>What's your favorite female author, anon?
Aimee Bender or Virginia Wolfe
I don't read books.
Doris Lessing
what
Flannery O'Connor 2bh
Mary Shelley
>>7857911
Simone Weil, a christian philosopher.
>>7857911
Author or poet? Because Mina Loy writes better than any female novelist I've ever read
Margaret Atwood
Best answer is Edith Wharton: House of Mirth is about how hard it is to be a woman, supposedly a woman would be able to relate to that.
my diary desu
Virginia Woolf.
Still, female authors tend to be talentless hags.
Zora Neale Hurston, yours?
Flannery O'Connor.
>drinking coffee in a takeaway cup when not even taking it away
Absolutely disgusting.
my name's not anon, also who the fuck is called anon anyway, no one that's who. Plus your bag is taking up the whole table, come on now, I have no room to put my elbows on the table like you. This is a two way street, if we're going to be together there needs to be mutual respect which frankly I'm not seeing right now from you. I mean, what is this seriously. Is this a joke, are you trying to hurt me? Because I'll tell you, it's working, it's fucking working.
Flannery O'Connor.
It's so refreshing to read a woman who doesn't write about her vagina.
>>7857968
She's hot she can do whatever she wants
Well, Virginia Woolf has the ones that I'm closest too, but Austen has some real fun romps. I've got a book of Aphra Behn's stuff that i'd love to be checking out soon. How about I loan it to you sometime?
the J author
Agatha Christie.Unironically.
Suzanne Collins. Stephenie Meyer
>>7857911
Patricia Highsmith
is shirley jackson a pleb author?
I refuse to read books written by women. They're just full of emotional crap, no real substance.
Selma Lagerlöf
>>7858088
Her nudes are my favorite among female authors.
Waugh I guess.
Pic related.
She also wrote a book about glory holes, shit was so cash.
Emily Bronte
Flannery O'Connor
Virginia Woolf
Want to read-
Simone de Beauvoir
George Eliot
Susan Sontag
>>7857950
I thought House of Mirth was boring as fuck but maybe that's because I read it in high school...
jk rowling, i guess
>>7858000
>uses 'romp' unironically
>trips
>mfw
>>7858139
qiu miaojin
ValerieSolanas
ursla k le guin, suey sontag, camille paglaglagliag, Virginity Wolf, the list goes on . . .
>>7858188
ur waifus?
Marilynne Robinson
>tfw you realize /lit/ really is full of kids and plebs
>>7857924
This.
Ayn Rand
Judy Blume
GEORGE ELIOT
Laurie Moore
Virginia Woolf
Jan Morris is the best female historian, travel writer, essayist alive
Joan Didion
gospel of mary is top tier desu
Tove Jansson
Dorothy Parker
>>7857911
>What's your favorite female author, anon?
>not "Who's"
i'm ok with this
Anne Rice or J.K Rowling fust to play it safe
but...
>favorite
>female
pick one
Annie Proulx and Flannery O'Connor.
Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Yourcenar and Patricia Highsmith
something so appealing about dead white lesbians
I don't care at all about the genders of authors so hard to say. Was J. R. R. Tolkien a woman? His/her stuff seems pretty good.
As surprising as it may be to me, I wouldn't really be able to answer it straight away without thinking about it for a very long time, albeit eventually I'd recall it. Regardless, if asked abruptly, I'd really not be able to answer it as I would only recall male authors. Only eventually would there be a spark of light reminding me that I've read an amazing book written by a female artist.
English language:
To kill a mocking bird (Harper Lee)
Mother tongue:
Felicidade Clandestina (Clarice Lispector)
And that's it, and as a matter of fact, most of the literature I read is predominantly written by men.
Gertrude "GERTY THE BERTY" Stein
>>7858091
I quite like her short stories. Not sure.
>>7857911
>Implying I actually read instead of shitposting DFW memes on a Mongolian Fantasy Dirt-Biking board
Just realised that out of the 54 books on my shelves, not a single one is written by a woman.
>>7858716
You arent sure because plebbery and it's constituents are a dismissive and non-descriptive lit meme that we only use for shitting on each other. You like her short stories, me too, "she's authentically great" is the answer anon was looking for.
>>7857911
Any of the Based Brontes (except Branwell obviously, his main function was to have a hilarious death anyway).
>>7857911
Willa Cather writes books that make me cry.
djuna barnes
carson mccullers
edna st. vincent millay
rosmarie waldrop
virginia woolf
alejandra pizarnik
Emily Dickinson I guess
>>7857911
"i like eleanor catton's 'the rehearsal' a lot, but there was a book that came out last year called 'station eleven' that was about a roaming theater company that performed shakespeare in the the post apocalypse that i really liked too. who's yours?"
Leslie Marmon Silko
fiction
Sharon Olds
poetry
Ann Beattie.
>>7857911
>favorite
I don't have a favorite author, let alone a favorite female author.
Djuna Barnes
i like uh... banana yoshimoto, she's good. writes some damn cozy books, and her name is banana. virginia woolf, she's alright too, loved orlando.
hmm there's also... anais nin... (subtly using reverse psychology) i don't think you'd like her stuff much. definitely don't check her out. really don't. i wouldn't like that at all.
For verse, Emily Dickinson; for prose, maybe Jane Austen. I don't read much prose fiction by men or women.
Helen Macdonald
Don't know if anyone read H for Hawk, but it was quite an enjoyable read.
Toni Morrison, Ursula Le Guin, Jane Austen, Elena Ferrante, Zadie Smith, Jennifer Egan. hard to choose
>>7857911
Hilda Hilst
>>7859810
i sort of want to read that but i don't like the idea of keeping birds as pets unless it's chickens or the like
>>7857911
You wouldn't know her
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pozzed to all fuck
Not even trolling, so Marilynne Robinson and Alice Munro.
Bam Margera
George Eliot. Just more good sense, insight, and dry humour than any other writer before or since.
Honourable mentions to Virgina Woolf, Tove Jansson and Jane Austen
>>7859920
hahaha fukin epic you rekt em
Marguerite Duras
Nałkowska and Orzeszkowska are my pics. The first is only good if you can get through the "all man are vicious" moments and the latter isn't that good really, but I enjoyed the pretentious language so much, had to mention her.
>>7857911
I don't keep authors separated by gender in my head so I wouldn't know what to answer
>>7859989
I'd probably answer that but the truth is I don't read any female authors
>>7858140
Yeah, The Last Samurai was fucking excellent. The glory hole book was funny, but nowhere near as good imo
>>7858181
muh nigga
I don't read any. They tend to be uninteresting, just like women themselves
>>7857911
none
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rebecca west
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John Green
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Anne Carson
Susanna Clarke
>reading anything not written by dead white men
>no HD
>no Zurn
it's like you don't want her to know you're fucked up
>>7860863
>Eliot for prose
I just finished Middlemarch. As a period piece, it is sublime. Very satisfied with the ending.
>>7857911
Probably George Eliot, and fuck Jane Austen; she's witty and brilliant, but she writes like she despises her own characters' shallowness and vapidity. Gimme an author with a little more compassion.
>>7860886
Yeah it's funny how it's a period piece, it all just feels like the past to a modern reader. Weird to think it's like someone writing now about the seventies.
Have you read silas marner? It's bloody lovely.
Marguerite Yourcenar.
Other answers are wrong.
>>7857911
Who, not what. I know this is 4chan but come on.
>>7858066
Really nigga...
>>7858344
B8? Because I legit enjoyed Year of Magical Thinking.
>>7860863
>Woolfe is overrated
No Lydia Davis? You illiterate faggots
>>7859920
Dude, was that actually worth the effort?
>>7859955
Check em
>>7858341
Criminally underrated post.
there are morons who still have not read this
>>7861977
Reading Freud and The Birth of Tragedy makes it redundant
>>7857911
Sorry, I was distracted by the absence of nice cheekbones and your eye-sockets being slightly too concave. Can you repeat the question?
>>7857911
Everyone who didnt reply "Hilda Dolittle" should get off my board DESU.
>>7860863
Literally nobody reads Woolf. She is overrated by whom? Theorists? High-brow critics? They already have other images to worship.
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>>7857911
>OP's pic looks like someone dressed up a Real Doll and took it to a cafe lol
Atwood and Lahiri, I like Allende too even if she's sort of a meme author from a specific era
>>7862296
Nah she's always on university syallabi, and I for one read her at school too.
>>7858156
>Simone de Beauvoir
This bitch is my favorite
women aren't good at things
>>7858716
I've only read the Lottery in High school what else should I read of hers?
Harper Lee, Marjane Sartrapi
>>7860894
If you like that Victorian setting I would recommend Ivy Compton-Burnett, never seen her mentioned here before.
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>>7857911
Donald Trump.
Charlotte Lennox, Woolf, or Aphra Behn
>>7858000
My man
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>Highsmith
LMAO
Iris Murdoch
Joan Didion
Martha Gellhorn
Virginia Woolf
Toni Morrison
>>7858065
Same here. My grandmother made me read Christie and Rex Stout.
>>7859920
>(You)
>>7857911
gosh i bet that girl has such cute handwriting
