Popsugar 2025 #24 - A Book with a Happily Single Woman Protagonist

1.
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 205,276 ratings
2.
Convenience Store Woman
Convenience Store Woman 3.68 avg rating — 349,139 ratings
3.
Lessons in Chemistry
Lessons in Chemistry 4.28 avg rating — 1,676,136 ratings
4.
Circe
Circe 4.22 avg rating — 1,276,326 ratings
5.
The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees 4.10 avg rating — 1,337,501 ratings
6.
The Lost Apothecary
The Lost Apothecary 3.76 avg rating — 470,359 ratings
7.
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 219,019 ratings
8.
The Teller of Small Fortunes
The Teller of Small Fortunes 3.82 avg rating — 25,886 ratings
8.
Carrie Soto Is Back
Carrie Soto Is Back 4.20 avg rating — 665,511 ratings
10.
Girl, Woman, Other
Girl, Woman, Other 4.27 avg rating — 256,276 ratings
11.
Miss Benson's Beetle
Miss Benson's Beetle 4.08 avg rating — 59,039 ratings
12.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail 4.07 avg rating — 850,469 ratings
13.
A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell, #1)
A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 56,428 ratings
14.
City of Girls
City of Girls 4.04 avg rating — 313,099 ratings
15.
Mexican Gothic
Mexican Gothic 3.67 avg rating — 416,488 ratings
16.
Margo's Got Money Troubles
Margo's Got Money Troubles 3.85 avg rating — 129,612 ratings
16.
Lolly Willowes
Lolly Willowes 3.70 avg rating — 12,117 ratings
18.
Cat + Gamer, Vol. 1
Cat + Gamer, Vol. 1 4.17 avg rating — 5,939 ratings
19.
Prodigal Summer
Prodigal Summer 4.05 avg rating — 123,753 ratings
20.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,442 ratings
21.
The Personal Librarian
The Personal Librarian 4.05 avg rating — 212,708 ratings
21.
Weyward
Weyward 4.06 avg rating — 338,693 ratings
23.
Sandwich
Sandwich 3.58 avg rating — 145,009 ratings
23.
The Gown
The Gown 4.14 avg rating — 58,371 ratings
23.
Dear Wendy
Dear Wendy
by: Ann Zhao
3.95 avg rating — 2,905 ratings
26.
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 28,560 ratings
26.
The Art of Theft (Lady Sherlock, #4)
The Art of Theft (Lady Sherlock, #4) 4.08 avg rating — 15,505 ratings
28.
The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)
The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 25,673 ratings
28.
Louisiana Long Shot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)
Louisiana Long Shot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 37,498 ratings
30.
A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)
A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 39,542 ratings
30.
An Unnecessary Woman
An Unnecessary Woman 3.82 avg rating — 13,758 ratings
32.
How to Read a Book
How to Read a Book 4.26 avg rating — 37,857 ratings
33.
Queenie
Queenie 3.85 avg rating — 154,546 ratings
33.
Cranford
Cranford 3.83 avg rating — 46,852 ratings
35.
The Storyteller
The Storyteller 4.30 avg rating — 264,370 ratings
36.
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 183,074 ratings
37.
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories 4.20 avg rating — 14,453 ratings
37.
Flying Solo
Flying Solo 3.57 avg rating — 30,861 ratings
37.
The Summer Pact
The Summer Pact 3.34 avg rating — 70,399 ratings
37.
Clariel (Abhorsen, #4)
Clariel (Abhorsen, #4)
by: Garth Nix
3.88 avg rating — 29,879 ratings
37.
Aunty Lee's Delights (Singaporean Mystery #1)
Aunty Lee's Delights (Singaporean Mystery #1)
by: Ovidia Yu
3.41 avg rating — 3,341 ratings
37.
All Grown Up
All Grown Up 3.38 avg rating — 17,213 ratings
37.
The Great Witches Baking Show (Great Witches Baking Show, #1)
The Great Witches Baking Show (Great Witches Baking Show, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 2,436 ratings
37.
Miss Cayley's Adventures
Miss Cayley's Adventures 3.80 avg rating — 331 ratings
37.
Woman at 1,000 Degrees
Woman at 1,000 Degrees 3.84 avg rating — 3,392 ratings
37.
Marple: Twelve New Stories
Marple: Twelve New Stories 3.81 avg rating — 21,303 ratings
37.
The Briar Club
The Briar Club 4.30 avg rating — 184,054 ratings
37.
Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After
Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After 3.65 avg rating — 589 ratings
37.
Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)
Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 194,529 ratings
37.
The Page Turner
The Page Turner 3.70 avg rating — 3,624 ratings
37.
Table for One
Table for One 3.77 avg rating — 1,970 ratings
37.
Long Bright River
Long Bright River
by: Liz Moore
4.05 avg rating — 164,267 ratings
53.
Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (Finlay Donovan, #3)
Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (Finlay Donovan, #3) 3.82 avg rating — 76,652 ratings
53.
Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World
Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World 4.18 avg rating — 1,270 ratings
53.
The Scent of Water
The Scent of Water 4.17 avg rating — 3,002 ratings
53.
The Wrong End of the Telescope
The Wrong End of the Telescope 4.03 avg rating — 2,596 ratings
53.
This Golden Flame
This Golden Flame 3.43 avg rating — 2,058 ratings
53.
A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock, #2)
A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 23,504 ratings
53.
The Dutch House
The Dutch House 4.10 avg rating — 527,332 ratings
60.
The Word for Woman Is Wilderness
The Word for Woman Is Wilderness 3.62 avg rating — 1,513 ratings
61.
Unsettled Ground
Unsettled Ground 3.77 avg rating — 16,492 ratings
61.
Murder on Cold Street (Lady Sherlock, #5)
Murder on Cold Street (Lady Sherlock, #5) 4.20 avg rating — 13,321 ratings
61.
How the Penguins Saved Veronica (Veronica McCreedy, #1)
How the Penguins Saved Veronica (Veronica McCreedy, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 44,603 ratings
64.
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail 4.10 avg rating — 29,330 ratings
64.
The Hollow of Fear (Lady Sherlock, #3)
The Hollow of Fear (Lady Sherlock, #3) 4.22 avg rating — 18,791 ratings
66.
Flying Too High (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries #2)
Flying Too High (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries #2) 3.89 avg rating — 14,474 ratings
66.
Miss Moriarty, I Presume? (Lady Sherlock, #6)
Miss Moriarty, I Presume? (Lady Sherlock, #6) 4.07 avg rating — 10,455 ratings
68.
The Vulnerables
The Vulnerables 3.57 avg rating — 11,472 ratings
68.
A Tempest at Sea (Lady Sherlock #7)
A Tempest at Sea (Lady Sherlock #7) 4.17 avg rating — 7,565 ratings
70.
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4) 4.40 avg rating — 39,628 ratings
70.
A Ruse of Shadows (Lady Sherlock, #8)
A Ruse of Shadows (Lady Sherlock, #8) 4.10 avg rating — 4,690 ratings
72.
Cruel and Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
Cruel and Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4) 4.13 avg rating — 113,818 ratings