/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15590750]

I want a book recommendation.
Written by a female author.

[Anonymous No.15590757]

>>15590750
"My Pussy got destroyed so hard" by your mom

[Anonymous No.15590769]

>>15590750
Why not read something good?

[Anonymous No.15590776]

>>15590750
Go Ask Alice

[Anonymous No.15590797]

>>15590750

Middlemarch

[Anonymous No.15590799]

>>15590750

[Anonymous No.15590801]

>>15590750
Wuthering Heights

[Anonymous No.15590810]

>>15590750
Jane Austen, hail realism

[Anonymous No.15590811]

Try Woolf.

Or for something easier and comfy, Betty Smith.

[Anonymous No.15590817]

>>15590797
>>15590801
Read this. Anything else?

[Anonymous No.15590834]

>>15590810
I liked Emma

>>15590811
Never read Betty. What does she write about

[Anonymous No.15590861]

>>15590750
Hi OP I'm a female and below I will author a book recommendation for you :^)

Read Hugo Claus you fucking simp

[Anonymous No.15590887]

s.s. proleterka by fleur jaeggy

[Anonymous No.15590894]

>>15590834
Her own life experiences mostly. Family, relationships, day to day life - around the beginning of the 20th century in America.
That might sound boring but she's got a great style.

"A Tree grows in Brooklyn" is a popular one. Personally I would recommend Joy in the Morning because it's shorter.

[Anonymous No.15591009]

>>15590750
anything didion
read year of magical thinking

[Anonymous No.15591029]

Think of the roastie posts you've read during your time here.

Would you want to read something by one of those people? They're retarded and all they talk about is their pussies and who "deserves" their pussies.

[Anonymous No.15591053]

>>15590750
Hi OP I'm a female author and I recommend First and Only by Dan Abnett

[Anonymous No.15591066]

Story of my life - George sand

It’s only a pen name

[Anonymous No.15591080]

>>15591066
Okay Chopin

[Anonymous No.15591087]

Talented Mr Ripley

[Anonymous No.15591091]

>>15591080

Based

[Anonymous No.15591119]

>>15590750
it's poetry but you only asked for books. the greatest of all time.

[Anonymous No.15591126]

The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector

[Anonymous No.15591153]

I've had Flights recommended to me
But I have a sneaking suspicion OP just wanted an excuse to post a girl

[Anonymous No.15591170]

>>15591119
What makes her great

[Anonymous No.15591177]

>>15591029
It's weird how so many /lit/ posters claim to never read female authors while this is also the only widely used literature discussion forum where you can find people who have actually read the feminists from de Beauvoir on, substantive discussion of Tartt, Didion, even fucking Rand. People on this board are probably the most prolific scholars and critics of a certain female cat murdering instagram poet and foot model.
This board definitely reads women, it just doesn't read all women on principle. Highly equitable, despite what you claim about yourselves.

[Anonymous No.15591185]

>>15591153
Do you despise girls?

[Anonymous No.15591208]

>>15591177
Why wouldn't a feminist literature circle read Simone? She's the first thing that comes up in such circles

[Anonymous No.15591216]

>>15591177
Also, tartt is extremely popular

[Anonymous No.15591232]

>>15591177
Who murdered a cat?

I hate women because it's the only way to rescue the few women capable of change. Male feminism is one big crypto-simp operation. At least when I ask to lick your feet I'm being direct.

[Anonymous No.15591234]

>>15591208
idk what to tell you man, most haven't read her.

[Anonymous No.15591280]

>>15590750
harry potter

[Anonymous No.15591303]

>>15591234
Where do you live?

[Anonymous No.15591311]

>>15591177
Mira killed a cat?

[Anonymous No.15591424]

>>15590750
So write a female author and ask her for one, faggot

[Anonymous No.15591467]

>>15590750
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes

[Anonymous No.15591477]

>>15591303
>Where do you live?
Portland, OR

[Anonymous No.15591489]

>>15590750
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

But also obviously anything by Virginia Woolf

[Anonymous No.15591496]

>>15590750
I wanna fuck Imogen

[Anonymous No.15591521]

>>15591208
There are plenty of readings before Simone

[Anonymous No.15591768]

>>15591489
Hey, good taste

[Anonymous No.15591804]

>>15591280
i want a recommendation of a book by an author who mentruates

[Anonymous No.15591818]

the mirror of simple souls

[Anonymous No.15591859]

A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan

[Anonymous No.15591869]

>>15591119
Rossetti is really good, which makes sense considering how much Dickinson liked her and took inspiration from her, Dickinson being maybe the greatest female poet of the past 3 centuries.

[Anonymous No.15591895]

>>15591232
>Who murdered a cat
Rupi, it’s like the /lit/ version of Raimiposting

[Anonymous No.15591909]

>>15591126
Hell, anything written by Lispector is gold

[Anonymous No.15591943]

>>15590750
What does / lit/ think Ursula guin?

[Anonymous No.15591946]

>>15590750
Haha gay

[Anonymous No.15591977]

>>15591943
Generally well liked speculative fiction but usually a few potshots are taken at her for dovetailing with SJW shit

I like her, thoughtful author. Lavinia was a fun read too

[Anonymous No.15591991]

>>15590757
I'm ashamed that I lol'd

[Anonymous No.15592004]

>>15591991
Probably because you're underaged

[Anonymous No.15592006]

>>15591943
Great author. Haven't read much but what I have has been fantastic.

[Anonymous No.15592012]

comfy mystery

[Anonymous No.15592061]

>>15590750
Seventh Cross by Seghers

The Artificial Silk Girl by Keun

Early stuff from Jenny Erpenbeck

[Anonymous No.15592079]

>>15592004
kill yourself

[Anonymous No.15592096]

>>15590750
"How i gave birth to a mongoloid" by your mom's hairy cunt

[Anonymous No.15592098]

>>15590750
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

[Anonymous No.15592106]

pretty male-supremacist to impose your medium of choice on women for them to explain themselves to you. jews do this with kubrik and hollywood

to truly grasp a womans character you should instead watch a tick tock

[Anonymous No.15592271]

>>15592061
>The Artificial Silk Girl by Keun
Thanks for this. How did you find this?

[Anonymous No.15592280]

>>15592106
xD

[Anonymous No.15592287]

>>15590750
Darkmans - Nicola Barker

[Anonymous No.15592310]

>>15592012
based pick anon, Christie is comfy AF
>tf

[Anonymous No.15592404]

>>15590750
The Glass Hotel by Emily Saint John Mandel is new this year and it was pretty good.

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa is a significantly older and I found it very beautiful.

First they Killed my Father by Loung Ung is nonfiction and very moving and interesting.

An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King is not terrible, but mostly just interesting because it's a dystopia from a very different perspective. No clear-eyed individualists bravely dying for a principle here.

That exhausts the list of things written by women that I've read in the past year AND can recommend.

[Anonymous No.15592406]

>>15591185
What in my post raised that question?

[Anonymous No.15592458]

>>15590750
Rachel Cusk outline trilogy. It’s like Sebald.

[Anonymous No.15592916]

>>15592271
University. First had it in a student led course about trivial literature (and what possibilities lie in the so called corpus), and then it was due to come up in a lecture about canon german lit of the 20th century. The prof nearly didn't talked about it due to his semi-optimal time managment, but I convinced him otherwise. I also used some excerpts of it in a play about the metropolis/berlin in particular, along a bunch of other quotes from writers, musicians and philosophers.
I'd recommend Kästner's Fabian as a companion piece. They are both great, but I think Keun is more enjoyable and doesn't quite fall into the trap of cynism and pessimism that prevails in Fabian, instead managing to keep a human and somewhat hopeful edge in the madness that was pre-war Berlin.

[Anonymous No.15593214]

Helen DeWitt - The Last Samurai
Book of the century so far

[Anonymous No.15593303]

>>15591477
Sorry

[Anonymous No.15593536]

>>15590750
Iris Murdoch - The Sovereignty of Good

[Anonymous No.15593586]

>>15590750

[Anonymous No.15593753]

>>15591177
Having read women is exactly how we know others ought not bother doing so. Even those women with the most technical prose talent write pretty but utterly vacuous works.

[Anonymous No.15593761]

>>15592106
unironically accurate

[Anonymous No.15593810]

Frankenstein by Perc...Mary Shelley.

[Anonymous No.15593831]

>>15590750
Virginia Woolf is a pretty safe bet. My favourite is The Waves, though I recently quite liked Orlando.

[Anonymous No.15593849]

Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann

[Anonymous No.15593852]

>>15590750
Taisha Abelar wrote two books. Both are good.

[Anonymous No.15593887]

>>15590810
Have you read Tom Wolfe's thesis on realism in his essay "My Three Stooges"? (He also more or less articulates the same thing in "Stalking the Billion-footed Beast", which is online.) His tricks and hackery aside, what do you think of it? Do you agree with what he outlines as realism's main advantages over other schools?

[Anonymous No.15593958]

The Princess de Clèves
By Madame de Lafayette

[Anonymous No.15593974]

>>15590750
From what I've read this year:

>N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto; translated by Ann Sherif
excellent; novella

>Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann Beattie
quite good, nicely frigid meditation on how we're often incapable of deciding who's similar to us

>The Secret History by Donna Tartt
really really comfy, engrossing

>I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
not perfect but I admired it for how bleak and flailing it was by the end

>Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson; translated by Elizabeth Portch
obviously charming throughout; novella

>Victoria: the Queen by Julia Baird
illuminating gossipy well-written

>Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood
excellent poetry collection

>Black Unicorn by Tanith Lee
pretty good fantasy novel, ends up going to pleasantly weird places

[Anonymous No.15594350]

>>15590750
>Hadewijch
Visions
>Beatrice of Nazareth
The Seven Ways of Holy Love
>Marguerite Porete
The Mirror of Simple Souls
>Catherine of Siena
Dialogue of Divine Providence
>Julian of Norwich
Revelations of Divine Love
>Frances of Rome
Treatise on Hell
>Catherine of Genoa
Treatise on Purgatory
>Tullia d'Aragona
Dialogues on the Infinity of Love
>Teresa of Ávila
The Interior Castle

[Anonymous No.15594693]

The Breakdown by B A Paris is a pretty decent psychological thriller, nothing amazing but I picked it up at the airport and for the last 100 pages or so I literally couldn't put it down.

[Anonymous No.15594719]

>>15593586
why does that copy of the last man have the same cover as my cheap copy of frankenstein
is that just the cover they use for mary shelley now

[Anonymous No.15595801]

>>15592916
Can you recommend any other works that are kind of 'hidden'? Your taste seems to align with mine.

[Anonymous No.15595805]

Shirley Jackson

[Anonymous No.15595810]

>>15593536
Is it from a Christian perspective?

[Anonymous No.15595813]

>>15593974
Wonderful recs

[Anonymous No.15595835]

>>15590750
The Alexiad by Anna Komnena.
Action history book. Synthesis of Greek, Roman, and Medieval worldviews. Vivid battle descriptions. Female author does not omit the historical fact that every man of account in history is a sexy chad, gives paragraph after paragraph descriptions of how attractive and magnetic the men and women are.

[Anonymous No.15595836]

Lewalski’s biography of Milton is a real delight.

[Anonymous No.15595849]

>>15595810
Better, a Platonist perspective.

[Anonymous No.15595875]

Iris Murdoch - the sea the sea

[Anonymous No.15596016]

I want to be humiliated be a female author

[Anonymous No.15596019]

>>15596016
In verse or in prose?

[Anonymous No.15596022]

>>15595849
That's only slightly better

[Anonymous No.15596026]

>>15596019
In strap on dildo

[Anonymous No.15596027]

>>15595835
>1148
holy shit. Did language even exist at that time

[Anonymous No.15596036]

>>15590750
Atlas Shrugged

[Anonymous No.15596041]

>>15596026
How?

[Anonymous No.15596070]

>>15594719
Because Caspar David Friedrich's paintings are popular among kike publishers (Penguin, Oxford, Wordsworth).

[Anonymous No.15596147]

>>15590750
frankenstein.

[Anonymous No.15596475]

>>15595801
I wouldn't say that's my main taste, but I'll try.
Manfred Hausmann: Salut gen Himmel / Salute to the Sky (?). A novel more or less made up of a few shorter stories about a bum roaming around the country, both in citys and the countryside. I don't remember it that well, but the ending of the first story has always stuck with me. I don't wanna spoil it but it is absolutly surprising and gut wrenching. Although the book ends pretty romantic (in the 19th century sense) and sappy with the protagonist literally hugging a tree so it doesn't get uprooted in a storm. Haven't found a translation though.
Arno Surminski: Kudenow oder An fremden Wassern weinen / Kudenow or To cry at strange waters (?). Family of three has to relocate to a small village in northern germany after the 2.WW. Told from the perspective of the adolescent son. Has its tragic moments, but mostly honest, lighthearted without being disrespectful, well, just human.

[Anonymous No.15596760]

>>15590750
3rd person to say it, but Frankenstein.

[Anonymous No.15596811]

>>15596475
Thanks, now what are some of your 'main taste'?

[Anonymous No.15596821]

My Twisted World

Don't be fooled that some man penned the words, Woman is the authentic author

[Anonymous No.15596843]

>>15590750
Why would you do that?

Why would you chop off her feet from the pic?

[Anonymous No.15596931]

>>15591943
Was given copy of The Lathe of Heaven and was excited to read it but was disappointing. Did I just start with the wrong book??

[Anonymous No.15596933]

>>15596811
Absurdist literature and theatre (Beckett, Ionesco, Charms, Vonnegut).
Concrete and visueal poetry.
Violent Comics (Punisher MAX is a favorite).
Italian Futurism has a special place in my heart.
And metafiction in general.
Also SF.
I dislike things like surrealist or expressionist literature, as I just find them a pain to read. I like them as visual arts fine enough though.
I guess history wise my main interest lies in early and middle 20th century, mostly german or european in general. I don't read as much contemporary fiction except for comics and webfiction, especially the SCP Foundation. That doesn't mean I strictly dislike them, it's rather that I try to catch up on some classics. Christian Kracht is a contempory novelist I really enjoy, Imperium was freaking amazing.

What about you?

[Anonymous No.15596960]

>>15595813
thanks

[Anonymous No.15597141]

>>15594350
Will I get anything out of these if i'm not a catholic?

[Anonymous No.15597890]

>>15597141
not that anon but with Caterina (Siena), Teresa and also Anna (Foligno) yes

[Anonymous No.15597899]

>>15597890
Angela not Anna sorry

[Anonymous No.15598098]

>>15597141
I'm not and I found Divine Revelations to be quite insightful. Bit of a slog though.

[Anonymous No.15598750]

>>15597141
>Will I get anything
Eternal life.

[Anonymous No.15598764]

>>15593974
Ann Beattie is great

[Anonymous No.15599258]

>>15598764
thought Chilly was good, what else would you recommend by her?

[Anonymous No.15599271]

>>15590750
The complete poetry of
>Emily Dickinson
>Anne Sexton
>Sylvia Plath
>Wilsawa Szymborska

[Anonymous No.15599387]

[Anonymous No.15599390]

>>15590750
Diotima's speech in the Symposium

[Anonymous No.15599394]

[Anonymous No.15599408]

[Anonymous No.15599444]

>>15591943
Love her. Earthsea was a huge part of my childhood and Left Hand of Darkness is amazing.

[Anonymous No.15599467]

I've never read a book written by a woman

[Anonymous No.15599823]

>>15592106
yep

[Anonymous No.15599848]

>>15599408
why are you people like this

[Anonymous No.15600346]

>>15595810
>>15595849
well technically its both a Christian and Platonic perspective like Ficino or St. Denys
but the Platonism does seem to prevail over the Christianity in the text

[Anonymous No.15600691]

>>15591280
Harry Potter and the magic spell that turns his penis into vagina he has menstruate problems was my favorite

[Anonymous No.15600704]

>>15590750
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLF

[Anonymous No.15600714]

>>15591943
I've just read LHoD but I really don't remember all the SJW topics people complain about it for, except the surface level premise of genderless planet. I remember the one Soviet Union stand-in country has a "attractive" gayish senator but you can pretend all the other characters are men and it reads pretty standard

[Anonymous No.15600788]

>MANDATORY LIST:
emilly dickinson
silvina ocampo
carson mccullers
fernan caballero
maria zambrano
shirley jackson
edith wharton
joyce carol oates
gertrude stein
saint teresa of avila
rosalia castro de murguia
flannery o'connor
gillian flynn
sor juana
the bronte sisters
toni morrison
simone weil
james tiptree
anna akhmatova
murasaki
fumiko enchi
didion
fleur jaeggy
mira gonzalez
anna kavan
ann quin
anais nin
anne sexton
agata kristof
annie dillard
eleanor catton
rachel carson
edtih stein
alison bechdel
susan sontag
anne rice
fuka mizutani
frances burney
allende
sappho
mary renault
clarice lispector
maria firmina dos reis
simone de beauvoir
natalia ginzburg
herta muller
hilda hilst
marguerite duras
marguerite yourcenar
djuna barnes
marilynne robinson
alice munro
sylvia plath
alice walker
chimamanda
rachel de queiroz
conceiçao evaristo
natalia borges polesso
geni guimaraes
george elliot
marguerite radclyffe hall
ali smith
virginia woolf
mary shelley
tove jansson
elena ferrante
selva almada
gabriela mistral
carolina maria de jesus
jane austen
angela davis
sei shonagon
hannah arendt
rosa luxemburg

etc

[Anonymous No.15600800]

Hour of the Star by Lispector

[Anonymous No.15600824]

>>15600788
>putting mira gonzales/shaggy on a list with emily dickinson, the moomin artist. and anna akhmatova
ok anon

[Anonymous No.15600960]

mira "dude weed" gonzalez aka mira "25 going on 45" gonzalez

[Anonymous No.15601749]

>>15600960
fun fact: one of mira's tree buds made a fake incel rage meme to promote mira via adversarial marketing

[Anonymous No.15601756]

>>15590757
fpbp

[Anonymous No.15602005]

>>15590757
get em!

[Anonymous No.15602965]

No one is here except all of us by Ramona Ausubel. It's contemporary and reads beautifully. A book about world war two but also not really. It spans time and place and it feels surreal. Probably one of my favourite books I've ever read the way she manages to mix the beastly and the beautiful is wonderful.

[Anonymous No.15603057]

>>15590750

[Anonymous No.15603070]

>>15601749
what is a tree bud, what is an incel rage meme
can you talk like a normal person

[Anonymous No.15603074]

>>15601749
Fun fact: Mira looks 40 and her Twitter image is from when she was 19.

[Anonymous No.15603232]

>>15596027
Yeah. Language has been around for a long time--it's p crazy, actually.

[Anonymous No.15603337]

>>15602965
Sounds kino, anon.

[Anonymous No.15603358]

>>15590750
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. Great writer.

[Anonymous No.15604008]

>>15595835
Thanks for the rec anon. Never heard of this, seems awesome.

Edit: reading a translation, and it is awesome

[Anonymous No.15604319]

>>15603074
why would someone other than Mira care this much about her appearance? were there expectations she was immortal?

[Anonymous No.15604341]

>>15590750
Thread ignored. Who's the cleavage?

[Anonymous No.15604952]

The Captivity Narrative of Mary Rowlandson

[Anonymous No.15605910]

>>15590750
The Night Circus

[Anonymous No.15607447]

>>15590750
Read the realms of the elderlings books, they are amazing and so is the author