Great books written by female authors

>>8978982
Uh, get what?

The Bell Jar

>>8978984
then the answer is no, you haven't gotten it yet. a lost cause.

>>8978995
That girls cannot write books? I read a 500 some odd page book that suggested otherwise, and you're posts are not convincing enough to convince me that the meme is real.

>>8978956
>happen to be women but not because they are women
this is fucking stupid. why try to cloak that you want books written by women? as if you're ashamed that you want books written by women. fuck sake.

Well even if women are innately less capable of writing you're statistically bound to find outliers. It is genre lit but I find Anne McCaffrey to be a solid writer.

Virginia Woolf desu

But the Secret History is one of my fav books for sure, its very cozy

>>8979007
no, dude. not that women can't write, but that you begging for women specific books is fucking annoying. read what sounds good, what looks good, enjoy whatever it is. don't force the fucking woman meme. if it's a good book the author doesn't fucking matter. none of us go around saying "recommend me some books written by men pls". it's fucking obnoxious. if you want to read lit, do that. if you want to mince around faggotly and request gender specific literature, then fuck off.

>>8978956
On the Subjugation of Women
by John Stuart Mill

His wife wrote it

>>8979008
Because I wanted actual recommendations and not shit posts like yours. I know what people like you think of books written by women, but what I don't know are those books written by women that are worth a read. I'm not cloaking. I'm just trying to distinguish myself from those people who forsake talent for congenial identity traits. Of course, this would require presupposing that women can actually write though. I was just looking for recommendations outside of the typical Middlemarch, Brontes, Jane Austen line, that's all.

White teeth by Zadie smith

Visit from the goon squad by Jennifer Egan

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Handmaids tale by Margaret Atwood

Left hand of darkness by Ursula k leguinn

If you liked the secret history read the goldfinch

>>8979027
>then fuck off
I would but you (You) have thus recommended zero (0) books as of yet. I realize your way of viewing things would presuppose that their is no gender bias in the estimation of what makes great literature great, which there may not be, I dunno (... ?), but for the sake of this post, which is what you are replying to, please indulge me by replying with a "great" book written by a women that I can then read and then judge. That would be more helpful.

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Lispector
Yourcenar

>>8979056
RECOMMEND ME SOME GREAT LITERATURE! BUT NOT BECAUSE IT'S GREAT LITERATURE!

If this isn't a troll OP:

Virginia Woolf's The Waves and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping are two of the most beautiful novels I've ever read. Prosaically magical.

Mary Gaitskill and Cynthia Ozick write great essays.

Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova are two of the greatest Soviet poets.

>>8979027
This

>>8979077
Actually not a bad idea.

>>8979127
Edit to this: forget le guin, she a shit meme

>>8979130
forget the rest too without exception it was all written by one woman or another

>>8979055
bless you for a real, quality answer. most people on this board would struggle to name one women writer they enjoy beyond JK Rowling or someone who has wrote a "classic" (Shelley, Atwood, Harper Lee, Toni Morrison)

Charlotte Bronte is great

>>8979000

here is a thread asking for "good German authors"

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>>8979162
When BTFO, call him a fag

nice.