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The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 1985 · Dystopian A modern dystopia that picks up the same themes of Puritan control over women's bodies.
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1856 · Classics Another classic about a woman punished by society for an affair, though very different in tone.