10 Amazing Books by Women Writers

 Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate, I'm doing a post on 10 amazing writers to check out if you haven't already. I've tried to range the gamut with authors from different backgrounds and identities, as well as different time periods and nationalities. These are all books I've loved. Hope you enjoy!

10 Amazing Books by Women Authors to Check Out

1. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers--Perfect cozy scifi--if it were TV, it would be a bottle episode where a few characters from different species spend a few days contained together and learn as much about themselves as they do each other.
2. The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders--Such an amazingly realized world of how humans would adapt to a tidally locked planet, and the native alien culture.
3. The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck--Fictionalized true story of a woman with a wooden leg from Virginia who became a spy in WWII Europe.
4. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab--Alternate history where a woman is cursed to be invisible but lives for 300 years...
5. Your Perfect Year by Charlotte Lucas--Translated from German, story of a notebook with the perfect year planned out, the man who follows it, and the woman who wrote it.
6. Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon by Mary Fan--Steampunk, awesome characters, set in a steampunk alternate history China.
7. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin--Brilliant evocative post-apocalyptic world and characters, highly recommend the whole trilogy.
8. Middlemarch by George Eliot--A chunkster, but this got me through a lot of 2020, and I just love the incredibly detailed characters and society, especially Dorothea.
9. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell--This is deservedly her most famous book, but she doesn't get the attention of Jane Austen, and she should. The romance here is more nuanced and there is a lot of focus on the plight of factory workers--although the male lead is a factory owner!
10. The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts--Absolutely brilliant fiction written by a formerly enslaved woman--this may or may not be similar to her own escape story. So glad it is now published (almost 100 years after it was written), but people don't talk about it enough.