I'd like book recommendations for books that when you read the women characters, your mind says "Yes! That's what a woman is. That's the true experience for women."
It's also fine to just list the character and what makes them feel real, so when I read the book I'll know what to pay attention to.
Thanks!
by Shadowy_Heart
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The narrator in Nora Ephron’s ‘Heartburn’
Idk why but “The Bell Jar” don’t judge😭
I feel like this might be different for women in diff countries, I loved A thousand splendid suns and A woman is no man, but Americans for example, won’t find them relatable.
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett (very funny book about war and being a woman)
+ almost all of his books with major female characters. The Wee Free Men/Tiffany Aching series is about a girl. the copy of it that I own includes a note from the author where he mentions a girl at a book signing telling him it’s one of the only books she’s read that’s about a *real* girl
A New New Me by Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi, and Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi (these are kind of like if a book was character instead of plot)
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-Mo (originally written in Korean, be warned there’s an almost-rape scene)
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (originally written in Japanese)
about a teenager, but Dreadnought by April Daniels. about a transgender teen girl, her and all the adult women in the book feel very real, talks about being a woman as well
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin, the main character is a man, I’m thinking about the character Heather Lelache
also, there’s not actually a single woman in the book, but The Left Hand of Darkness is a really interesting book about gender. a kinda misogynistic man (from 1960s earth) goes to a planet where there is only one sex (so no concept of gender), explores the culture shock and him reconsidering the idea of gender