Heroines who aren't confident, outspoken, competetive super-women

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Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park 3.86 avg rating — 371,688 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables 4.32 avg rating — 1,079,876 ratings
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Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,777 ratings
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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 7,126,252 ratings
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Clotho's Loom: A Novel of Literary Romance and Realism
Clotho's Loom: A Novel of Literary Romance and Realism 4.10 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Persuasion
Persuasion 4.15 avg rating — 752,800 ratings
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The Goose Girl
The Goose Girl 4.14 avg rating — 147,429 ratings
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,813 ratings
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Summer of my German Soldier
Summer of my German Soldier 3.70 avg rating — 17,689 ratings
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New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2) 3.61 avg rating — 2,078,090 ratings
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Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go 3.85 avg rating — 813,230 ratings
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,807 ratings
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The Princess and the Pea
The Princess and the Pea 4.13 avg rating — 18,814 ratings
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Cinderella
Cinderella 4.23 avg rating — 10,999 ratings
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Green Darkness
Green Darkness 3.97 avg rating — 6,873 ratings
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Terrier (Beka Cooper, #1)
Terrier (Beka Cooper, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 69,774 ratings
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Perfect Chemistry (Perfect Chemistry, #1)
Perfect Chemistry (Perfect Chemistry, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 262,733 ratings
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North and South
North and South 4.15 avg rating — 179,585 ratings
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Bloodhound (Beka Cooper, #2)
Bloodhound (Beka Cooper, #2) 4.28 avg rating — 39,818 ratings
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Agnes Grey
Agnes Grey 3.71 avg rating — 78,684 ratings
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The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9) 4.09 avg rating — 508,939 ratings
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The Snow Goose
The Snow Goose 4.16 avg rating — 5,461 ratings
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A Passage to India
A Passage to India 3.68 avg rating — 84,383 ratings
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Chalice
Chalice 3.84 avg rating — 15,372 ratings
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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,817 ratings
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Carrie
Carrie 3.99 avg rating — 813,700 ratings
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The House of the Spirits
The House of the Spirits 4.29 avg rating — 304,622 ratings
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories 4.07 avg rating — 338,244 ratings
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The Kitchen God's Wife
The Kitchen God's Wife
by: Amy Tan
4.04 avg rating — 87,070 ratings
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Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood 4.15 avg rating — 24,861 ratings
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Love Is Blind
Love Is Blind 3.93 avg rating — 6,816 ratings
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Leaving Paradise (Leaving Paradise, #1)
Leaving Paradise (Leaving Paradise, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 44,003 ratings
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The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (The Twilight Saga, #3.5)
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (The Twilight Saga, #3.5) 3.52 avg rating — 237,645 ratings
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Head Games
Head Games 3.45 avg rating — 560 ratings
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Rose Daughter
Rose Daughter 3.79 avg rating — 21,569 ratings
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Seers of Light (Light, #1)
Seers of Light (Light, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 797 ratings
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Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility 4.09 avg rating — 1,266,159 ratings
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Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys
Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys 3.92 avg rating — 32,817 ratings
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 4.03 avg rating — 126,451 ratings
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Demelza (Poldark, #2)
Demelza (Poldark, #2) 4.22 avg rating — 18,463 ratings
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Nethergate
Nethergate 3.86 avg rating — 364 ratings
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The Girl Who Chased the Moon
The Girl Who Chased the Moon 3.97 avg rating — 63,151 ratings
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Our Only May Amelia (May Amelia, #1)
Our Only May Amelia (May Amelia, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 8,681 ratings
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Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49,356 ratings
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Mastiff (Beka Cooper, #3)
Mastiff (Beka Cooper, #3) 4.27 avg rating — 29,932 ratings
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To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,180 ratings
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The Mother
The Mother 4.09 avg rating — 5,089 ratings
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
The French Lieutenant’s Woman 3.88 avg rating — 54,867 ratings
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Girl with a Pearl Earring 3.93 avg rating — 768,696 ratings
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Snow White
Snow White 4.20 avg rating — 9,653 ratings
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The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid 3.98 avg rating — 29,689 ratings
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Forest Born (The Books of Bayern, #4)
Forest Born (The Books of Bayern, #4) 4.04 avg rating — 28,252 ratings
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Fadette
Fadette 3.88 avg rating — 4,568 ratings
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Finding Out A Novel
Finding Out A Novel 3.68 avg rating — 894 ratings
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Sex, Doug, and a Rocky Road
Sex, Doug, and a Rocky Road 3.76 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Heart Shaped Scars
Heart Shaped Scars 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Interlands
Interlands 3.67 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Little Queen
The Little Queen 3.59 avg rating — 66 ratings
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A Leaf of Faith (Messengers and Thieves Book 2)
A Leaf of Faith (Messengers and Thieves Book 2) 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Marquise of O— and Other Stories
The Marquise of O— and Other Stories 3.48 avg rating — 4,568 ratings
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Ride the Fire (Blakewell/Kenleigh Family Trilogy, #3)
Ride the Fire (Blakewell/Kenleigh Family Trilogy, #3) 4.14 avg rating — 3,683 ratings
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Rapunzel
Rapunzel 4.29 avg rating — 879 ratings
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Offbeat Love Stories and More
Offbeat Love Stories and More 3.66 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Denizens (Interlands, #2)
Denizens (Interlands, #2) 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Gingerbread
Gingerbread 3.05 avg rating — 15,466 ratings
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Where the Garden Begins (Messengers and Thieves #1)
Where the Garden Begins (Messengers and Thieves #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings
67.
Effi Briest
Effi Briest 3.27 avg rating — 15,798 ratings
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Carnal Gift (Blakewell/Kenleigh Family Trilogy, #2)
Carnal Gift (Blakewell/Kenleigh Family Trilogy, #2) 3.95 avg rating — 1,927 ratings
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The True Knight (Warhorse of Esdragon, #3)
The True Knight (Warhorse of Esdragon, #3) 3.91 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Introductions (The Ghost Bird, #1)
Introductions (The Ghost Bird, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 16,964 ratings
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The Deep
The Deep 3.77 avg rating — 38,702 ratings
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Breaking Point (I-Team, #5)
Breaking Point (I-Team, #5) 4.30 avg rating — 11,339 ratings
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To Revolt Is a People's Right
To Revolt Is a People's Right really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Midnight Never Come (Onyx Court, #1)
Midnight Never Come (Onyx Court, #1) 3.51 avg rating — 2,513 ratings
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The World Within: A Novel of Emily Brontë
The World Within: A Novel of Emily Brontë 3.36 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Affinity
Affinity 3.75 avg rating — 28,186 ratings
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The Perilous Gard
The Perilous Gard 4.10 avg rating — 9,015 ratings
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Defiant (MacKinnon's Rangers, #3)
Defiant (MacKinnon's Rangers, #3) 4.32 avg rating — 3,592 ratings
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Festival of Lights
Festival of Lights liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Splendors and Glooms
Splendors and Glooms 3.83 avg rating — 9,659 ratings
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Washington Square
Washington Square 3.70 avg rating — 25,042 ratings
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That Stranger Next Door
That Stranger Next Door 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 281,918 ratings
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Untamed (MacKinnon's Rangers, #2)
Untamed (MacKinnon's Rangers, #2) 4.23 avg rating — 4,048 ratings
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Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass 3.89 avg rating — 10,348 ratings
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Flora's War
Flora's War 3.79 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Women of the Silk (Women of the Silk #1)
Women of the Silk (Women of the Silk #1) 3.95 avg rating — 16,983 ratings
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Surrender (MacKinnon’s Rangers, #1)
Surrender (MacKinnon’s Rangers, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 6,721 ratings
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Ice Crown
Ice Crown 3.74 avg rating — 491 ratings
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My Father's War
My Father's War 3.77 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Seed Keeper
The Seed Keeper 4.27 avg rating — 21,560 ratings
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Gad's Hall (Gad's Hall, #1)
Gad's Hall (Gad's Hall, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 447 ratings
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Old Magic
Old Magic 3.95 avg rating — 11,285 ratings
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Bleak House
Bleak House 4.02 avg rating — 112,456 ratings
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Song of Scarabaeus (Scarabaeus, #1)
Song of Scarabaeus (Scarabaeus, #1) 3.62 avg rating — 2,907 ratings
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Touch Not the Cat
Touch Not the Cat 3.95 avg rating — 8,654 ratings
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The Treachery of Beautiful Things
The Treachery of Beautiful Things 3.81 avg rating — 5,684 ratings
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The Trouble with May Amelia (May Amelia, #2)
The Trouble with May Amelia (May Amelia, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 2,674 ratings
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Mahtab's Story
Mahtab's Story 3.58 avg rating — 423 ratings
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Sunshine
Sunshine 3.84 avg rating — 43,832 ratings
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