The Chosen One

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The Chosen One ... is female. Including works where a woman fulfills a prophecy, religious or heroic, or otherwise, I guess.

  • "Anamnesis" (Millennium episode 2x19) - a teenage girl who is having visions of the Magdalene, or the Virgin Mary
  • Gorman Bechard. The Second Greatest Story Ever Told (1991). God's latest kid is a girl.
  • Suzette Haden Elgin Star Anchored, Star Angered - Drussa Silver is a messiah figure.
  • Elizabeth Hand Waking the Moon
  • Elizabeth Haydon Rhapsody
  • Elizabeth Haydon Prophecy
  • P. C. Hodgell Godstalk series: Godstalk, Dark of the Moon, Seeker's Mask - protagonist is one of a trinity; female is The Destroyer of the trinity
  • Ursula K. Le Guin The Tombs of Atuan. Tenar, the protagonist, is The Eaten One, discovered via a Dalai Lama like search.
  • James Morrow Only Begotten Daughter. Another sequel to The New Testament, with a daughter. Deeply satirical.
  • Andre Norton and Sasha Miller. To the King a Daughter (2000)
  • Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey. Elvenbane
  • Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey. Elvenblood
  • Midori Snyder New Moon (1989)
  • Midori Snyder Sadar's Keep (1991)
  • Midori Snyder Beldan's Fire (1993) (a quartet of novels about 4 women who fulfill a religio-political prophecy & free their people)
  • Sheri S. Tepper Singer from the Sea
  • Jane Yolen Sister Light Sister Dark

other possible suggestions