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. Ponies by 

    If you want to be friends with The Other Girls, you're going to have to give something up; this is …

  2. The Original by ,

    Hugo Award–winning authors Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal team up in this exclusive audio-first production of The Original, a …

  3. Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous by 

    No rating

    Katie Price is known in every living room in America. A small-town Wisconsin girl who became an A-list star, she …

    Phil in SF says:

    Five pages in. Four female characters, no male characters. All talking to each other, none of it about men.

  4. Lessons in Chemistry by 

  5. Beautiful Children by 

    One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn’t come home. In the …

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