Any book recs where the protagonist is a masculine female?
Can be in personality or in physique (stocky, short/no hair etc.). Basically anything that strays away from most (but not all) stereotypical feminine characteristics. I mostly read YA but all genres are good.
Cruel Prince by Holly Black has this. The main character does have long hair and wear dresses, but that’s because it’s expected of her. She wants to be a knight/warrior and focuses on training and strategies more than the traditionally feminine things her sister enjoys
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Gideon the Ninth by Tamsin Muir, Gideon, the main character (a woman) is very masc/butch/lesbian himbo. The following books have a lot of gender bending aspects as well.
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**The Books of Babel** series by Josiah Bancroft *might* fit the bill?
The MAIN main character is a man, but the attention of the story is split across a team of characters, and a couple of them are women who would fit what you’re looking for. One both physically and personality-wise, another just personality-wise. It is written from different POVs (although more so later on).
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A lot of G.A. Aikens FMC are like this.
Cruel Prince by Holly Black has this. The main character does have long hair and wear dresses, but that’s because it’s expected of her. She wants to be a knight/warrior and focuses on training and strategies more than the traditionally feminine things her sister enjoys
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsin Muir, Gideon, the main character (a woman) is very masc/butch/lesbian himbo. The following books have a lot of gender bending aspects as well.
**The Books of Babel** series by Josiah Bancroft *might* fit the bill?
The MAIN main character is a man, but the attention of the story is split across a team of characters, and a couple of them are women who would fit what you’re looking for. One both physically and personality-wise, another just personality-wise. It is written from different POVs (although more so later on).
[American War by Omar El Akkad](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33311863-american-war)
I think The Mermaid, The Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall is a good fit—one of the two main pov characters fits this description pretty well.
The Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce!