Your favourite female fantasy writer's... favourite female fantasy writer. Works of SFF by female writers which proved critically lauded or influential to subsequent writers.
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last updated September, 2026
Hawk of May
Gillian Bradshaw
Crown Duel (Crown & Court, #1-2)
Sherwood Smith
Witch Week (Chrestomanci, #3)
Diana Wynne Jones
Wolf Tower (Claidi Journals, #1)
Tanith Lee
The Hearing Trumpet
Leonora Carrington
Remnant Population
Elizabeth Moon
Travel Light
Naomi Mitchison
Mama Day
Gloria Naylor
Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)
Susan Cooper
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Patricia A. McKillip
The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)
Janny Wurts
Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
Arrows of the Queen (Heralds of Valdemar, #1)
Mercedes Lackey
Sorcery & Cecelia (Cecelia and Kate, #1)
Patricia C. Wrede
The Bards of Bone Plain
Ombria in Shadow
Kingdoms of Elfin
Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Riddle-Master of Hed (Riddle-Master, #1)
The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)
Lud-in-the-Mist
Hope Mirrlees
Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
Lois McMaster Bujold
Foreigner
C.J. Cherryh
Kushiel's Dart
Jacqueline Carey
Howl’s Moving Castle
Alanna: The First Adventure
Tamora Pierce
The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)
Robin McKinley
The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)
Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)
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