Mysteries and Suspense
This is the genre, more than any other, where women have become leading characters as high-powered (and sometimes as hard-boiled) as their male counterparts. There are many guides to women's mysteries, so we have chosen just a few titles you may not have heard of.
Skeleton Crew: A Lindsay Chamberlain Novel
Beverly Connor
Transgressions
Sarah Dunant
A Darker Place
Laurie King (also in large print and on audiocassette)
The Step Between
Penny Mickelbury
Garnethill
Denise Mina
Shell Game
Carol O'Connell (also on audiocassette)
The Intersection of Law and Desire
J. M. Redmann
Unwanted Company
Barbara Seranella
Reprisal
Mitchell Smith
The Glass Factory
K. J. A. Wishnia (also in large print)
Inner City Blues: A Charlotte Justice Novel
Paula L. Woods
Science Fiction
Preternatural
Margaret Wander Bonanno
Cyteen
C. J. Cherryh
Flesh and Gold
Phyllis Gotlieb
Brown Girl in the Ring
Nalo Hopkinson
Souls in the Great Machine
Sean McMullen
Extra (Ordinary) People
Joanna Russ
The Jazz
Melissa Scott
The Fresco
Sheri S. Tepper
The Color of Distance
Amy Thomson
Welcome, Chaos
Kate Wilhelm (also in large print)
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis (also in large print and on audiocassette)
Fantasy
The Forest House
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Pigs Don't Fly
Mary Brown
The Spirit Ring
Lois McMaster Bujold
War for the Oaks
Emma Bull
Ship of Magic
Robin Hobb
Tea with the Black Dragon
R. A. Macavoy
Spindle's End
Robin McKinley
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West: A Novel
Gregory Maguire (also in large print and on audiocassette)
Supernatural
Running with the Demon
Terry Brooks (also on audiocassette)
Wilderness
Dennis Danvers
A Kiss of Shadows
Laurrell K. Hamilton
Rose Madder
Stephen King (also in large print and on audiocassette)
Sideshow
Anne D. LeClaire
The Angry Angel
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Historical
City of Light
Lauren Belfer (also in large print and on audiocassette)
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier (also on audiocassette)
Pope Joan: A Novel
Donna Woolfolk Cross
Impassioned Clay
Stevie Davies
Hearts and Bones
Margaret K. Lawrence
Ahab's Wife, or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel
Sena Jeter Naslund (also on audiocassette)
Fearless: A Novel of Sarah Bowman
Lucia St. Clair Robson
River of the Sun
Patricia Shaw
Fortune's Rocks
Anita Shreve (also in large print and on audiocassette)
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901: Arizona Territories
Nancy E. Turner (also in large print)
Adventure
In the Forest of Harm
Sallie Bissell
Choosers of the Slain
James H. Cobb
Wild Life: A Novel
Molly Gloss (also in large print)
Blood Money
Thomas Perry (also in large print)
Thunderhead
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (also on audiocassette)
The Cage
Audrey Schulman (also in large print)
Due North
Mitchell Smith
