Riot Recommendation

25 of Your Favorite Kickass Superheroines

S. Zainab Williams

Executive Director, Content

S. Zainab would like to think she bleeds ink but the very idea makes her feel faint. She writes fantasy and horror, and is currently clutching a manuscript while groping in the dark. Find her on Twitter: @szainabwilliams.

This Riot Recommendation about kickass superheroines is sponsored by Diamond Book Distributors & Oni Press, publishers of Atomic Blonde by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart.

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!

November 1989.

MI6 spy Lorraine Broughton was sent to Berlin to investigate the death of another agent, and the disappearance of a list revealing every spy working there. She found a powder keg of mistrust, assassinations and bad defections that ended with the murder of MI6’s top officer, as the Berlin Wall was torn down.

Now Lorraine has returned from the Cold War’s coldest city, to tell her story. And nothing is what it seems.


You know them well. They’re the women who stand up, take action, and do what they do best: be kickass. We asked you to tell us your favorite unconventional horror novels and you responded. Here are 25 of your favorites!

Gamora

Wonder Woman

Zatanna

Kam and Penny (Bitch Planet)

Storm

Black Widow

Kitty Pryde

Sailor Moon

Supergirl

Poison Ivy

Nimona

Mystique

Batgirl

Ms. Marvel

Squirrel Girl

Riri Williams

Emma Frost

Captain Marvel

X-23

Jubilee

Catwoman

Cheetara

Witchfire

Phoenix

Faith

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