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The Power
Naomi Alderman
★★★★★· Published 2016· 416 pages· read 2017
Teenage girls develop the power to electrocute, and the whole world order flips. A blistering thought experiment about power and gender that stuck with me.
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Every time a husband goes up to the attic, a new one comes down, with a whole new life attached. A wildly clever premise that's secretly about choice.
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Patricia C. Wrede
Princess Cimorene is bored of being a proper princess, so she runs off to keep house for a dragon instead. I loved this as a kid — funny, fizzy, and quietly feminist.
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