Here are four book recommendations, all written by female authors.

Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

According to goodreads/.Half_of_a_Yellow_Sun, this novel is about a Thirteen-year-old named Ugwu who is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professor’s beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna’s twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another. 

Normal people by Sally Rooney 

According to goodreads.com/-normal-people, this novel is about two teenagers named Connell and Marianne pretending not to know each other. He’s a popular and well-adjusted star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. When Connell comes to pick his mom up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange connection grows between the two teenagers, one they are determined to conceal.

A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. 

The best we could do by Thi Bui

According to .goodreads.com/-the-best-we-could-do, this illustrated memoir is about the author’s family before and during the vietnam war. Bui was only a child at the time. struggling with difficulties when trying to build a new life in America after escaping south vietnam in the 1970s. 

City of girls by Elizabeth Gilbert 

According to goodreads.com/-city-of-girls, this novel is about a nineteen year old in 1940 named Vivian Morris who just got kicked out of college after a lackluster freshman year. Her parents send her to Manhattan to live with her aunt Peg who owns an old  theater called the lily playhouse. Now ninety five years old. She tells her story of those years recalling the events and how they altered her life.