Looking for great books by female authors
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Re: Looking for great books by female authors
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith...some people call it a teen book, but it is a classic coming-of-age story
Margaret Atwood...start with The Handmaid's Tale
Toni Morrison...be warned about the content in her books though, if you're sensitive
Kate Chopin...a classic feminist
Mercedes Lackey...for fantasy genre books
Madeline L'engle...fantasy again
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The first is Shannon Messenger who has a fantasy series called Keeper of the Lost Cities that is so captivating. Her imagination and writing style are so vivid that when you put down the book you feel like someone just turned off your favorite movie! You'll find adventure, emotion, humor and more. Great up-and-coming author.
The other I'd suggest would be Angie Sage who wrote the Septimus Heap series. This is about the 'seventh son of a seventh son' who is mixed up at birth and has amazing magical abilities. Angie gives a fun tale about this young boy who will grow to become the most powerful wizard in the Castle. The books can be quite lengthy (one is 720 pages). And at times descriptions can drag on a bit when you're eager to get to the conclusion. However, she at times uses such rich, and uncommon vocabulary that I had to forgive her. Hope this helps. Enjoy reading!
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Not my favorite author, but I loved "the God of Small Things", by Arundhati Roy.
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I Loved The House of The Spirits so much! I've re-read it a few times. For some reason, though, I've never enjoyed any of her other books. Why is that? Is it just me? Is it because I was comparing them to that one?Isabel Allende has a really great writing style and has been very popular.
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Amy Tan is another author I highly recommend. The Joy Luck Club is her most well-known work, but I highly enjoyed her other novels like The Bonesetter's Daughter. I suppose I'm a fan of the fact that her work explores mother-daughter relationships within a Chinese context.
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Great recommendations. Thanks!Rachaelamb1 wrote:There are a lot of excellent women writers. I love fantasy and my two favorite fantasy writers are Gail Carson Levine and Anne Elizabeth Stengl.
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I don't know, but I feel the same way. I think maybe it's because I read The House of the Spirits first; and then, because I liked it so well, I tried her other works. Nothing quite seemed on par with it though, and I'm not even sure I managed to finish anything else.Bad Macaw wrote:[quote
I Loved The House of The Spirits so much! I've re-read it a few times. For some reason, though, I've never enjoyed any of her other books. Why is that? Is it just me? Is it because I was comparing them to that one?
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EmersonRose wrote:I am a college student. I have been studying art, literature, and creative writing. Over the course of my time at college, I have begun to get frustrated because I seem to end up studying the same group of white men over and over again. Well I think there is a reason to study them, they made great advances in their fields, I want to step outside of this box. For my senior year (I am currently a Junior) I have the opportunity to design part of my reading list myself. So I want to read books by female authors. I want books written in a wide variety of time periods and I am looking for books that are either renowned for being well written or that are popular. I would love recommendations as I begin to build this list!
Who are your favorite female authors?
Do you love a specific book of theirs?
What makes them your favorite?
Jane Austen, The Bronte Sisters, Mary Shelley ~ those are just right off the cuff
Some others are Virginia Wolf, Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, Maya Angelou, Harper Lee
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EmersonRose wrote:I am a college student. I have been studying art, literature, and creative writing. Over the course of my time at college, I have begun to get frustrated because I seem to end up studying the same group of white men over and over again. Well I think there is a reason to study them, they made great advances in their fields, I want to step outside of this box. For my senior year (I am currently a Junior) I have the opportunity to design part of my reading list myself. So I want to read books by female authors. I want books written in a wide variety of time periods and I am looking for books that are either renowned for being well written or that are popular. I would love recommendations as I begin to build this list!
Who are your favorite female authors?
Do you love a specific book of theirs?
What makes them your favorite?
There are so many amazing female authors out there!! But im sure you'll never regret Anne Elizabeth Stengl's <3
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Alice Walker- The Color Purple
Margaret Atwood- Maddaddam Trilogy
The first two have very strong female characters, who deal with rising above the patriarchy in a sense. The color purple also deals with LGBTQ rights! And the Maddaddam Trilogy is just flipping awesome (pardon the language). It deals with a post-apocolyptic world that seems so plausible. The first book is okay, but the second and third books are amazing and have a variety of female narrators.