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The Left Hand of Darkness
An envoy to a frozen planet whose people have no fixed gender must win the trust of a reluctant ally. A landmark of speculative fiction.
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A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own
Woolf's elegant argument that a woman needs money and a room of her own to write fiction, and why history made that so hard.
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