With some romance, Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles?
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_The Book of Night Women_ by Marlon James
It’s not a light read, every single character has substance, James is a masterful storyteller—I, personally, had intense visceral reactions from this book.
_Nectar in a Sieve_ by Kamala Markandaya
A classic set in rural south India, it inconspicuously explores the injustices borne by village women. This one was poignant, to say the least.
Along the lines of The Handmaid’s Tale, you might consider Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks. I loved it.
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I really enjoyed The Power by Naomi Alderman. Oppression of women is kind of the baseline premise but, if you’re in the mood, it flips that to women taking back power and how the world reacts to that. One of my favorites I’ve read this year!
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M. L. Wang’s Blood Over Bright Haven. Standalone.
It’s admittedly fantasy but explores how a girl is trying to test for this very, mathematically based course of magic which women in the story are allowed to test for every 10 years.
The idea is that it doesn’t matter if she doesn’t pass it’s all good because ‘women’ but that’s the exact reason she feels more pressured to pass and to not perpetuate the idea that women are lesser.
There’s also a group of people called Kween involved in the story which also sheds light on racism.
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker. About an African American woman in the early 20th century South.
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré. Set in Nigeria, follows a young girl who dreams of getting an education and finding her voice.
[Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56953435) by Cho Nam-Joo (what a Korean woman born in the 80s experiences)
Mrs Gaskell: Lois the Witch
K Hosseini: a Thousand Splendid Suns
Stieg Larsson: the Millenium trilogy
With some romance, Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles?
_The Book of Night Women_ by Marlon James
It’s not a light read, every single character has substance, James is a masterful storyteller—I, personally, had intense visceral reactions from this book.
_Nectar in a Sieve_ by Kamala Markandaya
A classic set in rural south India, it inconspicuously explores the injustices borne by village women. This one was poignant, to say the least.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_at_Point_Zero
The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K Jemisin
When Women were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
Women Talking by Miriam Toews!
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Along the lines of The Handmaid’s Tale, you might consider Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks. I loved it.
I really enjoyed The Power by Naomi Alderman. Oppression of women is kind of the baseline premise but, if you’re in the mood, it flips that to women taking back power and how the world reacts to that. One of my favorites I’ve read this year!
M. L. Wang’s Blood Over Bright Haven. Standalone.
It’s admittedly fantasy but explores how a girl is trying to test for this very, mathematically based course of magic which women in the story are allowed to test for every 10 years.
The idea is that it doesn’t matter if she doesn’t pass it’s all good because ‘women’ but that’s the exact reason she feels more pressured to pass and to not perpetuate the idea that women are lesser.
There’s also a group of people called Kween involved in the story which also sheds light on racism.
Woman at Point Zero – Nawal El Saadawi
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison