Books to Read After Watching Wonder Woman

With Wonder Woman however dominating theaters, peradventure you lot've gone back to lookout the run across No Man's Land. Maybe you're figuring out how to get to Themyscira, or slipping your formal sword downward the back of your ball gown, or doing backflips off your couch.

And so I've assembled 20 book recommendations for fans similar y'all. They're organized into handy categories inspired by Wonder Woman: superheroines, the supernatural, amazing women of Earth Wars I and Two*, badass spies, and shopping/grooming montages.

Because badassery doesn't stop at the theater.

SUPERHEROINES

1. Wonder Woman: Warbringer (DC Icons Serial) by Leigh Bardugo

When Diana, Princess of the Amazons, rescues Alia Keralis—Helen of Troy's straight descendant—things become terribly wrong. But when the two unite to try to save the world, they must piece of work together in the face of enemies both mortal and divine. (You'll have to wait a bit for this i; Warbringer comes out August 29, 2017.)

ii. Fallout (Lois Lane Series) past Gwenda Bail

The beginning of the Lois Lane series, Fallout follows a young Lois new to Urban center when she joins the Daily Planet'southward teen reporting arm. This volition please DC Universe fans, as well as fans of Buffy and Veronica Mars.

iii. Heroine Complex (Heroine Complex Serial) past Sarah Kuhn

What'due south life like when you're the personal banana to a pop superheroine in San Francisco? Complicated—especially if y'all're hiding surreptitious powers of your ain. This is the offset book in Sarah Kuhn's series starring Asian American superheroines.

4. Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson (writer) and Adrian Alphona (creative person)

Kamala Khan is a normal Muslim teenager from New Bailiwick of jersey…until she gains hugger-mugger powers. Is she set for them? Three years into a successful comics run and counting, the world's answer is YES!

5. The Refrigerator Monologues past Catherynne M. Valente

These six interlinked short stories—ready within a new (and fantastic) universe—give a voice to female characters who have been harmed to farther male hero'south plotlines. Illustrated past Annie Wu, the collection highlights the stunning stories behind the stories, revealing that the women are superheroines in their own right.

half-dozen. The Hole-and-corner History of Wonder Woman past Jill Lepore

New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore uncovers Wonder Adult female'southward backstory, her links to the early suffragettes and the secrets of her creators' lives in this tremendous piece of work of nonfiction.

THE SUPERNATURAL

7. The Immortals (Olympus Bound Serial) by Jordanna Max Brodsky

Greek Gods battle against the Manhattan Skyline in Brodsky's debut—and Selene DeSilva discovers through a shocking crime that she'due south one of them: the goddess Artemis.

8. Hurricane Heels by Isabel Yap

Alex, Ria, Aiko, Natalie and Selena take been fighting as superheroes for years, since a fateful summertime campsite where a goddess enlisted their aid to protect the earth and gifted them each with powers. Now that they're older and life's gotten more complicated, how much longer can they keep saving the earth?

ix. Ruby Threads of Fortune (The Tensorate Series) by JY Yang

Sanao Mokoya, a fallen prophet, a main of the elements and the daughter of the supreme Protector, has abandoned the life in which her visions once shaped the lives of citizens. After a tragedy, she now hunts deadly monsters with the help of a pack of dinosaurs.

10. Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson

Abby and Makeda, daughters of a celestial demigod and a human woman, were born conjoined. Now separated adults, they must learn to work together again to assistance discover their missing father.

WOMEN OF World WAR I AND II*

11. Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal

Ginger Stuyvesant leads a secret ring of spy translators for the British during World State of war I. What makes the group unique is that they're mediums who tin talk to ghosts as they render from the forepart.

12. I Was a Spy! by Marthe McKenna

A young nurse in occupied Belgium, Marthe was recruited by British intelligence during Globe War I and spent fourth dimension pretending to be a double agent in guild to avoid detection past the Germans. She helped sabotage enemy phone lines, instigated an aerial attack on the visiting Kaiser and reported on railroad train movements in her region. Caught and sentenced to expiry, she ultimately lived to write her story.

13. Blackout (All Clear Series) by Connie Willis

Fourth dimension traveling historians are sent dorsum from 2060 to World War 2, leading to intrigue on both sides of the timeline. Oxford researchers Polly Churchill, Merope Ward and Michael Davies observe with growing horror how much i activity can modify the past—and the futurity.

14. Tomorrow to exist Brave past Susan Travers

Susan Travers—the only adult female to officially serve in the French Foreign Legion—drove a motorcar direct through the Nazi's African lines in 1942, leading a charge that took her across the Libyan desert, through minefields and beneath stukka bombers to break a 15-day siege. Her memoir chronicles her experiences, culminating in her being awarded both the Legion d'Honneur and the Military Medal.

15. Nancy Wake by Russell Braddon

A New Zealander known during World State of war II as the "White Mouse," Nancy Wake was active in the French Resistance and escaped the Nazis multiple times. She was on the Gestapo's about wanted listing past 1943, and she eventually became the virtual leader of a ring of seven,000 French Resistance fighters.

*Both wars are included, because while the Wonder Woman movie was set during WWI, Wonder Woman originally appeared during WWII in the comics.

BADASS SPIES

16. Everfair past Nisi Shawl

Lisette Toutournier and Fwendi are spies in this steampunk reimagining of the Victorian Congo. In Everfair'south alternating history, King Leopold's horrific wars are turned into a new opportunity for the people of the Congo.

17. Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity Series) past Elizabeth Wein

Two women are separated when their spy airplane crashes behind enemy lines. When the Gestapo arrests 1 of them, she tells a story of secrets, coded messages, daring activeness and truthful loyalty.

xviii. The Witch Who Came in From the Cold (Seasons 1 and 2) from Series Box

In cold-war era Prague, Soviet and American spies navigate unsafe territory made even more treacherous past the presence of magic. When tradecraft meets witchcraft, things tin can get complicated very fast.

(Editor's Note: This list'southward author guest-wrote one episode in the second season… and there is admittedly a shopping montage in that episode. And if y'all're unfamiliar with Series Box, it'southward a new blazon of publishing visitor that releases novelette-length episodes of a given series over the course of 10-16 weeks.)

SHOPPING/Grooming MONTAGES

xix. Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga Series) by Lois McMaster Bujold

Book three of the series of the serial contains ane of the best shopping montages. It as well tackles motherhood, personal identity and survival in a mail-revolutionary science fictional universe.

20. Courtroom of Fives (Court of Fives Series) by Kate Elliott

When Jessamy sneaks out to railroad train for an elite sporting consequence, events brainstorm to unfold that put her family in mortal danger. The preparation montages she endures in the series' first book are fast-paced and beautifully written in this epic tale of a girl struggling to practise what she loves while constrained by class and privilege.

Many thanks to author Aliette de Bodard, educator Kathryn Gullo, blogger Natalie Luhrs and librarian Ryan Labay for suggesting some of the titles on this list!

Fran Wilde'south loftier-flying debut, Updraft, also features a badass young woman main character, archery, training montages and cool tech like homo-made wings. Her novels and short stories have been nominated for two Nebula awards and a Hugo, and include her Andre Norton-winning debut novel, Updraft (Tor 2015), its sequels, Cloudbound (2016) and Horizon (2017), and novelette "The Jewel and Her Lapidary" (Tor.com Publishing 2016). Her brusk stories appear in Asimov's, Tor.com, Below Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature and the 2017 Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror. She writes for publications including The Washington Mail service, Tor.com, Clarkesworld, iO9.com, and GeekMom.com. You can find her on Twitter, Facebook and at franwilde.net.

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