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What's the best novel you've read with a female protagonist? I'm sick of reading about men.

>> No.6740873

Ulysses.

>> No.6740874

>>6740869
The Crying of Lot 49

>> No.6740900

>>6740869
OP Is A Faggot 3: The Cretin Strikes Back

>> No.6740901
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The novel I'm writing. I'm also sick of the same narratives that's why I'm writing about a poor Hispanic girl living in a US ghetto, and who is unable to communicate with her central american parents because she doesn't speak the broken Spanish they use. And she is also raped by her biological father. I want to make a story so disgusting and repulsive, kind of like, Precious, but she is not fat and she is not black. Only brown.

>> No.6740903

Would Orlando count? That was pretty good.

>> No.6740933

Invisible Monsters wasn't the best book ever but I liked the main character and her narration was entertaining.

>> No.6740938

anna karenina, madame bovary are the two best novels

>> No.6740962

The Broom of the System
Pattern Recognition
Bleeding Edge

>>6740874
Also this.

>> No.6740964

Mrs Dalloway

>> No.6740971

The Fault in Our Stars.

>> No.6742282

Justine

>> No.6742287

>>6740869
The Hours is about two women and a gay man. Read that

>> No.6742293

Cold comfort farm

>> No.6742309

>>6740901
Sounds good. I bet I could easily market it to a liberal mixed American attending a public university

>> No.6742310

>>6740869
Mistborn.

>> No.6742311

>>6740869
The Crying of Lot 49

>> No.6742312

>>6742287
The gay man is the only interesting character.

>> No.6742314

>>6742282
The De Sade one is the joke here but Durrell is solid, you should definitely read that.

>> No.6742320

We has a male narrator, but really the protagonist is female. She's a very memorable and interesting character, she's something of a Stirnerist with a streak of William Blake.

>> No.6742355

>>6740869
The Bluest Eye sorta of

>> No.6742357

>>6740869
Jane Eyre you fucking dolt.

>> No.6742383

>>6742320
We is probably my favourite book of all time, and I-330 is an awesome character, but she's not the protagonist.

>> No.6742411

>>6742383
>>6742320
Is We actually that good? I always figured the hype was just contrarians who wanted a more obscure dystopian novel to rub in the face of people who like 1984, Brave New World, etc.

>> No.6742443

>>6740869
>>>/tumblr/

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>> No.6743399

Lady Chatterley's Lover

>> No.6743427

>>6742411

Not that guy but: that's very much the case, the book isn't bad, but it's also not stellar. Luckily it's short, and takes almost no time to breeze through.

>> No.6743445

>>6740869
Tess of the D'Urbervilles is fantastic.
Twelfth Night.
Madame Bovary.
The Scarlet Letter, although not a lot of people share my love for that one.
Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Wuthering Heights.

>> No.6743459

>>6740869
>>6743445
Really liked Beloved, too. Prose is fantastic.

>> No.6743493

>lysistrata

>> No.6743536

>>6742411
We has experimental prose and uses mathematical metaphors as a literary device. It has a lot of philosophical depth too, it's not just a cautionary tale, but about a constant struggle in humanity between the creative, individualist element, and the collectivist drive of uniformity. The struggle of the creative I against Utopian We is the battleground, and Christianity is a major theme.

>> No.6743552

>>6743459
This irony thing is getting complicated, are you making fun of the above poster?

>> No.6743721

>>6740869
The Bell Jar!

>> No.6743727

Hild

>> No.6743731

Atlas shrugged

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>>6740869
A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell.

>> No.6743801

McCarthy's List by Mary Mackey

>> No.6743803

>>6742310
yes

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6743822

Zola's L'Assommoir

>> No.6743829

>>6743536
well at least sounds much better than anything ayn rand ever wrote

>> No.6743852

>>6740869
spot the feminist

>> No.6743869

>>6742411
As I said, all time favourite. And no, it's not about being contrarian, 1984 qnd BNW simply pale in comparison. Another anon mentioned the experimental prose, but there's also a thing that really should go without saying, and that is character development. In 1984 and BNW, everybody stays the way they are, their every action is explicable through attitudes they display from the outset. In We, the transformation of the protagonist takes center stage, which makes Orwell and Huxley look like complete plebs.

>> No.6744009

Franny and Zooey. Franny is only the protagonist for the first part, hence the title "Franny." Zooey is a boy, but his part continues her story. It's really good and cute.

>> No.6744125

As I Lay Dying. Most the characters are men and the story revolves around them, but all in relation to the mother of their house.

>> No.6744139

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a pretty interesting book about an illegitimate Afghan girl who gets forced to marry someone against her will.
it really drags you in after a few pages.

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6744627

The autobiography of Assata Shakur

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6744634

All of yinz are having mad shitty suggestions..

A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

>> No.6744804

American Darling (Russel Banks)

>> No.6744819

>>6740869
mrs dalloway