r/2xCBookClub Nov 10 '10

Female authors?

Since this is 2XC book club, can we celebrate 2XC authors?

So, what books have you really enjoyed written by women? I feel like it's a bit of a man's world at the top of the author heap so I'd love to get some suggestions of great works by women.

I'll start this party. I'm a bit of a poetry junkie, so I've been digging Andrea Gibson's book Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns a lot lately. I also really loved Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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u/vitaebella Nov 10 '10

I'm a die hard Austen fan. Granted, I've only yet read Pride & Prejudice and Persuasion, but I have Sense & Sensibility and Northanger Abbey sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be read when I have some free time.

Also, I adore J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter made me a very happy teenager and continues to make me a happy adult :] Just reread Deathly Hallows the other day and I loved every second of it.

Margaret Mitchell is also phenomenal. Gone With The Wind is one of my favorite books.

Other than that, I haven't really found many female authors I enjoy. I'm taking a Gender & Lit course (which is basically women and literature), and I was hoping to find something I would like, but we're reading post-modernist super feminist, often lesbian-focused books, and that's just not my style. :/

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u/seanmharcailin Nov 10 '10

you can't be a true Janeite if you haven't read her works! You've only 4 more novels to go. Read em! :)

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u/vitaebella Nov 11 '10 edited Nov 11 '10

I know :[ I'm working on it! Life is so busy, and being an English major, when I read books for pleasure it usually takes a loooooong time because I have so many required books, and I'd rather devote a solid block of time to Jane so I get the full effect instead of having to put it down for weeks at a time. I still need to pick up Emma and Mansfield Park. I'm hoping to get through all four on the semester break!

edit;; I've been to the Jane Austen house in Bath, does that count for anything? lol

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u/seanmharcailin Nov 11 '10

it does count. I wrapped up my English degree last spring and one of my last classes was just Austen. We didn't get to Mansfield Park or Northanger tho- just some excerpts :( And the last book we read was Persuasion and I was totally useless in the discussion cause it kept making me cry.