,

The books on this list feature strong female protagonists or explore themes that advance our understanding of gender within the framework of extrapolative fiction, in particular science fiction. (Please don't add any fantasy or horror titles.)
1

by
4.15 avg rating — 2,447,599 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
2

by
4.10 avg rating — 223,409 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
3

by
4.37 avg rating — 22,108 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
4

by
4.19 avg rating — 268,749 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
5

by
4.31 avg rating — 275,263 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
6

by
4.26 avg rating — 152,719 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
7

by
4.06 avg rating — 14,168 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
8

by
3.91 avg rating — 18,893 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
9

by
3.95 avg rating — 16,928 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
10

by
4.07 avg rating — 133,455 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
11

by
3.46 avg rating — 9,072 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
12

by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 288,762 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
13

by
4.35 avg rating — 9,975,683 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
14

by
4.36 avg rating — 4,186,352 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
15

by
4.24 avg rating — 91 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
16

by
3.99 avg rating — 119,643 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
17

by
4.15 avg rating — 64,299 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
18

by
4.08 avg rating — 144,127 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
19

by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,800 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
20

by
4.03 avg rating — 13,430 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
21

by
3.84 avg rating — 709,447 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
22

by
4.13 avg rating — 4,398,651 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
23

by
3.99 avg rating — 5,826 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
24

by
3.75 avg rating — 253,149 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
25

by
4.12 avg rating — 1,015,612 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
26

by
4.12 avg rating — 3,746,895 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
27

by
4.17 avg rating — 186,996 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
28

by
3.99 avg rating — 9,258 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
29

by
3.97 avg rating — 1,290,673 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
30

by
4.34 avg rating — 27,445 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
31

by
3.90 avg rating — 7,334 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
32

by
3.48 avg rating — 26,320 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
33

by
4.47 avg rating — 102 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
34

by
4.37 avg rating — 89,387 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
35

by
4.32 avg rating — 85,754 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
36

by
3.94 avg rating — 13,234 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
37

by
4.20 avg rating — 40,026 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
38

by
4.28 avg rating — 337,216 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
39

by
4.30 avg rating — 48,896 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
40

by
3.88 avg rating — 932 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
41

by
4.07 avg rating — 2,641 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
42

by
3.95 avg rating — 245,904 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
43

by
3.88 avg rating — 11,314 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
44

by
4.52 avg rating — 25 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
45

by
4.41 avg rating — 312,409 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
46

by
4.30 avg rating — 31,013 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
47

by
3.98 avg rating — 2,420 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
48

by
4.33 avg rating — 14,463 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
49

by
3.87 avg rating — 1,334 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
50

by
3.84 avg rating — 280 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
51

by
4.16 avg rating — 2,359 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
52

by
4.16 avg rating — 218,923 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
53

by
3.86 avg rating — 4,221 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
54

by
4.46 avg rating — 7,005 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
55

by
4.14 avg rating — 27,052 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
56

by
3.90 avg rating — 902 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
57

by
4.04 avg rating — 26,557 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
58

by
3.94 avg rating — 24,420 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
59

by
3.62 avg rating — 331 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
60

by
3.79 avg rating — 39,780 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
61

by
4.07 avg rating — 40,495 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
62

by
4.14 avg rating — 173 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
63

by
3.76 avg rating — 11,913 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
64

by
3.72 avg rating — 20,184 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
65

by
3.95 avg rating — 2,225 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
66

by
3.93 avg rating — 355 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
67

by
3.85 avg rating — 6,063 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
68

by
3.86 avg rating — 2,201 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
69

by
3.76 avg rating — 18,281 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
70

by
3.75 avg rating — 525 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
71

by
4.13 avg rating — 82,355 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
72

by
3.95 avg rating — 7,776 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
73

by
3.90 avg rating — 16,481 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
74

by
3.93 avg rating — 28,429 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
75

by
3.90 avg rating — 114,208 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
76

by
3.77 avg rating — 3,586 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
77

by
3.79 avg rating — 384 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
77

by
3.80 avg rating — 383 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
77

by
4.35 avg rating — 85 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
80

by
3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
81

by
3.88 avg rating — 1,735 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
82

by
3.97 avg rating — 4,017 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
83

by
3.50 avg rating — 98 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
84

by
3.71 avg rating — 88,648 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
85

by
3.68 avg rating — 30,141 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
86

by
3.94 avg rating — 1,348 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
87

by
3.81 avg rating — 4,856 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
88

by
3.74 avg rating — 225 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
88

by
3.82 avg rating — 1,023 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
88

by
4.16 avg rating — 93,405 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
91

by
3.37 avg rating — 619 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
92

by
3.91 avg rating — 44 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
92

by
4.23 avg rating — 462,654 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
94

by
4.15 avg rating — 153,097 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
95

by
3.95 avg rating — 38,108 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
96

by
3.94 avg rating — 155,569 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
97

by
3.80 avg rating — 7,290 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
98

by
3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
98

by
3.84 avg rating — 280 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
98

by
4.12 avg rating — 221 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
239 books · 411 voters · list created August 15th, 2009 by Kevis Hendrickson (votes) .
221 likes · 
Lists are re-scored approximately every 5 minutes.


Deedee 32793 books
44 friends
Ideath 263 books
93 friends
Wendi 1132 books
26 friends
Carolyn 7773 books
106 friends
Wealhtheow 4761 books
689 friends
Manda 434 books
0 friends
Max 1155 books
76 friends
Navi 26191 books
1187 friends

More voters…


Comments Showing 1-7 of 7 (7 new)

dateUp arrow    newest »

message 1: by John (last edited Aug 17, 2009 04:00AM) (new)

John Burns Why create this list when the other list already exists? Merely to publicise your own work?

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/12...

Is there a good reason why i shouldn't delete this entirely superfluous list?


message 2: by Greyweather (new)

Greyweather I was going to say that there's no rule against making redundant lists, but it turns out that there actually is one:

If a "Best Fantasy Books" list [or in this case "Best Feminist Science Fiction" list:] already exists - no need to create another - it will be merged eventually anyways.


message 3: by John (new)

John Burns huh. So how does it get merged? do we librarians have the ability to do tht?


message 4: by Greyweather (last edited Aug 17, 2009 03:35PM) (new)

Greyweather Apparently not.
It was suggested to me that we try the contact us form to request a merge.


message 5: by Teresa (new)

Teresa I would DEFINITELY suggest that Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Herland be added to this list! I don't even read very many "feminist" works, but I can't believe this was left off a feminist sci-fi list!


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads You could add it; it's easy to add books to a Listopia list. (Up at the top of the list, next to "all votes.")


message 7: by [deleted user] (new)

Deleted a bunch of nonfiction and realistic fic though I'm sure I missed some


back to top



Related News

Need another excuse to treat yourself to a new book this week? We've got you covered with the buzziest new releases of the day, according to early...

Anyone can add books to this list.