Books written by female authors (3314)



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Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Blue and the Raven boys continue their search for the tomb of Glendower, the ancient Welsh king, as well as for Blue's mother, who has disappeared underground in search of her former lover.

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Blue mimosa by Pārijāta EN

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Nepal flag Nepal

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Blue-Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu EN

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Country: Asia / Sri Lanka flag Sri Lanka
Description:
From the award-winning author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies comes a brilliantly written, globe-spanning novel about identity, faith, family, and sexuality. In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. His father sets up an ashram, and the family makes a living off of the pilgrims who seek the child’s blessings and miracles, believing young Kalki to be the tenth human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. In Kalki’s tenth year, he is confronted with three trials that will test his power and prove his divine status and, his father tells him, spread his fame worldwide. While he seems to pa... continue

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Bluebeard's First Wife by Seong-nan Ha EN

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Country: Asia / South Korea flag South Korea
Description:
Ha looks closely at the sordid underbelly of suburbia in Bluebeard's First Wife, the latest from one of Korea's preeminent authors.


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Bodies of Light by Sarah Moss EN

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Description:
A beautiful and nuanced historical novel about maternal failures, sibling affection and the everyday savagery of family, from the author of Ghost Wall.


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Bodyminds Reimagined : (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk EN

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Country: Africa / Togo flag Togo
Description:
In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre's political potential lies in the authors' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality's limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slave narratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, ... continue

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Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Philippines flag Philippines
Description:
Samuel lives in a tribe deep in the Philippine jungle at the end of the nineteenth century, and has never encountered anyone from outside his own tribe before. Hes about to become a man, and while hes desperate to grow up, hes worried that this will take him away from his best friend, Little Luki.