NP, a request for female authors (with a M&D mention at the end)

[Robert Mahnke]

Happy New Year, everyone, from California, where it is still 2017.

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 11:53 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> FWIW, some books I have read recently that I would recommend, in no useful
> order:
>
> Elif Batuman, The Idiot (and her earlier book)
> Audur Ava Olafsdottir, Butterflies in November
> Adrienne Mayor, The Poison King and The Amazons
> Mary Beard, SPQR (and her books about Vesuvius and the Parthenon)
> Judith Flanders, The Making of Home
> Magda Szabo, The Door
> Jill Lepore, Joe Gould's Teeth
> Helen Dewitt, The Last Samurai
> Tove Jansson, The Summer Book
> Terry Tempest Williams, Leap
> Ali Smith, Artful
> Tamara Shopsin, Mumbai New York Scranton
> Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 10:34 PM, philip goode <phigoode at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Easily I can say the majority of my personal library is written by men
>> and I'd like to even up the male/female ratio, this seems like a sensible
>> place to turn for suggestions.  I'm open to any non-fiction (philosophy,
>> history, (auto)biographies, feminism (theory/lectures), etc.) or any
>> fiction (classics, horror, sci-fi/adventure/fantasy, etc.) as well as kids
>> books or anything else you think is worth sharing.
>>
>> Damme, I've also been sitting a few pages into Chapter 40 of M&D for a
>> long time and hope to take this current group read as the opportunity to
>> jump back in and finish it finally.
>>
>> Thanks everyone, Happy New Year!
>>
>> "Suggest you, Sir, even in Play, that this giggling Rout of poxy
>> half-wits, *embody *us? Embody *us?  *America but some Fairy Emanation,
>> without substance, that hath pass'd, by Miracle, into *them?*--Damme, I
>> think not, --Hell were a better Destiny."
>>
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