All this, and women authors still often dominate best-seller lists. (We see you, Margaret Atwood.)

I asked women who work at The Times — and who have had books published, or soon will — what books they’ve recently read and why they think you should read them, too . Here are their recommendations.

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Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review whose book “How to Raise a Reader” comes out in September

Recommendation: “Disappearing Earth,” by Julia Phillips

This is a very assured and engrossing debut novel that starts off as a thriller, but then turns into a deeper exploration of the lives of women, and the ways in which violence affects women’s lives, on the peninsula of Kamchatka. Phillips was a Fulbright scholar in Kamchatka, where she lived for two years immersing herself in the culture and studying the complexities of its people, which include Russians who immigrated from the mainland and several indigenous peoples. You’re pulled right in from the opening chapter, which details the terrifying disappearance of two young girls, and then into interwoven stories in which the characters’ lives are abruptly or unexpectedly overturned.

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine whose novel, “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” came out in June

Recommendation: “Lady in the Lake,” by Laura Lippman

Lippman’s new book has so many lively voices in it, so much authentic history, and the story — a Jewish woman in the 1960s who is having a post-divorce affair with a police officer — seemed maybe designed with specifically me in mind. Not just because of the sex stuff, but because it’s also the story of a woman creating a career for herself in journalism. And the case that propels the plot feels very modern, even as you absolutely feel like you’ve traveled back in time to read this book.

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Amy Chozick, writer at large for The New York Times and author of “Chasing Hillary,” which is being developed into a TV series

Recommendation: “Daisy Jones and the Six,” by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Even if you have zero interest in the 1970s rock scene, the structure of this novel — a faux documentary with the former members of an iconic rock band — is so incredibly engrossing.



Honorable mention: For a change of pace, I also read Jessica Knoll’s “Luckiest Girl Alive,” mostly because I read her interview with The Cut about how she writes her novels with the intention of selling them to screen and making big money. Women are always hesitant to talk about making money and I respected that she was so honest. I also liked that she subverted the female heroine — a little like “Gone Girl” in reverse.



So many female authors, so little time to read!

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Jessica Grose, lead editor of New York Times parenting and author of the novel “Soulmates”

Recommendation: “Here Comes the Sun,” by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Dennis-Benn is from Jamaica, and her novels give a gorgeous glimpse into the politics and personality of her homeland. Honorable mention: I devoured “Juliet the Maniac” by Juliet Escoria, which is a lightly fictionalized account of her tumultuous teen years, which included psychiatric hospitalization and getting shipped to a therapeutic boarding school with an untrained staff.

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What else is happening

Here’s a look back at five articles from The Times about women and books that you might have missed.