What are you favorite novels by female authors?

the "women can write" meme needs to fucking die

La Bâtarde, Violette Leduc

It's incredible.

Are Shelley's other novels good?

> Waaaaah, none of these boys who like me are tall enough. waaaaah I'm so depressed!

Why is this book so shit?

If only she got in the oven before she wrote this

Percy wrote all the good parts

It's just a pseudonym for christs sake

t. skull and bones

Anyone who doesn't think Middlemarch is a fantastic novel is guaranteed to be an idiot. If you don't like it, fine, but to say it isn't good writing just outs you as someone incapable of recognizing quality.

Willa Cather, Margaret Atwood,and Flannery O’Connor
This also.

Sense and Sensibility

and peaceful productivity
a pretty girl with broken wings is all that I desire

YUCK...talentless hack, glad she put her head in an oven...only honest thing she ever did

Why do so many of the best female writers have lesbian tendencies?

You should get out more.

edgy

I don’t understand?

I haven't been able to relate to any book as well as I have with the Bell Jar

Clearly

Am I supposed to infer that if I got out more I would believe that all women have lesbian tendencies?

Loved them before they turned into spineless cucks. "Knife Man" remains my favourite album.

To stay on topic - Woolf's To The Lighthouse. Also finally got to Wuthering Heights by Brontë and it was a pleasant read. Hated Heathcliff with a burning passion, what a moron.

Can't Maintain, for me.

Kristen Lavransen by Sigrid Undset and Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor.
In philosophy, Introduction to Tractatus by Amscombe and Human Condition by Hannah Arendt.

No, only that there's a great big world out there and you should test your theory before crafting such a maxim.

I've never read a book by a female author that I considered good or a favorite.

am I the only one?

Atlas Shrugged

I would like to read a woman philosopher who isn't focused on feminism.

Or a male philosopher that doesn't focus on men being better.

>Or a male philosopher that doesn't focus on men being better.

Oh user...

Amscombe, Arendt, Edith Stein. There's a whole bunch really.

uncreative

what about short stories?
ever read anything by her highness Flannery O'Conner?

seconding for arendt

But Mansfield Park and Pride and Prejudice are better.

A good man is hard to find is one of the best short story collections ever written. It made me start reading the bible.

The violent bear it away is great novel with powerful themes that only those who have found the light can understand.

one ur-Veeky Forums-patrician located

You should really check out Sigrid Undset, the other great Catholic female writer. Not sure how she's not more popular amongst Catholics because she offers one of the best portrayals of medieval Catholicism in literature in general. Alongside having some of the best characterisation you can find anywhere.

No he didn't. I was there and saw her write it all.

What do you think would be the best novel Undset novel to start with?

I couldn't believe you could not spell her name right.

lmao got him

A good man is hard to find.

Kristin Lavransdatter is the one she won the Nobel for

Lmao yeah bud you're telling me

As the other user said, it's a great place to start. It's extremely well written, but engaging and easy to read, which is a rare combination.

The House on Mango Street.

life after life is really good. There's a sequel but I can't afford it.

Friendly reminder that prose fiction is unironically meant for women, while poetry and philosophy are for men.

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Mrs Dalloway
The Passion (Jeanette Winterson)
Handmaid's Tale (but not The Blind Assassin, I thought that one sucked for some reason)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Hope mirrlees if youre into fantasy

Lucia Berlin's short stories omg

What about Du Mauriers Rebecca? Or My Cousin Rachel?

Any book by Georgette Heyer.

I love Jane Eyre

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This and Death Comes for the Archbishop are two great american novels

Earthsea series

Trudi Canavan's books. Especially her first trilogy.

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>Holy cow the plebs in this thred
Pic related is God tier

When will manlets learn?

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Donna Tartt

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>tfw never read it even though I speak the language

The Left Hand of Darkness is pretty good.

Stuff by Clarice Lispector.

Do you possibly preclude any possible recognition of female writers' greatness at the outset? Maybe you don't identify women as capable of having the qualities that makes one a "great author" (e.g. heroism, courage, stylistic 'muscularity').

>Do you possibly preclude any possible recognition of female writers' greatness at the outset?
of course he does

I always mention Nightwood in these threads.

oh, you remind me to shill my lit-fu, Anna Kavan.

Really made it satisfying to see Esther get cucked by her friend.

because the only way a for a woman to become an ethical individual is by discarding her womanness

The Story of O

Has anyone here read Elena Ferrante?

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO REKT!!;

Nothing by Janne Teller

(You)

lesbian supremacy, user

My two favorites here.

Anna Kavan especially is in my top 5 authors. Something about her writing is so surreal yet so raw.

Atlas Fugged :DDD

It's shame she get's recognition after she died.

yes, i liked it far more in the reading than in retrospect, especially when I thought it was autobiographical. In that sense it was an older woman looking back at her younger self with disgust.

At this point I think the label middle-brow (which I despise) unfortunately applies.

Great prose, but it’s a mess. Couldn’t finish it.

The fifth child by Doris Lessing
An honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch

Pussy, Queen of the Pirates by Kathy Acker