/lit/ - Literature

>tom clancy
and nothing of value was lost

>>10024257
I haven't had the pleasure.

So, I've been trying to read more stuff written by female authors, but most of it doesn't suit me. I've read Austen, woolf, and Bronte (the one who wrote withering heights) but I didn't find much merit in their work. Can someone recommend me a book written by a female author that:
1. Isn't an obvious self-insertion story featuring an artistic female character
2. Isn't about a family
3. Isn't a blatant feminist moral lesson
4. Has an interesting setting (i.e NOT a family vacation house at the beach, a mansion, etc.)
5. Isn't focused on the interpersonal drama and relations of the characters
Is there even a single female author that doesn't follow these rules?

gurr angry catty haha

>>9133013
>That kid who reads at a 3rd grade level in high school
>Struggles through words and has to sound them out
>Frequently stumbles and stutters
>They're on the verge of tears the whole time
>Teacher always gives them the longest densest parts to read aloud
There's at least one in every class
Also:
>That kid who reads super fast but has no fucking idea what they are even saying

>>8879581
This.

>>8879581
>he
I thought the "Master" was Wolan/Satan and the cat was a girl called Margarita. I haven't read it.

Probably i am too dumb, but what was the deal with
>manuscripts don't burn
Its a self aware joke about how he could never openly publish master and margarita because of the communist regime? or is something else?

Master & Margarita thread i suppose

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>>8210848

Still better than anything recently I recall regarding Joyce's covers but still feels like they are trying to get the John Green/Perks of Being a Wallflower fanbase into reading his works or other indie type wannabes. I do like that edition of Ulysees just for all the historical information about it though and the letters.

The old Penguin one where it is just black with "ULYSSES" in white is probably the best they've ever done. Somehow makes the book feel more imposing.

>anything pop-sci
>anything new-atheist
>anything by Zizek, Chomsky, Foucault, or other hacks they use to signal their supeweeor intellectual intelligence
>anything entry level like 1984, Catcher in the rye, to kill a mockingbird (note: these books MUST be read in the most simplistic way ever. So 1984 is not parallel to The Divine Comedy, it's just about muh gummerment)
>anything "left-libertarian"

their best books list will be: what they were taught in high school with a few trashy modern King, Martin, Rowling, etc thrown in.

Now, if you want the most /lit/ book ever...

>>8041818

no contest

Why do Wordsworth have so many books with goofy lookin covers?

>>7890724

>>7850470
This is the cover btw

>the cover looks like shit

>organize my shelves by publication date
>B&N translation of Crime and Punishment sits in front of Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
>Augustine's Confessions next to 1992 paperback of Stephen King's The Stand
>If same publication year, I organize by the title of the book, not the author
>mfw

y'all don't know your shit