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We are thrilled to be hosting a sixth season of Bad Women!
The Bad Women Book Club explores fiction that presents fresh, transgressive, and morally questionable takes on contemporary female protagonists. Whether you join one meet-up, two, or all of them, and whether you’ve read just a chapter or finished the book twice, you are always warmly welcome to share your thoughts, feelings, and interpretations of the works.
The books are available for purchase at our bookshop. If you would like us to reserve a copy for you, please send us a message!
Below are descriptions of the three fictional titles we will be reading and discussing this season.
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Scum Manifesto by Valerie Solanas (1967)
SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact, the work has indisputable prescience, not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its timepredicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against under-representation in the artsbut also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman.
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Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)
In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest—the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her mysterious, entrancing companion. But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day… Pre-dating Dracula by twenty-six years, Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in sexual tension and gothic romance.
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Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (2026)
A traditional American woman, a “tradwife” influencer, suddenly awakens in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel.
The Bad Women Book Club explores fiction that presents fresh, transgressive, and morally questionable takes on contemporary female protagonists. Whether you join one meet-up, two, or all of them, and whether you’ve read just a chapter or finished the book twice, you are always warmly welcome to share your thoughts, feelings, and interpretations of the works.
The books are available for purchase at our bookshop. If you would like us to reserve a copy for you, please send us a message!
Below are descriptions of the three fictional titles we will be reading and discussing this season.
・:˚:✧｡・:˚:✧｡・:˚:✧｡・:˚:✧｡・:˚:✧｡・:˚:✧｡・:*˚:✧｡
Scum Manifesto by Valerie Solanas (1967)
SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact, the work has indisputable prescience, not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its timepredicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against under-representation in the artsbut also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman.
・:˚:✧｡・:˚:✧｡・:˚:✧｡・:˚:✧｡・:˚:✧｡・:˚:✧｡・:*˚:✧｡
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)
In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest—the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her mysterious, entrancing companion. But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day… Pre-dating Dracula by twenty-six years, Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in sexual tension and gothic romance.
・:˚:✧｡・:˚:✧｡・:˚:✧｡・:˚:✧｡・:˚:✧｡・:˚:✧｡・:*˚:✧｡
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (2026)
A traditional American woman, a “tradwife” influencer, suddenly awakens in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel.
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