Female Barbarian Book Recommendations

[timecop]

Can anyone give me some good recommendations for books revolving around female barbarian type characters? I've already read a lot of Red Sonja, and really enjoy the concept.

[thedarkman]

The Raven series by Robert Holdstock and Angus Wells.

[Jason Aiken]

The Jirel of Joiry series by C. L. Moore. Paizo still has their collection available from their Planet Stories line. Don't pay the jacked up Amazon prices.

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[Von K]

I'll add to the above a recommendation for Ironhand's Daughter and The Hawk Eternal by David Gemmell, starring Sigarni.

[deuce]

The best "female barbarian" in fantasy, by far, is Keith Taylor's Gudrun Blackhair (IMO). She is a Danish Viking, to boot. She is the co-star of three of the BARD novels written by the award-winning Keith Taylor, who is a huge REH fan.  Gudrun is no man-hater and is also bi-curious as a bonus!

[thedarkman]

I have to second Duece in regards to the Bard series. Gudrun is one kick-ass gal!

[trescuinge]

I enjoyed the Paksenarrion trilogy by Elizabeth Moon. The main character is farm-girl who runs away to join a company of mercenaries in a Tolkinesque world.

Some of Leigh Brackett's works feature barbarian warrior-women. Brackett is worth reading anyway.

[hawkbrother]

The Silverglass novels of J . F Rivkin.

By barbarian women do you mean to limit it to characters along the line of Red Sonja, or include fantasy/ sword and sorcery with women lead characters? If so, recommend the Frostflower and Thorn books by Phyllis Karr.And the Vows and Honor series by Mercedes Lackey featuring the adventures of swordwoman Tarma and sorceress Kethry.
And I have gotten into Kristen Britain's Green Rider series with their heroine Karigan,
A good series to check out are the dozen or so Marion Zimmer Bradley anthologies Sword and Sorceress,All sorts of heroines,barbarian and otherwise.
These are just some I am familiar with, sure there are lots more out there.
By the way, I own a copy of the Jirel of Joiry Popular Library paperback that came out way back in the days when a dollar bill could buy a book with change left over. Or even 2 books- the Ballantine Burroughs books were initially fifty cents.
Another oldie is Cija, heroine of Jane Gaskell's books,again from the sixties,early seventies.
Many of these books are long out of print but can often be picked up cheaply from abebooks(I recommend them over Amazon) or other used book dealers.

[cj]

Don't know whether you'd call her a 'barbarian' but Joe Abercrombie's BEST SERVED COLD is essentially a medieval KILL BILL, with an awesome female lead in Monza Murcatto.