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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Steadfastness
Jane Eyre – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront ë
I remembered that the real world was wide…
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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.”
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Magic
Mary Lennox – The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
“If I could only just remember that always. The worst thing never QUITE comes.”
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