I have never read one. (Cishet male)

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Most of Octavia Butler’s books have a female protagonist. She did sci-fi and afrofuturism.

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Thanks. I’ll check her works out.

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Came to post this, she’s great

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16 points

There are several by Ursula K Leguin if you like the genres. I think they’re all in the middle of series, though, with the earlier books centering male characters.

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Thank you

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12 points

Unhinged: Girl Flesh by May Leitz.

Hinged: Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

Esoteric: This Is How You Lose The Time War by Maxwell Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar

Spooky: Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

Arty: The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R Kiernan

Sheesh, imagine reading books written by men more like “meh”, fuckin gottem

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I fucking love This is How You Lose the Time War

The prose is beautiful and there are some parts of the book that felt like they were written for me

If you want to read it I’d only recommend reading it and not listening via audio book. I recommended it to a friend that tried that and the formatting isn’t the best for audio

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4 points

Yeah it’s great, I feel like that Sapphic fatalism is missing from too many romances honestly.

I skipped the audiobook myself, shame it’s not great…

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2 points

It might be okay if you’ve already read the book but it kinda makes sense the letters format isn’t the best as audio :/

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3 points

Just read this! Yes, the prose was beautiful and I found myself falling for both characters. Had a lot of trouble following the time travel elements but they were secondary anyway.

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Dear you’ve barely read any books written by men in all the time I’ve known you

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3 points

I’m too based for that

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11 points

What about an enby protagonist?

I’ll never stop singing the praises of the Monk and Robot books by Becky Chambers.

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5 points

Monk and Robot goes hard…

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Second Becky Chambers. Her Wayfarer series has female protagonists iirc, and they are awesome reads.

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That is perfect too. Thanks.

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9 points

Dungeon Meshi

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I have watched it. It’s really good.

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I dream of a world in which I am Tade.

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