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"About women who develop healthy friendships and push past stereotypes to become women of solid character and high strength of both mind and body."

4.18 avg rating — 3,441,155 ratings

"I think if you can sit through all of these books, you will understand why these are placed on here. Lisbeth Salander is a serios bad ass, in any language, and she saves herself as well as her male counterpart in the book."

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"While these don't necessarily avoid the stereotypical "mean girl rivalry" it both explores it and pushes past it to give us female characters who truly care about each other and want to build each other up. It also explores the ideas of females as helpless victims and females as physical saviors of their male counterparts in the book. I feel these are both contexts that female oriented YA lack."

4.12 avg rating — 5,710,474 ratings

"No one has it worse than anyone else in this book, and there isn't a single instance in which stereotypical gender or tropes are used in any context, alowing the reader to take the characters as they are, rather then as they are "supposed" to be defined."

4.10 avg rating — 113,703 ratings

"This book explores the concept of gender equality through the inner dialogue of the two lead characters) in such a way as to present the idea that not every person views their (straight) opposite sex counterpart as inferior or lacking. It also explores and describes the idea of taking people as people, rather than labeling them."