Historical Fiction with Female Protagonists

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Historical fiction
• Female characters

Anahita’s Woven Riddle
By Meghan Nuttall Sayres
YA F SAYRES
In Iran, more than 100 years ago, a young girl with three suitors gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers.

The Poisonwood Bible
By Barbara Kingsolver
F KINGSOLVER
The family of a fierce evangelical Baptist missionary--Nathan Price, his wife, and his four daughters--begins to unravel after they embark on a 1959 mission to the Belgian Congo, where they find their lives forever transformed over the course of three decades by the political and social upheaval of Africa.

In the Time of the Butterflies
By Julia Alvarez
F ALVAREZ
A fictional account of the young lives of Mirabal sisters Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa, otherwise known in the Dominican Republic as Las Mariposas, describes their suffering and martyrdom in the last days of the Trujillo dictatorship.

Girl with a Pearl Earring
By Tracy Chevalier
F CHEVALIER
A poor seventeenth-century servant girl knows her place in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, but when he begins to paint her, nasty whispers and rumors circulate throughout the town.