Contemporary Classics with Female Protagonists

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A Brief History of the Dead
By Kevin Brockmeier
F BROKMEIER
In an afterlife world inhabited by the recently departed who remain in the memories of the living, Marion and Phillip Byrd fall in love again, while on Earth, their daughter, Laura, is stranded alone in an Antarctic research station.

Double Bind
By Christopher Bohjalian
F BOHJALIA
Working at a homeless shelter, student Laurel Estabrook encounters Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of secret photos, but when Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel embarks on an obsessive search for the truth behind the photos.

The Ice Queen
By Alice Hoffman
F HOFFMAN
After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.

A Spot of Bother
By Mark Haddon
F HADDON
The descent into madness of sixty-one-year-old George Hall goes largely unnoticed due to his family members' preoccupations with their own individual relationship crises. (Although the protagonist is not a female, women do play a large part in the novel.)