Thread 24506166 - /lit/ [Archived: 766 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/29/2025, 4:59:46 PM No.24506166
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>Harry Potter
>Frankenstein
>Pride and Prejudice
These are the only books I've read in my entire life that were (ostensibly) written by women.
Are there any others I should spend my limited time on Earth reading or should I stick with male authors?
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:15:01 PM No.24506325
>>24506166 (OP)
Clarice Lispector
Gertrude Stein
Djuna Barnes
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:56:22 PM No.24506424
>>24506325
lol
but seriously, any good female authors hidden out there in the sea of jeet?
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 7:10:05 PM No.24506456
>>24506166 (OP)
I'm not even Catholic, but Teresa of Avila is worth reading.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 7:17:27 PM No.24506476
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>>24506166 (OP)
If you like sci-fi, check ou CJ Cherryh, especially pic related.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 7:20:46 PM No.24506487
Sappho
George Eliot, particularly Middlemarch
The rest of Jane Austen
Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji
Virginia Woolf
Doris Lessing
Carson McCullers
Flanney O'Connor
Eudora Welty
Toni Morrison
Annie Ernaux
Hilary Mantel
Colette
George Sand
Marguerite Yourcenar
Mary McCarthy
Camille Paglia
Donna Tartt
Helen DeWitt
St. Teresa of Avila
Ursula K. Le Guin
Margaret Mitchell
Mary Renault
Daphne du Maurier
Shirley Jackson
Hildegard of Bingen
Gwendolyn Brooks
Clarice Lispector
Isabel Allende
Zadie Smith
Simone de Beauvoir
Arundhati Roy
Iris Murdoch
Simone Weil
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Susanna Clarke
Emily Dickinson


It's not a complete list and you probably won't like all of them but they're at least worth you're time. Also Harry Potter is shit.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 7:23:03 PM No.24506496
Sappho
George Eliot, particularly Middlemarch
The rest of Jane Austen
Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji
Virginia Woolf
Doris Lessing
Carson McCullers
Flanney O'Connor
Eudora Welty
Toni Morrison
Annie Ernaux
Hilary Mantel
Colette
George Sand
Marguerite Yourcenar
Mary McCarthy
Camille Paglia
Donna Tartt
Helen DeWitt
St. Teresa of Avila
Ursula K. Le Guin
Margaret Mitchell
Mary Renault
Daphne du Maurier
Shirley Jackson
Hildegard of Bingen
Gwendolyn Brooks
Clarice Lispector
Isabel Allende
Zadie Smith
Simone de Beauvoir
Arundhati Roy
Iris Murdoch
Simone Weil
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Susanna Clarke
Emily Dickinson

It's not a complete list and you won't like all of them but they're worth your time. Also Harry Potter is shit.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 7:52:56 PM No.24506567
Anna Kavan's Ice is worth the read.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 7:56:12 PM No.24506574
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>>24506166 (OP)
overall frankenstien (the only book "written" by a female that ive read) is boring shit but you can really tell the parts that percy just wrote entirely himself like that ending speech frank gives to the sailors who want to sail back
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 9:41:53 PM No.24506769
>>24506166 (OP)
>ostensibly
Come on now
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 9:52:11 PM No.24506805
>>24506166 (OP)
You should read some of Austen's other stuff. Emma is my favorite book of hers.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:27:14 AM No.24508127
>>24506769
problem?