Topic
Female Protagonists
3 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Best Classic Novels About Women: The Essential Reading List
The best classic novels about women — from Middlemarch to Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre, Madame Bovary, and The House of Mirth. Novels that defined female experience in literature.
Books Like Lessons in Chemistry: 11 Novels of Wit, Ambition, and Women Who Refuse to Be Underestimated
If Lessons in Chemistry made you laugh and rage in equal measure at the gap between what Elizabeth Zott deserves and what her world allows her, these novels will give you more of the same fierce, funny pleasure.
Books Like Where the Crawdads Sing: 11 Novels of Nature, Secrets, and Survival
If Where the Crawdads Sing captivated you with its wild setting, its secrets, and its fierce, self-made heroine, these novels share its spirit.
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