The Heroine’s Book Club

12 chapters.  12 heroines.  12 incredible authors.

Use The Heroine’s Bookshelf as a starter for your next book club meeting!

Click on the author below to find book club questions; click here to download a PDF of the entire list.

Self

Lizzie Bennet – Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Click here for book club questions on Lizzie Bennet and Pride and Prejudice.

Faith

Janie Crawford – Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Faith hasn’t got no eyes, but she’s long-legged…
Click here for book club questions on Janie Crawford and Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Happiness

Anne Shirley – Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

“I’m perfectly happy – yes, in spite of my red hair. Just at present I have a soul above red hair.”

Click here for book club questions on Anne and Anne of Green Gables

Dignity

Celie – The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Click here for book club questions on Celie and The Color Purple

Family Ties

Francie Nolan – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

I know now why I told you so many lies, Mother. I wanted you to notice me.

Click here for book club questions on Francie and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Indulgence

Claudine – the Claudine novels by Colette

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Click here for book club questions on Claudine and the Claudine novels

Fight

Scarlett O’Hara – Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes.

Click here for book club questions on Scarlett and Gone With the Wind

Compassion

Scout Finch – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

“Atticus, he was real nice….”

Click here for book club questions on Scout and To Kill a Mockingbird

Simplicity

Laura Ingalls – The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Click here for book club questions on Laura and The Long Winter

Steadfastness

Jane Eyre – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront ë

I remembered that the real world was wide…

Click here for book club questions on Jane and Jane Eyre

Ambition

Jo March – Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

“Sorry you could find nothing better to read. I write that rubbish because it sells, and ordinary people like it.”

Click here for book club questions on Jo and Little Women

Magic

Mary Lennox – The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“If I could only just remember that always. The worst thing never QUITE comes.”

Click here for book club questions on Mary and The Secret Garden

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Upcoming Events

February 17: I'll be joining Tattered Cover book buyer Cathy Langer on Business Unconventional on 710 KNUS from 12 to 1 p.m.

March 10: Indy GIVE! author talk (2:30-3:30 p.m.) and authors' panel (4-5 p.m.), Colorado Springs, CO

March 24: Meet the Authors Luncheon, American Association of University Women (AAUW), Foothills Branch, Colorado Springs, CO, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

June 30: Eagle Library District Books In Bloom event, Beaver Creek, CO, details TBA

October 19-21: James River Writers Conference, Richmond, VA, details TBA

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