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• Bitch Planet. Book One, Extraordinary Machine

  DeConnick, Kelly Sue,

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  A graphic novel set in a patriarchal society, where women who do not conform to societal expectations are imprisoned on a penal planet.

• Sultana's Dream

  And Selections From The Secluded Ones

  Hossain, Rokeya Sakhawat

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  Thought to be one of the earliest examples of feminist science fiction, this was first published in 1905 about a feminist utopia.

• Behind the Throne

  Wagers, K. B.,

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  An intriguing space-opera about a gun runner who is forced to take her place as her family's heir.

• Binti

  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  The first in an award-winning trilogy of novellas about a young woman who leaves home in search of her future and encounters an alien species who will change her in unexpected ways.

• The Stars Are Legion

  Hurley, Kameron,

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  Not for the weak of stomach, this imaginative feminist space-opera has elements of body horror.

• Woman on the Edge of Time

  Piercy, Marge

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  The boundary-breaking story of a woman locked in a mental health ward who discovers she can time travel. This book challenged gender, race, and mental health discrimination and the systems that upheld the status quo.

• Dawn

  a Lilith's Brood Novel

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Possibly Octavia Butler's most well-known work, this book tells the story of Lilith Iyapo, one of the last surviving humans rescued by the Oankali, an alien race with unclear motives.

• The Snow Queen

  Vinge, Joan D.

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  A sci-fi retelling of the Hans Christian Anderson classic of the same name. This is a hard science-fiction, political space opera.

• Slow River

  Griffith, Nicola

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  An intricately plotted and compelling novel about a woman from a rich and powerful family who wakes up in an alley bleeding, and missing her Identity implant. She meets a data pirate named Spanner and learns the skills to reinvent herself.

• The Handmaid's Tale

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  The classic dystopian near-future novel that has spawned a successful TV series and legions of fans from across the globe.

• The Left Hand of Darkness

  Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018,

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  Le Guin's Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel, that tells the story of Genly Ai, a man from Terra, who travels as a diplomat to a world where gender is continaully fluid.

• Herland

  Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935

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  Three male explorers have to rethink women's roles in society when they discover an all female society. First published in 1915.

• Red Clocks

  a Novel

  Zumas, Leni, 1972-

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  A near future dystopian novel where women's reproductive rights are threatened. Winner of the 2019 Oregon Book Award for fiction.

• Vox

  Dalcher, Christina,

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  Set in an alarming near future America, where the government has decreed that women can speak no more that 100 words per day.

• Ōoku

  the Inner Chambers. Vol. 1

  Yoshinaga, Fumi, 1971-

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  Set in the Edo Period in Japan, a perplexing new disease called the Red Pox has reduced the country's male population by 75%. Women begin taking on traditionally male roles, even the Shogun, to protect the men.