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Do you read any books written by women? Are there any books worthwhile that are written by them?
>Inb4 Ayn Rand

Alright I'll bite
>Virginia Woolf
>George Elliot
>Bronte Sisters
>Emily Dickinson (Poet)
>Sylvia Plath (Poet)
>Toni Morrison
>Margaret Atwood

>>24471475 (OP)

>Books
I like Joan Didion, Clarice Lispector, Tove Ditlevsen, Karen Tei Yamashita, Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath, Jenny Erpenbeck, Rachel Cusk. If you want to get pxssy Sally Rooney's first and third books are my favorites.

>Poetry
Louise Glueck is pretty based.

>>24471501
Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf yep. Home and Jazz are my favorite TM.

Teresa of Ávila: Interior Castle

>>24471475 (OP)
agatha christie

>>24471475 (OP)
Willa Cather is a top 5 author ever, gender notwithstanding

>>24471475 (OP)
i am reading fourth wing and it is the worst fucking thing i've ever read. in terms of real female authors, i have germaine de stael, harriet beecher stowe and camille paglia on my shelf.

>>24471475 (OP)
>>24471565
oh yeah and for genre i think i have atwood and emily tesh

>>24471475 (OP)
The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu

Shirley Jacksons a real nigga

Hilary Mantel retroactively refutes every thread on the board about how women can’t write or that contemporary writing is not as good as the 19th century classics

I like Mary Renault. The Charioteer is one of my favourite books.

Currently reading In a Lonesome Place by Dorothy Hughes which is a noir novel about a serial woman-strangler. Surprisingly accurate incelcore.

>>24471475 (OP)
I don't ready any books written by a woman. Poetry, however, is a partial exception. As >>24471501
pointed out, Emily Dickinson is actually quite good.

Are there any legitimately good romantasies? Even just one.

>read thread
>0 (zero) mentions of Ms. Flan O'Connor
You guys don't know what's good. Read her LOA collection and savoured every page.

>>24471475 (OP)
Nobody going to mention OPs pic is from Moomin and written by a woman?

>>24471475 (OP)
Bronte, Austen

>>24471475 (OP)
Silvina and Victoria Ocampo, Virginia Woolf.
Wow, I don't read them a lot.

Twp stand out. Both books were easy reading without being low brow. Very unique and creative. No "woke" or preaching. Both prominent female MCs, noth female authors. I cant remember the authors names or titles, but I could describe the shit out of both books. Someone might recognize them. When I find quality? I admit it. However. Female authors and combined with female MCs? These two were hit out of the park examples, and were exceptions, not rules.

>>24471475 (OP)
Jelinek, Anne Rice

Willa Cather (rhymes with rather). I will shill this woman at every opportunity. She is an indisputable master of prose and poetry. See:
>You shall hear the tale again—
>Hush, my red-haired daughter.”
>Brightly burned the sunset gold
>On the black pond water
>Red the pasture ridges gleamed
>Where the sun was sinking.
>Slow the windmill rasped and wheezed
>Where the herd was drinking.
>On the kitchen doorstep low
>Sat a Swedish mother;
>In her arms one baby slept,
>By her sat another.
>“All time, ’way back in old countree,
>Your grandpa, he been good to me.
>Your grandpa, he been young man, too,
>And I been yust li’l’ girl, like you.
>All time in spring, when evening come,
>We go bring sheep an’ li’l’ lambs home.
>We go big field, ’way up on hill,
>Ten times high like our windmill.
>One time your grandpa leave me wait
>While he call sheep down. By de gate
>I sit still till night come dark;
>Rabbits run an’ strange dogs bark,
>Old owl hoot, an’ your modder cry,
>She been so ’fraid big bear come by.
>Last, ’way off, she hear de sheep,
>Li’l’ bells ring and li’l’ lambs bleat.
>Then all sheep come over de hills,
>Big white dust, an’ old dog Nils.
>Then come grandpa, in his arm
>Li’l’ sick lamb dat somet’ing harm.
>He so young then, big and strong,
>Pick li’l’ girl up, take her ’long,—
>Poor li’l’ tired girl, yust like you,—
>Lift her up an’ take her too.
>Hold her tight an’ carry her far,—
>’Ain’t no light but yust one star.
>Sheep go ‘bah-h,’ an’ road so steep;
>Li’l’ girl she go fast asleep.”
>Every night the red-haired child
>Begs to hear the story,
>When the pasture ridges burn
>With the sunset glory.
>She can never understand,
>Since the tale ends gladly,
>Why her mother, telling it,
>Always smiles so sadly.
>Wonderingly she looks away
>Where her mother’s gazing;
>Only sees the drifting herd,
>In the sunset grazing.
and
>The dawn in the east looked like the light from some great fire that was burning under the edge of the world. The color was reflected in the globules of dew that sheathed the short gray pasture grass. Carl walked rapidly until he came to the crest of the second hill, where the Bergson pasture joined the one that had belonged to his father. There he sat down and waited for the sun to rise. It was just there that he and Alexandra used to do their milking together, he on his side of the fence, she on hers. He could remember exactly how she looked when she came over the close-cropped grass, her skirts pinned up, her head bare, a bright tin pail in either hand, and the milky light of the early morning all about her. Even as a boy he used to feel, when he saw her coming with her free step, her upright head and calm shoulders, that she looked as if she had walked straight out of the morning itself. Since then, when he had happened to see the sun come up in the country or on the water, he had often remembered the young Swedish girl and her milking pails.

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>>24471475 (OP)
Snufkin is literally me

I read that one book Convenience Store Woman and was thoroughly entertained. I should make an effort to read more female authors.

>>24471724
i second this. she is a genius

...was*

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>>24471546
Ball knowers. Too many /lit/izens haven’t tapped in to Death Comes for the Archbishop or the Great Plains trilogy

I only read Esther Vilar and it was pretty shite even for a Chud like me