The Heroines

• Scheherezade
• Red Sonya (Robert E. Howard)
• Red Sonja (not by Howard)
• Lyra Belacqua of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials books The Golden Compass: Reader (Level 3) (Golden Compass)
• Morgaine - (also called Morgan Le Fay in other works) Narrator in The Mists of Avalon
• Tenar (LeGuin's the Tombs of Atuan) The Tombs of Atuan (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 2)
• Menolly - Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsong, first in the trilogy which includes Dragonsinger and Dragondrums Dragonsong (Harper Hall Trilogy)
• Lessa - Dragonflight and many other Dragonriders of Pern stories Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern)
• Meredith Gentry, also known as Princess Meredity NicEssus - This is the main character in the Laurell K. Hamilton Merry Gentry Series. She is a faerie Princess turned private investigator. There are currently six books in the series and the latest is A Lick of Frost. The seventh book (Swallowing Darkness) is scheduled for release October 2008. Merry Gentry Books - Laurell K. Hamilton books
• Anita Blake - The central character in the Laurell K. Hamilton Vampire Hunter series. There are currently fifteen books in the series and the latest is The Harlequin. Anita Blake Books
• Eowyn - Lord of the Rings
• Ayla - Jean Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear ( The Earth's Children Books)
• Jirel of Joiry by C.L. Moore Generally credited as being the first Swords & Sorcery Heroine

Writers with many heroines

• Mercedes Lackey - Mercedes Lackey books at amazon
• Jean Auel - Jean Auel Books at Amazon
• Laurell K. Hamilton - Laurell K. Hamilton books at amazon
• Anne McCaffrey - Anne McCaffrey books at Amazon
• Marion Zimmer Bradley - Marion Zimmer Bradley books at Amazon

Here is an interesting list of books where the strong, unique heroine falls in love with the enemy - Heroines who fall in love with the enemy

Halith - Sixteen-year-old Halíth, known by her friends and comrades as stubborn and reckless, rarely listens. Choosing joy and youth, she tends to delve into her wellspring of purity for her own brand of truth. Often she closes her ears to whispers of destiny, even when they speak her name. In a fit of passion, she runs away in the deep of night, with nothing to her name, to a place she can barely recall the way to: Nordanshire Abbey. There, she hopes to reunite with only woman she has known as a caring mother figure: Mother Superior Almara. Yet, her idyllic fancy of a peaceful hamlet life is dashed. In a harrowing incident, young Halíth discovers that bandits have invaded her holy land. The world, as she knew it, would be forever altered, and Haleth is the key for her land's survival! Learn More Here

A Note from Will:

Do you have a favorite heroine that you would like to see on this page? Want to write up a summary of the works of this heroine? Send me an email!