The number of books written with amazing heroines makes it daunting to pick 10. May your life be filled with too many heroines as well on this Inauguration Day. Let’s get inspired!

 

Audacity by Melanie Crowder

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

 

The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

 

Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, and illustrated by Brooke Allen

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

 

On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis

The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell

 

You Can’t See the Elephants by Susan Kreller, translated by Elizabeth Gaffney

Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke