should I read? Women authors?

[David Morris]

_Wise Blood_ by Flannery O'Connor

Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:At 7:22 AM -0700 8/8/05, terrence oflattery wrote:
> i make an effort to include females in my reading. i read the girl 
>with pearl earing. if you are having trouble picking up a book, 
>ulysses may not be the everst you want to climb today. pearl earing 
>is nice little ant hill and so is the year of wonder,


The top 169 novels include these women and their books:

56.. The Age of Innocence : Edith Wharton : 9
59.. Two Girls, Fat and Thin : Mary Gaitskill : 8
63.. A Book of Common Prayer : Joan Didion : 8
76.. To Kill a Mockingbird : Harper Lee : 7
89.. The Story of the Treasure Seekers : Edith Nesbit : 5
90.. Always Coming Home : Ursula LeGuin : 5
124.. Beloved : Toni Morrison : 3
139.. Geek Love : Katherine Dunn : 2
149.. Cat's Eye : Margaret Atwood : 2
151.. Messiah of Stockholm : Cynthia Ozick : 1
161.. The Secret History : Donna Tartt : 1


There are certainly more women authors of quality fiction than that, 
and the ones listed have certainly written more books! (I'm 
thinking of Atwood and LeGuin and Ozick, whose last novel was a 
marvel!).

So I made a brief list of the best of the unincluded: (authors only, 
some have written dozens of books)

Ali Smith Hotel
Angela Carter Nights at the Circus
AS Byatt Possession
Keri Hulme The Bone People
Pat Barker Regeneration
Helen DeWitt The Last Samurai
Rilla Askew The Mercy Seat
Kathy Acker Don Quixote
Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook
Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own
Iris Murdoch The Bell

Some other, or not necessarily contemporary, women authors (staying 
in the 20th-21st century), in no particular order are:

Willa Cather
Annie Proulx
Monica Ali
Zadie Smith
Carson McCullers
Anais Nin
Andrea Levy
Penelope Fitzgerald
Arundhati Roy
Ann Patchett
Carol Shields
Joyce Carol Oates
Jhumpa Lahiri
J.K. Rowling? (g)

There are undoubtedly a bunch I'm neglecting. I think that there are 
a couple of good up and coming women authors from Africa and India. 
The current Nobel for Literature is a woman from Poland but I don't 
know her name right now and haven't read anything by her.

And a few I want to read:

Nadine Gordimer
Jeanette Winterson
Joyce Johnson
Elfriede Jelinek
Buchi Emecheta
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


Bekah


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