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Passes the "Bechdel Test" Public

Christa Faust: Choke Hold (EBook, 2011, Hard Case Crime) Kate Quinn: The Rose Code (AudiobookFormat, 2021, HarperAudio) R.F. Kuang (duplicate): Babel (2022, Harper Voyager)
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Nnedi Okorafor (duplicate): Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (2023, Amazon Original Stories, Seattle)

 James R. Benn: Billy Boyle (EBook, 2007, Soho Crime)

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Edgar Award for Best Novel Public

Minette Walters: The Sculptress (Hardcover, 1993, St. Martin's Press) Margaret Maron: Bootlegger's Daughter (Hardcover, 1992, Mysterious Press) Lawrence Block: A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (Hardcover, 1991, William Morrow) Julie Smith: New Orleans Mourning (Hardcover, 1990, St. Martin's Press) James Lee Burke: Black Cherry Blues (Hardcover, 1989, Little Brown)

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new society Public

Charles Eisenstein: Sacred Economics (2011, Evolver Editions) Jason Hickel: Less Is More (2021, Penguin Random House) M. E. O'brien, Eman Abdelhadi: Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (2022) Full Circle (Paperback, 2021, Black Inc) David Fleming: Surviving the Future : Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy (2016)

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If Books Could Kill Public

Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens (Paperback, 2025, Harper Perennial) Dale Carnegie (duplicate): How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback, 1998, Pocket Books) Thomas Chatterton Williams: Summer of Our Discontent (Hardcover, 2025, Alfred A. Knopf) Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo: He's Just Not That Into You (Hardcover, 2004, Simon Spotlight Entertainment) Malcolm Gladwell: Blink (Hardcover, 2005, Little, Brown and Co.)

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National Book Award for Fiction Public

Rabih Alameddine: The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) (Hardcover, 2025, Grove Hardcover) Percival Everett: James (Hardcover, 2024, Doubleday) Justin Torres: Blackouts (Hardcover, 2023, Farrar Straus and Giroux) Tess Gunty: Rabbit Hutch (Hardcover, 2022, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) Jason Mott: Hell of a Book (Hardcover, 2021, Dutton)

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Campbell Memorial Award Public

Sam J. Miller: Blackfish City (Hardcover, 2018, Ecco) David Walton: The Genius Plague (Paperback, 2017, Pyr) Lavie Tidhar: Central Station (2016, Tachyon Pub.) Eleanor Lerman: Radiomen (Hardcover, 2015, The Permanent Press) Catherine Webb: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (Hardcover, 2014, Redhook)

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Booker Prize Public

David Szalay: Flesh (Hardcover, 2025, Jonathan Cape) Samantha Harvey, Sarah Naudi (Narrator): Orbital (AudiobookFormat, 2023, Penguin Random House) Paul Lynch: Prophet Song (Hardcover, 2023, Oneworld Publications) Shehan Karunatilaka: Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Hardcover, 2022, Sort of Books) Damon Galgut: The Promise (Hardcover, 2021, Chatto & Windus)

Winners of the Booker Prize

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Mindful Fiction Public

Stephen King: Song of Susannah (Hardcover, 2004, Donald M. Grant) Stephen King: The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) (2003) Stephen King, Phil Hale: The Drawing of the Three (Hardcover, 2003, Viking Adult, Brand: Viking Adult) Stephen King: The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3) (2003) Stephen King: Wizard and Glass (Paperback, 2003, Plume)

Stories that make you think.

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World Fantasy Award Best Novel Public

Robert Jackson Bennett: The Tainted Cup (2024, Del Rey) Tananarive Due: The Reformatory (Hardcover, 2023, Saga Press) C. S. E. Cooney: Saint Death's Daughter (Hardcover, 2022, Solaris) Tasha Suri: The Jasmine Throne (Hardcover, 2021, Orbit) Alaya Dawn Johnson: Trouble the Saints (Hardcover, 2020, Tor Books)

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One City One Book (San Francisco) Public

Fei-Fei Li: Worlds I See (Paperback, 2025, Flatiron Books) Mir Tamim Ansary: West of Kabul, East of New York (Paperback, 2003, Picador) Lalita Tademy: Cane River (Paperback, 2005, Warner Books) Luis Alberto Urrea: The Hummingbird's Daughter (Paperback, 2006, Back Bay Books) Gus Lee: China Boy (Paperback, 1994, Plume)

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Philip K. Dick Award Public

Brenda Peynado: Time's Agent (Paperback, 2024, Tordotcom Publishing) Bethany Jacobs: These Burning Stars (2023, Orbit) Kimberly Unger: The Extractionist (Paperback, 2022, Tachyon Publications) Kali Wallace: Dead Space (Paperback, 2021, Berkley) Alison Stine: Road Out of Winter (Paperback, 2020, Mira)

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Hugo Award for Best Novel Public

N.K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) (2015) Connie Willis: All Clear (Hardcover, 2010, Spectra) Lois McMaster Bujold: The vor game (1999, Baen Books) Arthur C. Clarke: The Fountains of Paradise (Hardcover, 1979, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) Fritz Leiber: The Wanderer (Paperback, 1964, Ballantine Books)

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