The Woman's Book of Superlatives is a short story collection written by Singaporean writer Catherine Lim, first published in 1993^[1] by Times Edition Pte Ltd. It is a collection with feminist overtones.

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• "Prologue: Images": The author writes of the "scorpions" women received instead of the eggs.
• "The Enemy": A girl's incipient breast development leads to her being raped by her stepfather.
• "For the Gift of a Man's Understanding": A female secretary is sexually harassed by her immediate superior.
• "Bina": An 11-year-old child bride is sold to a lecherous Arab man of 65 for $2,000.
• "The Paper Women": A divorcée with a Sterilization Certificate encounters a virgin prostitute with her Virginal Certificate and a Filipino maid with a Certificate of Non-Pregnancy.
• "The Rest is Bonus": Meenachi offers food to a shrine goddess for protecting her from domestic abuse, even though her husband kills her unborn child.
• "The Song of Golden Frond": A Chinese bondmaid falls in love with a scholar, and bears witness to the licentiousness in her master's household.
• "The Solace of Guilt": 47-year-old Andrew nurses a guilty conscience for causing the death of a Thai child prostitute.
• "The Revenge": A mother teaches a daughter to cut off a man's organ for having his way with the daughter.
• "The Feast of the Hungry Ghosts": The Feast provides the well-needed food for a homeless woman and her brood of children.
• "Transit to Heaven": Feminist author Dora Warren gets a glimpse of women's heaven, who are divided into the E-Station (Egg) and the S-Station (Scorpion).