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To pass the Bechdel Test, a book must have (i) at least two female characters who (ii) talk to each other about (iii) something other than a man/men.
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The Girl on the Train
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Paula Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 3,233,264 ratings
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Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)
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Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 26,670 ratings
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I Capture the Castle
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Leftovers
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Little Fires Everywhere
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Celeste Ng (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 1,293,404 ratings
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Chosen (House of Night, #3)
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P.C. Cast (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 253,417 ratings
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 132,314 ratings
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Beaches
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Fingersmith
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The Reformed Vampire Support Group
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3.50 avg rating — 5,552 ratings
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Born Confused (Born Confused #1)
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Tanuja Desai Hidier (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 5,335 ratings
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TinkerBell :The Junior Novelization
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Kimberly Morris (Adapter)
4.22 avg rating — 420 ratings
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The Kitchen God's Wife
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 87,478 ratings
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I, Coriander
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The Women's Room
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Primed
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G.P. Francis (Goodreads Author)
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The Seer and the Sword
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Long Lankin (Long Lankin, #1)
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Valkyries
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Jeri Massi (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Beast at the Gate
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R.A. Baker (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)
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Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 38,060 ratings
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Chainsaw Alice in Wonderland
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Khurt Khave (Goodreads Author)
3.27 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Foul Is Fair (Fair Folk Chronicles, #1)
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Jeffrey Cook (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Full Fathom Five (Craft Sequence, #3)
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Max Gladstone (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 5,061 ratings
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Argonauts
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Kevin Kneupper (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 429 ratings
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| 215 |
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Papá se ha ido de caza
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| 215 |
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To Claim What is Ours (A Legacy of Light Book 1)
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Kyah Merritt (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Epistolary
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Lisa Lambros (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Lives of Girls and Women
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Sisters in Arms
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Kaia Alderson (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 7,728 ratings
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The Little Girls
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Oreo
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One Good Deed (Archer, #1)
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David Baldacci (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 51,248 ratings
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My Carmilla (A Gothic Monster Romance, #2)
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Anita Zara (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Love By The Book
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4.06 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Enola Holmes and the Clanging Coffin (Enola Holmes #10)
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Nancy Springer (Goodreads Author)
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The Wine of Angels (Merrily Watkins, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 4,626 ratings
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State of Wonder
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3.90 avg rating — 198,792 ratings
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The Woman Reader
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3.75 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Map of Ireland
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3.26 avg rating — 374 ratings
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Looking for JJ (Jennifer Jones, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 6,845 ratings
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Insiders
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Jeri Massi (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Rayna of Nightwind: The First of the Taren Novels
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R.A. Baker (Goodreads Author)
4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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La amiga estupenda (Dos amigas, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 449,664 ratings
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Sacred Hearts
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3.79 avg rating — 13,406 ratings
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Nothing to See Here
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Kevin Wilson (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 218,405 ratings
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Honey and Me
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4.08 avg rating — 203 ratings
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The Rain Catchers
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4.03 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Angels of the Pacific
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Elise Hooper (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 4,402 ratings
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Coffee Will Make You Black
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4.08 avg rating — 5,569 ratings
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A Girl Is a Body of Water
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon
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Kelly Barnhill (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 112,590 ratings
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The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars
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3.94 avg rating — 1,102 ratings
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Beyond the Band of Death (Rayna of Nightwind, Book 2)
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R.A. Baker (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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| 253 |
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Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)
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4.27 avg rating — 83,843 ratings
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| 253 |
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Estudio en Lila
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3.36 avg rating — 157 ratings
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| 253 |
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A Cup of Friendship
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Deborah Rodriguez (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 30,813 ratings
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| 253 |
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The Love Song of Ivy K. Harlowe
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Hannah Moskowitz (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 612 ratings
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Moon Women
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3.77 avg rating — 1,335 ratings
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| 253 |
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The Hours
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Michael Cunningham (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 147,604 ratings
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The Distant Hours
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Kate Morton (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 84,063 ratings
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Rodham
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Curtis Sittenfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 48,924 ratings
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Gangster We Are All Looking for
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Fractured (Slated, #2)
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Teri Terry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 18,876 ratings
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Mullaway
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3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The House at Spaniard's Bay
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City of Darkness and Light (Molly Murphy, #13)
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Rhys Bowen (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 4,406 ratings
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| 263 |
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The American Daughters
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Maurice Carlos Ruffin (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 2,929 ratings
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Lessons in Chemistry
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Bonnie Garmus (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 1,715,352 ratings
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Slated (Slated, #1)
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Teri Terry (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 33,044 ratings
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Solstice
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Conquest on Conti Street
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The Well
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The House in Norham Gardens
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The Lightning Circle
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4.01 avg rating — 488 ratings
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Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)
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The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)
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Sujata Massey (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 5,541 ratings
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Five Flavors of Dumb
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Antony John (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 9,715 ratings
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Aquamarine
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3.61 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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The Last Midwife
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The Gravity of Missing Things
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Marisa Urgo (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 730 ratings
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Albert Nobbs
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The Crimson Rust
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Clearly Invisible in Paris
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Partials (Partials Sequence, #1)
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Dan Wells (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 59,830 ratings
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Holly Farb and the Princess of the Galaxy
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Gareth Wronski (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Wayward Girls
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Susan Wiggs (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 4,807 ratings
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A Murder on Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry #1)
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Sujata Massey (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 32,882 ratings
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A Hero's Tale (When Women Were Warriors, #3)
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Catherine M. Wilson (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 3,059 ratings
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The Truest Heart (The Fairy-Tale Matchmaker, #3)
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E.D. Baker (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Where We Lived: Short Stories
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Cold Comfort Farm
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The Girls We Sent Away
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Mika in Real Life
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Emiko Jean (Goodreads Author)
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The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell
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Loraine Despres (Goodreads Author)
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Go and Come Back
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Keeping You a Secret
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Colman (Doran, #3)
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
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The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family
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Sarah Kapit (Goodreads Author)
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The two female characters should have a name.
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Ballesaweston wrote: "The two female characters should have a name."Yes!
And also not be overwhelmingly minor characters that they barely count, like those in the Harry Potter books.
I'd add "feature" instead of just "have" female characters to the description, and that would get rid of lots of books on this list (and therefore make it much more useful).
There's a new & improved test, or 'lens' if you will, but I don't remember it. Googling didn't get it for me (please you try) but it did get this, which is both funny and serious: The Women's Direction: /blog/we-should-scrap-the-bechdel-test
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