Grace

Author's name: Margaret Atwood

Based on true events, this novel takes place in 19th-century Canada, where 16-year-old Grace Marks is convicted as an accomplice to the murder of her master and his housekeeper. Unsurprisingly, the story polarized the press and the public alike, with its blend of love and violence.

Something about a pretty girl accused of violence has captivated psychiatrists, writers, and anyone trying to understand the human condition in its most extreme forms. The work's value lies in its language, in its revelation of the era's views on the nature of women, and in its representation of a century in which women held no power except when they sat at the round table to address the spirits.