None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell
2023 · 2025 edition
392 pages
The most popular female protagonist books of 2023
These books have a woman or a girl at the center. She may be a warrior, a detective, a scientist, a queen or someone getting through an ordinary week. Whatever the genre, the story is hers. The heroines are of every kind. This list shows the ones first published in 2023.
See also Fantasy with a female lead
Results
The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon
2023 · 2024 edition
448 pages
You Shouldn't Have Come Here
Jeneva Rose
Published 2023
292 pages
All the Dangerous Things
Stacy Willingham
2023 · 2026 edition
352 pages
The Last Devil to Die
Richard Osman
2023 · 2026 edition
384 pages
Bright Young Women
Jessica Knoll
Published 2023
376 pages
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Jesse Q. Sutanto
Published 2023
339 pages
What Lies in the Woods
Kate Alice Marshall
Published 2023
336 pages
The House in the Pines
Ana Reyes
Published 2023
321 pages
Zero Days
Ruth Ware
2023 · 2025 edition
480 pages
Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun
Elle Cosimano
Published 2023
304 pages
After That Night
Karin Slaughter
Published 2023
432 pages
The London Séance Society
Sarah Penner
Published 2023
329 pages
The Other Mothers
Katherine Faulkner
Published 2023
381 pages
The Mystery Guest
Nita Prose
2023 · 2024 edition
327 pages
Mother-Daughter Murder Night A Novel
Nina Simon
2023 · 2024 edition
368 pages
The Leftover Woman
Jean Kwok
Published 2023
288 pages
The Queen of Poisons
Robert Thorogood
2023 · 2024 edition
342 pages
Just Another Missing Person
Gillian McAllister
Published 2023
384 pages
Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop
Jenny Colgan
Published 2023
368 pages
The Golden Spoon
Jessa Maxwell
Published 2023
288 pages
The Last Remains
Elly Griffiths
Published 2023
448 pages
Unnatural Death
Patricia Cornwell
Published 2023
432 pages
Lie to Her
Melinda Leigh
Published 2023
300 pages