Our book lists are full of fantastic reads – all by women authors. (Credit: Edgar Colomba, Pexels)

The world could always use more of the women’s perspective.

Women-led narratives challenge traditional portrayals, presenting multi-dimensional female characters and often addressing themes such as self-acceptance, gender equality, career, motherhood and more. Today’s women authors offer their expertise on our most pressing problems, weaving memorable tales about love and loss, crafting poetry that makes us weep, and sharing their daring individual journeys – all through contemporary literature.

Below, we’ve gathered up our reading lists that feature and honor these works, each list full of memoirs, fictional stories and other forms of writing born from the minds of a brilliant, diverse pool of women.