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Nope. I don’t think it makes a difference at all.

Besides, pen names have been around for a long time so there’s no reason to believe the name on the front of a book anyway.

I don't have a conscious preference but I do find myself more drawn to male authors then female ones. I need to make a more concentrated effort to support more females!

I normally don't really have a preference of author gender, with the exception of the mystery genre. I'm not even sure that I've read a mystery novel written by a male author, but for whatever reason, I'll actually put a mystery book back if it's written by a male.

I think it's because I've had such good experiences reading authors like Mary Higgins Clark, that it's so difficult for me to imagine a male author matching her.

I honestly don't know. I have a good mix of both in my personal library, and sometimes I can enjoy male authored books or female authored books more than the other's. I would say that I enjoy, in general, female classic authors as opposed to male's because I feel like they are able to paint a more honest picture of female characters, or just characters in general. Not to say male authors are bad at depicting women (though there are those who do a bad job) I just enjoy the more rounded female characters I have come across in mainly female author's works.

I usually gravitate towards female authors, a lot of times when reading books written by male authors I find their female protagonists really unrelatable.

I enjoy reading a good book irrespective of the author's gender. The only problem is when the book is centered on gender issues and the author seem to be bias in his/her opinion. In that instance, I jettison the book.

Sometimes yes. I feel like male authors don't usually get the women's perspective on a lot of things.

The truth is that despite not doing it on purpose, I tend to read more books written by women than by men, therefore I would say that you prefer female authors.

I read books written by both male and female. If I had to choose one or the other, I would choose female.

I find that I read a lot more books written by women compared to men. There's only 7 maybe 8/~25 books on my physical bookshelves. It depends on the genre and the plot. Personally, for YA or NA, I have a strong preference for women but dystopian I tend prefer male authors because there seems to be less unnecessary romantic subplots. The exception is the Hunger Games because the romantic subplot was used to prove a point that was done beautifully.

Now that I think about, almost all of my favourite books are by male authors but I hadn't really thought about it before and I don't think I could explain why. Mainly I read crime and historical fiction, so perhaps those genres tend to mainly be written by male authors?

Patox wrote: ↑17 Aug 2018, 23:28 Yes, for romance I prefer female authors. Ladies weave nice stories of love and life. I sometimes get lost in their world.

Absolutely! I find romance written by female authors to be more deliberate, and more appealing to my personal tastes. It generally has more nuance, and more build-up that keeps you on the edge of your seat. To me, it feels that with books written by male authors, the romance and intimacy are a secondary thought, and never the main focus. Suffice to say, my romance section is overwhelmingly female.

I generally don't mind which sex the author is but how the book is flowing. But at times I just want to support female authors. Team Feminists!

Probably 60/40 male/female authors but that's skewed as I read a lot of hard boiled detective and classic Japanese books that were predominantly written by men. I have no preference
I read a fantastic book a few year ago, The Signs Preceding of the World by Yuri Herrera, was sure the author was female, only found out the truth much later!

Gender discrimination happens in so many areas - seriously let’s leave it out of writing! Men and women are equally talented writers.