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Defiant

Books with their fists up — stubborn and fierce, refusing to sit down or shut up no matter the cost.

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Books and stacks that feel Defiant

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Cover of Station ElevenCover of WanderersCover of SeveranceCover of The StandCover of Oryx and Crake
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Pandemic novels where the world comes apart

A virus tears through the world and everything we built goes quiet. Fiction about the people caught in the middle of the end.

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Quiet Defiant
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Cover of Rebeldes pero LealesCover of Pequeña ala
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Teenage rebels and music

Rebellion is an essential part of growing up, in one form or another, and music sets the rhythm of our lives at any age.

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Defiant Intimate
2 wks ago 2 Saved by 2 readers 6 Viewed 6 times
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Cover of 1984Cover of Fahrenheit 451 Ray BradburyCover of Never Let Me GoCover of Parable Of The SowerCover of The Hunger Games
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Dystopias that hit harder now

Dystopian novels that land differently now. Each takes one true thing and turns the dial until it screams. Decades old, somehow this morning's news.

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Urgent Defiant
4 wks ago 10 Viewed 10 times
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Cover of Convenience Store WomanCover of Lessons in ChemistryCover of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely FineCover of The Wedding PeopleCover of Educated
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Women in their thirties figuring things out

Women in their thirties, smart and a little odd, trying to get the hang of this living thing. Voices that grab you and don't let go.

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Wry Defiant
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Cover of The Handmaid's TaleCover of Fahrenheit 451 Ray BradburyCover of The Hunger GamesCover of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestCover of Persepolis
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Small rebellions that become enormous

It starts with one person refusing one small thing — and ends with the whole structure shaking. Stories where a quiet "no" turns into something that can't be stopped.

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Urgent Defiant
1 month ago 13 Viewed 13 times
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Cover of A Memory Called EmpireCover of Long Way to a Small, Angry PlanetCover of BintiCover of Ancillary JusticeCover of Children of Time
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Sci-fi with great women, where being a woman isn't the whole point

Sharp, complicated heroines doing the actual work of the story — saving the ship, solving the puzzle, breaking the world. Sci-fi where the lead's gender doesn't decide what the book is about.

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Defiant Propulsive
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