Are there any female authors you actually enjoy?
>>25488298Was this taken the day she tried to drown herself?
I enjoyed Piranesi by Susanna Clarke thoroughly.
Yeah. I love Flanary O'Connor and Virginia Wolfe and I really like Carson McCullers and Emily Dickinson.
Yes, actually. Mix of modern/classic/contemporary off the top of my head>Clarice Lispector>Margaret Cavendish>Emily Dickinson>Flannery O'Connor>Virginia Woolf>Missouri Williams>Joy Williams>Lydia Davis>Toni Morrison>Theresa Hak Kyung Cha>Qiu Miaojin>Alice Munro
>>25488298I recently read To The Lighthouse and liked it, I also enjoyed Frankenstein.
>>25488298Emily Dick-in-son and Clarice Lispector
Only female writer I ever liked was Evelyn Waugh. All the rest were pure cancer.
jk rowling
>>25488560Kek
nghi vo, susanna clarke
>>25488298Virginia Woolf, Flannery O'Connor, Jennifer Egan
>>25488298I didn't realize she was actually hot. Then what the fuck was she so sad about exactly?
>>25488298donna tartt
>>25488298elena ferrante
>>25488298I don't consider their gender. Good writing is good writing and a not insignificant number of male writers are massive faggots who don't deserve to share the share the title writer alongside the likes mentioned by anon here >>25488364
>>25488298Ursula Le Guin
>>25488298Austen and Lispector. Eudora Welty too but only for nostalgia, really. I don't read her very much. I can't think of any others.
Ayn Rand
Shirley Jackson
>>25489386LOL
>>25489389She is like leagues above every other female author.
Agatha Christie. JK Rowling. Tanith Lee.I still haven’t touched books by Mary Shelley, Le Guin, Jane Austen. But chances are I would enjoy them too.
>>25489393Forgot Butler, Atwood, and Joanna Russ, and Susan Sontag.
>>25488298Just one, and I'm not sharing her with you animals.
>>25488298no
>>25488298I enjoy her body of work
>>25488298All the ones I can think of offhand published under male pseudonyms for significant parts of their career.
>>25488298No.
Enjoy sure. I've yet to read any that I felt were transformative or that left an imprint on my soul, but I don't think they're supposed to, I am a man.
>>25489695Have you read Lispector?
>>25489719I have not. What would you recommend?
>>25489730NTA but start with>Near to the Wild Heartwhich is her first novel, or >Family Tieswhich is her best collection of short stories. Neither of these is her best work but a) they're still extremely good and b) it's better to start here to get used to her subject matter and style, otherwise you might bounce off the other novels. If you read and like one of those then>The Passion According to GHis probably her best novel as novel, sculptor squishes a cockroach and has an existential crisis. Lispector's great -- think a really intense combination of Beckett, Woolf, Kafka, and Joyce
>>25489730IATA and this anon >>25489763 has good recommendations.
>>25488298>femaleAnyway, Marguerite Yourcenar and Nathalie Sarraute.
Plath, Le Guin, many non-fiction writers, Sappho
>>25489763To add to this>Hour of the StarMy favourite from her and generally considered her best novel>Água VivaThis one is weird, if you like experimental stuff go for it, it's short enough to warrant a read
Cynthia Ozick for sure>>25489719Right, Lispector as well, though very hard to read actually. Very dense.LeGuin I need to read more of, the "Winter" book was extrmeley good.
>>25488298Mary ShelleyCharlotte SmithJane AustenElizabeth CookColleen McCullough
>>25488298Olga tokarczuk
>>25488298I guess a few female historians count.
Do trans women count?
Noether, KovalevskayaSappho might be good but never read her
>>25490129the cunt who publishes AI slop?
For me it's cutting-edge investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen.
Women were discouraged from writing for the majority of history, its no wonder there aren't as many female writers
Yumiko KurahashiRenee Vivian
>>25490401Yeah so then it might actually be good
>>25490107>Mary ShelleyYou enjoyed The Last Man? That's really the only decent work she wrote. Her husband's novel Frankenstein was exceptionally good though.
Just finished Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and it was extremely good.
Shirley Jackson is really good. I think she is misread as simple genre horror, but she's more like Kafka with a different symbology.
>>25490425>publishes AI slopHer latest publication is from 2022. The next latest is 2014. I didn't realize advanced LLMs were available to the public in 2022 let alone 2014.
for sure. there are plenty out there.
The racist ones (Flannery O'Connor)
Who's the female equivalent of Lovecraft?
>>25488298Peachy Keenan
>>25495256Best guess is Ana María Matute but she’s more like the Spanish Edgar Allan Poe
>>25488298Best sci-fi/fantasy author of all time coming through.
Best fantasy starting point
>>25495549You’re a moron.
Best sci-fi starting point
>>25488350>>25488364>>25488636>>25494067flannery is absolute bae man, basically any of her short shorties pisses in a graceful arch over whatever tolstoevskian borefest these cretins want to make you believe is so profoundfuck's sake man just this alone>The air was so quiet he could hear the broken pieces of the sun knocking in the water.just this single line alone is worth more than some entire nations' literature combined, not to mention southern gothic as a wholebless this cutie, bless her soul
>>25488298>Edith Hamilton >Colleen McCullough>Lindsey Davis>Diane Duane
>>25496237I asked ChatGPT to steelman this and it said “you’re a moron” was broadly correct It also said C.L. Moore was an actual good choice and I’d never heard of herAlso Lovecraft liked her stuff
>>25488298Emily and Anne Brontë. I don’t like Charlotte. J. K. Rowling, unironically.Otherwise I don’t recall having read the work of any women.
>>25489684>>25489684This shit threw me off to learn because thepl parts she wrote were boomer dude core as fuck
>>25496238Based this book is so fucking good
Ursula Le Guin. Louise Simonson if you like comics has a pretty good record.
Signed Undset is great.
No mentions of George Eliot?
i like jane austen, elizabeth taylor (the english novelist not mrs. richard burton), charlotte bronte, iris murdoch, and the ‘homer’ who wrote the odyssey.
>>25488298Clarice Lispector and Lygia Fagundes
>>25488298E.B.B
>>25498542This joke is too esoteric for me, explain?
>>25490776I liked her darpa book but she lost a lot of potential fans on the joe rogan by teasing her book for more info. Dummy joe hated that she kept telling him to read, motherfucker doesnt read!
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