Matriarchal Societies in fiction/romance and adventure

Explore thrilling adventure books and romance novels set in matriarchal societies. Discover powerful female-led worlds in fiction with our curated list of captivating reads.

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Heart of Gold

by Sharon Shinn

A national bestselling author. A story that has captured readers' hearts. Sharon Shinn's gripping tale of a planet divided by class, power, and emotion-and the …
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Dawnflight

by Kim Headlee

In her debut novel, Headlee retells, with historical accuracy, the story of the love affair between King Arthur and Guinevere, warrior princess. The book features …
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The Chanur Saga

by C. J. Cherryh

This omnibus contains the first three novels in C.J. Cherryh's Chanur series: Pride of Chanur, Chanur's Venture, and The Kif Strike Back. This classic adventure …
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Glory Season

by David Brin

Sailing the Stratoin oceans on her coming-of-age apprenticeship, Maia, a half-caste var, endures hardship, hunger, imprisonment, loneliness, battle, separation from her twin sister, and a …
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Exiles

by Melanie Rawn

The first in a trilogy “full of action and romance . . . politics, subterfuge, and magic” as family secrets and intrigue threaten an entire …
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The Gate to Women's Country

by Sheri S. Tepper

“Lively, thought-provoking . . . the plot is ingenious, packing a wallop of a surprise . . . Tepper knows how to write a well-made, …
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Homeland

by R.A. Salvatore

Discover the origin story of one of the greatest heroes of the Forgotten Realms—Drizzt Do’Urden—in this thrilling first installment in the classic Dungeons & Dragons …
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Always Coming Home

by Ursula K. Le Guin

An "ethnographic" novel that portrays life in California's Napa Valley as it might be a very long time from now, imagined not as a high …
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Jaran:

by Kate Elliott

Tess had been cursed by an accident of birth, cursed to be the sister of the one man honored by the alien conquerors of human-run …
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A Woman of the Iron People

by Eleanor Arnason

Lixia and the members of her human crew are determined not to disturb the life on the planet circling the Star Sigma Draconis which they …
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Heartmate

by Robin D. Owens

All his life, Rand T’Ash has looked forward to meeting his HeartMate, with whom he could begin a family. Once a street tough, now a …
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