My favorite female authors

In honor of International Women’s Day, I wanted to share some of my favorite contemporary female authors. Who are your favorites?

Here they are (from top, left to right), along with the books that made me love them:

Maggie O’Farrell–After You’d Gone; The Hand That First Held Mine; I Am, I Am, I Am
Liane Moriarty–What Alice Forgot; Big Little Lies; The Husband’s Secret
Maile Meloy–Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
Janet Fitch–White Oleander
Colleen Oakley–Close Enough to Touch; Before I Go
Lily King–Euphoria
Marisha Pessl–Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Jenny Offill–Dept. of Speculation
Lionel Shriver–We Need to Talk About Kevin
Rufi Thorpe–The Girls From Corona Del Mar
Meg Wolitzer–The Interestings; The Ten-Year Nap
Jhumpa Lahiri–The Namesake; The Lowland
Caroline Leavitt–Pictures of You; Cruel Beautiful World
Edan Lepucki–California
Celeste Ng–Everything I Never Told You; Little Fires Everywhere
Gabrielle Zevin–The Storied Life of AJ Firky
Maria Semple–Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
Jacquelyn Mitchard–The Deep End of the Ocean
Donna Tartt–The Goldfinch; The Secret History
Tracy Barone–Happy Family
Nicole Krauss–History of Love
Emily St. John Mandel–Station Eleven
Evie Wyld–All the Birds, Singing
Miriam Toews–All My Puny Sorrows

**On a related note, I am speaking at the AAUW Literary Luncheon in Laguna Beach this Saturday. You can find more information here. Call 949-494-5789 to find out if seats are still available**