No romance either please! I don’t really mind what genre (war, fantasy, slice of life, etc) but i do prefer some angst and hurt/comfort. I am okay with Yuri (lesbians) but not ones where it is just stereotypical buff/skinny or whatever. NZ
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The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
I really enjoyed the Charlie Bone series as a kid it’s written by a woman (Jenny Nimmo) kind of reminds me of Harry Potter if you liked that series you’ll like this one as well.
John Scalzi’s *Interdependency* series is court politics and internecine battles taking place in an outer-space sci-fi setting. Most of its main characters are bad-ass women. The court politics doesn’t come off the periphery to take center stage until the second book.
The first book is ***The Collapsing Empire***.
Be aware it contains considerable expletive language.
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen
Sing, Wild Bird, Sing by Jacqueline O’Mahony. I can’t remember if there wasn’t any romance in this one, but if there was it definitely wasn’t the focus.
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
If you’re okay with sapphic romance and graphic novels then try “Bingo Love” by Tee Franklin.
Sounds like you ought to get thee over to r/weirdgirlliterature and look at the reccs there!
VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good and its sequel An Elderly Lady Must Not be Crossed by Helene Tursten
This is How You Lose the Time War.
A Closed and Common Orbit.
The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein. Some of my favorite books.
Ohhhh boy
1) Matrix – Lauren Groff (Feminist, all-women convent, some gay stuff goes on)
2) Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver (feminist, mother and her 4 daughters in africa carve a path for themselves)
3) Rose Code – Kate Quinn (follows the friendship between three female codebreakers in WW2)
4) Witchcraft for Wayward Girls – Grady Hendrix (horror, friendship between a few girls in a boarding house for teenage pregnancies)
5) Dance Tree – Kiran Hargrave (feminist, medieval strausbourg, follows the dance plague and its affliction’s impact on several women who’ve all been wronged. some gay stuff happens)