Top Series Featuring a Female Protagonist
Each month we ask our Facebook followers for a book or series recommendation based on a particular genre or similar parameters – and then print the answers in our mid-month newsletter.
I thought it would be a good idea to have a separate page listing these, as I use it as a reference guide often.
This page is a list of the Top Series Featuring a Female Protagonist which was featured in the June 2020 and July 2020 Newsletters.
This is a pretty big list with a lot of great books, but there are always more and new books being published every day. If you have any recommendations for the list, please add them in the comments below.
Top Series Featuring a Female Protagonist:
- Cozy Corgi Mysteries by Mildred Abbott (Cozy Animal Mystery)
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Coming-of-age Classic)
- Meg Langslow by Donna Andrews (Amateur Sleuth)
- Kate Daniels by Ilona Andrews (Urban Fantasy)
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Dystopian)
- Anna Pigeon by Nevada Barr (Park Ranger Mystery)
- Aimee Leduc by Cara Black (Contemporary Paris Mystery)
- Body Movers by Stephanie Bond (Humorous Mystery)
- Molly Murphy by Rhys Bowen (Historical Mystery)
- Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen (Historical Mystery)
- Cassie Dewell by CJ Box (Serial Killer Thriller)
- Liz Talbot by Susan M. Boyer (Cozy Mystery)
- Flavia de Luce by Alan Bradley (Amateur Sleuth)
- Lucy Kincaid by Allison Brennan (Romantic Thriller)
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Romance Classics)
- Detective Erika Foster by Robert Bryndza (Serial Killer Thriller)
- “Anything” by Pearl S. Buck (Literary Fiction)
- Virgin River by Robyn Carr (Contemporary Romance)
- Kate Burkholder by Linda Castillo (Crime Thriller)
- Nikki Heat by Richard Castle (Police Procedural)
- The Tea Shop Mysteries by Laura Childs (Cozy Mystery)
- Miss Marple by Agatha Christie (Elderly Detective)
- Hawkenlye Mysteries by Alys Clare (Historical Mystery)
- Vera Stanhope by Ann Cleeves (Unconventional Detective)
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Futuristic YA)
- Renee Ballard by Michael Connelly (Murder Thriller)
- Kay Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell (Medical Thriller)
- Rebekah Roberts by Julia Dahl (Riveting Mystery)
- Pepper Martin by Casey Daniels (Paranormal Romance)
- Honeychurch Hall Mysteries by Hannah Dennison (Amateur Sleuth)
- Midnight Louie by Carole Nelson Douglas (Amateur Sleuth with Cat)
- Forensic Geology by Toni Dwiggins (Forensic Procedural)
- Nikki Galena by Joy Ellis (Crime Thriller)
- Stephanie Plum by Janet Evanovich (Funny Sleuth)
- Alexandra Cooper by Linda Fairstein (Police Procedural)
- Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante (Literary Fiction)
- Thursday Next by Jasper Fforde (Alternate History)
- Dame Frevisse by Margaret Frazer (Nun Mystery)
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (Time Travel Romance)
- Detective D.D. Warren by Lisa Gardner (Detective Suspense)
- Rizzoli & Isles by Tess Gerritsen (Police Procedural)
- Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman (Detective Mystery)
- Molly Sutton by Nell Goddin (Cozy Mystery)
- Kathryn Swinbrooke by C.L. Grace (Historical Mystery)
- Kinsey Milhone/Alphabet Series by Sue Grafton (P.I. Mystery)
- Home Repair is Homicide Mysteries by Sarah Graves (Cozy Mystery)
- Ruth Galloway by Elly Griffith (Forensic Mystery)
- Detective Elouise Norton by Rachel Howzell Hall (Smart Procedural)
- English Cottage Garden by H.Y. Hanna (Cozy Mystery)
- Oxford Tearoom Mysteries by H.Y. Hanna (Cozy Mystery)
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (Family Novel)
- Posadas County by Steven F. Havill (Western Procedural)
- Haunting Danielle by Bobbi Holmes (Supernatural Mystery)
- Eve Duncan by Iris Johansen (Suspense Thriller)
- Maggie O’Dell by Alex Kava (FBI Profiler)
- Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R. King (Classic Detective)
- Rose Madder by Stephen King (Horror)
- Lady Hardcastle by T.E. Kinsey (British Detective)
- Kat Colorado by Karen Kjewski (Hard-boiled Mystery)
- Jane Madison by Mindy Klasky (Witch Humor)
- Jane Hawk by Dean Koontz (Action Adventure)
- She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb (Coming of Age)
- Bloodhound by Virgina Lanier (Mystery)
- Giulia Driscoll by Alice Loweecey (Cozy Mystery)
- Alice Vega by Louise Luna (Kidnapping Thriller)
- Maggie Hope by Susan Ella MacNeal (Historical Mystery)
- Judge Deborah Knott by Margaret Maron (Legal Mystery)
- Kim Stone by Angela Marsons (Serial Killer Thriller)
- Dominika Egorova & Nathaniel Nash by Jason Matthews (Spy Thriller)
- Quaker Midwife by Edith Maxwell (Quaker Cozy)
- The Academy/Priscilla Hutchins by Jack McDevitt (Sci-Fi Adventure)
- Dandy Gilver by Catriona McPherson (Historical Mystery)
- Mattie Cobb/Timber Creek K-9 Mystery series by Margaret Mizushima (Cozy Mystery)
- Anne Shirley/Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Children’s Classic)
- Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (Divorce Mystery)
- Sharon McCone by Marcia Muller (Female P.I.)
- Lei Crime by Toby Neal (Hawaiian Detective)
- Sydney Rose Parnell by Barbara Nickless (Murder Thriller)
- Mallory’s Oracle by Carol O’Connell (Police Procedural)
- Women’s Murder Club by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Murder Thriller)
- V.I. Warshawski by Sara Paretsky (Female P.I.)
- Jane Whitefield by Thomas Perry (Mystery Suspense)
- Amelia Peabody by Elizabeth Peters (Historical Mystery)
- Riley Paige by Blake Pierce (FBI Agent)
- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn (Female Spies)
- Temperance Brenden by Kathy Reichs (Forensic Mystery)
- In Death/Eve Dallas by JD Robb (Future P.I.)
- The Guardians by Nora Roberts (Werewolf & Shifer)
- Eva Rae Thomas by Willow Rose (Romantic Suspense)
- Auction Block Mystery by Loretta Ross (Heist Thriller)
- Melissa Craig by Betty Rowlands (Cozy Mystery)
- Sukey Reynolds by Betty Rowlands (British Mystery)
- Genevieve Lenard by Estelle Ryan (International Mystery)
- Rosato & Associates by Lisa Scottoline (Lawyer Suspense)
- Charlie Parker Mysteries by Connie Shelton (Cozy Mystery)
- Dock 5 by Linnea Sinclair (Science Fiction)
- Dominic Queste by Douglas Skelton (Crime Thiriller)
- Grant County by Karin Slaughter (Crime Fiction)
- The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (Botswana Mystery)
- Study by Maria V. Snyder (Fantasy Romance)
- Kate Shugak by Dana Stabenow (Alaskan Mystery)
- Chronicles of St. Mary’s by Jodi Taylor (Fantasy)
- The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper (Dystopian Future)
- Becky Sharp by William Makepeace Thackeray (Victorian Classic)
- Gaslight Mysteries by Victoria Thompson (Midwife Mystery)
- Ella Clah by Aimee and David Thurlo (Navajo Detective)
- Bess Crawford by Charles Todd (WWI Mystery)
- Sister Fidelma by Peter Tremayne (Historical Mystery)
- The Tillerman Cycle by Cynthia Voigt (Teen Homelessness)
- Honor Harrington by David Weber (Military Science Fiction)
- Sabina Kane by Jaye Wells (Urban Fantasy)
- Triple Threat by Lis Wiehl (Suspense Thriller)
- Barbara Holloway by Kate Wilhelm (Detective/Courtroom Fiction)
- Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Historical Mystery)
- Jessie Black by Larry A. Winters (Legal Thriller)
Ali Reynolds and Joanna Brady from JA Jance.
Aimee Leduc, by Cara Black (Contemporary Paris Mysteries)
Thanks Suzanne. Will add to the list 🙂