Hey Everyone,

After a couple of depressing years in which almost every recently published book written by women that I purchased included some kind of trans pandering, I've been on wave of luck (is the tide turning?) and thought I'd share some blessedly tra-free recent fiction, and invite you all to share some of your own.

The Briar Club by Kate Quinn: my favorite, a twisty house murder mystery with multiple women's stories set in DC during the paranoia of the McCarthy era. Recipes included.

Weyward by Emilia Hart: three generations of wise women/witches persecuted in various ways in different eras. Really enjoyed it though a fair amount of domestic violence.

Night Will Find You by Julia Heaberlin: a psychological thriller that kept me turning pages.

Mania by Lionel Shriver: okay, I admit this obliquely references TRAs by being a glorious satire of the entire goalpost moving, double speak insanity, only using intelligence instead of sex as the subject of their mania.

Piranesi by Susannah Clarke: odd, dreamlike fantasy from author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell.

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk: published in Polish in 2009 but translated into English in 2018, another unique and thought-provoking murder mystery.

Also going to plug my two favorite series: the Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden (starts with the Bear and the Nightingale) and the Strike series by Robert Galbraith aka JKR.