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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.
No guarantees though, as most are added from memory.
No guarantees though, as most are added from memory.
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Female Friends
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Best Friends (Main Street, #4)
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No Place for a Lady
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3.21 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Belles on Their Toes (Cheaper by the Dozen, #2)
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The Ornament Tree (An Avon Flare Book)
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3.97 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Glitter Girls and the Great Fake-Out (Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls, #5)
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Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,629 ratings
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| 604 |
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Las Madres
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Esmeralda Santiago (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 1,460 ratings
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| 608 |
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The Kissing List
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Stephanie Reents (Goodreads Author)
2.90 avg rating — 480 ratings
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| 608 |
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Welcome to Camden Falls (Main Street, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 2,397 ratings
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| 608 |
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Mercy Street
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Jennifer Haigh (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 10,011 ratings
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| 611 |
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Agatha Heterodyne and the Circus of Dreams (Girl Genius, #4)
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| 611 |
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The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
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Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 397,845 ratings
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Song of a Captive Bird
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Jasmin Darznik (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 6,098 ratings
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Aquamarine (Water Tales, #1)
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3.49 avg rating — 6,075 ratings
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Wolfpack
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Amelia Brunskill (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 713 ratings
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| 616 |
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For the Most Beautiful (Golden Apple Trilogy #1)
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Emily Hauser (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,252 ratings
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Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl
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3.88 avg rating — 1,385 ratings
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Arlington Park
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3.23 avg rating — 3,510 ratings
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The Unit
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Elektra
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Jennifer Saint (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 54,306 ratings
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Pollyanna Grows Up (Pollyanna #2)
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3.86 avg rating — 14,008 ratings
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Bad Girls Don't Die (Bad Girls Don't Die, #1)
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Katie Alender (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 30,149 ratings
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Front Lines (Front Lines, #1)
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Michael Grant (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 6,127 ratings
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Good Wives
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A Council of Dolls
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Living Treasures
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Yang Huang (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Wellspring of Magic (Creative Girls Club Adventure, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 558 ratings
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How to Care for a Human Girl
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Ashley Wurzbacher (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 495 ratings
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The Inn at Lake Devine
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Elinor Lipman (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 6,554 ratings
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The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love (Ladies of Covington, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 2,054 ratings
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Danger After Dark (Creative Girls Club Mystery Series, #2)
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3.62 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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Rebecca Wells (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 566,822 ratings
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Ramona's World (Ramona Quimby, #8)
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4.16 avg rating — 13,273 ratings
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The Moorchild
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3.99 avg rating — 7,582 ratings
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The Enchanted April
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3.89 avg rating — 39,792 ratings
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The Trouble With Violet
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3.90 avg rating — 243 ratings
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The Medusa Tree
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Mabel Strikes a Chord
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4.13 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Matilda Bone
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Karen Cushman (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 3,640 ratings
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Molly's Pilgrim
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Canary Girls
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Jennifer Chiaverini (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 9,752 ratings
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I Am Not Esther (I Am Not Esther, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 3,915 ratings
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The Timber Girls (The Timber Girls #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 130 ratings
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After the Fire
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3.74 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Curious Wine
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3.90 avg rating — 5,552 ratings
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Third Girl from the Left
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Martha Southgate (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 752 ratings
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Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
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Jennifer Chiaverini (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 32,705 ratings
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Another Way to Dance
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Martha Southgate (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule
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Jennifer Chiaverini (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 4,698 ratings
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The Secrets of Jin-shei (Jin-Shei, #1)
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Alma Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 1,991 ratings
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Chasing Redbird
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4.10 avg rating — 13,303 ratings
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Women Like Us
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Erica Abeel (Goodreads Author)
3.12 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Afternoon of the Elves
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Leaving Earth
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3.70 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Island of the Aunts
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Why Do We Have to Live with Men?
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3.28 avg rating — 203 ratings
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A Month of Sundays
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The Doomspell (Doomspell, #1)
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Cliff McNish (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 2,604 ratings
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Association of Foreign Spouses
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3.45 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Homeless Bird
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4.01 avg rating — 14,770 ratings
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The Friday Night Knitting Club (Friday Night Knitting Club, #1)
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3.45 avg rating — 78,702 ratings
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So Far from the Bamboo Grove
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Be Nice
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2.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Tipping the Velvet
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Lost Girls
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Bad Girls
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3.88 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Bad Graces
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Kyrie McCauley (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 1,348 ratings
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Big Big Sky
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Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles, #1)
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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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