Looking for a good magical fantasy novel (preferably with a female lead) to get me back into reading

I used to love reading when I was younger but kind of fell out of love with it after trying to get into Game of Thrones a few years ago and never really picked it back up. Which, if it's your cup of tea, more power to you! But I could practically feel the font size making my eyesight worse, and I got into it to read about cool dragons and then between all the sex and not dragons it killed my interest.

I'm looking for something that leans more towards mythical/magical than "sometimes a dragon shows up and dies", preferably with a female lead. Bonus points if she's over the age of twenty, since I'm dying for cool adult women characters whos jobs arent just "mom of important character". (I yearn for a cool role model lead 😭) Preferably without the entire story being her fighting against sexism, unless it's more of a side plot and not the entire book.

Howl's Moving Castle was a book I loved as a kid and I'm definitely getting that again, and if you guys could give me other recommendations I'd really appreciate it!