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Place of Setting	Author	Title	Notes
Mexico	Canas, Isabel	The Hacienda	Haunted house
Mexico	Moreno-Garcia, Silvia	The Daughter of Doctor Moreau	Young woman helps father create human-animal hybrids
Mexico	Velastegui, Cecilia	Lucia Zarate	Based on the true story of the world’s smallest woman
Nigeria	Olajide, Florence	The Stolen Daughter	Girl enslaved by a woman slave trader in Lagos
Persia (Iran)	Levy Mossanen, Dora	Courtesan	Three generations of women, starting with a courtesan to the Shah
Puerto Rico	Santiago, Esmeralda	Conquistadora	The Spanish conquerors of Puerto Rico
Russia	McMahon, Katharine	The Rose of Sebastopol	Two brave women during the Crimean War
Singapore	Boey, Meihan	The Formidable Miss Cassidy	Scottish governess in Singapore capably deals with the fantastic and the mundane
South Africa	McVeigh, Jennifer	The Fever Tree	A destitute woman leaves London for South Africa and a better life
Turkey	Kazan, Frances	Halide’s Gift	Tradition clashes with freedom for young Turkish women
United States	Agee, Jonis	The River Wife	Strong women in the 19th and 20th century in rural Missouri
United States	Aldrich, Bess	A Lantern in Her Hand	Frontier life in Nebraska
United States	Allende, Isabel	Daughter of Fortune	A Chilean woman moves to California during the Gold Rush
United States	Barton, Emily	Brookland	A woman business owner dreams of building a bridge to connect Brooklyn to Manhattan
United States	Beams, Clare	The Illness Lesson	Strange illness at a women’s school in Massachusetts
United States	Benjamin, Melanie	The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb	Based on the life of Lavinia Warren Bump
United States	Benton, Janet	Lilli de Jong	Pregnant and homeless Quaker woman chooses to keep her child
United States	Bernard, April	Miss Fuller	Based on the life of Margaret Fuller
United States	Bodden, Marlen Suyapa	The Wedding Gift	Two half-sisters: one a slave, and the other a slave owner.
United States	Brenegan, Debra	Shame the Devil	Based on the life of writer Fanny Fern
United States	Brown, Rosellen	The Lake on Fire	Jewish-American girl in Chicago
United States	Brown, Rita Mae	High Hearts	A woman disguises herself as a man to fight in the Civil War
United States	Butler, Octavia	Kindred	Time travel – modern day African-American woman kidnapped back to slavery
United States	Chambers, Veronica	Ida, in Love and in Trouble	Based on the life of Ida B. Wells
United States	Chance, Megan	Bone River	Woman ethnologist in Washington Territory
United States	Chevalier, Tracy	The Last Runaway	A Quaker woman gets involved with the Underground Railroad in Ohio
United States	Clarke, Breena	Angels Make Their Hope Here	A runaway slave finds refuge in an interracial community in New Jersey
United States	Courter, Gay	The Midwife	A Jewish midwife in New York
United States	Deloria, Ella Cara	Waterlily	Daily life for a Sioux mother and daughter
United States	Deon, Natashia	Grace	A baby survives the death of her escaped-slave mother
United States	Donoghue, Emma	Frog Music	1876 — a woman in San Francisco races to find the murderer of her friend
United States	Dray, Stephanie and Laura Kamoie	America’s First Daughter	Based on the life of Patsy Jefferson, the daughter of Thomas Jefferson
United States	Dykeman, Wilma	The Tall Woman	An Appalachian woman’s life during and after the Civil War
United States	Eichmann, Mim	A Sparrow Alone	Coming of age in 1890s Colorado
United States	Fowler, Karen Joy	Sister Noon	Rebellious and mysterious women in Gilded Age San Francisco
United States	Gibbons, Kaye	On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon	Civil War era — plantation owner’s daughter nurses soldiers
United States	Gilbert, Elizabeth	The Signature of All Things	A woman botanist explores evolution
United States	Greenidge, Kaitlyn	Libertie	One of the first Black women doctors in the US
United States	Glancy, Diane	Pushing the Bear	The Cherokee Trail of Tears
United States	Glancy, Diane	Stone Heart	Based on the life of Sacajawea
United States	Herring, Peggy	Anna, Like Thunder	A Russian astronomer is stranded with a Native tribe
United States	Higginbotham, Susan	Hanging Mary	Based on the life of Mary Surratt, convicted as an accomplice to Lincoln’s assassination
United States	Howe, LeAnne	Savage Conversations	Mary Todd Lincoln’s visions of a “Savage Indian”
United States	Humphreys, Josephine	Nowhere Else on Earth	Daughter of a Lumbee Indian mother and a Scotsman gets caught up in the Civil War
United States	Jiles, Paulette	News of the World	A 10-year-old girl rescued from Indian captivity travels in Texas with an elderly man.
United States	Kasai, Kirsten Imani	The House of Erzulie	Vodou and insanity in Louisiana
United States	Kidd, Sue Monk	The Invention of Wings	A female slave and her 11-year-old “owner” grow up together.
United States	Kondazian, Karen	The Whip	Inspired by Charlotte “Charley” Parkhurst, who lived as a man in California
United States	Lane, Rose Wilder	Let the Hurricane Roar	A pioneer couple in South Dakota
United States	Lattimore, Ashton	All We Were Promised	Escaping slavery before the Civil War. Set in Philadelphia.
United States	Mackey, Mary	The Widow’s War	A young woman goes in search of her husband during the Civil War
United States	Martin, Valerie	Property	1828, Louisiana — a white woman’s slave becomes her husband’s mistress
United States	McCabe, Erin Lindsay	I Shall Be Near to You	A woman disguises herself as a man to fight in the Civil War
United States	McKinney-Whetstone, Diane	Lazaretto	Two black women in post-Civil War Philadelphia
United States	Moore, Elizabeth	The Truth and the Life	Two women — one in the 1800’s and one in the present — in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
United States	Morrison, Toni	Beloved	Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An escaped slave struggles with past memories.
United States	Naslund, Sena Jeter	Ahab’s Wife	Adventures of the wife of Captain Ahab of Moby Dick
United States	Newman, Janis Cooke	Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln	Based on the life of Mary Todd Lincoln
United States	Obreht, Tea	Inland	Frontierswoman in Arizona
United States	Oliveira, Robin	My Name Is Mary Sutter	During the Civil War, a midwife wants to become a surgeon
United States	Perkins-Valdez, Dolen	Balm	Two women — one black, one white — with healing gifts they must claim after the Civil War
United States	Perkins-Valdez, Dolen	Wench	1850s – four slave women, all mistresses to their masters, meet at a resort in Ohio and must decide whether to escape slavery
United States	Rhodes, Jewell Parker	Voodoo Dreams	New Orleans — based on voodoo practitioner Marie Laveau
United States	Schmidt, Sarah	See What I Have Done	Lizzie Borden’s story from four perspectives
United States	Sheehan, Jacqueline	The Comet’s Tale	Based on the life of Sojourner Truth
United States	Smiley, Jane	The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton	A strong-willed woman in pre-Civil War Kansas
United States	Sontag, Susan	In America	Polish immigrants form a utopian commune in California
United States	Svoboda, Teresa	Bohemian Girl	A young woman makes her own way through the American west
United States	Tademy, Lalita	Cane River	Four generations of African American women
United States	Ulleseit, Linda	Under the Almond Trees	Three generations of women in California
United States	Vreeland, Susan	Clara and Mr. Tiffany	Woman stained-glass designer during Chicago World’s Fair
United States	Walker, Margaret	Jubilee	Based on the life of the author’s great-grandmother, born a slave
United States	Williams, Sherley Anne	Dessa Rose	A runaway slave and the white woman who hides her
United States	Woods, Caroline	The Mesmerist	Search for serial killer at home for unwed mothers in 1894 Minneapolis
United States	Yan, Geling	The Lost Daughter of Happiness	A Chinese-American prostitute in San Francisco
United States	Zimmerman, Jean	Savage Girl	A feral young woman is adopted by a wealthy NY couple
Wales	O’Connor, Varley	The Welsh Fasting Girl	Farm girl — miracle or abused?
West Indies (Virgin Islands)	Hoffman, Alice	The Marriage of Opposites	Based on the life of Rachel, the mother of painter Camille Pissaro