6 Books to Let Out Your Female Rage

By Sara Eslami | May 30 2026 | AdultGeneral

Life is exhausting. Every now and then, women need to blow off steam. Here are some of our favorite female rage reads for you to share with your customers!

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One queen exiled. Another headed for the gallows. Both hungry for revenge. England’s most infamous queens unite in vengeance against Henry VIII.
$20.00 US
Jul 21, 2026
Paperback
368 Pages
Berkley
US, Canada, Open Mkt
Export Edition

9780385551076
ONE OF GLAMOUR'S BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS • A theater critic at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe writes a vicious one-star review of a struggling actress he has a one-night stand with in this sharply funny, feminist tinderbox. A WASHINGTON POST AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “Excellent…brilliant…a fiery reminder that we still have so far to go when it comes to men behaving poorly and getting away with it.”—LitHub "A binge-worthy novel that explores our obsessions, our inner critic, and who we think we are in person and in print. Intimate, real, and really funny. This one has teeth.” —Kiley Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Come and Get It and Such a Fun Age
$28.00 US
Jul 08, 2025
Hardcover
304 Pages
Doubleday
US,OpnMkt(no EU/CAN)

9781593768317
Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar for twenty-first-century Japan, a young woman suffering from depression embarks on a series of darkly comic domestic disasters that lead her to question whether she is worthy of love
$16.95 US
Sep 08, 2026
Paperback
112 Pages
Soft Skull
World

9798217006762
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From a dazzling new international voice, an audacious, darkly funny novel about a young woman whose carefully crafted office persona threatens to crack when she’s forced to attend her company’s annual retreat "A wry work of spectacular wit. . . . Beatriz Serrano writes with a caustic flare for detail, exploring the small humiliations of the everyday corporate office with charm and utter hilarity. Absolutely brilliant." —Danya Kukafka, author of Notes on an Execution
$17.00 US
Sep 02, 2025
Paperback
192 Pages
Vintage
US, Canada, Open Mkt

9780593311950
Nothing in Japanese literature prepares us for the stark, tension-filled, plot-driven realism of Natsuo Kirino’s award-winning literary mystery Out. Featuring an introduction by James Ellroy.
$18.00 US
Aug 09, 2022
Paperback
416 Pages
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
US, Canada, Open Mkt

9780525522133
From one of our boldest, most celebrated literary voices, a shocking and tender novel and a New York Times bestseller.
$19.00 US
Jun 25, 2019
Paperback
304 Pages
Penguin Books
US, Canada, Open Mkt