Looking for great books by female authors
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Re: Looking for great books by female authors
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Mary Shelley and Jane Austen are great fun.
But there's an entire universe of excellent books written by women.
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Here's a quick list
Angela Davis
Toni Morrison
bell hooks for nonfiction
Ursula K Le Guin for sci Fi
Dianne Wynne Jones
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Abu Daré
Susanna Clarke
Best of luck
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- Madeline L’Engle (great space/time travel concepts and good if you want a complicated plot)
- Tamara Ireland Snow has a great book (Ever, Last, Word) it is about a girl with OCD and is set in high school.
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If you like historical fiction, I will forever suggest anything by Michelle Moran. I am particularly fond of Nefertiti, but Cleopatra's Daughter and Madame Tussaud are also amazing.
Horror also features a surprising number of really great female writers. The Hacienda by Isabel Canas has been wildly popular over the past couple of years - and for good reason. That story is wonderful and it features some really terrifying scenes and some beautifully written interactions with a local priest. Darcy Coates is also a great horror writer. Even though some of her stories end up being a little hokey, they are written in a way that catches attention and doesn't let you walk away. I would definitely suggest Hunted, but many of her gothic novels are also very catchy. Christina Henry also wrote a really great narrative on monsters of many kinds in Near the Bone, but it is not quite as good as the others I've mentioned. And, of course, no list of female horror is complete without Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
For fantasy, I'd probably suggest Throne of Glass or A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas. I personally preferred Throne of Glass, but both are wildly popular and have huge followings online. Raven Kennedy also wrote a pretty great fantasy romance with the Plated Prisoner series, but that is a dark romance that definitely isn't for everyone. It deals with some pretty difficult topics and deals with what it means to be a woman in a world that just isn't set up for your benefit.
This is in no way a complete list. There are hundreds of popular and/or very artful female authors. You just have to know where to look.
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A very intimate book that goes into every detail of her life (both her late husbands, lost children, etc.), as the author really paints Margaret with a clear undertone throughout, as you can tell the author was writing to women (and not men). She skips over battles in quick paragraphs but spends countless pages and even whole chapters on the most private and personal details of Margaret's life. It is very in-depth and a great read.
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Beka is the lead in in all of the books thus far, and I found it was nice that she wasn't over the top girly or stereotypical, but she isn't "just trying to be a guy" or veering into the other side of those stereotypes. She feels like an actual person you could meet and not a walking charactcature. It's refreshing and all friendships are meaningful in these books as well. Hope this helps!