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Just for You -- Compelling Fiction

If you enjoy well-written fiction and strong female protagonists, this list might just have what you're looking for.

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  • Sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beautiful and uncanny markswoman, takes to the Stark River after the brutal death of her father and embarks on an odyssey in search of her vanished mother.
    Book, 2012New York : W.W. Norton, 2012. — FICTION CAMPBELL
  • Grace Healy finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench at Grand Central Station. Unable to resist her own curiosity, she opens the suitcase and discovers photographs women with remarkable stories of friendship, valor, and betrayal.
    Book, 2019Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Park Row Books, [2019] — FICTION JENOFF
  • Told from multiple perspectives, this novel tells the story of two women from different eras held together by a mysterious painting.
    Book, 2020New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020. — FICTION CHAMBERLAIN
  • A divorced reporter in racially torn 1966 Baltimore triggers unanticipated consequences for vulnerable community members while investigating the murder of an African-American party girl.
    Book, 2019New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — FICTION LIPPMAN
  • Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an immense real estate empire. He buys the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves.
    Book, 2019[New York, NY] : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — FICTION PATCHETT