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A Reading List of Thrillers with Strong Female Leads

Earlier this week, we asked you to share your favorite thrillers with strong female leads, whatever you take “strong” to mean, and however it manifests itself in the characters. Here’s a collection of your suggestions from Facebook, Twitter, and the comments section. Enjoy!

Feed by Mira Grant

The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis

anything by Chelsea Cain

Slow River by Nicola Griffith

The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larrson

The Likeness by Tana French

Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg

No Good Deed by Manda Scott

Wired by Douglas Richards

Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff

City of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell

The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina

Carol O’Connell’s Mallory novels

Julia Spencer-Fleming’s Clare Fergusson books

Out by Natsuo Kirino

The Informationist by Taylor Stevens

Money Shot by Christa Faust

Dare Me by Megan Abbott

Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell

Mary Stewart’s suspense novels

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  10. glitter-and-be-gay said: Also, the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
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