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elizabethmccoyThread started by Helen McLory: (TL;DR: men of twitter, rec a book by a *living* female author!)
(https://twitter.com/helenmcclory/status/1149634635640426501?s=12)
Genre in brackets, when known/deduced from comment. Commenters not listed; sorry! I've got a cat demanding attention and author/title/genre is a lot of data already. Alphabetized roughly by the LAST WORD in the author's name (which is NOT the author's last name in some cases; again, sorry!)
** means a dead author, and * for someone with a female-presenting name reccing (e.g., as a follow-on to a guy's rec. ***for Non-Binary author)
Rachel Aaron/Bach, Nice Dragons Finish Last [magitech fantasy]
Megan Abbott, ??
Ayobami Adebayo, Stay With Me
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah ["her stories have opened me to the realities of African women, and they're incredible books"]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus [contemporary?]
Monica Ali, Brick Lane
Isabel Allende, Ines of my Soul [Historical thriller about Ines Suarez]
Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night
Joanne Anderton, ??
Jodi Angel, You Only Get Letters From Jail (2013(
Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
Kate Atkinson, Case Histories
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
Kate Atkinson, Transcription
Margaret Atwood, Handmaid's Tale [SHOULD BE AU AND NOT ASPIRATIONAL]
Margaret Atwood, the MaddAdam trilogy
Margaret Atwood, Slaughterhouse Five
Kirsten Bakis, Lives of the Monster Dogs
Pat Barker, Regeneration Trilogy
Pat Barker, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Leigh Bardugo, the Grisha books
Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Nancy Bileau, The Blue [historical/nonfiction?]
Anne Billson, Billson Film Database [nonfiction; capsule movie reviews]
Kate Birdsall, The Flats [procedural]
Malori Blackman, Noughts and Crosses [fiction]
Judy Blume, Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
Sandra Boynton, But Not the Hippopotamus [board book]
Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister the Serial Killer
Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons
Georgina Bruce, House of Wounds [horror?]
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Paladin of Souls [fantasy] [note, contains spoilers for The Curse of Chalion, though it can likely be read alone]
Anna Burns, Milkman
Anna Burns, No Bones
A.S. Byatt, Possession ["the familiar pleasures of the academic novel, plus love stories in two eras, plus drama, plus brilliant cod-Victorian poetry"]
Emily Carroll, Through The Woods [horror anthology]
Anne Carson, Float
Anne Carson, Nox ["a biography of (and epitaph to) her brother, a painful memoir, a word-by-word explication and translation of the Latin of Catullus' 101 and a work of verbo-visual art in the form of a boxed orihon, the pages covered with handwriting, photos."
Jan Carson, The Fire Starters ["Magical realism set in Belfast"]
Becky Chambers, Long Way to a Small Angry Planet [SF]
Selena Chambers, Calls for Submission
Zen Cho, Sorcerer to the Crown
Aviva Chomsky, Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal [nonfiction]
Margaret Christakos, Her Paraphernalia [memoir]
Nicole Chung, All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir [memoir]
Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About The Trees Without The Blood [poetry]
Tracy Clark, ?? (https://tracyclarkbooks.com/) [mystery]
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Sandrine Collette, Nothing But Dust
Sophie Collins, Who is Mary Sue? [poetry]
Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Yumi Cottrell, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace [mystery?]
*Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible
Sara Davis-Goff, Last Ones Left Alive [horror?]
Pamela Dean, The Dubious Hills (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51107.The_Dubious_Hills) [fantasy]Victoria DeLuis, The Rune Witch series [Welsh urban fantasy]
Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai
Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves [speculative fiction]
Chitra B. Divakaruni, Forest of Enchantments
Felicity Dowker, ??
Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer: Stories [historical with "touch of Paranormal"]
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, "Loaded"
Professor Jo Dunkley, Our Universe [nonfiction]
Thoraiya Dyer, ??
Jenny Eclair, ??
Jennifer Egan, A Visit From The Goon Squad
***Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater [author is non-binary, and non-binary is not necessarily a subset of "female," so the *]
***Akwaeke Emezi, Pet
Mariana Enriquez, Things We Lost In The Fire (esp. "Spiderweb") [short stories]
Louise Erdrich, The Last Report On The Miracle At Little No Horse
Jenni Fagan, The Panopticon
Elizabeth Fama, Monstrous Beauty
Elena Ferrante, Days of Abandonment [suspense?]
Elena Ferrante, the Neapolitan Novels (translated by Ann Goldstein)
Anna Fifield, The Great Successor ["great bio of Kim Jong Un and what life under him is like"]
Gillian Flynn, ?? [detective novels]
Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast [nonfiction] (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25459433-life-moves-pretty-fast)
Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Eliza Gabbert, The Word Pretty [essay collection]
Dr. Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (http://www.roxanegay.com/writing/)
*Dr. Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist (http://www.roxanegay.com/writing/)
Helen Grant, Sea Change and Other Stories [short story collection]
Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire), Into the Drowning Deep [SF/horror]
Aracelis Girmay, The Black Maria
Aracelis Girmay, Kingdom of Animalia
Aracelis Girmay, Teeth
Aracelis Girmay, "On Kindness" [poem]
Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
Theodora Goss, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter [historical mystery?]
Theodora Goss, The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club (https://www.simonandschuster.com/series/The-Extraordinary-Adventures-of-the-Athena-Club)
Sarah Maria Griffin, Other Words for Smoke [horror?]
Nicola Griffith, The Blue Place [thiller]
Nicola Griffith, Hild [historical fiction]
**Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
**Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia
**Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
**Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Myriam Gurba, Mean
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing [historical fiction
Lisa L Hannett, ??
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Girl of Ink and Stars [SF&F]
Joanne Harris, Gospel of Loki
Joanne Harris, Testament of Loki
Amy Hempel, [short stories?]
Christina Henry, Alice in Wonderland series
Charlotte Higgans, This New Noise on the BBC [nonfiction]
Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice
Ashley Mae Hoiland, A New Constellation (?)
Ashley Mae Hoiland, One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly [memoir]
Emma Hooper, Our Homesick Songs
Tin House, Fantastic Women [anthology]
Kat Howard, An Unkindness of Magicians (http://www.kathowardbooks.com/) [fantasy]
Fanny Howe, Nod
Amy Irvine, Desert Cabal
Kathleen Jami, Sight Lines
Kathleen Jamie, Selected Poems (Picador, 2018) [poetry]
N.K. Jemisin, The Broken Earth trilogy
N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season (and sequels) [fantasy]
N.K. Jemisin, How Long Till Black Future Month [SF&F short story anthology]
Sarah Kendzior, The View from Flyover Country [nonfiction]
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible [nonfiction?]
Naomi Klien, The Shock Doctrine [nonfiction?]
Mary Robinette Kowal, The Calculating Stars [Alternate History SF]
Sarah Krasnostein, The Trauma Cleaner [biography of a trans woman in Australia]
Michelle de Kretser, The Life To Come
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Interperter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
Anne Lamotte, Bird by Bird
Marcia Langton, Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia
Amy Leach, Things That Are [essay collection]
Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice [SF]
**Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
Maria Lewis, ??
Thea Lim, An Ocean of Minutes
Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things [poetry]
Kelly Link, Get In Trouble
Laura Lippman, ??
Maja Lund/Maja Lunde (?), History of Bees
Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties [short stories, contemporary?]
Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains [nonfiction]
Emily Maguire, Start Over Again
Bethany Maines, ?? (SF, bethanymaines.com)
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven [SF/post-apocalypse]
Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
Hillary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
Hillary Mantel, Wolf Hall
Laurie J. Marks, The Elemental Logic [fantasy]
Imbolo Mbue, Behold the Dreamers [contemporary (2008)]
Jodi McAlister, ??
Eimear McBride, A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing ["formally experimental novel"]
Kirstyn McDermott, ??
Helen McDonald, Hawk ["it's about birds"]
Dr Una McCormack, The Never-Ending Sacrifice [Star Trek, DS9]
Colleen McCullough, The First Man in Rome [historical?]
Jane McGonigal, Reality is Broken [essay]
Courtney Milan, The Duchess War [historical/Regency romance]
Madeline Miller, Circe
Madeline Miller, Song of Achilles
Dinise Mina, Conviction
Katrina Monroe, Sacrificial Lamb Cake [apocalypse/post-apocalypse?]
Natalie Y Moore, The South Side [nonfiction]
Jan Morris (writing as James Morris), Venice
Toni Morrison, Sula [magical realism]
Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Sara Moss, Ghost Wall [horror]
Sara Moss, Cold Earth
Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth [fantasy]
Lynne Murphy, The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between British And American English [nonfiction]
Maggie Nelson, Bluets
Christina Neuwirth, Amphibian (https://www.speculativebooks.net/shop-1/amphibian)
Jeannette Ng, Under a Pendulum Sun
Lynette Noni, ??
Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver [fantasy]
Naomi Novik, Temeraire series
Liz Nugent, Unraveling Oliver
Liz Nugent, Lying in Wait
Alissa Nutting, Made for Love [near-future specfic]
Joyce Carol Oates, Them
Edna O'Brien, The Light of Evening
*Jenny Offill, Department of Speculation
Gabriela Torres Olivares, Enfermario, translated by Jenny Donovan [short stories]
Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
Malka Older, ??
Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Maths Destruction (https://weaponsofmathdestructionbook.com/) [nonfiction]
Ada Palmer, ?? (SF&F, academia, music)
Sarah Parcak, Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past [nonfiction]
Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Michelle Paver, Thin Air
Marisha Pessl, Night Film
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Rosie Price, What Red Was
Cherie Priest, Boneshaker [steampunk]
Annie Proulx, Barkskins ["beautiful and terrifying multigenerational exploration of the story of the world's forests, those who rely on them, and the empire which cut them down"]
E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
Jenny Hale Pulsipher, Swindler Sachem... (Yale, 2018) [biography]
Kathy Reichs, ?? [detective novels]
Rebecca Roanhorse, ?? (https://rebeccaroanhorse.com/)
Marilynn Robinson, Gilead
Marilynn Robinson, Robinson's Home
*Marilynn Robinson, Housekeeping
Mary Robison, Why Did I Ever
Sally Rooney, Normal People [romance]
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter [fantasy]
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Karen Russell, Swamplandia
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis ["A compelling telling of the immigrant experience"]
V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic series
Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
Samanta Schweblin, A Mouthful of Birds
Mairghread Scott, Transformers: Till All Are One
Anne Sebba, Les Parisiennes
Sara Sheridan, The Ice Maiden
Leslie Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead
Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks [nonfiction]
Angela Slatter, ??
Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley, Moo [or "Moo?"]
Patricia Smith, Blood Dazzler [poetry, Hurricane Katrina]
Layli Long Soldier, Whereas [poetry]
Sofia Samatar, A Stranger in Oolandria [fantasy]
Sharma Shields, The Cassandra
Ellen Simpson, ?? (www.ellenannes.com)
*Kyung Sook-Shin, Please Look After Mom
Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell [non-fiction?]
Cat Sparks, ??
A.J. Spedding, ??
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things (http://www.cherylstrayed.com/tiny_beautiful_things_114549.htm)
Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle [contemporary?]
Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton [contemporary?]
Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitridge [contemporary?]
Deirdre Sullivan, Perfectly Preventable Deaths [horror?]
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Yoko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
Karin Tidbeck, Amatka [SF]
Karen Tidbeck, Jagannath [short story collection]
Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows
*Alice B Toklas, [autobiography, but "Stein is long dead, sadly"]
Cat Valente, Deathless [probably SF&F]
Cat Valente, Palimpsest [fantasy]
Cat Valente, Space Opera [SF]
Carrie Vaughn, ??
Ursula Vernon, The Clocktaur War [fantasy]
Ursula Vernon, Swordheart [fantasy]
Kit de Waal, The Trick to Time
Kit de Waal, My Name is Leon
Weike Wang, Chemistry
Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped
Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing ["lyrical, supernatural"]
Kaitlin Ward, Girl in a Bad Place
Marlee Jane Ward
Kaaron Warren, ??
Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni
Margaret Weis, The Dragonlance Chronicals
Martha Wells, ?? [SF]
Louise Welsh, The Cutting Room
Tara Westover, Educated
Kim Wilkins, ??
Jen Williams, The Copper Promise [fantasy]
Joy Williams, The Quick and the Dead
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Kelly Yang, Front Desk
Helen Zahavi, Dirty Weekend
(https://twitter.com/helenmcclory/status/1149634635640426501?s=12)
Genre in brackets, when known/deduced from comment. Commenters not listed; sorry! I've got a cat demanding attention and author/title/genre is a lot of data already. Alphabetized roughly by the LAST WORD in the author's name (which is NOT the author's last name in some cases; again, sorry!)
** means a dead author, and * for someone with a female-presenting name reccing (e.g., as a follow-on to a guy's rec. ***for Non-Binary author)
Rachel Aaron/Bach, Nice Dragons Finish Last [magitech fantasy]
Megan Abbott, ??
Ayobami Adebayo, Stay With Me
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah ["her stories have opened me to the realities of African women, and they're incredible books"]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus [contemporary?]
Monica Ali, Brick Lane
Isabel Allende, Ines of my Soul [Historical thriller about Ines Suarez]
Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night
Joanne Anderton, ??
Jodi Angel, You Only Get Letters From Jail (2013(
Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
Kate Atkinson, Case Histories
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
Kate Atkinson, Transcription
Margaret Atwood, Handmaid's Tale [SHOULD BE AU AND NOT ASPIRATIONAL]
Margaret Atwood, the MaddAdam trilogy
Margaret Atwood, Slaughterhouse Five
Kirsten Bakis, Lives of the Monster Dogs
Pat Barker, Regeneration Trilogy
Pat Barker, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Leigh Bardugo, the Grisha books
Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Nancy Bileau, The Blue [historical/nonfiction?]
Anne Billson, Billson Film Database [nonfiction; capsule movie reviews]
Kate Birdsall, The Flats [procedural]
Malori Blackman, Noughts and Crosses [fiction]
Judy Blume, Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
Sandra Boynton, But Not the Hippopotamus [board book]
Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister the Serial Killer
Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons
Georgina Bruce, House of Wounds [horror?]
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Paladin of Souls [fantasy] [note, contains spoilers for The Curse of Chalion, though it can likely be read alone]
Anna Burns, Milkman
Anna Burns, No Bones
A.S. Byatt, Possession ["the familiar pleasures of the academic novel, plus love stories in two eras, plus drama, plus brilliant cod-Victorian poetry"]
Emily Carroll, Through The Woods [horror anthology]
Anne Carson, Float
Anne Carson, Nox ["a biography of (and epitaph to) her brother, a painful memoir, a word-by-word explication and translation of the Latin of Catullus' 101 and a work of verbo-visual art in the form of a boxed orihon, the pages covered with handwriting, photos."
Jan Carson, The Fire Starters ["Magical realism set in Belfast"]
Becky Chambers, Long Way to a Small Angry Planet [SF]
Selena Chambers, Calls for Submission
Zen Cho, Sorcerer to the Crown
Aviva Chomsky, Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal [nonfiction]
Margaret Christakos, Her Paraphernalia [memoir]
Nicole Chung, All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir [memoir]
Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About The Trees Without The Blood [poetry]
Tracy Clark, ?? (https://tracyclarkbooks.com/) [mystery]
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Sandrine Collette, Nothing But Dust
Sophie Collins, Who is Mary Sue? [poetry]
Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Yumi Cottrell, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace [mystery?]
*Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible
Sara Davis-Goff, Last Ones Left Alive [horror?]
Pamela Dean, The Dubious Hills (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51107.The_Dubious_Hills) [fantasy]Victoria DeLuis, The Rune Witch series [Welsh urban fantasy]
Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai
Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves [speculative fiction]
Chitra B. Divakaruni, Forest of Enchantments
Felicity Dowker, ??
Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer: Stories [historical with "touch of Paranormal"]
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, "Loaded"
Professor Jo Dunkley, Our Universe [nonfiction]
Thoraiya Dyer, ??
Jenny Eclair, ??
Jennifer Egan, A Visit From The Goon Squad
***Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater [author is non-binary, and non-binary is not necessarily a subset of "female," so the *]
***Akwaeke Emezi, Pet
Mariana Enriquez, Things We Lost In The Fire (esp. "Spiderweb") [short stories]
Louise Erdrich, The Last Report On The Miracle At Little No Horse
Jenni Fagan, The Panopticon
Elizabeth Fama, Monstrous Beauty
Elena Ferrante, Days of Abandonment [suspense?]
Elena Ferrante, the Neapolitan Novels (translated by Ann Goldstein)
Anna Fifield, The Great Successor ["great bio of Kim Jong Un and what life under him is like"]
Gillian Flynn, ?? [detective novels]
Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast [nonfiction] (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25459433-life-moves-pretty-fast)
Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Eliza Gabbert, The Word Pretty [essay collection]
Dr. Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (http://www.roxanegay.com/writing/)
*Dr. Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist (http://www.roxanegay.com/writing/)
Helen Grant, Sea Change and Other Stories [short story collection]
Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire), Into the Drowning Deep [SF/horror]
Aracelis Girmay, The Black Maria
Aracelis Girmay, Kingdom of Animalia
Aracelis Girmay, Teeth
Aracelis Girmay, "On Kindness" [poem]
Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
Theodora Goss, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter [historical mystery?]
Theodora Goss, The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club (https://www.simonandschuster.com/series/The-Extraordinary-Adventures-of-the-Athena-Club)
Sarah Maria Griffin, Other Words for Smoke [horror?]
Nicola Griffith, The Blue Place [thiller]
Nicola Griffith, Hild [historical fiction]
**Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
**Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia
**Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
**Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Myriam Gurba, Mean
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing [historical fiction
Lisa L Hannett, ??
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Girl of Ink and Stars [SF&F]
Joanne Harris, Gospel of Loki
Joanne Harris, Testament of Loki
Amy Hempel, [short stories?]
Christina Henry, Alice in Wonderland series
Charlotte Higgans, This New Noise on the BBC [nonfiction]
Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice
Ashley Mae Hoiland, A New Constellation (?)
Ashley Mae Hoiland, One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly [memoir]
Emma Hooper, Our Homesick Songs
Tin House, Fantastic Women [anthology]
Kat Howard, An Unkindness of Magicians (http://www.kathowardbooks.com/) [fantasy]
Fanny Howe, Nod
Amy Irvine, Desert Cabal
Kathleen Jami, Sight Lines
Kathleen Jamie, Selected Poems (Picador, 2018) [poetry]
N.K. Jemisin, The Broken Earth trilogy
N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season (and sequels) [fantasy]
N.K. Jemisin, How Long Till Black Future Month [SF&F short story anthology]
Sarah Kendzior, The View from Flyover Country [nonfiction]
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible [nonfiction?]
Naomi Klien, The Shock Doctrine [nonfiction?]
Mary Robinette Kowal, The Calculating Stars [Alternate History SF]
Sarah Krasnostein, The Trauma Cleaner [biography of a trans woman in Australia]
Michelle de Kretser, The Life To Come
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Interperter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
Anne Lamotte, Bird by Bird
Marcia Langton, Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia
Amy Leach, Things That Are [essay collection]
Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice [SF]
**Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
Maria Lewis, ??
Thea Lim, An Ocean of Minutes
Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things [poetry]
Kelly Link, Get In Trouble
Laura Lippman, ??
Maja Lund/Maja Lunde (?), History of Bees
Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties [short stories, contemporary?]
Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains [nonfiction]
Emily Maguire, Start Over Again
Bethany Maines, ?? (SF, bethanymaines.com)
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven [SF/post-apocalypse]
Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
Hillary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
Hillary Mantel, Wolf Hall
Laurie J. Marks, The Elemental Logic [fantasy]
Imbolo Mbue, Behold the Dreamers [contemporary (2008)]
Jodi McAlister, ??
Eimear McBride, A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing ["formally experimental novel"]
Kirstyn McDermott, ??
Helen McDonald, Hawk ["it's about birds"]
Dr Una McCormack, The Never-Ending Sacrifice [Star Trek, DS9]
Colleen McCullough, The First Man in Rome [historical?]
Jane McGonigal, Reality is Broken [essay]
Courtney Milan, The Duchess War [historical/Regency romance]
Madeline Miller, Circe
Madeline Miller, Song of Achilles
Dinise Mina, Conviction
Katrina Monroe, Sacrificial Lamb Cake [apocalypse/post-apocalypse?]
Natalie Y Moore, The South Side [nonfiction]
Jan Morris (writing as James Morris), Venice
Toni Morrison, Sula [magical realism]
Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Sara Moss, Ghost Wall [horror]
Sara Moss, Cold Earth
Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth [fantasy]
Lynne Murphy, The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between British And American English [nonfiction]
Maggie Nelson, Bluets
Christina Neuwirth, Amphibian (https://www.speculativebooks.net/shop-1/amphibian)
Jeannette Ng, Under a Pendulum Sun
Lynette Noni, ??
Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver [fantasy]
Naomi Novik, Temeraire series
Liz Nugent, Unraveling Oliver
Liz Nugent, Lying in Wait
Alissa Nutting, Made for Love [near-future specfic]
Joyce Carol Oates, Them
Edna O'Brien, The Light of Evening
*Jenny Offill, Department of Speculation
Gabriela Torres Olivares, Enfermario, translated by Jenny Donovan [short stories]
Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
Malka Older, ??
Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Maths Destruction (https://weaponsofmathdestructionbook.com/) [nonfiction]
Ada Palmer, ?? (SF&F, academia, music)
Sarah Parcak, Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past [nonfiction]
Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Michelle Paver, Thin Air
Marisha Pessl, Night Film
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Rosie Price, What Red Was
Cherie Priest, Boneshaker [steampunk]
Annie Proulx, Barkskins ["beautiful and terrifying multigenerational exploration of the story of the world's forests, those who rely on them, and the empire which cut them down"]
E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
Jenny Hale Pulsipher, Swindler Sachem... (Yale, 2018) [biography]
Kathy Reichs, ?? [detective novels]
Rebecca Roanhorse, ?? (https://rebeccaroanhorse.com/)
Marilynn Robinson, Gilead
Marilynn Robinson, Robinson's Home
*Marilynn Robinson, Housekeeping
Mary Robison, Why Did I Ever
Sally Rooney, Normal People [romance]
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter [fantasy]
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Karen Russell, Swamplandia
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis ["A compelling telling of the immigrant experience"]
V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic series
Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
Samanta Schweblin, A Mouthful of Birds
Mairghread Scott, Transformers: Till All Are One
Anne Sebba, Les Parisiennes
Sara Sheridan, The Ice Maiden
Leslie Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead
Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks [nonfiction]
Angela Slatter, ??
Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley, Moo [or "Moo?"]
Patricia Smith, Blood Dazzler [poetry, Hurricane Katrina]
Layli Long Soldier, Whereas [poetry]
Sofia Samatar, A Stranger in Oolandria [fantasy]
Sharma Shields, The Cassandra
Ellen Simpson, ?? (www.ellenannes.com)
*Kyung Sook-Shin, Please Look After Mom
Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell [non-fiction?]
Cat Sparks, ??
A.J. Spedding, ??
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things (http://www.cherylstrayed.com/tiny_beautiful_things_114549.htm)
Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle [contemporary?]
Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton [contemporary?]
Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitridge [contemporary?]
Deirdre Sullivan, Perfectly Preventable Deaths [horror?]
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Yoko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
Karin Tidbeck, Amatka [SF]
Karen Tidbeck, Jagannath [short story collection]
Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows
*Alice B Toklas, [autobiography, but "Stein is long dead, sadly"]
Cat Valente, Deathless [probably SF&F]
Cat Valente, Palimpsest [fantasy]
Cat Valente, Space Opera [SF]
Carrie Vaughn, ??
Ursula Vernon, The Clocktaur War [fantasy]
Ursula Vernon, Swordheart [fantasy]
Kit de Waal, The Trick to Time
Kit de Waal, My Name is Leon
Weike Wang, Chemistry
Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped
Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing ["lyrical, supernatural"]
Kaitlin Ward, Girl in a Bad Place
Marlee Jane Ward
Kaaron Warren, ??
Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni
Margaret Weis, The Dragonlance Chronicals
Martha Wells, ?? [SF]
Louise Welsh, The Cutting Room
Tara Westover, Educated
Kim Wilkins, ??
Jen Williams, The Copper Promise [fantasy]
Joy Williams, The Quick and the Dead
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Kelly Yang, Front Desk
Helen Zahavi, Dirty Weekend