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Place of Setting	Author	Title	Notes
Albania	Furxhi, Julie	Desiderium	Three generations of women fight in wars and to preserve their history
Armenia	Marcom, Micheline Aharonian	Three Apples Fell from Heaven	Armenian genocide
Australia	Bitto, Emily	The Strays	Unconventional artists during the Depression
Austria	Lippi, Rosina	Homestead	Linked short stories — peasant women on dairy farms
Brazil	Batalha, Martha	The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao	Housewife and her family in 1940s Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil	Lopes, Angelica	The Curse of the Flores Women	Lacemakers endure a curse making them unlucky in love.
Brazil	Peebles, Frances de Pontes	The Air You Breathe	Love affair between two women
Brazil	Peebles, Frances de Pontes	The Seamstress	A seamstress is kidnapped in the 1930s.
Canada	Armstrong, Tammy	Pearly Everlasting	Girl’s friendship with a bear in New Brunswick.
Canada	Atwood, Margaret	The Blind Assassin	Winner of the Booker Prize. A science fiction novel-with-a-novel.
Canada	Dowdall, Anna	The Suspension Bridge	Schoolteacher nun deals with designing a bridge and with illicit love.
Canada	Snyder, Carrie	Girl Runner	The story of a fictional Olympic athlete in 1928
Canada	Vreeland, Susan	The Forest Lover	Based on the life of painter Emily Carr
Canada	Watt, Alison	Dazzle Patterns	A disabled young woman in Nova Scotia must come to terms with her life during World War I.
Caribbean?	Martin, Valerie	Mrs. Gulliver	Brothel madam on a fictional island possibly in the Caribbean.
Chile	Allende, Isabel	A Long Petal of the Sea	A Spanish widow emigrates to Chile.
China	Chang, Janie	Three Souls	A dead woman must make amends for her life
China	Chen, Wendy	Their Divine Fires	Love affairs of three generations of women
China	Choo, Yangsze	The Fox Wife	Fox disguised as a woman in early 1900s
China	Fleischman, Lisa Huang	Dream of the Walled City	Based on the life of Jade Virtue Liang, feminist and political activist
China	Kao, Karen	The Dancing Girl and the Turtle	Orphan girl journeys to Shanghai
China	Lord, Bette Bao	Spring Moon	Chinese history through the eyes of an upper-class woman
China	Min, Anchee	Becoming Madame Mao	Based on the wife of Mao Zedong, who was an actress before she became a brutal dictator
China	Min, Anchee	Pearl of China	Based on the life of Pearl S. Buck, daughter of Christian missionaries who grew up in China
China	Tan, Amy	The Bonesetter’s Daughter	Remote Chinese village in the 1920s
China	Tan, Amy	The Valley of Amazement	Three generations of women
China	Tsukiyama, Gail	Women of the Silk	Women silk workers in rural China
China	Wang Anyi	The Song of Everlasting Sorrow	A young woman grows up in Shanghai
China	Zijian, Chi	The Last Quarter of the Moon	An old tribal woman reflects on her life
China and United States	See, Lisa	Shanghai Girls	In 1937, two Chinese sisters are sold to Chinese-American husbands
Cuba	Cleeton, Chanel	The Cuban Heiress	On a voyage from New York to Havana, two women get involved in a mystery
Easter Island (Chile)	Vanderbes, Jennifer	Easter Island	Parallel stories of two women 60 years apart
El Salvador	Balibrera, Gina Maria	The Volcano Daughters	Two sisters travel from coffee plantation to U.S. and France
England	Alison, Rosie	The Very Thought of You	Child relocated to a Yorkshire estate during World War II
England	Atkinson, Kate	Life After Life	A woman has the ability to re-start her life
England	Carter, Michaela	Leonora in the Morning Light	Based on the life of painter Leonora Carrington
England	Chevalier, Tracy	A Single Thread	Embroidery circle helps woman heal after World War I
England	Evans, Lissa	Their Finest	Writer for propaganda films during World War II
England	Florence, Elinor	Bird’s Eye View	Canadian woman Air Force spy during World War II
England	Gandar, Susan	We’ve Come To Take You Home	Two 15-year-old girls, one in modern times and one during World War I
England	LaForge, Jane Rosenberg	The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War	A teacher befriends a vagrant
England	McGlasson, Claire	The Rapture	Cult centered on a “divine” woman in 1920s
England	McMahon, Katharine	The Crimson Rooms	A female lawyer during World War I
England	Parmar, Priya	Vanessa and Her Sister	Based on the lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
England	Pietroni, Anna Lawrence	Ruby’s Spoon	A mysterious woman comes to a small town in 1933
England	Simonson, Helen	The Summer Before the War	1914 – first female Latin teacher in a small village
England	Stratford, Sarah-Jane	Radio Girls	Women at BBC Radio in the 1920’s
England	Waters, Sarah	The Night Watch	The lives of three woman and a man intersect in 1940’s London
England	Waters, Sarah	The Paying Guests	Lodgers change the lives of a mother and daughter in 1920’s London
Estonia	Oksanen, Sofi	Purge	Two women’s secrets are revealed against a background of the Soviet occupation of Estonia
Ethiopia	Ghermandi, Gabriela	Queen of Flowers and Pearls	The Italian occupation of Ethiopia as told by a young woman
Finland	Dunmore, Helen	House of Orphans	Two best friends grow up and lead contrasting lives
Finland	Liksom, Rosa	The Colonel’s Wife	Wife of a cruel Nazi colonel
France	Avery, Ellis	The Last Nude	1927 — based on the life of Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka
France	Chang, Janie	The Porcelain Moon	French woman and Chinese woman in Paris during World War I
France	Clayton, Meg Waite	The Race for Paris	Two women journalists cover World War II
France	Dewitt, Abigail	News of Our Loved Ones	Two generations of a French family during and after World War II
France and other countries	Diener, Maryam	Exquisite Corpse	Five surrealist artists
France	Girard, Anne	Madame Picasso	Based on the life of Eva Gouel
France	Gray, Amelia	Isadora	Dancer Isadora Duncan struggles to come to terms with her children’s deaths
France	Hannah, Kristin	The Nightingale	Two women struggle to survive in German-occupied France during World War II
France	Hoffman, Alice	The World That We Knew	Three women flee the Holocaust
France	Janeczek, Helena	The Girl with the Leica	Fictionalized biography of photojournalist Gerda Taro
France and United States	Jones, Sherry	Josephine Baker’s Last Dance	Based on the life of Josephine Baker, African-American dancer
France	Lee, Yiyun	The Book of Goose	Teenage friendship
France	Roberts, Michele	Ignorance	Two friends survive the Nazi occupation of France
France	Wieland, Liza	Paris, 7 A.M.	One year in the life of poet Elizabeth Bishop
France	Wein, Elizabeth	Code Name Verity	A British woman spy is captured by the Nazis during World War II
Galapagos Islands (Ecuador)	Amend, Allison	Enchanted Islands	Undercover intelligence officers during World War II
Germany	Belfer, Lauren	And After the Fire	Woman harpsichordist and a mysterious music score.
Germany	d’Eramo, Luce	Deviation	A young woman’s experiences with Nazis during WWII
Germany	Enzensberger, Theresia	Blueprint	Woman architecture student during Bauhaus movement
Germany	Hansen, Dorte	This House Is Mine	A 5-year-old war refugee grows up
Germany	Hegi, Ursula	Stones from the River	A dwarf shelters Jewish families during the Nazi era
Germany	Jenoff, Pam	The Orphan’s Tale	Two women hide a Jewish baby in a traveling circus
Germany	Postorino, Rosella	At the Wolf’s Table	Young woman conscripted to be Hitler’s food taster
Germany	Shattuck, Jessica	The Women in the Castle	Two war widows find shelter in a Bavarian castle
Germany	Teitelman, Judith	Guesthouse for Ganesha	Seamstress experiences divine visions and escapes Holocaust
Germany, France, Poland	Kelly, Martha Hall	Lilac Girls	Three women in World War II Europe
Ghana	Mills, Marilyn Heward	Cloth Girl	The lives of two women – one black, one white – become intertwined.
Greece	Corporon, Yvette Manessis	Daughter of Ruins	Coming of age in a small village.
Guatemala	Kerney, Kelly	Hard Red Spring	Guatemalan history through the eyes of four women
Iceland	Eggerz, Solveig	Seal Woman	A German city woman goes to work on a farm in Iceland
India	Enjeti, Anjali	The Parted Earth	A teen is separated from her boyfriend during India’s partition.
India	Massey, Sujata	The Sleeping Dictionary	A maid works for India’s freedom from the British
India	Rao, Shobha	An Unrestored Woman	Stories set during the Partition of India and Pakistan
India	Razak, Melody	Moth	Teenager caught in violence of Partition
India	Wheeler, Kate	When Mountains Walked	Two parallel love affairs (one in 1940’s India, and one in present day Peru)
Iran	Darznik, Jasmin	Song of a Captive Bird	Based on the life of poet Forugh Farrokzhad
Iran	Diener, Maryam	Beyond Black There Is No Colour	Another novel based on the life of poet Forugh Farrokzhad
Iran	Hozar, Nazanine	Aria	Abandoned girl grows up in pre-revolutionary Iran
Iran	Kamali, Marjan	The Lion Women of Tehran	Two girls come of age in 1950s
Ireland and the United States	Carey, Lisa	The Stolen Child	American woman visits ancestral Irish island
Israel	Pradelski, Minka	Here Comes Mrs. Kugelman	Two Holocaust survivors reminisce
Italy	Valmorbida, Elise	The Madonna of the Mountains	A woman struggles to protect her family during Fascist era
Japan	Kutsukake, Lynne	The Translation of Love	The American occupation of Japan after World War II
Japan	Murata, Kiyoko	A Woman of Pleasure	An illiterate girl becomes an educated but enslaved courtesan
Japan	Perezagua, Marina	The Story of H	Survivors of the atomic bomb
Kenya	McLain, Paula	Circling the Sun	Based on the life of aviator Beryl Markham
Korea	Kim, Eugenia	The Calligrapher’s Daughter	A young woman grows up in Japan-occupied Korea
Korea/Japan	Lee, Min Jin	Pachinko	A family who migrates from Korea to Japan.
Korea	See, Lisa	The Island of Sea Women	Two young women grow up as sea divers.