29 Best Women Authors Books
Women Authors is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Women Authors audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Women Authors audiobooks below.
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You Are Only Just Beginning
- By: Morgan Harper Nichols
- Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: February 14, 2023
- Language: English
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5(3 ratings)
5(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDRead by the author with eleven audiobook-exclusive bonus poems! From bestselling author and beloved artist Morgan Harper Nichols, this collection of poetry empowers you to embrace your next adventure with confidence and grace. Sometimes it’sRead by the author with eleven audiobook-exclusive bonus poems!
From bestselling author and beloved artist Morgan Harper Nichols, this collection of poetry empowers you to embrace your next adventure with confidence and grace. Sometimes it’s difficult to take that first step into your future and embrace the unknown. In this collection of poetry, Morgan reimagines the classic heroine‚Äôs journey‚Äîfrom the very first call to adventure, through trials, hardships, and new relationships, all the way back home‚Äîand offers key lessons and affirmations to encourage and equip you every step of the way. As you travel your own journey of self-discovery, you’re invited to:
- Cultivate the courage you need to follow your passions
- Develop curiosity about the natural world around you
- Find comfort and inspiration for the inevitable trials on your journey
- Reflect on how your past has prepared you
- Step out in wonder and faith, knowing there is more for you
 
Look for the previous books in this series: All Along You Were Blooming and How Far You Have Come.
 
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The deja vu
- By: Gabrielle Civil
- Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 21, 2022
- Language: English
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4.53(13 ratings)
4.53(13 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDGabrielle Civil mines black dreams and black time to reveal a vibrant archive of black feminist creative expressions. Emerging from the intersection of pandemic and uprising, the deja vu activates forms both new and ancestral, drawing movement,Gabrielle Civil mines black dreams and black time to reveal a vibrant archive of black feminist creative expressions.
Emerging from the intersection of pandemic and uprising, the deja vu activates forms both new and ancestral, drawing movement, speech, and lyric essay into performance memoir. As Civil considers Haitian tourist paintings, dance rituals,
race at the movies, black feminist legacies, and more, she reflects on her personal losses and desires, speculates on black time, and dreams into expansive black life.With intimacy, humor, and verve, the deja vu blurs boundaries between memory, grief, and love; then, now, and the future.
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dayliGht
- By: Roya Marsh
- Narrator: Roya Marsh
- Length: 1 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 31, 2020
- Language: English
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4.49(213 ratings)
4.49(213 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDThis program is read by the author dayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for stories of Black women and a rebuke of broken notions of sexuality and race. Growing up, Roya Marsh was consideredThis program is read by the author
dayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for stories of Black women and a rebuke of broken notions of sexuality and race.
Growing up, Roya Marsh was considered “tomboy passing.” With an affinity for baggy clothes, cornrows, and bandanas, she came of age in an era when the wide spectrum of gender and sexuality was rarely acknowledged or discussed. She knew she was “different,” her family knew she was “different,” but anything outside of the heteronorm was either disregarded or disparaged.
In her stunning debut, written in protest to an absence of representation, Marsh recalls her early life and the attendant torments of a butch Black woman coming of age in America. In lush, powerful, and vulnerable verses, dayliGht unpacks traumas to unearth truths, revealing a deep well of resilience, a cutting sense of irony, and an astonishing fresh talent.
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B
- By: Sarah Kay
- Narrator: Sarah Kay
- Length: 8 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 18, 2015
- Language: English
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4.49(3179 ratings)
4.49(3179 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.001.98 USDA whimsical love letter, a shared promise, a thank you note, and a whispered secret to mothers and daughters everywhere. The perfect gift, B celebrates the bond that exists between a parent and a child. Short, touching, and lovingly performed, it isA whimsical love letter, a shared promise, a thank you note, and a whispered secret to mothers and daughters everywhere. The perfect gift, B celebrates the bond that exists between a parent and a child. Short, touching, and lovingly performed, it is a family tradition waiting to begin.... Read more -
The Nightfields
- By: Joanna Klink
- Length: 1 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 07, 2020
- Language: English
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4.48(78 ratings)
4.48(78 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USDA new collection from a poet who has made “a body of work at once utterly lucid and breathtakingly urgent” (Louise Gluck). Joanna Klink’s fifth book begins with personal poems of loss–a tree ripped out by a windstorm, aA new collection from a poet who has made “a body of work at once utterly lucid and breathtakingly urgent” (Louise Gluck).
Joanna Klink’s fifth book begins with personal poems of loss–a tree ripped out by a windstorm, a friendship broken off after decades, the nearing death of parents. Other poems take on the cost of not loving fully, or are written from disbelief at the accumulation of losses and at the mercilessness of having, as one ages, to rule things out. There are elegies for friends, and a group of devotional poems. The Nightfields closes with “Night Sky,” thirty metaphysical poems inspired by the artist James Turrell’s Roden Crater, an extinct volcano in Arizona that Turrell has been transforming into an open-air observatory for the perception of time. The sequence unfolds as a series of revelations that begin in psychic fear and move gradually toward a sense of infinitude and connection.
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The Essential Muriel Rukeyser
- By: Muriel Rukeyser
- Narrator: Tanya Eby
- Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.38(26 ratings)
4.38(26 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDThe definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha Trethewey Engaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel RukeyserThe definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha Trethewey
Engaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel Rukeyser was one of the seminal poets of the mid-twentieth century. Closely informed by issues relating to equality, social justice, feminism, and Judaism, her impassioned poetry was often seen as a mode of social protest, but it was also heralded for its deep emotional impact; its personal perspective; forthright discussion of the female experience, particularly sex and single parenthood at a time when these topics were largely taboo; and its wide-ranging exploration of genre and form. As Adrienne Rich wrote: “Muriel Rukeyser’s poetry is unequalled in the twentieth-century United States…She pushes us…to enlarge our sense of what poetry is about in the world, and of the place of feelings and memory in politics.”
The Essential Muriel Rukeyser represents the curation of Rukeyser’s most enduring and urgent work, gathered in one volume that spans the many decades of her life and career, and with an introduction from Natasha Trethewey, one of our most important contemporary poets.
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Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
- By: Joy Harjo
- Narrator: Joy Harjo
- Length: 1 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.35(1908 ratings)
4.35(1908 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDA musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in theA musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States
In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. Called a “magician and a master” (San Francisco Chronicle), Joy Harjo is at the top of her form in Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings.
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Jagged Little Pill
- By: Rachel Syme
- Narrator: Rachel Syme
- Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 10, 2020
- Language: English
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4.33(152 ratings)
4.33(152 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDThe official behind-the-scenes look at the powerful new musical based on Alanis Morissette’s cult classic album Jagged Little Pill. Celebrating its 25-year anniversary in 2020, singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette’s Grammy-Award winningThe official behind-the-scenes look at the powerful new musical based on Alanis Morissette’s cult classic album Jagged Little Pill.
Celebrating its 25-year anniversary in 2020, singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette’s Grammy-Award winning album Jagged Little Pill has come to define a generation. In the “triumphant and moving” (Variety) Broadway musical of the same name, Morissette’s iconic numbers — including smash hits like “Ironic,” “You Oughta Know,” and “Hand in My Pocket,” — are paired with new songs by the beloved musician and a powerful original story by Academy Award-winning writer Diablo Cody (Juno). Hailed as “urgent, wildly entertaining, and wickedly funny” (The Boston Globe) and “joyful and redemptive, rousing and real” (The New York Times), the Jagged Little Pill musical is a poignant and emotionally revelatory experience that is speaking to audiences across generations.
Now, for the first time, this book will take you behind the scenes with stunning photography, original in-depth interviews with the cast, crew, Alanis Morissette, and Diablo Cody, and an introduction from Morissette herself on the album’s genesis and journey from release to acclaimed musical — including details and anecdotes on her collaboration on the show. Including the full annotated libretto and a retrospective look at Alanis’s artistic influences and the significance of the album within the cultural context of the 90s as well as its long-term impact on the music world as we know it, this beautifully rendered book is a must-have keepsake for anyone who has been touched by this production or Morissette’s music.
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The Type
- By: Sarah Kay
- Narrator: Sarah Kay
- Length: 6 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 21, 2016
- Language: English
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4.32(878 ratings)
4.32(878 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.000.98 USDSarah Kay’s powerful spoken word poetry performances have gone viral, with more than 10 million online views and thousands more in global live audiences. In her second single-poem volume, Kay takes readers along a lyrical road towardSarah Kay’s powerful spoken word poetry performances have gone viral, with more than 10 million online views and thousands more in global live audiences. In her second single-poem volume, Kay takes readers along a lyrical road toward empowerment, exploring the promise and complicated reality of being a woman.
During her spoken word poetry performances, audiences around the world have responded strongly to Sarah Kay’s poem The Type. As Kay wrote in The Huffington Post: “Much media attention has been paid to what it means to ‘be a woman,’ but often the conversation focuses on what it means to be a woman in relation to others. I believe these relationships are important. I also think it is possible to define ourselves solely as individuals… We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices.”
Never-before-published in book form, The Type is illustrated throughout and perfect for gift-giving.
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An American Sunrise
- By: Joy Harjo
- Narrator: Joy Harjo
- Length: 1 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.29(4937 ratings)
4.29(4937 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDA stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land. In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of theA stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land.
In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother’s death, to her beginnings in the native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo’s personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living in the ruins of injustice. A descendent of storytellers and “one of our finest–and most complicated–poets” (Los Angeles Review of Books), Joy Harjo continues her legacy with this latest powerful collection.
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Unforgettable You
- By: Brenda Novak
- Narrator: Veronica Worthington
- Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Harlequin Audio
- Publish date: February 26, 2019
- Language: English
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4.17(2160 ratings)
4.17(2160 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDNew York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak returns to Silver Springs, where no past mistake is so big the heart can’t find a way to fix it. Jada Brooks couldn’t have known how her life would change when she fell for bad boy MaddoxNew York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak returns to Silver Springs, where no past mistake is so big the heart can’t find a way to fix it.
Jada Brooks couldn’t have known how her life would change when she fell for bad boy Maddox Richardson back in high school. She couldn’t have known his troubled brother would leave hers forever crippled. Or that she’d be forced to shun Maddox completely–only to discover she was carrying his child.
Although Maddox was devastated by the events that transpired that fateful night, losing Jada was the worst of it. He’s back in Silver Springs, ready to make amends and provide the kind of youth outreach that once saved him. If he’d known Jada was in town, too, he would never have come.
Jada has returned to Silver Springs to be with family after her father’s death. But when she sees Maddox, every tough decision she’s made concerning their now twelve-year-old daughter begins to haunt her. Falling for him again is so tempting, but not only does she stand to alienate her family–if he finds out about Maya, she could lose what matters most.
Don’t miss Brenda Novak’s latest book, When I Found You!
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Abominations
- By: Lionel Shriver
- Narrator: Lionel Shriver
- Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 20, 2022
- Language: English
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4.15(124 ratings)
4.15(124 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDA striking collection of essays from the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Should We Stay or Should We Go, So Much for That, and The Post-Birthday World. Novelist, cultural observer, and social satirist Lionel Shriver is among theA striking collection of essays from the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Should We Stay or Should We Go, So Much for That, and The Post-Birthday World.
Novelist, cultural observer, and social satirist Lionel Shriver is among the sharpest talents of our age. A writer who embraces “under-expressed, unpopular or downright dangerous” points of view, she filets cherished shibboleths and the conformity of thought and attitude that has overtaken us.
Bringing together thirty-five works curated from her many columns, features, essays, and op-eds for the likes of the Spectator, the Guardian, the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, speeches and reviews, and some unpublished pieces, Abominations reveals Shriver at her most iconoclastic and personal. Relentlessly skeptical, cutting, and contrarian, this collection showcases Shriver’s piquant opinions on a wide range of topics, including religion, politics, illness, mortality, family and friends, tennis, gender, immigration, consumerism, health care, and taxes.
In her characteristically frank manner, Shriver shrewdly skewers the concept of language “crimes,” while chafing at arbitrary limitations on speech and literature that crimp artistic expression and threaten intellectual freedom. Each essay in Abominations reflects sentiments that have “brought hell and damnation down on my head,” as she cheerfully explains, and have threatened her with “cancellation” more than once.
Throughout, Shriver offers insights on her novels and explores the perks and pitfalls of becoming a successful artist. In revisiting old pieces and rejected essays, Shriver updates and expands her thinking. “Enlightened” progressive readers will find plenty to challenge here. But they may find, to their surprise, insights with which they agree.
A timely synthesis of Shriver’s expansive work, Abominations reveals this provocative, talented writer at her most assured.
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Like
- By: A. E. Stallings
- Narrator: A. E. Stallings
- Length: 2 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 06, 2019
- Language: English
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4.11(246 ratings)
4.11(246 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.99 USDA Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.A stunning new collection by the award-winning young poet and translator. Like, that currency of social media, is a little word with infinite potential; it can be nearly any part of speech. Without it,A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
A stunning new collection by the award-winning young poet and translator.Like, that currency of social media, is a little word with infinite potential; it can be nearly any part of speech. Without it, there is no simile, that engine of the lyric poem, the lyre’s note in the epic. A poem can hardly exist otherwise. In this new collection, her most ambitious to date, A. E. Stallings continues her archeology of the domestic, her odyssey through myth and motherhood in received and invented forms, from sonnets to syllabics. Stallings also eschews the poetry volume’s conventional sections for the arbitrary order of the alphabet. Contemporary Athens itself, a place never dull during the economic and migration crises of recent years, shakes off the dust of history and emerges as a vibrant character.
Known for her wry and musical lyric poems, Stallings here explores her themes in greater depth, including the bravura performance Lost and Found, a meditation in ottava rima on a parent’s sublunary dance with daily-ness and time, set in the moon’s Valley of Lost Things.
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Finding Ferrante
- By: Alessia Ricciardi
- Narrator: Hillary Huber
- Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.1(7 ratings)
4.1(7 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDElena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels achieved stunning global success in part because of the mystery surrounding their pseudonymous author. English-speaking readers were tantalized by her enigmatic biography as well as what they took to be herElena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels achieved stunning global success in part because of the mystery surrounding their pseudonymous author. English-speaking readers were tantalized by her enigmatic biography as well as what they took to be her authentic portrayal of working-class Naples. However, we now know that the person behind the writing is most likely Anita Raja, a prominent translator of German literature whose background is very different from Ferrante’s supposed life.
In Finding Ferrante, Alessia Ricciardi revisits questions about Ferrante’s identity to show how the problem of authorship is deeply intertwined with the novels’ literary ambition and politics. Going beyond the local and national cultures of Naples and Italy, Ricciardi reads Ferrante’s fiction as world literature, foregrounding Raja’s work as a translator. She examines the novels’ engagement with German literature and criticism, particularly Goethe, Walter Benjamin, and Christa Wolf, while also tracing the influence of Italian thinkers such as Antonio Gramsci, Carla Lonzi, and the Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective. Considering central questions of sexuality, work, politics, and place, Ricciardi demonstrates how intertextual resonances reshape our understanding of Lila and Elena, the protagonists of the Neapolitan Quartet, as well as the characters and language of Ferrante’s other books.
This bold reconsideration of one of today’s most acclaimed authors reveals Ferrante’s works as fiercely intellectual, showing their deep concern with feminist and cultural politics and the ethical and political stakes of literature.
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The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- By: William Anderson
- Narrator: John Morgan
- Length: 12 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 08, 2016
- Language: English
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4.07(643 ratings)
4.07(643 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDAvailable for the first time and collected in one volume, the letters of one of America’s most beloved authors, Laura Ingalls Wilder–a treasure trove that offers new and unexpected understanding of her life and work. The Selected LettersAvailable for the first time and collected in one volume, the letters of one of America’s most beloved authors, Laura Ingalls Wilder–a treasure trove that offers new and unexpected understanding of her life and work.
The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder is a vibrant, deeply personal portrait of this revered American author, illuminating her thoughts, travels, philosophies, writing career, and dealings with family, friends, and fans as never before.
This is a fresh look at the adult life of the author in her own words. Gathered from museums and archives and personal collections, the letters span over sixty years of Wilder’s life, from 1894-1956 and shed new light on Wilder’s day-to-day life. Here we see her as a businesswoman and author–including her beloved Little House books, her legendary editor, Ursula Nordstrom, and her readers–as a wife, and as a friend. In her letters, Wilder shares her philosophies, political opinions, and reminiscences of life as a frontier child. Also included are letters to her daughter, writer Rose Wilder Lane, who filled a silent role as editor and collaborator while the famous Little House books were being written.
Wilder biographer William Anderson collected and researched references throughout these letters and the result is an invaluable historical collection, tracing Wilder’s life through the final days of covered wagon travel, her life as a farm woman, a country journalist, Depression-era author, and years of fame as the writer of the Little House books. This collection is a sequel to her beloved books, and a snapshot into twentieth-century living.
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Monster, She Wrote
- By: Lisa Kröger
- Narrator: Erin Bennett
- Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.07(2636 ratings)
4.07(2636 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDSatisfy your craving for extraordinary authors and exceptional fiction: Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond. Frankenstein wasSatisfy your craving for extraordinary authors and exceptional fiction: Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond.
Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own life stories are as intriguing as their fiction.
Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein, who was rumored to keep her late husband’s heart in her desk drawer. But have you heard of Margaret “Mad Madge” Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years earlier—and who liked to wear topless gowns to the theater? If you know the astounding work of Shirley Jackson, whose novel The Haunting of Hill House was reinvented as a Netflix series, then try the psychological hauntings of Violet Paget, who was openly involved in long-term romantic relationships with women in the Victorian era.
You’ll meet celebrated icons, such as Ann Radcliffe, V. C. Andrews; forgotten wordsmiths Eli Coltor and Ruby Jean Jensen; and today’s vanguard, Helen Oyeyemi. Curated reading lists point you to their most spine-chilling tales.
Part biography, part reader’s guide, the engaging write-ups and detailed reading lists will introduce you to more than a hundred authors and over two hundred of their mysterious and spooky novels, novellas, and stories.
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High Tide in Tucson
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrator: Barbara Kingsolver
- Length: 2 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 08, 2005
- Language: English
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4.06(10193 ratings)
4.06(10193 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDBarbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven. In these twenty-five newly conceived essays, she returns onceBarbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven.
In these twenty-five newly conceived essays, she returns once again to her favored literary terrain to explore the themes of family, community, and the natural world. With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom. Her canny pursuit of meaning from an inscrutable world compels us to find instructions for life in surprising places: a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, an iconographic family of paper dolls, the ethics of a wild pig who persistently invades a garden, a battle of wills with a two-year-old, or a troop of oysters who observe high tide in the middle of Illinois.
In sharing her thoughts about the urgent business of being alive, kingsolver the essayist employs the same keen eyes, persuasive tongue, and understanding heart that characterize her acclaimed fiction.
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrator: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 05, 2013
- Language: English
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4(26416 ratings)
4(26416 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDA Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett’s multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. […] As the best personal essays often do, Patchett’s is aA Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
“I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett’s multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. […] As the best personal essays often do, Patchett’s is a two-way mirror, reflecting both the author and her readers.” — New York Times Book Review
Blending literature and memoir, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments–to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband–creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage.
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of Ann Patchett’s life. Stretching from her childhood to the present day, from a disastrous early marriage to a later happy one, it covers a multitude of topics, including relationships with family and friends, and charts the hard work and joy of writing, and the unexpected thrill of opening a bookstore.
As she shares stories of the people, places, ideals, and art to which she has remained indelibly committed, Ann Patchett brings into focus the large experiences and small moments that have shaped her as a daughter, wife, and writer.
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shine your icy crown
- By: Amanda Lovelace
- Length: 46 minutes
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4(5607 ratings)
4(5607 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USD“make them rue the day they underestimated you.”amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the “women are some kind of magic” poetry series, presents shine your icy crown, the second installment in her“make them rue the day they underestimated you.”
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amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the “women are some kind of magic” poetry series, presents shine your icy crown, the second installment in her new feminist poetry series, “you are your own fairy tale.” this is a story about not letting society dictate the limits of your potential. it’s time to take back your power & realize that you don’t need a king in order to be a queen. -
you are your own fairy tale
- By: Amanda Lovelace
- Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.98(11100 ratings)
3.98(11100 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDAn audiobook collection of empowering poetry that proves the only thing needed for a happily ever after is yourself.Read by author amanda lovelace herself, you are your own fairy tale: the audiobook collection features the three enchanting poetryAn audiobook collection of empowering poetry that proves the only thing needed for a happily ever after is yourself.
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Read by author amanda lovelace herself, you are your own fairy tale: the audiobook collection features the three enchanting poetry books that round out the collection: break your glass slippers, shine your icy crown, and unlock your storybook heart. you are your own fairy tale is accompanied by music and includes a bonus interview between lovelace and her spouse, parker lee. -
break your glass slippers
- By: Amanda Lovelace
- Length: 42 minutes
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.98(11100 ratings)
3.98(11100 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USD“more forgetting time.more midnight dances with yourself.”amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the “women are some kind of magic” poetry series, presents a new companion series, “you are your“more forgetting time.
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more midnight dances with yourself.”
amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the “women are some kind of magic” poetry series, presents a new companion series, “you are your own fairy tale” the first installment, break your glass slippers, is about overcoming those who don’t see your worth, even if that person is sometimes yourself. in the epic tale of your life, you are the most important character while everyone is but a forgotten footnote. even the prince. -
Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert
- By: Mary Lambert
- Narrator: Mary Lambert
- Length: 2 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 23, 2018
- Language: English
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3.97(237 ratings)
3.97(237 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.99 USDShame Is an Ocean I Swim Across is read by Mary Lambert and includes original music exclusive to the audiobook. Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert’s poetry is a beacon to anyone who’s ever been knocked down–and pickedShame Is an Ocean I Swim Across is read by Mary Lambert and includes original music exclusive to the audiobook.
Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert’s poetry is a beacon to anyone who’s ever been knocked down–and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert emerges as an important new voice in poetry, providing strength and resilience even in the darkest of times.
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Vulnerable AF
- By: Tarriona Ball
- Length: 41 minutes
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.94(741 ratings)
3.94(741 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USDAvailable as an Audie Award-nominated audiobook!The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona “Tank” Ball about infatuation, love, and heartbreak.The real-life story of a relationship in theAvailable as an Audie Award-nominated audiobook!
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The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona “Tank” Ball about infatuation, love, and heartbreak.
The real-life story of a relationship in the author’s past told in verse and short prose pieces. Relatable and honest, with Tank’s signature mix of whimsy and realness, Vulnerable AF is about the difference between love and infatuation, the danger and confusion of losing yourself in the idea of someone else, and coming out on the other side of heartbreak with your sense of self-worth–and your sense of humor–stronger for it. -
Old Monarch
- By: Courtney Marie Andrews
- Length: 1 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.94(203 ratings)
3.94(203 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USDSome people are like monarch butterflies–solitary by nature, on a passionate search for somewhere. Critically acclaimed songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews presents her first poetry collection.This poetry collection reads like a transformation,Some people are like monarch butterflies–solitary by nature, on a passionate search for somewhere. Critically acclaimed songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews presents her first poetry collection.
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This poetry collection reads like a transformation, me, the narrator, being the figurative Old Monarch. Documenting this journey, the book is separated into three sections, “Sonoran Milkweed,” “Longing In Flight,” and “Eucalyptus Tree (My Arrival to Rest).” In the first stage of my journey, I explore my childhood in Arizona, and the naive assumptions of youth. At this stage in my journey, I am impressionable, seeing the world with all its nuances for the first time. Through the landscape of the Sonoran Desert, I explore some dark family dynamics and what a child sees. Several characters turn up in the early poems including my cowboy grandpa, and the single mother who raised me, despite many forthcomings. The early poems also explore my desire to see a brighter world of possibility beyond the dusty desert island, and see humans more clearly within the confounds of discovery.
In the second stage, I have left home. I am falling in love for the first time, as I become a young woman. Finally, the last stage is the old monarch’s arrival to the garden. There are a lot of metaphysical and philosophical poems in this section. I arrive at the figurative garden, and I finally understand the journey at the edge of my life. There are a lot of poems in the context of a garden here, accepting mortality and the ever-changing world. These are meant to be wise old woman poems.
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Essential Anais Nin
- By: Anais Nin
- Narrator: Anais Nin
- Length: 44 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 27, 2007
- Language: English
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3.94(185 ratings)
3.94(185 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDFrom her famous diaries, that she began in 1914 at the age of eleven, Anais Nin reads passages which reflect the recurring themes of her work. In a slow, clear, heavily accented, hypnotic voice, Nin draws the listener into her spell-binding storiesFrom her famous diaries, that she began in 1914 at the age of eleven, Anais Nin reads passages which reflect the recurring themes of her work. In a slow, clear, heavily accented, hypnotic voice, Nin draws the listener into her spell-binding stories of a highly personal world as she paints a vivid picture of a woman as artist and self. This is an extraordinary, historic, archival, and memorable recording which speaks in a fresh voice to new generations.
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unlock your storybook heart
- By: Amanda Lovelace
- Length: 1 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.89(2742 ratings)
3.89(2742 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USD“life is not something that can be experienced on a deadline.”amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the “women are some kind of magic” poetry series, presents unlock your storybook heart, the third“life is not something that can be experienced on a deadline.”
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amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the “women are some kind of magic” poetry series, presents unlock your storybook heart, the third & final installment in her feminist poetry series, “you are your own fairy tale.” this is a collection about being so caught up in the fable that is perfectionism that you miss out on your own life. be honest: when was the last time you stopped to take in the everyday enchantment all around you? -
Doris Lessing
- By: Carole Klein
- Narrator: Anna Fields
- Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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3.86(42 ratings)
3.86(42 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.95 USDBoth in her personal life and in her literature, Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Persia and raised in Rhodesia by a hypercritical mother and a father who was shell-shocked during the First World War, she was forever in search of her essentialBoth in her personal life and in her literature, Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Persia and raised in Rhodesia by a hypercritical mother and a father who was shell-shocked during the First World War, she was forever in search of her essential identity. Twice married and divorced before the age of thirty, she moved to Britain with one of her children and little more than an unpublished manuscript in her suitcase. Ardently embracing communism, then feminism, she would discard them both long before their attractions faded for others. As a writer, she consistently charted new territory, most famously with the series of science fiction novels she submitted under a pseudonym. Based on numerous interviews and sources, this is a fascinating portrait of a celebrated literary rebel who continually reinvented herself and the world in her prodigious work.
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Devotion
- By: Patti Smith
- Narrator: Patti Smith
- Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.85(8170 ratings)
3.85(8170 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDFrom the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention. A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic–its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artistFrom the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention.
A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic–its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections.
Patti Smith first presents an original and beautifully crafted tale of obsession–a young skater who lives for her art, a possessive collector who ruthlessly seeks his prize, a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted. She then takes us on a second journey, exploring the sources of her story. We travel through the South of France to Camus’ house, and visit the garden of the great publisher Gallimard where the ghosts of Mishima, Nabokov, and Genet mingle. Smith tracks down Simone Weil’s grave in a lonely cemetery, hours from London, and winds through the nameless Paris streets of Patrick Modiano’s novels. Whether writing in a cafe or a train, Smith generously opens her notebooks and lets us glimpse the alchemy of her art and craft in this arresting and original book on writing.
The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
- By: Marion Meade
- Narrator: Lorna Raver
- Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
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3.81(1261 ratings)
3.81(1261 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.95 USDThis is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers–Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber–whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors captured the spirit of the 1920s. Marion MeadeThis is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers–Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber–whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors captured the spirit of the 1920s.
Marion Meade re-creates the aura of excitement, romance, and promise of the 1920s, when these literary heroines did what they wanted, said what they thought, and kicked open the door for twentieth-century women, setting a new model for every woman trying to juggle the serious issues of economic independence, political power, and sexual freedom.
But Meade also brings to light the anxiety and despair that lurked beneath the nonstop partying and outrageous behavior. She describes the men who influenced them, loved them, and sometimes betrayed them. And while she describes their social and literary triumphs, she also writes movingly of the penances they paid.
A vibrant mixture of literary scholarship, social history, and scandal, Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin is a rich evocation of an era that will forever intrigue and captivate us.
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