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Please recommend me some feminist novels written by women - liping - Jan 4 2026
I'm looking for novels with no male characters at all—either set in an all-female society or featuring an all-female cast. I don’t like any romantic or sexual relationships involving men. I’ve only read Ammonite so far.
I’ve read quite a few novels set in all-female societies, but they all depict men entering these societies, followed by the emergence of romantic or sexual relationships or the men’s prolonged stay—and I really dislike this trope. What I want to see is women entering all-female societies, with men either dying off or being driven out.
I know books like this are super rare, so could you recommend some female-centric books instead? No romantic relationships, and not too many male characters—ideally, women should make up two-thirds of the cast. I hope the stories highlight connections between women—they can be friends or foes, but these dynamics should never revolve around men. Also, I’d prefer if none of the female characters wear makeup.
RE: Please recommend me some feminist novels written by women - Clover - Jan 4 2026
Hi liping! Welcome to clovenhooves. 💜 I've shared your question over on radblr and here's some responses so far:
arakkne The webcomic Lease Bound is about radfem lesbians. I think there's only a few pages where men even speak. There's a wide and varied diverse cast of characters, none of them straight, and the very vast majority are women. It's very cute and relatable even as it deals with hard topics. On hiatus rn but I highly recommend
lavenderselkieAside from these, a couple series from my TBR (have been sitting on my actual shelf unread for forever tbh T_T) are the Coral Dawn Trilogy by Katherine Forrest that seems to have an all-woman society separate from the other male-inclusive ones, (but is about lesbians so will hopefully not fall to the stupid ugly misogynistic trope about letting males in), and similarly the Isis trilogy by Jean Stewart that seems to be about lesbian amazon warriors rescuing women to live on their all-female planet. I also have The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women by Sally Miller Gearhart sitting here to read — and some of my friends have loved it and some found it too boring a utopian novel so ymmv again.
- Celaeno series by Jane Fletcher is all set in an all-female society, no men whatsoever! (I didn't like the prequel at all for a multitude of reasons but I'm giving the main series a chance and like the first book in the main story better so far)
- The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley is an all-female society in space. (TW for tokophobia though and honestly just check CWs idk how to warn for this. Zero males though so it's not a bad tradeoff)
- The Hadra Archives series by Diana Rivers. I am only on the first book but it does feature women characters getting away from violent male societies into an all-female one. Ymmv if it counts since there are evil male antagonists outside their society, idk how much they will feature in the story yet.
This is off the top of my head so I'll come back when I think of any more. Lesbians also feel free to let me know if I am making any horrible mistakes with my TBR pile lmao.