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 strongly in what American men choose to read.

  1. Money Shot by  (Angel Dare, #1)

    THEY THOUGHT SHE’D BE EASY. THEY THOUGHT WRONG.

    It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel …

  2. Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

    From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to …

  3. The Rose Code by 

    No rating

    1940- As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley …

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