Passes the "Bechdel Test" Public

Created by Phil in SF

This list contains books that:

  • have at least two women in them,
  • who talk to each other,
  • about something other than a man.

Wikipedia has a decent intro on the origins of the metric: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test

Beware that this test is very limited in probative value. "The Bechdel test only indicates whether women are present in a work of fiction to a certain degree. A work may pass the test and still contain sexist content, and a work with prominent female characters may fail the test." This is just one thing a person may want to consider in their reading. There are many others.

I (@kingrat@sfba.club) track this in my reading as a check to make sure I am including reading that includes non-token female characters because American publishing often overly focuses on men's stories, and that is quite often reflected even more …

  1. An Unbreakable World by 

    If something seems too good to be real, you’ve got to get out of there.

    That’s the rule that …

  2. The Fortune Seller by 

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    Yellowjackets meets The Cloisters in this beguiling coming-of-age story about class, reinvention, and destiny, set against the backdrop of two …

  3. Bunny by  (Bunny, #1)

    No rating

    Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren …

  4. Wool by  (Silo, #1)

    No rating

    The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of mankind clawing for survival …

  5. In the Moon’s House by 

    No rating

    A new Lady Astronaut story! Dawn struggles to fit in with the rest of her team--the backup crew for the …

  6. The Alice Network by 

    No rating

    In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life …

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