Gaellen Quinn.
Dragonfruit by Malia Mattoch McManus.
Two by Kate Manning:
“My Notorious Life” (there are alternative titles) – based in NYC in 1860s. Based loosely on the true story of a midwife known as “Madame Restell.” A nice almost Dickensian story centered around women’s health issues.
“Gilded Mountain” set in Colorado mining community in 1910s. Historical figures make their appearance in a story revolving around labor struggles of the day. Female first-person narrator (like My Notorious Life).
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
The Frozen River.
The Diamond Eye.
The Alice Network.
The Women of Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell.
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn. It’s a women’s boarding house in DC during McCarthyism.
Any book by Kate Quinn.
The Women by Kristin Hannah
My dad is a Vietnam vet and really loved this book for how real it gets.
I kind of like Sherry Thomas’s Lady Sherlock series. It’s an interesting re-imaging of Sherlock Holmes as a woman going to pretty extreme lengths to avoid the constraints placed on women. With how romantically that era is typically portrayed to be, I like how it confronts that it actually kind of sucked, even for the “lucky” women in the upper classes.