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>google search best novels of 2020
>giant list
>all female authors

>> No.16391614

>>16391264
I mean you're just asking for it at that point. What the fuck did you expect?

>> No.16391637

women are the majority of readers. it makes sense that women would like the shit other women like and write.

>> No.16391687

why are you looking up novels from 2020.
they are literally all unknown quantities and bound to be shit since they've only just been read by "critics".

>> No.16391696

>>16391687
have you tried forming your own opinion?

>> No.16391699

These sorts of things are always astroturfed by people who think by pretending that women or blacks are good writers, women and blacks will actually become good writers.

>> No.16391957

Rule nr 1 of /lit/: Never read an author who is still alive.

>> No.16391971

>>16391696
Calm down, slut. Your trash fanfic will probably get published if you pretend to be black or something

>> No.16391981

>>16391957
Got it, time to kill Thomas Pynchon.

>> No.16392376

>>16391637
Wrong. The reality is that publishing houses and editorial staffs are full of third wave feminists. It’s just idpol.

>> No.16392774

>>16391687
Some poor nigga has to read them and find out which ones are good

>> No.16393762

>>16391264
I remember when Zoe Quinn was on some list somewhere as someone of note for something. I can't remember the details, just that she was being lauded for who she is and what she had done. I think it was right around the time that she released her book.

I suddenly realized that some talent manager at the company that published her book probably paid for her to be included on this list as a marketing thing.

And then I got mad. Also, it's ironic given the original "dishonest journalism" shit behind gamergate in the first place AND THEY NEVER LEARNED.

>> No.16393786

>years not even over
>even of the books that are out, most people haven't read them
>the only person close to being qualified to approximate an answer like this is someone like Steve Donoghue who skims anyway
Just wait for DeLillo's new novel to drop in a few weeks.

>> No.16393818
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>>16391264
I'm reposting my Barnes and Noble story, this happened two weeks ago:

>be me get recs for interesting authors and books here, download PDFs and listen to audio books and even get some from Amazon
>get fairy well versed in Philosophy and am generally now able to enjoy reading since government schooling ruined that for me by forcefeeding me horribly uninteresting garbage.
>decide to drop my barnes & noble, haven't been there since I was a kid
>as I'm driving up to to the parking lot for a place to park see "BLACK LIVES MATTER!" in writing on the back of some shitty SUV takes my attention and disgust
>slam on my breaks
>almost hit an old woman cause I was distracted
>roll down my window and apologize
>park
>get out of my car
>halfway to the entrance and I realize I forgot my mask and they'll freak out and call the cops if I don't have it
>get mask
>lets try this again
>see some disgusting faggot with a scarf, glasses and a latte walking up to the entrance
>enter
>it's all women
>not a single male
>look at books surrounding me
>all complete trash
>expecting some sort of Philosophy or history section
>nothing but poppy garbage from the last five years
>quickly stroll through the aisles looking for a decent section
>literally all garbage
>find "religion"
>"living under jihad"
>"the diary of anne frank"
>"how Judaism built america"
>"st Augustine's life lessons"
>"anne of green gables"
>"Hitler's religion: twisted beliefs of the third reich"
>"pride and prejudice"
>nope out and try again
>get to the back
>are you fucking kidding me
>an entire kids toy section decked out with legos and everything
>start backing away
>turn around
>AN ENTIRE FUCKING WALL OF FUNKO POP DOLLS THIRTY FEET LONG
>AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
>make straight for the exit
>apparently they have some cafe where faggots can drink their lattes
>get to my car
>open /lit/ to calm myself, browse for 10 minutes
>go get some bacon and fill up gas
>go home.

Holy shit, I thought reading was supposed to make people smart and appeal to smart people. Is this really the best our society can do in the name of books and literature?

>> No.16394454

>>16391264
once in a while I recommend new releases here, from both male and female authors, mostly unknown, but I get either no or negative response 9 times out of 10

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16394520

>>16391264
Why would you care about reading anything contemporary when you could spend several lifetimes reading the classics and not finish?

>> No.16394542

>>16394520
Somewhere out there is the literary genius of our age, toiling away in anonymity. It is our duty to discover him.

>> No.16394614

>>16394542
That's me. I'll let you know when I finish my novel.

>> No.16394669

>>16391264
try googling "white american engineer".
it'll explain everything.

>> No.16394687

>>16392376
the truth

>> No.16394688

>>16393818
>I thought reading was supposed to make people smart and appeal to smart people
kek
books are a medium just like any other, and parallel to how the ratio of good movies to horrid pop-culture cash grabs is one to a thousand at least, most of books since reading became accessible to a wide audience have been, well - what you saw.

>> No.16394728

>>16393818
>Holy shit, I thought reading was supposed to make people smart and appeal to smart people.
Why would you think that? I think you took cartoons a little too serious as a kid.

>> No.16394742

Stop playing video games and start supporting male authors you do like

>> No.16394778

>>16394742
I will never catch up to support living authors as I started chronological process to consume every interesting work since the first century. Little did I know, there is a lot of interesting stuff to go through and the more I advance the slower it gets to reach our time.

>> No.16394815

Is there really a single novel worth reading that is post WW2?
I really fucking doubt it.

>> No.16394822

>>16391264
I don't even bother reading modern lit. It's nothing but modern neurosis over race, sex, gender, etc.

>> No.16395183

>>16394669
different case. OP searched "best novel", not "<gender> best novel".
https://nypost.com/2020/08/10/why-googling-white-american-doctor-shows-image-results-of-black-doctors/