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A subversive, darkly humorous reclamation of the superhero genre's most sidelined women, told with the mythic gravity of a modern fairy tale. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The refrigerator monologues.
- mythic
- defiant
- darkly whimsical
- reflective
- 01
In the night garden
Catherynne Valente · 2006
A lush, labyrinthine tapestry of dark fairy tales and shifting myths spun by a lonely girl with stories inked on her eyelids.
- 02
The one hundred nights of hero
Isabel Greenberg
A defiant, feminist reimagining of the Arabian Nights where storytelling is both a weapon against the patriarchy and a profound act of love.
- 03
Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado
A surreal, razor-sharp fever dream that maps the violence and desire inscribed upon women's bodies.
- 04
Radiance
Catherynne M. Valente
A glittering, tragic space opera told through a collage of scripts and secrets, exploring the stories we invent to survive the people we lose.
- 05
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Jill Lepore
A deeply researched, wildly fascinating unearthing of the radical, polyamorous, and feminist roots of a pop culture icon.
- 06
Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder
A feral, darkly funny descent into the primal rage of modern domesticity that will make you want to bare your teeth.
- 07
Mechanique
Genevieve Valentine
A haunting, rust-stained fever dream of a circus traveling through a broken world, where survival is built from copper and bone.
- 08
Get in Trouble
Kelly Link
A darkly playful plunge into a world where suburban anxieties and teenage sleepovers collide with ghosts, superheroes, and the uncanny.
- 09
Oona Out of Order
Margarita Montimore
A bittersweet, decade-hopping puzzle that explores the beauty and heartbreak of living life entirely out of sequence.
- 10
Magic for beginners
Kelly Link
A surreal, pop-culture-infused fever dream where the mundane and the magical bleed seamlessly into one another.
- 11
Sex Criminals
Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
A laugh-out-loud, neon-drenched romp that uses a wildly explicit premise as a Trojan horse for a tender story about intimacy and mental health.
- 12
The chronology of water
Lidia Yuknavitch
A raw, untraditional plunge into grief, fluid sexuality, and the fierce current of survival.
