Top Ten Tuesday!

Posted August 31, 2021 by WendyW in Blogging, Bloglinks, Book Blog Meme, bookblogger / 19 Comments

top ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.

Today’s Top 10: Fictional Crushes. Books with Highly Intelligent Heroines.

The Top Ten prompt for this week is Fictional Crushes. Since I don’t really have any, I went with Books With Highly Intelligent Heroines.

#1. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang. The heroine, Stella Lane is a mathematician who creates algorithms to predict customer purchases!

#2. The Trouble With Hating You has Liya Thakkar, who is a successful biochemical engineer.

#3. The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren features single mom Jess Davis, who is a data and statistics wizard.

#4. Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors has Dr. Trisha Raje who is San Francisco’s most acclaimed neurosurgeon.

 

#5. Get a Life, Chloe Brown features Chloe Brown a chronically ill computer geek.

#6. Now That You Mention It by Kristan Higgins. Nora Stuart not only won the prestigious Tufts University scholarship in her hometown, but she became a first-rate gastroenterologist in a Boston Hospital.

#7. Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren’s heroine is Macy Sorensen a pediatrics resident.

#8. What We Find by Robyn Carr features neurosurgeon Maggie Sullivan.

#9. First Love, Take Two by Sajni Patel features Preeti Patel, who just finished her residency and is looking for a position as a doctor in a family practice clinic.

#10. Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas features Lady Merritt Sterling, a strong-willed young widow who’s running her late husband’s shipping company.

Have you read any books lately with intelligent heroines? Comment below!

19 responses to “Top Ten Tuesday!”

  6. Tessa

    I haven’t read any of these, but I bet they are wonderful choices! It’s always nice to see a collection of books that I want to read all of them 😉

  7. Cindy Davis

    I love your tweak on this week’s topic! I am trying to come up with a really intelligent heroine…I had to go searching for the title of the book that immediately came to mind, Johanna Berglund, a linguistics student in Things We Didn’t Say by Amy Lynn Green. Another is Eloise Marshall, in The Cryptographer’s Dilemma, she is an encoder. And research scientist Marian Creighton in Come Back to Me by Jody Hedlund.

    • WendyW

      Thank you Cindy. Your books sound great, especially the Cryptographer’s Dilemma. I believe I read your review for it and I really want to read it now.

  9. Rachel

    Loved the heroines in The Kiss Quotient, The Soulmate Equation, Now That You Mention It, What We Find and Devil in Disguise!

  10. Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!

    I have The Trouble With Hating You on my TBR. As for strong, intelligent female leads? Anna from Hench; is a data cruncher. You ask her for information, and she will find it for you–from who someone is dating to finding how to bring them down physically. It’s really handy when you’re trying to defeat a superhero.

    When you get the chance, I hope you can stop by my post and check it out: https://readbakecreate.com/characters-i-would-love-to-have-a-drink-with/

    • WendyW

      Thank you Pam. Anna from Hench sounds amazing, I’ll have to check her out. I hope you enjoy The Trouble with Hating You as much as I did. It’s one of my favorite romcoms of all time.