I Who Have Never Known Men

Amazing. Everyone should read this book, it is so profound and incredible. You’ll feel every emotion reading this book. Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful.

Not what I expected. This is a strange, unsettling dystopian story about forty women who have spent years locked in an underground bunker—and then are suddenly free. The narrator, a young girl, has never truly known men; her only exposure is to silent guards who never interact with the women. As a result, her understanding of the world is shaped almost entirely by absence and isolation. It’s labeled sci-fi, but that feels like a stretch—this reads more as an eerie, philosophical meditation on captivity, humanity, and loneliness than a traditional science-fiction novel. 3⭐️ Book #4 in 2026

Completely engrossing story about a girl who grows up in a bunker. She goes through all the emotions of being a teenager realizing what all the women were talking about when they said that she would never know what it was like with a man as there were only women in the bunker.  Through a series of unfortunate and lucky events. The women in the Bunker are released. This allows them and our unnamed protagonist to wander the lands for the rest of their lives. Over the course of the protagonist life, she has to deal with the humanity and inhumanity of growing up in a bunker, not being able to touch people and essentially living on her own while others find companionship in their own ways. This enthralling book will not let you put it down until you finished. Once you have heard all of their stories, then the story will come to an end.

Incredibly distracted by the post tense narration

Really stuck with me, great piece of feminist science fiction