Great Fantasy Books by Women
Discover the best fantasy books by women authors! Explore magical worlds, strong heroines, and epic adventures in our curated list of top female-written fantasy novels.
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The Killing Dance
by Laurell K. Hamilton
With a price on her head and professional hitmen on her trail, Anita Blake, vampire killer and expert on the supernatural, receives unexpected assistance from an alpha werewolf and a master vampire. Original.
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Burning Water
by Mercedes Lackey
When a bizarre and mysterious force moves from killing cattle to killing people, Detective Mark Valdez asks Diana Tregarde, a practicing witch, to help with the investigation.
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The Silver Metal Lover
by Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee is one of the most thought-provoking and imaginative authors of our time. In this unforgettably poignant novel, Lee has created a classic tale—a beautiful, tragic, sensual, and ultimately triumphant love story of the future. Love is made of more than mere flesh and blood. . . . For sixteen-year-old Jane, life is a mystery she despairs of ever mastering. She and her friends are the idle, pampered children of the privileged class, living in luxury on an Earth remade by natural disaster. Until Jane's life is changed forever by a chance encounter with a robot minstrel with auburn hair and silver skin, whose songs ignite in her a desperate and inexplicable passion. Jane is certain that Silver is more than just a machine built to please. And she will give up everything to prove it. So she escapes into the city's violent, decaying slums to embrace a love bordering on madness. Or is it something more? Has Jane glimpsed in Silver something no one else has dared to see—not even the robot or his creators? A love so perfect it must be destroyed, for no human could ever compete?
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Black Sun Rising
by C. S. Friedman
Twelve centuries after the first colonists are stranded on Erna, a seismically active planet inhabited by a natural force that preys on humans' worst nightmares, four colonists begin a mission to confront the evil. Original.
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Sword-dancer
by Jennifer Roberson
Del, a swordswoman of the North, travels south searching for her younger brother, who was kidnapped by slavers.
