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Men - do you read books written by female authors?

This year:

Bright Travellers - Fiona Benson
The Right to Sex - Amia Srinivasan
 
Last 6 books I read are
NW - Zadie Smith
Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson
Want Me - Tracy Clark-Flory
The Power - Naomi Alderman
A Gate to Women's Country - Sheri S Tepper
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman

Currently reading Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

I barely read any books by men.
 
Love Gate to Women’s Country wtfftw 😍 The ideas are very second wave feminism and a bit dated/simplistic now but I still love it!

Have you read Beauty by the same author?

The only books I’ve recently read by men have been book group books or re-reading Douglas Adams/the biography of Douglas Adams. I hadn’t really registered who wrote the last bookgroup choice but it became increasingly obvious he was a White man when reading :hmm:
 
Agent Sparrow said:
Love Gate to Women’s Country wtfftw 😍 The ideas are very second wave feminism and a bit dated/simplistic now but I still love it!

Have you read Beauty by the same author?

The only books I’ve recently read by men have been book group books or re-reading Douglas Adams/the biography of Douglas Adams. I hadn’t really registered who wrote the last bookgroup choice but it became increasingly obvious he was a White man when reading :hmm:
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Ooo I haven't. I'll see if I can find it.
Poot said:
You should try it. Some of them are quite good, actually.
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I dunno. I feel like there's so much man around and they don't really write anything interesting.
 
Also wtfftw if you like GtWC and The Power, have you come across the excellent Women on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy? One of my all time favourite books. 😍 A good recommendation for anyone who said they wanted to read more sci fi written by women. Extra urban points for themes of anarchism. :cool:
 
Agent Sparrow said:
Also wtfftw if you like GtWC and The Power, have you come across the excellent Women on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy? One of my all time favourite books. 😍 A good recommendation for anyone who said they wanted to read more sci fi written by women. Extra urban points for themes of anarchism. :cool:
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I think I have my mum's physical copy of that one which means I read it so long ago that I can't remember. I'll add it to my pile :cool:
 
Pickman's model said:
i wanted to find out how many women authors had their works in penguin classics, and found this blog How Many Penguin Classics Were Written By Women? - Camile Blog. which was very interesting until i found they numbered emile zola among the female authors.

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emile zola some time ago
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Still interesting, even with that ridiculous error.

If we're counting Emily Zola, can we also count Andrea Camilleri as a woman?

I've read very few new books since this thread started, but I have read a short story collection by Ali Smith, which I enjoyed. Maybe I should seek out more of her work.
 
Definitely read Ali Smith's season quartet if you haven't already. They were written recently and contemporaneously over the last few years, it's probably easier to list the subjects that they are not about, but nothing else I have read has captured what it feels like to be living in the UK at the moment so well.
 
Plumdaff said:
Definitely read Ali Smith's season quartet if you haven't already. They were written recently and contemporaneously over the last few years, it's probably easier to list the subjects that they are not about, but nothing else I have read has captured what it feels like to be living in the UK at the moment so well.
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By coincidence I bought Autumn on Saturday.
 
I was definitely one of those who all my favourite authors were male. I did an english degree so I have read tons. I then stopped reading hardly anything a few years ago for some reason... I guess I got bored/lost inspiration/too busy/not sure. I started reading again this year and just on a whim/to have less choice I decided to only read fairly new books written by female authors... it has been a bit of a revelation, I realised how much of a rut I was in. Not" saying modern male authors aren't good, it is just I am currently not interested in them. I guess my tastes are a bit subtler now and I am more into interactions between people rather than navel gazing outsider/loner type stuff.

My last 2 books are "The 5 wounds" by Kirsten Valdez Quade (dysfunctional family in a shitty town in new mexico live life) and "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (nigerian expat story). I pick them more or less at random. If it has been recommended by Oprah that seems to be a good tip! didn't think I would be saying that a few years ago, but she knows what she's talking about really.
 
still on this, no male authors since early 2022, I'm reading "hurricane season" by fernanda melchor, it is kind of a stream of consciousness telling of fairly brutal life in a mexican village... reminds me of hearing secret family gossip really fast and dense sitting in a living room in mexico and only understanding half of it
 
I can't say I have looking at my audiobook/book case and ebook collection, apart from Harry Potter. That was no particular choice however, I picked what I thought I would like. Now it turns out she is an arse, which makes it no less likely to pick a female author than before. I pick them based usually on recommendations from related book groups to ones I already like. Definitely rejected more male authors than female but thats what I have generally come across in the sections I am interested in. A few were coauthored by women however and co-idk what the term is but read out for audiobook.

Edit : Edin Bylton I read those.
 
About to hit the top of my to read pile - novalyne price ellis, one who walked alone: robert e howard, the final years; sarah bonato, searching the grey literature; mary beard, twelve caesars; margot adler, drawing down the moon
 
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