Other than The City We Became, which is definitely one of them? I'd say China Mieville's The City & The City.

I've always said it as though you just cut the "ic" off of rhetoric. But I always joke with my students that because I'm a North Carolinian (as are most of them, but still), it often comes out more like "rheter."

I've taught your first MB novella a few times in an undergrad SF course, and we've had conversations about how we as readers end up gendering Murderbot as we read, but because Murderbot never uses any gender-specific terms that our imagining can tell us more about ourselves as readers.

I 100% understand that.