Best book you have read by a female author

[Anonymous No.8752481]

Gentlemen only edition: no >>>/r9k/ or >>>/pol/catalog

>pic related

[Anonymous No.8752484]

Wuthering Heights desu

[Anonymous No.8752490]

>>8752481
Why does Goodreads trash it? Are they just a stupid community as a whole?

[Anonymous No.8752500]

>>8752490
Yes. John Green's novels are rated higher than Hamlet on Goodreads

[Anonymous No.8752505]

Just finished the Bell Jar and found it highly relatable. Its strange because it hit home more than any male writers could so far.

[Anonymous No.8752506]

I lub it

[Anonymous No.8752522]

>>8752481
Jane Eyre prolly.

[Anonymous No.8752549]

The Waves

[Anonymous No.8752555]

Report women threads.
>women aren't good enough so we make a separate thread to segregate them there
Fuck off, autist virgin.

[Anonymous No.8752560]

Not a book, but playwriters are still /lit/, right? She's quite probably among my top 5 writers.

[Anonymous No.8752587]

>>8752560
>playwriters are still /lit/
Correct

>>8752555
What

[Anonymous No.8752623]

>>8752481
To the Lighthouse.

[Anonymous No.8752630]

J.K. Rowling is a goddess.

[Anonymous No.8752631]

>>8752481
Pol and r9k are gentlemen. They understand that women are retards but don't make big deal of it.

They just play along them cause what can you do for weak ones?

[Anonymous No.8752634]

>female
>author

[Anonymous No.8752639]

Peter rabbit

[Anonymous No.8752660]

>>8752634
leave this place

[Anonymous No.8752666]

>>8752555
maybe you just don't understand them.

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>>8752660

i'd stick my head in her oven if you know what i mean

[Anonymous No.8752685]

>>8752500
That is amazing. I feel the reading world is suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

[Anonymous No.8752688]

>>8752634
what is this from ?

[Anonymous No.8752693]

>>8752481

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[Anonymous No.8752785]

aphra behn is BASED

[Anonymous No.8752792]

Memoirs of Hadrian by Yourcenar.

[Anonymous No.8752797]

This book gave me chills.

[Anonymous No.8752809]

>>8752688
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j7lezDWh4M
+
https://youtu.be/acJzw2NlmmA?t=13s

[Anonymous No.8752814]

>>8752666
I understand them more than you ever will, Santa. Me? I'm a girl in spirit. YEAHHHHH!!

[Anonymous No.8752954]

>>8752505
I like The Bell Jar (the ending has me wanting more though) and I can understand where you're coming from but I can think of other male writers who hit home. The Bell Jar reminds me of Bret Easton Ellis at least in the beginning. Less Than Zero was pretty affecting.

>>8752560
When visiting this forum I was really impressed by the female authors on the female authors chart which someone should give on me. It was really comprehensive (someone post it plees). I am borrowing my friend's complete plays of Sarah Kane after reading one of them aloud togeather. I think it was 4.48 Psychosis or if not it was Skin. It was very good.

>>8752792
I didn't finish this but this shit is fucking incredible.

ayyy here's mine y'all, it's a wonderful meta-fictional fat-fuck fest

[Anonymous No.8752982]

>>8752954
Posting. It's great, yes. Both the chart and Kane.

[Anonymous No.8753102]

>>8752560
Really want to read this. And all her stuff. She sounds awesome. Kind and forgot I had her in my to-read list.

[Anonymous No.8753157]

>>8753102
>docfoc.com/61072107-sarah-kane-blasted-pdf
It's a short play. You could read her whole work in pretty much a single day if you can stomach it.

[Anonymous No.8753223]

>>8752481
The Waves

[Anonymous No.8753339]

Middlemarch and To the Lighthouse

[Anonymous No.8753487]

>>8752549
>>8752623
Throwing in Mrs. Dalloway for top-tier Woolf

[Anonymous No.8753508]

>>8752560
>not a book
>posts book

I'll never understand how someone can think that book only means novels.

[Anonymous No.8753510]

>>8752481
"The Time of Man" by Elizabeth Madox Roberts.

One of the best works in the entire Appalachian Literature canon.

[Anonymous No.8753518]

Primero sueño by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

[Anonymous No.8753525]

>>8752630
>Sorcerer's Stone

[Anonymous No.8753547]

I thought Decline and Fall, Black Mischief, and The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh were all funny and well written. I know most women aren't funny but Evelyn was an exception

[Anonymous No.8753634]

>>8752660
that dirty slut. i'd love to ravage her angst-y pussy

[Anonymous No.8753856]

Jane Austen.

It isn't her fault she is frequently misunderstood or that there is a long line of people who think she was a romantic author, the "Jane industry" etc etc.

>mfw I regularly meet people who don't understand the finest opening line in all literature is a joke.

[Anonymous No.8753862]

>>8753547
*golf clap*

[Anonymous No.8753870]

>>8753856
>mfw I regularly meet people who don't understand the finest opening line in all literature is a joke

"It's a truth universally acknowledged ..."? How can anyone not get that?

[Anonymous No.8753883]

Probably Orlando

[Anonymous No.8753892]

>>8753870
You'd be amazed. I reckon >50% of people who read it.

Of course its brilliant, its amusing, it establishes the authorial voice instantly and really offers an abstract to the interests of the novel. Its just lost on some people.

It may be relevant that the people involved are basically the same people Jane Austen is making fun of. I guess you can over-identify sometimes.

[Anonymous No.8753894]

complete stories of flannery o'connor

[Anonymous No.8754171]

I liked Veronica and Bad Behavior both by Mary Gaitskill

[Anonymous No.8754174]

>>8753856
>It isn't her fault she is frequently misunderstood

Is this the "she writes horror stories" thing again?

[Anonymous No.8754276]

>>8754174
Its mostly that she isn't taken seriously as being a satirical writer. Often she is clearly taking the piss or you are supposed to detect that people are not being entirely honest with themselves, yet readers often take it at face value and prefer to treat them as romances. Its all very ironic and I think its because of film/TV adaptations.

[Anonymous No.8754359]

>>8752481

Fifty Shades of Grey

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>>8752630
hellloooo reddit

[Anonymous No.8754789]

This (plus the whole series) are probably my favorite science fiction series ever.

I love her other books, and Cyteen is probably 'objectively' better, but I still think the Foreigner series is great.

[Anonymous No.8755570]

Not that kind of girl
Lena Dunham

[Anonymous No.8755574]

>>8755570
Serious question here; is this worth reading or "Girls" worth watching? I watched an episode once and It seem like the kind of self hating, decadent thing I'd like, but I would like to hear some opinions before.

[Anonymous No.8755583]

>>8755574
>hating, decadent
if you can stand it at all, I would say it gives a pretty good insight into ...girl like that ...idk girls nowadays in general
and about the book ... it's like theself obsessed teen version of 50 shades for me so far
I would like to hear an opinion of someone who actually read this

[Anonymous No.8755587]

>>8752500
Oh my God

[Anonymous No.8755590]

>>8752630
Stop baiting, man, and get to the point.

>>8752631
Get out

[Anonymous No.8756017]

Villette

Though I haven't read any other good books by women.

[Anonymous No.8757244]

Not a book, but O'Conner's "Artificial Nigger" is best American short story I've ever read

[Anonymous No.8757367]

This is pretty noice.

[Anonymous No.8757388]

>>8755574
If you can stomach Roth or Updike at their most self-involved. Put it this way, there's a scene in season 4 where Dunham's character (a writer) is discussing blowjobs in lit with her Iowa workshop classmates. 1 (male) classmate says they are sometimes handled well, and names some examples. Dunham points out all his examples are male authors.
The group is silenced, shocked. None of them mention female authors, none of them laugh at her identity politics, and for the rest of that season she is alienated from them.
Her entire character is that gross "God, I'm so awkward and weird, on account being so intelligent and woke" self-aggrandizing disguised as self-deprecation. If you can get past it, a lot of other characters are watchable, but it's nothing great

[Anonymous No.8757405]

>>8752560
>>8752954
Blasted knocked my class sideways, so good. As edgy as it can get, it's one of the best written evocations of the brutality of conflict, along with McCarthy and Mailer. Anyone have any recommendations for hard-to-read/ stomach lit?

[Anonymous No.8757424]

The continuation is pretty good too.

[Anonymous No.8757447]

>>8757405
"Phaedra's Love" is quite similar, and "4.48 Psychosis" is truly jarring in its bleakness parade of doom. She had a great gift for desolation.

Out of Kane (and out of McCarthy and Mailer) Celine is bleak too, Murakami (Ryu, not the Nobel-to-be) is disgusting too in the Palahniuk / Easton Ellis way. Peter Sotos could work too, he's too edgy for my taste, kind of a "diminising returns" kind of thing, but he's a edgelord for sure.

[Anonymous No.8757604]

>>8752982
>no Marilynne Robinson
Get right the fuck out.

[Anonymous No.8757622]

>>8757604
Didn't make the chart myself, bro.

[Anonymous No.8757639]

White Teeth is such fucking trash.

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith is my favourite book by a woman.

Other favourites, TKAM, The Vegetarian, Mrs. Dalloway

[Anonymous No.8757655]

Where's a good starting point for Alice Munro?

[Anonymous No.8757665]

>>8755574
Girls is the best show on tv

[Anonymous No.8757671]

>>8752481

[Anonymous No.8757690]

>>8752481
Carson McCullers

Also, where do I start with Zadie?

Also, where do I start with Lispector?

[Anonymous No.8757722]

>>8757690
>Also, where do I start with Zadie?
don't

[Anonymous No.8758062]

>>8753547
is this bait?

[Anonymous No.8758127]

>>8752481

[Anonymous No.8758166]

>>8758062
Yes

[Anonymous No.8758267]

>>8752481

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>>8752555
You are dumb but ya trips are nice :)

[Anonymous No.8758306]

The Passion According To GH
by a mile

[Anonymous No.8758310]

H E P T A M E R O N

[Anonymous No.8758426]

>>8757655
Anything. She's a short story writer. The only '''''novel''''' she's written is still technically a short story collection.

[Anonymous No.8758459]

>>8752785
dude come on Oroonoko is an extremely important story but it fucking sucks

are you fags really not gonna rep Anne Carson? Plainwater, Autobiography of Red, and red doc> are fucking amazing

[Anonymous No.8758511]

Willa Cather: Death Comes For the Archbishop

[Anonymous No.8758588]

>>8753894
>>8753894

[Anonymous No.8758595]

>>8757639
>Hating White Teeth
>Liking The Vegetarian

[Anonymous No.8758599]

>>8757722
Start with White Teeth or On Beauty. The Autograph Man and NW can be skipped. Her new one is okay, not sure how I feel about it yet. Her essays are hit or miss.

[Anonymous No.8759252]

>>8758595
Zadie Smith writes people like she's never spoken to one. She's trash.

[Anonymous No.8759490]

>>8755570
>The fat chick from Girls

[Anonymous No.8759566]

>>8758459
Agreed. Anne Carson blows every other woman out of the water.

Also:
>Sor Juana
>Sappho

[Anonymous No.8759648]

The Secret History is worth a mention at least.

[Anonymous No.8759667]

>>8759566
She's my favorite female author and my third favorite poet. Unlike most of /lit/ I don't give a shit about a writer's gender race etc. I just care about how good they are. Still, gotta rep Anne in one of the few threads about women that are positive.

[Anonymous No.8759673]

>>8759667
>tfw Carson is unironically the best writer alive today

[Anonymous No.8759699]

>>8752481
Clearly this.

[Anonymous No.8760060]

>>8759673
Have you read her newest project? All those chapbooks? I haven't yet but it sounds very interesting.

[Anonymous No.8760086]

Middlemarch and it's not even close

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[Anonymous No.8762435]

>>8755574
>>Serious question here; is this worth reading or "Girls" worth watching?
>>8755570

[Anonymous No.8762523]

Gertrude Stein is extremely good