Historical Fiction with Strong Female Characters

Discover captivating historical fiction books featuring strong female characters. Explore empowering stories of resilience, courage, and triumph in richly detailed past eras.

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The Beacon at Alexandria

by Gillian Bradshaw

In the Fourth Century A.D., independent and determined young Charis is forbidden to become a doctor because she is a woman. Disguising herself as a …
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The wreath

 

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Outlander

by Diana Gabaldon

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. One of the …
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Dragonsong

 

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Miles from Nowhere

 

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Sacajawea

by Anna L. Waldo

Clad in a doeskin, alone and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushing forces of America's destiny: Sacajawea, child of a Shoshoni chief, …
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Circle of Stones

by Anna Lee Waldo

A first volume in a series of novels on Madoc, leader of 12th century Welshmen who emigrated to America and became blue-eyed Indians. Narrated by …
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Anne of Green Gables

 

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The Beekeeper's Apprentice ; Or, on the Segregation of the Queen

by Laurie R. King

A chance meeting with an elderly beekeeper turns into a pivotal, personal transformation when fifteen-year-old Mary Russell discovers that the beekeeper is the reclusive Sherlock …
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

by Alexander McCall Smith

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. …
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Isolde, queen of the Western Isle

 

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Here be Dragons

by Sharon Kay Penman

"A masterful picture of Wales in the 13th century...vivdly pictured as grandly beautiful, its people volatile, stubborn and mystic." THE SAN DIEGO UNION Thirteenth-century Wales …
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A Vision of Light

by Judith Merkle Riley

In 1355, Margaret of Ashbury depends on renegade friar Brother Gregory to record her life story and state of Mystic Union, and he is forced …
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Through a Glass Darkly

by Karleen Koen

A magnificent tapestry of a grand and glorious era As opulent and passionate as the 18th century it celebrates.Through a glass darkly kill sweep you …
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The Other Boleyn Girl

 

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Year of Wonders

by Geraldine Brooks

"When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine …
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Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most …
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

A heartbreaking portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to …
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The chalice and the blade

 

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Kushiel's Dart

by Jacqueline Carey

Fantasy-roman.
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The bonesetter's daughter

 

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The midwife

 

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The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B

by Sandra Gulland

Passion intertwines with fate in this riveting and historically rich novel about the journey of a woman from poverty to ultimate power in Revolution-era France. …