Who's your favorite female author of the 21st century?

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Tom Hank’s was perfect! I need to reread many of her books starting with State of Wonder.

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Ruta Sepetys and Barbara Kingsolver are automatic buys for me. I hope that Bonnie Garmus writes more books because I definitely enjoyed her debut, Lessons in Chemistry.

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This was very easy for me. Kristin Hannah!

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So many. I like Geraldine Brooks and Ann Patchet.

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The Dutch House
Tom Lake
Bel Canto
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All fabulous, non fiction also great

Elizabeth Strout also a fave & read them immediately

Louise Penny Gamache series (I’m 3/4 thru)

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Anne Tyler. She never disappoints!

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So many favorites, but I think it would be Barbara Kingsolver, even though she spans the centuries.

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Lots of female favorites:

Literary Fiction: Elif Shafak

Mystery: Louise Penny

Historical Mystery: Deanna Raybourn, Sujata Massey

Sci-fiction: Mary Robinette Kowal, Becky Chamber

Non-fiction: Lynne Olson, Barbara Demick

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Kristin Hannah. Jane Harper. Jojo Moyes. Hilary Mantel.

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Fiction: Louise Erdrich

Nonfiction: Doris Searles Goodwin

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I love Miriam Toews, Canadian Mennonite, whose works are always hilarious and heartbreaking – All My Puny Sorrows, Fight Night and Women Talking (Oscar-nominated movie, too) being some of her best known. I also deeply love Madeline Miller’s exquisite re-imaginings of Greek mythology – Circe and The Song of Achilles. I will rush to my bookstore the minute one of their books comes out (though they take their time with each – something else I truly appreciate)