Thread 24732155

Has any woman in the past 50 years written anything worth reading? Picunrel I haven't read it

>>24732155 (OP)
idk Priory Of The Orange Tree was alright

>>24732155 (OP)
If you ever want to fuck a litchick then you must read it, or at least one book like it. Yeah they love drug addicted fuckups like Dennis Johnson and women haters like Bukowski but they expect you to say Woolfe or Honor Levy. Just perform the humiliation ritual and get on with your life as trad/right wing women don't read at all.

I liked Piranesi.

>>24732155 (OP)
nothing in the last 30 years for sure

>>24732315
personally I thought Strange and Norrell was better but I like her work

>>24732274
I have zero respect for any man that reads for women

>>24732155 (OP)
i guess maybe dideon, i haven't read her tho

>Be /lit/
>Have at least one thread hating on BookTok 24/7
>Ask /lit/ to name contemporary authors
>Anons only know BookTok authors
Pathetic. Literally teenage girl level of understanding of the literary landscape.
Now I must require every single anon in this thread to post tits, as by protocol.

>>24732155 (OP)
Rachel Kushner. I loved Creation Lake.
Louis Glück is another. The Wild Iris.
True Love by Sarah Gerard is also great, but it's extremely ragebaity. You'll probably hate it, but that's its whole purpose.

>>24732601
/lit/ doesn't read, and /lit/ SUPER doesn't read contemporary fiction, this is /lit/ 101 why are you surprised
>>24732155 (OP)
picrel's astonishingly good

>>24732155 (OP)
this book fucking sucks turds. no, they haven't.

>>24732609
>this is /lit/ 101 why are you surprised
Not suprised about that, more about the fact that they are supposed to be pseuds.
They should have googled the last female author to win a nobel, a pulitzer or a booker prize. Not the stuff you hear about on BookTok.

>American hours start
>People who read spawn in /lit/
It's sad to be an europoor sometimes.

>>24732573
>I have zero respect for any man that reads for women
I will have to console myself with getting my balls licked by a woman who reads and then her making some coffee for me.

>>24732155 (OP)

Anything by Jenny Erpenbeck is legit. I had pre-ordered Kairos and that book is fantastic. IHotel by Karen Tei Yamashita is one of my utter favorites. Louise Glueck mentioned, she's a great poet, I like Fanny Howe too. /lit/ likes Camille Paglia, so do I, Sexual Personae is a nice thick book that is very academic, very intensive to read. I recommend The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen and her poetry collection.

Honestly other than booktok romantasy slop most books are "worth reading." It's nice to see the other perspective. I definitely liked Honor Levy's book, I think /lit/izens with a contemporary bend can appreciate Sally Rooney's first and third books if you want to understand what exactly people are reading. I like Andrea Dworkin a lot, just read her memoir and Woman Hating, about to start Intercourse next. Her arguments are pretty fascinating and very hard to discredit, I admire her person.

>>24732638
Shut the fuck up simp. No one asked

>>24732933
we can smell your unwashed, unlicked balls from here incel

>>24732155 (OP)
>year or rest and relaxation
Isn't that every year for women?

>Sylvia Plath died 60 years ago

I think I'm getting old

>>24732933
>Shut the fuck up simp.
Don't listen to this virgin who knows nothing about women, they only want to lick the balls of a man they respect, if that means reading 1 fucking book with a female author. I'll take that Faustian bargain.

>>24732601
>ragebaity
I can't imagine anything that hinges on ragebait to be worth consuming.

>>24733017
>I can't imagine

>>24732155 (OP)
No one is talking about this by Patricia Lockwood is very well written but the first half is kind of nothingy in a way that's too nothingy to even say anything about how nothingy it is, second half was very good though.

>>24732274
Is this Honor Levy? No one expects anyone to read Honor Levy

>>24732155 (OP)
I haven't read it either but I like Moshfegh's short stories

>>24733187
I hope she hangs out here as much as y'all think she does. I think she's neat.

>>24733324
I had no interest in her until I looked her up and found Redditoids seething and calling her the worst author they have ever read.

>>24732274
>trad/right wing women don't read at all
Right-wing people read far less compared to liberals, and white right-wing men read way, way, WAY less than any other demographic group. There's a solid chance that /lit/ contains 1/3 to 1/2 of all white right-wing men who read in America.

>>24733324
she lurks here sometimes and shilled her book here some. I hope she knows I want to impregnate her. I hope she knows I want to coat her face in cum. I don't really care about her books at all, I just want to knock her up. Will I ever be able to do that? No. But I can think about it while jerking off to pictures of her.

>>24733360
Good for you. It’s nice to have dreams.

>>24732646
>most books are "worth reading."
So wrong it's not even funny. Given the sheer volume of good books out there and how little time people actually have to read them, the process of picking out what to read should imply selectiveness and careful consideration.

>>24732951
>>24733004
kek, i do not give a single fuck about your sexual conquest or the utter delusion that this book was responsible for getting a crumb of pussy but okay good luck getting laid anons.

>>24733187
You liar

>>24732155 (OP)
If you believe she's a woman, Elena Ferrante.

Avik Jain chatlani's This Country is No Longer Yours ain't bad i guess

Oops never mind he's a dude lol
Guess the answer is probs not

>>24732155 (OP)
>Ottessa Moshfegh
Honestly some of her books look interesting

>>24732155 (OP)
I got this as a gift (anonymous gift exchange thing, wasn't picked out specifically for me) and I read it. It's just 300 pages of a rich girl in new york whining about how depressed she is, how she doesn't like her art gallery job where she gets paid to do nothing, how she spends all of her time at home eating ice cream, watching netflix, and drinking/doing drugs all on her dead mother's dime. Then she has a weird month long drug binge locked in a dark apartment before 9/11 happens and the novel ends. I still don't know if this is supposed to be a "haha this is so me relatable" book for women or if this is the brownoid femcel author's attempt at deriding le white privilege, since the protagonist is supposed to be a pretty white woman.

lapvona was extremely good

>>24732315
Based Piranesi appreciator. Excellent book. Sort of assumes that you grew up with CS Lewis, but if so, high tier.

>>24732587
Her book about her dead husband? Is good, but mostly she was active earlier.

>>24733179
She can clearly write, but editors have allowed her to basean entire career off "so, my dad is a pritest..." and now she cannot produce actual novel-length ideas

>>24732315
I also enjoyed Piranesi, I should read that other one she did sometime.

>>24732547
>Strange and Norrell
Yeah that one.

Anything by Joan Didion or Camille Paglia. Helen Dewitt, A.S. Byatt, Arundhati Roy. There's actually a bunch, with Roy being especially significant. You did say "worth reading", not "a necessary part of the canon". I'd even throw Donna Tartt's first attempt in there as well as your pic.

>>24736299
Modern Literature is the ending of Harry Potter.

Yes, yes, well done, Men, well done, Men. You Men have written some very fine literature this year. HOWEVER...

Mieko Kanai
>>24736299
>A.S. Byatt
What the hell I thought they were a dude this whole time.
>>24733665
>>24734042
Seems like she is a woman, Anita Raja. The theory that it's her husband comes from a study that compared his and Ferrante's writing style, but the study didn't use Raja's own writing. Plus the royalties go to her.

I did some filtering on my spreadsheet I keep of what I read and I found all of these worth reading to a degree

Anaïs Nin - Delta of Venus - 1977
Nan Shepherd - The Living Mountain - 1977
Tove Jansson - Art in Nature - 1978
Anaïs Nin - Little Birds - 1979
Yūko Tsushima - Territory of Light - 1979
Fleur Jaeggy - The Water Statues - 1980
Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping - 1980
Alice Munro - The Moons of Jupiter - 1982
Annie Ernaux - A Man's Place - 1983
Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher - 1983
Fay Weldon - The Life & Loves of a She Devil - 1983
Helen Garner - The Children's Bach - 1984
Marguerite Duras - The Lover - 1984
Marguerite Duras - La Douleur - 1985
Anne Carson - Eros the Bittersweet - 1986
Jeanette Winterson - The Passion - 1987
Magda Szabó - The Door - 1987
Tatyana Tolstaya - On the Golden Porch and Other Stories - 1987
Toni Morrison - Beloved - 1987
Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen - 1988
Cynthia Ozick - The Shawl - 1989
Elfriede Jelinek - Lust - 1989
Fleur Jaeggy - Sweet Days of Discipline - 1989
Birgit Vanderbeke - The Mussel Feast - 1990
Marguerite Duras - Summer Rain - 1990
Annie Ernaux - Simple Passion - 1991
Banana Yoshimoto - Asleep - 1992
Jeanette Winterson - Written on the Body - 1992
Joyce Carol Oates - Black Water - 1992
A. S. Byatt - The Matisse Stories - 1993
A. S. Byatt - The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye - 1994
Alice Munro - Open Secrets - 1994
Fleur Jaeggy - Last Vanities - 1994
Svetlana Alexievich - Voices from Chernobyl - 1997
Aimee Bender - The Girl in the Flammable Skirt - 1998
Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red - 1998
Rose Tremain - Music & Silence - 1999
Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde - 2000
Anne Carson - The Beauty of the Husband - 2001
Fleur Jaeggy - S. S. Proleterka - 2001
Joyce Carol Oates - Rape: A Love Story - 2003
Marilynne Robinson - Gilead - 2004
Aimee Bender - Willful Creatures - 2005
Ali Smith - The Accidental - 2005
Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking - 2005
Elena Ferrante - The Lost Daughter - 2006
Jan Morris - Hav - 2006
Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - 2006
Aurora Venturini - Cousins - 2007
Han Kang - The Vegetarian - 2007
Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge - 2008
Marilynne Robinson - Home - 2008
Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness - 2009
Ana María Shua - Microfictions - 2009
Fleur Jaeggy - These Possible Lives - 2009

>>24737432
...continued
Lydia Davis - The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis - 2009
Maggie Nelson - Bluets - 2009
Mariana Enríquez - The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - 2009
Banana Yoshimoto - Moshi Moshi - 2010
Samanta Schweblin - Mouthful of Birds - 2010
Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend - 2011
Alice Munro - Dear Life - 2012
Elena Ferrante - The Story of a New Name - 2012
Selva Almada - The Wind that Lays Waste - 2012
Aimee Bender - The Color Master - 2013
Eimear McBride - A Girl is a Half-formed Thing - 2013
Eleanor Catton - The Luminaries - 2013
Elena Ferrante - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - 2013
Selva Almada - Brickmakers - 2013
Svetlana Alexievich - Second-hand Time - 2013
Fleur Jaeggy - I Am the Brother of XX - 2014
Han Kang - Human Acts - 2014
Louise Glück - Faithful and Virtuous Night - 2014
Marilynne Robinson - Lila - 2014
Olga Tokarczuk - The Books of Jacob - 2014
Samanta Schweblin - Fever Dream - 2014
Claire-Louise Bennett - Pond - 2015
Lucia Berlin - A Manual for Cleaning Women - 2015
Samanta Schweblin - Seven Empty Houses - 2015
Ali Smith - Autumn - 2016
Elizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy Barton - 2016
Han Kang - The White Book - 2016
Mariana Enríquez - Things We Lost in the Fire - 2016
Ottessa Moshfegh - Eileen - 2016
Rose Tremain - The Gustav Sonata - 2016
Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman - 2016
Ali Smith - Winter - 2017
Bora Chung - Cursed Bunny - 2017
Fernanda Melchor - Hurricane Season - 2017
Anna Burns - Milkman - 2018
Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation - 2018
Sabrina Orah Mark - Wild Milk - 2018
Samanta Schweblin - Little Eyes - 2018
Irene Solà - When I Sing, Mountains Dance - 2019
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman - Sounds Like Titanic - 2019
Mariana Enríquez - Our Share of the Night - 2019
Maggie O'Farrell - Hamnet - 2020
Marilynne Robinson - Jack - 2020
Olga Ravn - The Employees - 2020
Scholastique Mukasonga - Kibogo - 2020
Susanna Clarke - Piranesi - 2020
Maud Ventura - My Husband - 2021
Rachel Cusk - Second Place - 2021
Sarah Bernstein - The Coming Bad Days - 2021
Selva Almada - Not a River - 2021
Ottessa Moshfegh - Lapvona - 2022
Suzette Mayr - The Sleeping Car Porter - 2022
Rachel Ingalls - No Love Lost - 2023
Sarah Bernstein - Study for Obedience - 2023
Marilynne Robinson - Reading Genesis - 2024
Samanta Schweblin - Good and Evil and Other Stories - 2025

>>24737432
>Tove Jansson
That's cheating.

Helen Dewitt's The Last Samurai is one of the best novels of the 2000s, Lydia Davis and Joy Williams' microfiction is pretty awesome, and Kathy Acker is to die for. Sally Rooney is a bit corny, but she's not bad.

>>24737604
Also Olivia Laing, Rachel Cusk, Louise Gluck, Claudia Rankine, and Maggie Nelson all write some pretty interesting poetic work/ creative nonfiction/ general meditative literature.

one of the GOAT short story collections…