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Place of Setting	Author	Title	Notes
Malaysia	Choo, Yangsze	The Night Tiger	Surreal story of a dressmaker, a houseboy, and a tiger-man.
Malaysia	Manicka, Rani	The Rice Mother	A matriarch of a large family
Mexico	Esquivel, Laura	Like Water for Chocolate	Passion, cooking, and magical realism in early 1900s
Mexico	Maum, Courtney	Costalegre	Teenage girl discovers herself among surrealist artists
Mexico	Mujica, Barbara	Frida	Based on the life of painter Frida Kahlo
Mexico	Poniatowska, Elena	Here’s to You, Jesusa!	Based on the life story of Josefina Borquez, who fought in the Mexican Revolution
Mexico	Poniatowska, Elena	Tinisima	Based on the life of actress and Communist agent Tina Modotti
Morocco	Mangan, Christine	Tangerine	Two Western women whose friendship has gone awry meet in Tangier in the 1950s.
Pakistan and United States	Thanki, Asha	A Thousand Times Before	Three generations of women
Palestine	Diamant, Anita	Day After Night	Holocaust survivors in an internment camp in Palestine
Palestine	Grant, Linda	When I Lived in Modern Times	A Jewish woman from London moves to Palestine
Poland	Pearl, Sydelle	Wordwings	12-year-old girl keeps diary during Nazi occupation
Polynesia	Ciment, Jill	The Tattoo Artist	A woman artist marooned on an island in the South Pacific learns the art of tattooing
Portugal	Pedrosa, Ines	In Your Hands	Three generations of women
Romania	Shea, Christina	Smuggled	During World War II, a Jewish girl grows up Catholic in Romania
Russia	Levy Mossanen, Dora	The Last Romanov	A relative of the assassinated Tsar Nicholas II searches to find the true heir
Russia	Meads, Kat	For You, Madam Lenin	Based on the life of Nadya Krupskaya, wife of Vladimir Lenin
Russia	Richler, Nancy	Your Mouth Is Lovely	Jewish revolutionaries
Russia	Silber, Alexandra	After Anatevka	Continuation of Hodel’s story from Fiddler on the Roof
Russia	Yakhina, Guzel	Zuleikha	Peasant woman copes in Soviet Russia
Scotland	Livesey, Margot	Eva Moves the Furniture	A motherless girl tries to understand two mysterious visitors in her life
Scotland	Seckel, Emma	The Wild Hunt	Murder mystery with supernatural creatures
South Africa	Kohler, Sheila	Love Child	A white South African woman reflects on her past in the apartheid era
South Africa	Mutch, Barbara	The Housemaid’s Daughter	Friendship between an Irish immigrant and her maid
Sweden	Fredriksson, Marianne	Hanna’s Daughters	Three generations of women
Turkey	Graver, Elizabeth	Kantika	Jewish woman from Istanbul flees to Spain and then to New York
Turkey	Suman, Defne	The Silence of Scheherazade	Mother and daughter in Smyrna
Ukraine	Gal, Valentina	Philipovna: Daughter of Sorrow	Young woman lives through Stalin’s rule
United States	Adler, Elizabeth	Fortune Is a Woman	Women entrepreneurs /magnates
United States	Albert, Susan Wittig	Loving Eleanor	Based on the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok
United States	Anthony, Jessica	The Most	1957 — marriage unraveling
United States	Attenberg, Jami	Saint Mazie	Proprietor of a NYC movie theater in 1920’s and 1930’s
United States	Baggott, Juliana	The Madam	Based on the life of the author’s grandmother, who survived by running a house of prostitution
United States	Baker, Ellen	I Gave My Heart to Know This	Several generations of women, starting with welders during World War II
United States	Barnett, Lashonda Katrice	Jam on the Vine	African American woman journalist
United States	Belfer, Lauren	A Fierce Radiance	A photojournalist during World War II
United States	Benjamin, Melanie	The Aviator’s Wife	Based on the life of Anne Morrow Lindbergh
United States	Benjamin, Melanie	The Girls in the Picture	Women in Hollywood before World War I
United States	Bloom, Amy	Away	Jewish immigrants
United States	Brown, Rita Mae	Six of One	Adventures of women in a small town in Maryland from the early 1900’s to the 1980’s
United States	Burns, Mary	The Reason for Time	Irish immigrant in Chicago in 1919
United States	Celt, Adrienne	Invitation to a Bonfire	Russian refugees in New Jersey in the 1920s
United States	Chambers, Essie	Swift River	Black teen in New England learns about her ancestors
United States	Clarke, Breena	River, Cross My Heart	African American community in Washington, DC copes after a child’s death
United States	Corman, Leela	Victory Parade	Graphic novel about Jewish women in 1940s Brooklyn
United States	Diamant, Anita	The Boston Girl	Daughter of Jewish immigrants grows up
United States	Drew, Julie	Daughter of Providence	Family secrets in Rhode Island
United States	Egan, Jennifer	Manhattan Beach	World War II — First female diver at Brooklyn Naval Yard
United States	Erdrich, Louise	The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse	A priest to the Ojibwe is really a woman in disguise
United States	Erdrich, Louise	The Painted Drum	A real estate agent finds an ancient ceremonial drum that belongs to the Ojibwe people
United States	Fajardo-Anstine, Kali	Woman of Light	Five generations of Indigenous Chicano family
United States	Feldman, Ellen	Lucy	Based on the life of Lucy Mercer, who had an affair with Franklin Roosevelt
United States	Feldman, Ellen	Next to Love	Three young women during World War II
United States	Fields, Jennie	The Age of Desire	Based on the life of author Edith Wharton
United States	Flagg, Fannie	Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe	Owners of a small diner in 1930s Alabama
United States	Fowler, Karen Joy	The Sweetheart Season	Women’s baseball team
United States	Fowler, Therese Anne	Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald	Based on the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald
United States	Franks, Julia	Over the Plain Houses	An Appalachian farm wife befriends a woman government agent
United States	Gilbert, Elizabeth	City of Girls	1940s New York theater world
United States	Harrison, Jamie	The Widow Nash	Daughter disguises herself to search for father’s fortune
United States	Henderson, Eleanor	The Twelve-Mile Straight	Georgia woman gives birth to one white and one black twin
United States	Henderson, Genie Chipps	A Woman of the World	Based on the life of photographer Margaret Bourke-White
United States	Hopson, Carole	A Pair of Wings	Based on the life of aviator Bessie Coleman
United States	Horan, Nancy	Loving Frank	Based on the companion of Frank Lloyd Wright
United States	Ivey, Eowyn	The Snow Child	1920s Alaska — magical realism
United States	Johnson, Sadeqa	The House of Eve	Two young black women struggle with love and life in the 1950s
United States	Joy, Avril	Sometimes A River Song	15-year-old girl in Arkansas struggles to escape male domination
United States	Koe, Amanda Lee	Delayed Rays of a Star	Follows lives of 2 actresses and a filmmaker
United States	Laskas, Gretchen Moran	The Midwife’s Tale	1920’s West Virginia — a family of midwives
United States	Mathis, Ayana	The Twelve Tribes of Hattie	African-American mother in 1920s Philadelphia.
United States	McCracken, Elizabeth	Bowlaway	A ghost opens a bowling alley
United States	McGraw, Erin	The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard	A young mother flees small-town Kansas for California
United States	Montgomery, Jess	The Widows	Inspired by the first woman sheriff in Ohio
United States	Moreno-Garcia, Silvia	The Seventh Veil of Salome	Mexican-American actor in 1950s Hollywood
United States	Nichols, Tanya	The Barber’s Wife	A nurse in a small town in Oklahoma
United States	O’Connor, Sheila	Evidence of V	Fact and fiction blend to tell the story of a woman imprisoned for unplanned pregnancy.
United States	Otsuka, Julie	When the Emperor Was Divine	Japanese-American internment during World War II
United States	Pietrzyk, Leslie	Pears on a Willow Tree	Polish-American family
United States	Poliner, Elizabeth	As Close to Us as Breathing	Three Jewish sisters in the 1940s
United States	Prescott, Lara	The Secrets We Kept	Women from CIA involved with smuggling Dr. Zhivago into Soviet Union
United States	Quinn, Kate	The Briar Club	Set in a female boardinghouse in 1950s Washington, DC
United States	Quinn, Kate and Janie Chang	The Phoenix Crown	Four women deal with 1906 San Francisco earthquake
United States	Salazar, Noelle	The Roaring Days of Zora Lily	Seamstress strives to become a famous fashion designer in 1920s Seattle
United States	Schlenker, J.	Sally	Based on the life of an African-American woman, Sally Ann Barnes.
United States	Schultz, Connie	The Daughters of Erietown	Working-class family in NE Ohio
United States	See, Lisa	China Dolls	In 1938, three Chinese-American girls from different background become friends
United States	Sharp, Adrienne	The Magnificent Esme Wells	First person view of Hollywood from 1939-1953
United States	Shields, Sharma	The Cassandra	During World War II, a secretary of Hanford nuclear site sees visions of disaster.
United States	Smith, Lee	Guests on Earth	Inmates of a mental hospital in North Carolina in the 1920’s
United States	Spera, Deb	Call Your Daughter Home	Three small-town southern women tackle crisis
United States	Tsukiyama, Gail	The Brightest Star	Based on the life of silent film star Anna May Wong
United States	Tuccelli, Jessica Maria	Glow	A young woman learns about her Cherokee heritage.
United States	Ulleseit, Linda	Under the Almond Trees	Three generations of women in Northern California.
United States	Urquhart, Rachel	The Visionist	Takes place in a Shaker community
United States	Verble, Margaret	Stealing	Cherokee/white woman reminisces
United States	Vo, Nghi	Siren Queen	Monsters in Hollywood
United States	Walbert, Kate	A Short History of Women	Five generations of women influenced by a matriarch suffragist
United States	Walker, Alice	The Color Purple	African-American women in the southern United States. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize.
United States	Walls, Jeannette	Half Broke Horses	Based on the life of the author’s grandmother, a pilot and rancher
United States	Walls, Jeannette	Hang the Moon	Female bootlegger in 1920s rural Virginia
United States	Weber, Christin Lore	Altar Music	Three Catholic women grapple with their faith and their independence
United States	Weber, Katharine	Triangle	Survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
United States	Weisgarber, Ann	The Personal History of Rachel DuPree	An African-American ranch wife struggles to survive in 1917
United States	Weisgarber, Ann	The Promise	A young pianist from Ohio seeks to make a new life for herself in Texas
United States	Zacharias, Karen Spears	Mother of Rain	Women in Appalachian Tennessee
United States	Zacharias, Lee	Across the Great Lake	Five-year-old girl sails across Lake Michigan with her father in 1936
Vietnam	Nguyen Phan Que Mai	The Mountains Sing	Woman tries to reunite with her children through tragic events
Wales	O’Connor, Elizabeth	Whale Fall	Beached whale on Welsh island in 1938
West Indies (Cuba and Dominican Republic)	Alvarez, Julia	In the Name of Salome	Alternating stories of a Spanish professor and her mother, a revolutionary poet
West Indies (Dominican Republic)	Alvarez, Julia	In the Time of the Butterflies	Based on the lives of four revolutionary sisters
West Indies (Guadeloupe)	Schwarz-Bart, Simone	The Bridge of Beyond	An old slave recollects her life
West Indies (Jamaica)	Young, Kerry	Gloria	1938 – two sisters flee their home to the city of Kingston