Looking for fiction novels to read.
If you could re-write the list of classics from a female perspective(mainly women authors and/or women protagonists) what would you include?
Are there any books written by female authors that you read and thought “everyone should read this”?
by Such_Soft7214
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Middlemarch, by George Eliot
Anything by Virginia Woolf
What era? Genre? Country? Here’s some authors who come to mind. Mostly England & US from 19th century to today.
– Mary Shelley
– Brontë Sisters
– Margaret Atwood
– Charlotte Perkins Gillman
– Kate Chopin
– Octavia Butler
– Emily Dickinson
– Ursula le Guin
– Jane Austen
– Harper Lee
– Virginia Woolf
– Agatha Christie
– Zora Neale Hurston
– Elizabeth Gaskell
– Shirley Jackson
– Daphne du Maurier
– Flannery O’Connor
– Ida B Wells
– bell hooks
– Audre Lorde
– Cherríe Moraga
– Gloria Anzaldúa
– Eudora Welty
– Sylvia Plath
– Sylvia Wynter
– Silvia Moreno-Garcia
– Carmen Maria Machado
– Sandra Cisneros
– Pam Muñoz
– Amy Tan
– The School Days of an Indian Girl, by Zitkala-Sa
– Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
“Women authors and/or women protagonists” is remarkably generous; you don’t have to dig very deep! Here’s twenty:
Pride & Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
The Awakening
Anna Karenina*
Middlemarch
Portrait Of A Lady*
Passing
Orlando
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
The Price Of Salt
The Left Hand Of Darkness
Beloved
Housekeeping
A Place Of Greater Safety
The Last Samurai
Runaway (Alice Munro)
Salvage The Bones
A Manual For Cleaning Women
The Lost Daughter
The Idiot
*Written by a man, about a woman
Passing by Nella Larson
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Off the top of my head, just for starters:
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
Sense and Sensibility, or any Jane Austin
The Stone Angel, or any Margaret Laurence
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Kate Chopin.
Fiction by women that I think everyone should read bc they showcase women’s experiences in relatable ways with unique storytelling; all from this century and mostly by women of colour bc they don’t get enough rep when discussing “the classics”:
**Fantasy**
1. The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
2. Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe
3. A Touch of Blood by Sajni Patel
**Historical + Mystery**
1. The Red Palace by June Hur
2. The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman
3. Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong
**YA / Coming of age**
1. Give Me a Sign by Anna Sortino
2. Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth
3. Throwback by Maurene Goo
**Romance**
1. Much Ado about Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin (her other books are good too!)
2. The Winter Companion by Mimi Matthews
**Horror**
1. The Night Eaters by Marjorie M. Liu
2. A Guest in the House by E.M. Carroll