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[Anonymous No.2390608]

how many books by a female author are on your shelf?

[Anonymous No.2390612]

HAHAHAHA YOU FUNNY OP

[Anonymous No.2390615]

17 out of around 60

[Anonymous No.2390618]

6 or 7

[Anonymous No.2390619]

23.

History has been unkind to women writers.

[Anonymous No.2390624]

Zero.
I am completely serious.

[Anonymous No.2390629]

Zero. But I am totally thinking of buying Como Agua Para Chocolate and Frankenstein.

[Anonymous No.2390632]

At least 20. But it's out of more than 600.

[Anonymous No.2390635]

>>2390608
8 or 9 out of 200-300 books.

I should rectify this.

[Anonymous No.2390636]

>>2390632
post shelf

[Anonymous No.2390638]

Nil.

[Anonymous No.2390641]

13 out of 65.

[Anonymous No.2390643]

None.

I haven't found any of any interest whatsoever.

[Anonymous No.2390646]

>>2390636
I will post pictures of my shelves some day. But I need to buy/borrow a camera first.

[Anonymous No.2390648]

Three. Virginia Woolf was awesome

[Anonymous No.2390654]

My girlfriend reads Kelley Armstrong and she has an output of about seven books a week of shitty YA vampire fiction, so about 700 or so.

[3rd No.2390661]

Without going up and checking the paperback shelf, looking from here, sixteen.

Ouch.

[Anonymous No.2390657]

3 and 1 as co-author plus 6 essay collections that definitely have some by women in them out of 87 (I may have a few more with female contributors that I haven't confirmed).

I'm not proud.

[Anonymous No.2390673]

[Sebastian Lyons !tEapFcFYdE No.2390697]

lol

[Anonymous No.2390701]

One and it was for school...

[Anonymous No.2390705]

Three

[Anonymous No.2390707]

12 visible to me right now. There might be more but I can't be bothered to look.

[Anonymous No.2390711]

2, not including the various novels spread throughout anthologies.

[Anonymous No.2390716]

None.

I think The Fountainhead is on the floor somewhere though.

[Anonymous No.2390717]

Lots. I have the complete collection of Agatha Christie's works.

[Jeff Mangum Died For Your Sins !rAl8Mz2mp2 No.2390720]

On the small shelf above my computer alone, 11/36.

[Anonymous No.2390741]

All of them. And I have a ton. All male authors project their ego through their writing which is bloated by their sex and privilege. Can't stand works written by male authors.

[Anonymous No.2390742]

26/230
that doesn't include books by multiple authors where some are female

[Ludwig !9CUY39dDYo No.2390752]

I have every book Margaret Atwood has ever written.

I'm not trolling.

[Anonymous No.2390788]

Four of fifteen here at Uni. Two are Plath's poems and journals, one is a collection of Edna St. Vincent Millay, and the last is a Mary Pope Osbourne for the people in the rafters.

Back at home, I'd hazard a guess that maybe five percent of what I have was written by a woman. Honestly, most female authors these days are writing YA romance shit. The ones who aren't are working in television or, like KA Applegate, should be.

[Anonymous No.2390823]

>>2390741
I know that this is a troll but I'm often gobsmacked by the cleverly-phrased but fundamentally DUMB Grand Statements on Life and Shit by male writers that have made their way into the canon seemingly on pure ballsiness - give me a more humble but less ridiculous and ego-driven domestic drama by one'a them unambitious, small-minded lady authors any day. Of course, you can always pick up a Franzen joint and get the worst of both worlds.

[Anonymous No.2390836]

>e/lit/ists who say none should be ashamed because Frankenstein

[Anonymous No.2390849]

>>2390836
the best is when some 15-year-old misogynist comes on /lit/ to make a thread about how no woman has ever written a readable book besides mary shelley and jk rowling. like, even if you're an aspie nerd who attributes his eternal virginity to the irrational, vapid nature of women, lrn2 some ursula leguin

[listserv !!Wqo2DQRkhKC No.2390854]

The shelf in my dorm has seven books. Three of them are by women: The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak, An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison, and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.

[Anonymous No.2390863]

I have a lot of books by women: they're all Star Trek novels and Sharon Green "bondage barbarian sex slave" sword and sorcery novels though. I do have everything by Lizette Woodworth Reese though. Hell of a Poet

[Anonymous No.2390864]

Do short stories count?

[Anonymous No.2390873]

>>2390864


Shirley Jackson was a great writer.

And for modern writers, Suzanna Clarke is one of the best prose stylists writing today.

[Anonymous No.2390877]

>>2390863


Tell me more of these "bondage barbarian sex slave" novels of which you speak

[Anonymous No.2390886]

One. Sylvia Plath's, The Bell Jar.

[Anonymous No.2390893]

>>2390886
that's a good start

[Anonymous No.2390897]

>>2390877
In the seventies and eighties, a writer named Sharon Green wrote a bnch of "reverse Gor" novels. In pretty much all of them, a well-educated uperclass, fastidius, arrogant, whatever woman-the protagonist-- goes into a primitive male-dominated culture for some civilized reason. In a about a chapter and a half she's naked, bound, led around on a leash, lightly tortured and put through all concievable tyoes os sexual and social degradation, finds out she likes it, despiute of hating herself for liking it, blah blah blah, for the next four hundred pages or so, Very PC, as I'm sure you've guessed.

As this stuff goes, it's remarkably well written. Light-years beyond that Gor shit, I think women just write this kind of thing better than men, for some reason.

She's the Andre Norton of hard core barbarian rape fantasy.

[Anonymous No.2390905]

It's obvious that women in general are not literally geniuses. Some are. Most are not. Get over it.

[Anonymous No.2390906]

>>2390849
Hey, speaking of Le Guin, I've been meaning to start the Hainish Cycle, and I was wondering if I should read them chronologically, or the order in which they were published.

[Anonymous No.2390916]

>>2390905
Same with men, though.

[Sir Namefag the Queer !.7yzW7gp5Q No.2390918]

6
Complete Works - Jane Austen
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Mythology - Edith Hamilton
A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
The Ethics of Ambiguity - Simone de Beauvoir

[Anonymous No.2390923]

>>2390897


I've read a couple of these!
Weirdly, all her fans are women.
and they ARE pretty well written.

[Anonymous No.2390955]

>>2390897
The first few Gor books were much better-written than the subsequent ones. Maybe not the first one.

[Anonymous No.2390982]

There aren't many good movies created by women either. Women just aren't very creative.

[Anonymous No.2391003]

0 out 49

the second number will surely increase
the first one? I don't think so

[Anonymous No.2391019]

The Second Sex
Ethics of Ambiguity

>having Ayn Rand on your shelf
ISHYGDDTS

[Anonymous No.2391023]

>>2391019
Ayn Rand is on my shelf as a reminder of what NOT to do.

And hey, does anyone here like Toni Morrison?
I really liked Beloved.

[Anonymous No.2391027]

>>2390982

are there even women directing films? holy shit

[Anonymous No.2391033]

>>2391027

Karen Bigelow is pretty awesome, you ignorant dick.

Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the greatest, most pioneering directors of all time. shame about the nazi stuff

[Anonymous No.2391038]

>>2391033

Kathryn Bigelow. Don't drink and post kids.

[Anonymous No.2391046]

4 I think.

I can't stand female authors if i'm to be entirely honest. It's rare to find a female author who has a writing style that I don't find tedious.

[The Importance of Being On Time and Being !dAqyKvNZuA No.2391055]

>>2390608
3/46.
A Pocket Style Manual~Diana Hacker
Oryx and Crake~Atwood
Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction ~Catherine Belsey

[Anonymous No.2391061]

122, but that doesn't count the books by female authors I got from the library and read. Also doesn't count anthologies which probably include female authors in them.

The number has been increasing quite a bit lately, since I'm finding so many more female authors I'm interested in.

[Anonymous No.2391064]

>>2391061
Oh, and that's out of about 700. So it's actually a sadly small percentage.

[Anonymous No.2391067]

>>2391055

mfw I know one of the authors on that list.

Cate Belsey is friends with my wife

[Anonymous No.2391068]

7 of 80.

[▒ R E I ▒ !Ry9ZOO5Ag. No.2391069]

>>2391033

>shame about the nazi stuff

"SHAME"?

HER BEST WORKS WERE "PROPAGANDIST DOCUMENTARIES" FOR THE THIRD REICH.

ALSO, YOU PROBABLY DO NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE NAZI.

[Anonymous No.2391072]

Seems like 10% or so is the average percentage people here have of female authors in their libraries.

Honestly, seems like a decent number considering the huge dearth of female authors until the past couple of centuries.

[Anonymous No.2391081]

>>2390661
Which sixteen are they?

[Anonymous No.2391083]

>>2391069

Don;t assume you know anything about me you cunt.

[Anonymous No.2391094]

Loads actually -

Scarlett Thomas
Val McDiarmid
Helene Cixous
Sara Paretsky
Immodesty Blaize
Sylvia Plath
Carol Anne Duffy
Edna St. Vincent Millais
Anna Akhmatova
Mary Shelley
Elizabeth Browning
George Eliot
Kathy Acker
Natsuo Kirino
Jane Austen
Isabel Allende
HD
Zzzzzzelda Fitzgerald.

There are more, especially critical stuff, but I won't continue with the list. I'm boring myself.

[Anonymous No.2391096]

I actually have 11. Most of them are fiction.

[Anonymous No.2391097]

I have a self-help book, a book on writing, a cook-book, and that prize-winning book by Hertha Müller I can't recall the name of.

That's 4 books. I think that's like 0,00?% of my collection.

Sucks to be woman author in this bitch.

[Anonymous No.2391100]

>>2391097
How many books do you have in total? I'm bad at math/percentages.

[Anonymous No.2391117]

>>2391094

Actually I am going to continue. It may help me sleep, there are fucking loads of them here. I never realised.

Wendy Cope
PD James
Flannery O'Connor
Carson McCullers
Erica Jong
Julia Kristeva
Victoria Coren
Ursula LeGuin
Anita Brookner (all my hate, all of it)
Arundhati Roy
Iris Murdoch
Helen Zahavi
Christina Rosetti
Alice Walker
Anais Nin (fap fap fap)
is Harper Lee a woman's name?

I confirm myself as the most bitched out c/lit/ on this board, because even this isn't all of them.

[Anonymous No.2391126]

>>2391100
Just made an estimation. Around 250, so not as many as I thought.

[Anonymous No.2391195]

not including ebooks: 13.5 (one was a collaboration) out of 143. Nine were non-fiction and not sure if those count.

[Anonymous No.2391203]

Shit, four actually.

Pic Related.

[Anonymous No.2391248]

I moved recently and never took my books out of storage. I've got about 60% of one shelf full now and out of 13 books, four are by women and one's edited by one: I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita, Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards, The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith, and The Best American Comics 2011 ed. Alison Bechdel.

[Anonymous No.2391268]

In the spirit of >>2391094 & >>2391117, I'm doing mine too.

Isabel Allende
Sawako Ariyoshi
Ikuko Atsumi
Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen
Lilian Jackson Braun
Charlotte Bronte
Pearl S. Buck
Leonora Carrington
Angela Carter
Kate Chopin
Agatha Christie
Sandra Cisneros
Suzane Collins
Rebecca Copeland
Marguerite Duras
Fumiko Enchi
Elizabeth Gaskell
Shizuko Go
Hannah Green
PD James
Tove Jansson
Diana Wyne Jones
Anna Kava
Susana Kaysen
Natsuo Kirino
Satoko Kizaki
Aya Koda
Madeleine L'Engle
Ursula LeGuin
Clarice Lispector
Lois Lowry
Ooka Makota
Carson McCullers
Jan Morris
Kuniko Mukoda
Shikibu Murasaki
Audrey Niffenegger
Anais Nin

[Anonymous No.2391270]

>>2391268
Yoko Ogawa
Kanoko Okamoto
Sylvia Plath
Cherie Priest
Anne Rice
comtesse de Ségur
Mary Shelley
Sei Shonagon
Muriel Spark
Wislawa Szymborska
Yukiko Tanaka
Olga Tokarczuk
Sakae Tsuboi
Yuko Tsushima
Chiyo Uno
Liliana Ursu
Edith Wharton
Virginia Woolfe
Hui Wu
Can Xue
Hong Xiao
Akiko Yosano
Banana Yoshimoto
Marguerite Yourcenar
Unica Zurn

and I also have various female author anthologies, mostly for Japanese women.

[Anonymous No.2391278]

I have bechdel's fun home, and another one about some old lesbian lady who was put into a home and burned it down after being mistreated by a nurse (can't remember the name).

And then I harry plotter

[Anonymous No.2391288]

>>2391268
>>2391270

Yo bro, bitchfist.

gynolit 5eva

[Anonymous No.2391312]

Female authors on my bookshelf as far as I remember:
Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
Margaret McMillan
Phyllis Grosskurth
Rozsa Peter
Marjane Satrapi
Betty Friedan
Susan Faludi
Susan Brownmiller
Barbara Ehrenreich
Margaret Mead
Carol Lay
Ursula LeGuin
Dorothy Parker
hmm probably more

[kris No.2391314]

Beauvoir - A Very Easy Death
Proulx - The Shipping News

And I'm pretty sure that's it. I just packed nearly all of my books into boxes for moving, so I can't really check.

[Anonymous No.2391353]

fuck way to call me out op
3
the guns of august
the edible woman
an obscure french comic book

i'm a (i believe rational and kind) misogynist so this doesn't bother me that much but i admit to being a bit surprised

[Anonymous No.2391371]

i don't have access to my full bookshelf right now. on the bookshelf i have with me - collected stries of lydia davis. second sex. some rosa luxemburg, can't recall what. a maria edgeworth bok. the human condition, hannah arendt. a bunch of other arendt stuff. oh a cathrynn m valente thing as well. i think that's it.

[Anonymous No.2391376]

Possibly three or four, not counting anthologies. These were purchased as a necessity for my course. I would like to read a decent book by a woman, but I don't know of any that would appeal to me.

[Anonymous No.2391381]

>>2391376
what appeals to you bud

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2391385]

Eight so far.

I probably have twice that on my want list.

[Anonymous No.2391386]

>>2391376
For real, tell us some of your favorite male authors or something. We could make this double as a recommendations thread.

[Anonymous No.2391392]

>>2391389
whatd you think of eichmann

[Anonymous No.2391389]

Have read:
Hannah Arendt's Eichamnn in Jerusalem
Naomi Klein's No Logo & The Shock Doctrine
Catherine Osborne's A Very Short Introduction to Presocratic Philosophy

Haven't read (but plan to):
The Relentless Revolution - Joyce Appleby
Stiff - Mary Roach
Freethinkers - Susan Jacoby

[Anonymous No.2391396]

Ayn Rand

[Anonymous No.2391397]

>>2391385
Man, if we're counting want lists, I have at least another 300 female authors I want to try out. And this thread is only making it worse.

[Anonymous No.2391401]

None of you guys claiming to have none have To Kill A Mockingbird? Nobody?

[Anonymous No.2391405]

>>2391401
don't know what happened to my copy, it's been 9 or 10 years since i read it

[Anonymous No.2391408]

0 womyn can't read for shit

[Anonymous No.2391411]

>>2391401
it's in my parents' house somewhere

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2391429]

>>2391389
Regarding Arendt: Was a I trolled by a RonPauler, is she some kind of half libertarian? I read something in this one collection book of mine where it says she was against integration of the public school system.

[Anonymous No.2391446]

>>2391401
I have [like many others, I suspect] a copy of that with my old school library stickers and stamps all over it and shitty contact paper as a cover. It has to be the most stolen book from schools.

[Anonymous No.2391467]

About 75.

[Anonymous No.2391468]

>>2391429

that was complicated. she was talking about civil rights and the fact that there should still be a right for ethnic groups like jews and blacks to have places just for them. but she took it back later.

[Anonymous No.2391469]

>>239139

Good, worth reading. It's more historical take on things then character study & analysis of fascist thinking then i would have liked.

[Anonymous No.2391476]

>>2391429
She's not at all a libertarian, nor was she a racist, but she was opposed to the integration of the school system for... deeply idiosyncratic reasons that probably seemed justified at the time. It certainly wasn't because she was a racist or for the reasons that Southerners were opposed to school integration. It has more to do with questions about assimiliation and cultural identity, questions which were closer to her as a Jew. If you want something about her views on race, I think one of the essays in Crises Of The Republic touches on the subject. Or you could just read her piece on integration, "reflections on little rock".

Arendt isn't easy to pin down as a thinker, but she's definitely not a libertarian.

[Anonymous No.2391485]

>>2391469
>>2391469
haha, i wasn't asking for a recommendation, i'm a total arendt nerd and was wondering what your thoughts were. i think there are elements of character study there, fascinating elements of what arendt felt was important about eichmann's character, at least. if you really want an analysis of fascist thought, then Origins Of Totalitarianism will probably provide you with more than you actually wanted. great book, though.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2391491]

>>2391468
I see now.
Really looking forward to reading it. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.2391506]

>>2391485
oops, that's how this thing works ^ haha

Thanks for the recommendation "Origins Of Totalitarianism" I will check it out.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2391515]

>>2391476
>"reflections on little rock".
Have it. And thanks to you too. I knew she must have been smarter than that, but I just had to ask.

...Must resist starting on ANOTHER book! Arrg

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2391520]

>>2391476
>"reflections on little rock".
Have it. And thanks to you too. I knew she must have been smarter than that, but I just had to ask.

....Must resist starting on ANOTHER book! Arrg

[Anonymous No.2391528]

>>2391506
Be aware it's really, really long, and a lot of it seems like it has... uhh... almost no relevance to the question at hand - about 2/3 of the book is taken up with examinations of the historical structure and ideological basis of anti-Semitism and Imperialism. It turns out that Arendt thinks these things were absolutely essential for the formation of totalitarian fascist ideologies, but she is fairly exhaustive in her discussion of them.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2391533]

>>2391528
Which is probably the kind of thing that got her to oppose school integration in the first place. heh

[Anonymous No.2391635]

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5438089?shelf=read
cba counting them

[Anonymous No.2391650]

>>2391635
i counted 24, but it's almost all genre shit. the fuck is wrong with you dude

[Anonymous No.2391658]

>>2391635
The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance
Mahy, Margaret
4.15
5 of 5 stars

[Anonymous No.2391663]

>>2391650
>genre shit
Care to explain?
Also, that list is fast from complete, only books I own a copy of and the ten-odd I was able to remember.

[Anonymous No.2391669]

>>2391658
Have you read it? Despite the title, it's a very good young adult short novel.

[Anonymous No.2391689]

ITT: Sheeple

[Anonymous No.2391703]

>>2391689
How? Because everyone is answering the question, or what?

[Anonymous No.2391708]

>>2391663
*fast=far

[Anonymous No.2391710]

>>2391703
He unironically called people "sheeple", i think you can safely ignore anything he says

[Anonymous No.2391728]

>>2391703
I think they posted in the wrong thread.

[Anonymous No.2391732]

One Maya Angelou book and Simone De Bouvoir's autobiography, neither of which I've gotten around to reading. So about .5% of my books were written by female authors.

[Anonymous No.2392751]

bump

[Anonymous No.2392763]

One. Lisa Randall.

Out of 70.

[Anonymous No.2392768]

harper lee
jk rowling
virginia woolf

thats it

[Anonymous No.2392786]

22/150

[Anonymous No.2392795]

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

umm... that's it. I've read more than that -- some stuff by Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K Le Guin, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, etc. -- but I hated most of it.

[Anonymous No.2392796]

A hundred and fifty or so.

[Anonymous No.2392797]

1/76

It was a gift from my brother.
He is now sleeping six feet under.

[Anonymous No.2392802]

>>2392795
Oh, and I like Patty Highsmith, but don't own any of her books.

[Anonymous No.2392803]

>>2392795
>reading stuff you hate just to be able to say you read it

i seriously hope you guys aren't this pretentious

[Anonymous No.2392807]

>>2392803
I didn't start reading with the expectation/intention that I was going to hate them.

[Anonymous No.2392819]

I'm going to by the fountainhead. does that count?

[Anonymous No.2392821]

>>2392807
but you kept reading them even though you hated it

[Anonymous No.2392823]

>>2392819
that was written by a man so no.

[Anonymous No.2392888]

just one, Anne fucking rice

[Anonymous No.2392966]

Exactly three:

Frakenstein
The Dispossessed
A Wizard of Earthsea

The rest are by white men.

COME AT ME.