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Fantasy

My list of top female scifi/fantasy heroines.

A

Rachel Aaron

Lynn Abbey

Mario Acevedo

Douglas Adams

Isabel Allende

Lou Anders

Kevin J. Anderson

Ilona Andrews

Piers Anthony

Kelley Armstrong

Catherine Asaro

Robert Asprin

B

Camille Bacon-Smith

Pip Ballantine

Peter S. Beagle

Elizabeth Bear

Lyn Benedict

Holly Black

Alice Borchardt

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Libba Bray

Marie Brennan

Patricia Briggs

Kristen Britain

Meljean Brook

Steven Brust

Emma Bull

Jim Butcher

C

Rachel Caine

Orson Scott Card

Jacqueline Carey

Mike Carey

Gail Carriger

Karen Chance

C.J. Cherryh

Cassandra Clare

Susanna Clarke

Eoin Colfer

Suzanne Collins

Harry Connolly

Glen Cook

Elaine Cunningham

Leah R. Cutter

D

Ellen Datlow

MaryJanice Davidson

Gail Dayton

Mark del Franco

Charles de Lint

See also the Kids section

Stephen R. Donaldson

Carole Nelson Douglas

Sara Douglass

Dave Duncan

E

David Eddings

Rosemary Edghill

Kate Elliot

P.N. Elrod

Jennifer Estep

F

Raymond E. Feist

Diana Pharaoh Francis

G

Jeaniene Frost

Neil Gaiman

See also the Kids page and the Graphic Novels page

Yasmine Galenorn

James Alan Gardner

Kelly Gay

Laura Anne Gilman

William Goldman

Terry Goodkind

Andrew M. Greeley

Simon R. Green

Martin H. Greenberg

H

Charlaine Harris

Kim Harrison

David G. Hartwell

Michele Hauf

John Twelve Hawks

Elizabeth Haydon

Lian Hearn

Kevin Hearne

John Helfers

James A. Hetley

Tracy Hickman

Leanna Renee Hieber

Jim C. Hines

Robin Hobb

Nina Kiriki Hoffman

David Holland

Tanya Huff

Barry Hughart

Stephen Hunt

C.C. Hunter

Faith Hunter

Charlie Huston

I

J

J.V Jones

Tamara Siler Jones

K

Richard Kadrey

Guy Gavriel Kay

Anne Kelleher

Katherine Kerr

Caitlin Kitteredge

Katharine Kurtz

Ellen Kushner

L

Mercedes Lackey

Stephen R. Lawhead

Rachel Lee

Ursula K. Le Guin

John Levitt

Megan Lindholm

Jane Lindskold

Marissa K. Lingen

Holly Lisle

Denise Little

Marjorie Liu

Morgan Llywelyn

Sergei Lukyanenko

Scott Lynch

M

Katie MacAlister

Rebecca Maines

Ann Marston

A. Lee Martinez

Seanan McGuire

Juliet E. McKenna

Dennis L. McKiernan

Robin McKinley

China Mieville

Christopher Moore

Tee Morris

C.E. Murphy

N

Garth Nix

Naomi Novik

O

Andrew Offutt

Pat O'Shea

P

Dru Pagliassotti

Cindy Spenser Pape

Diana L. Paxson

Nicole Peeler

Victor Pelevin

Terry Pratchett

See also the Kids Section.

T.A. Pratt

Cherie Priest

Philip Pullman

Q

R

Jennifer Rardin

Melanie Rawn

Mickey Zucker Reichert

Kristopher Reisz

Laura Resnick

Kat Richardson

Ransom Riggs

Jennifer Roberson

Moira Rogers

Margaret Ronald

Michaela Roessner

J.K. Rowling

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Sean Russell

S

Michelle Sagara

Lilith Saintcrow

Ekaterina Sedia

Robert Shea

Delia Sherman

Sharon Shinn

Robert Silverberg

Sherwood Smith

Thomas Sniegoski

Dana Stabenow

Jeanne C. Stein

Caroline Stevermer

J. Michael Straczynski

See also Comics

Jonathan Stroud

T

Thieves' World

Rob Thurman

J.R.R. Tolkein

S.D. Tower

U

V

Catherynne M. Valente

Vampire Hunter D

Carrie Vaughn

Paula Volsky

W

Jo Walton

Margaret Weis

Phaedra Weldon

Michelle West

Eileen Wilks

Liz Williams

Bill Willingham

F. Paul Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson

Terri Windling

Maryrose Wood

Patricia C. Wrede

Janny Wurts

X

Y

Z

Roger Zelazny

Sarah Zettel

Stephan Zielinski