Favourite books by women?
>>24111909My favorite book is "My First Book" by Honor Levy
Ella Enchanted was one of the loveliest books I've ever read.
Agua Viva
Amongst the best books I have read in recent memory.A writer of ex Yugoslovia writing about the exile, refugee and dissolution of the country and the aftermath on a personal level.And the way people avoided confronting the less savory aspects of their own behaviour dring the war at several levels.Quite critical of the nationalism that destroyed her country.
The Bluest Eye is one of the most horrifying, disgusting, beautiful works of literature. I'll never read it again but it's excellent.
Le Guin is peak. I also enjoyed pic related a lot. and Nevada by Imogen Binnie
>>24112041I thought it'd be something like the Story of the Eye or the Necrophiliac. Not sure if I should be relieved or disappointed.
>>24111909In this list I've only read "La Pesanteur et la Grâce" but it's pretty great, I reread it often.
wuthering heights.
itz something i relate to cuz of my pre quarantine lifestyle.
>>24111909Nobody talks enough about her
Haven't read any of these but, let me guess, they fit one of the following criteria:>romantic relationships>hardship deriving from a relationship>hardships related to some form of sexuality>some idealistic idea of how the world ought to be with some unintentionally communistic undertone.Does that cover roughly 80% of these books?
>>24114300Agua Viva doesn't fit any of these criteria. Try again.
>>24111909Wuthering Heights is the only one I've read, so I guess that's my favorite.
>>24114300No, a good number could be reduced to the first two if you want to cling to your sad little world view but anyone who has read them will think you are mentally challenged.
>>24111909My mom wrote a book and it's my favorite. I love my mom <3
>>24111909I don't really have one?
>>24111909Harry Potter by JK Rolling in loadsamoney
Any recommendations from Simone Weil? I know Camus talks about her, but I haven't finished anything by a woman. I started Bastard out of Carolina, but it got too depressing
>>24111909I really liked Beloved
>>24112034Were you the anon who recommended this book a while back? If so then thank you for the rec, it is indeed very interesting. I particularly liked how the narrator was forced to confront her own milquetoast liberalism near the end. She got it coming for a long time on account of all the holier-than-thou Tito dicksucking she forced on her students who just wanted to forget and move on.>>24111909When it comes to Western novels, Willa Cather's Death comes for the Archbishop is definitely one of the most underrated desu. Barely any zoomers or even millenials I know have ever heard of her, which is a shame since she offered such a unique perspective on the time period.
>>24111909Campo, Gli imperdonabiliDarrieussecq, Pig TalesDuras, Destroy She SaidJaeggy, Sweet Days of DisciplineLaure, WritingsRachilde, Monsieur VenusSarraute, TropismsTaubes, Lament for JuliaWeil, Gravity and GraceWittkop, The NecrophiliacZürn, Dark Spring
>>24115925Jaeggy and Duras are astounding. Great list, want to get into Sarraute especially but have never heard of Rachilde or Wittkop
limiting myself to one book per authorMarilynne Robinson - GileadVirginia Woolf - The WavesGeorge Eliot - Silas MarnerIvy Compton-Burnett - Manservant and MaidservantFlannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other StoriesElizabeth von Arnim - The Enchanted AprilAnne Carson - NoxJane Bowles - Two Serious LadiesElfriede Jelinek - LustSelva Almada - Not a RiverShirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the CastleLucia Berlin - A Manual for Cleaning Women
>>24111909>favorite booksFinally a good thread that will lead to great discussion>by womenruined
>>24115983you're commenting in a thread where people are talking about elfriede jelinek and darrieussecq
>>24115988holes holes everywhere and not a book to read
>>24116000what have you read of the works represented in this thread
>>24115164As a coomer I prefer My Ántonia
>>24111909The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Gone Girl, Dark Places, and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn.
>>24111909Wild seed by octavia butler.The rest of the series ranges from not so good to hot trash but wild seed is a masterpiece.
>>24116000people on /lit/ will find any excuse to not read a book
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>>24112273i’m a few pages into this and i love it
Frankenstein was one of the few books by a female author that I enjoyed Which makes me suspect that her husband really wrote it
