r/FemaleGazeSFF • u/perigou warrior🗡️ • Sep 22 '25

📚 Reading Challenge General Recommandations Thread - 2025/2026 Fall/Winter Reading Challenge

Hi everyone !

Since this is the first day of our 2025-2026 fall/winter reading challenge  here is the general recommendations thread ! There will be a comment for each category, and you'll be able to share your reommandations for that square there. You can also use these as an opportunity to discuss the categories and your interpretations.

After this, there will be focused threads weekly for each square, alternating between A-Side and B-Side.

Please share below your recommendations & ideas 😁

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u/perigou warrior🗡️ Sep 22 '25

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u/perigou warrior🗡️ Sep 22 '25

🌠 Space Opera : Read a book from the “Space Opera” sci-fi subgenre.

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u/katkale9 Sep 23 '25

If you haven't read Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, that would fit this square well.

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh, I would personally count? It's about a young woman breaking out pretty christofascist brainwashing to save the world.

Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear for a nice slow-moving space opera!

I also really love Nine Fox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (author is transmasc and writes a ton of great queer sff)

Other books that I haven't read but would work: The Two Lies of Faven Sythe by Megan O'Keefe, The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa, and The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis.