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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Pérez

2019 · 448 pages · Narrative nonfiction

dark moodmoderate paceheavy and literary toneambiguous ending

How it reads

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men is narrative nonfiction (feminist data journalism, specifically), and its dominant mood is dark. It goes to difficult places and doesn't look away. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in an international setting, in the present day, told in the third person, staying close to one character. Its central concerns are identity, class and society and justice. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is left open, for you to argue about. At 448 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.

Pick it up if…

  • you're in the mood for something dark
  • you want something to chew on
  • you want a complete story in one book

Maybe not if…

  • you need something cosy, heartwarming or funny

All 15 dimensions

Author gender
female
Author experience
established
Setting: place
international
Setting: time
contemporary
Mood / feeling
dark
Pace
moderate
Tone / weight
heavy and literary
Length
medium
Narrative style
third person, one viewpoint
Publication era
recent
Popularity
well known
Series vs standalone
standalone
Themes
identity, class and society, justice
Ending style
ambiguous

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