Guys, saying as it’s International Woman’s Day tomorrow – what is your favourite book written by a woman?
Guys, saying as it’s International Woman’s Day tomorrow – what is your favourite book written by a woman?
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homegoing – yaa gyasi <3
we need to talk about kevin - lionel shriver <3
I’ve been waiting on homegoing from the library for ages. I can’t wait to get my hands on it
I adore Lionel Shriver. Have you read Big Brother?
No it’s in my amazon basket which is basically how I store my reading list ?… should I checkout?
Alex it’s beautiful x It’s one that stays with you
@Ala Yes, you absolutely should. Thought-provoking stuff.
Harry Potters then The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah xx
Year of the flood – Margaret Atwood
The end of Mr Y – scarlet Thomson
A little life – Hanya Yanagihara
Ooo I’ve only heard of Margaret Atwood and not the other authors but if you’re putting them in the same league they’re going on my ‘to read’ list 🙂
A Little Life is an outstanding book.
A little life is truly astonishing. Read it at Christmas and actively resented time I spent not reading it. Truly astounding. I adored it. Hope you do as well.
Judith
To kill a mockingbird. Harper lee
Wuthering Heights.
Love in a Cold Climate
Love love nancy mitford, love in a cold climate such a classic. x
Gone with the wind, Margaret Mitchell … I think
Kelley Armstrong – all of the Women of the otherworld series
Susan Richards, Chosen by a horse & Saddled
Rebecca
Just love Rebecca
i know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou
Harry Potters 1-7; All of Enid Blyton even the shockingly racist and misogynist ones; Marian Keyes – all of, but I love the one based on a magazine. Daphné du Maurier…
I actually realised the other day that I hardly read books written by men.
Far too many, jane Austin, jk rowling, Erica james, kate Morton, Rachel Hore, jilly cooper, Daphine du maurier, agatha christie, carolla Dunn
Yes you’re right, I’d include all of your authors, apart from Jane Austen lol
I could think of loads more, i just got bored writing them all lol xx
There’s loads isn’t there
Giovanna Fletcher – Some Kind of Wonderful
Pride and Prejudice
All of the old Sophie Hannah books till they got stupidly complicated!
Classic – Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell.
Modern – A Piece of Cake, Cupcake Brown
Harry Potter ❤
Wuthering Heights, Wild Swans, anything by Antonia Fraser and anything by Penelope Evans
Sharon Maas too
Permission to screw up: How I learned to lead by getting almost everything wrong – Kristen Hadeed. It lives on my desk at work
The last temptation by Val McDermid.
I loved The Mermaids Singing.
Val McDermid ❤️
Yeah I loved that one too, and all of them in that series to be fair. But this one really stood out for me. I’ve read a few of her others that aren’t part of the series and they are just as great to read. She’s probably my favourite author and hails not to far from me x
Enid Blyton – The Enchanted Wood
Barbara Bradford Taylor – Woman of Substance
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
J K Rowling – Harry Potter ❤
PD James, Ruth Rendall etc
The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula Le Guin (an absolute childhood must-read).
Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantell (any of hers, really, but these I could read again and again.)
A Book Of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates, a really fascinating novel about an abortion-clinic murderer.
Jubilee by Margaret Walker. Excellent book.
Wuthering Heights
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood 🙂
Yes!
Paula
Lucinda Riley, The Seven Sisters
Jane Eyre, anything by Barbara Pym
One of the reasons I split with an ex-boyfriend was because he never read books by female authors ?
One of my exes used to bitch on at me because I never read books by men!
Affinity by Sara Waters, all of Jane Austen’s novels, The Spiral Dance by Starhawk.
Wuthering Heights, my all time fave ?
Maura Murphy – don’t wake me at Doyle’s
Julie Burchill, Married Alive, spikey, funny, sad, cool, read it about 50 times, love it!
My personal favourite has to be Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche. Such an amazing way with words and femist figure ✊
Little women
Agreed. This is my absolute favourite book. I have read it so many times, still cry when Beth dies though ?
Same. My absolute all time favourite.
I like sense and sensibility too.
So many great books
Of course To kill a mockingbird, which I’ve read maybe 100 times
Patricia Cornwall the Scarlett’s series ♥️Breast Cancer awareness tomorrow please support
To kill a mocking bird
Rebecca
Almost Human by @Melanie
Jane Eyre and Little Women
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver.
That’s been recommended to me several times Miriam and I still haven’t read it
Don’t wait any longer Nina. It will stay with you forever.
Can’t narrow it down! So, women who i’ve read everything by:
Jane Austen, margaret atwood, brontes (lumping them all in together), angela carter, ruth ozekei, karin slaughter, sara waters, marian keyes, Michelle lovric, louise Welsh daphne du maurier, … stopping at 10! Happy women’s day!!
Little women
Jane Eyre
To Kill a Mockingbird for me, also I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
I loved Maya Angelou but I was very surprised I didn’t like To kill a Mockingbird, gave up with it
Mockingbird is my all time favourite book. I think I’ve read it pretty much every year since I was 14.
This gives no perspective as you have no idea how old I am ?! 43, so probably around 30 times….
I got the sequel as a Christmas present two years ago, it’s still sat on the bookshelves I’m telling myself I HAVE to finish Mockingbird first
@Nina, I have to admit that I didn’t finish the sequel. I was so looking forward to it, when I went to pick it up I was so excited, bought good chocolate so that I could settle in for the ride, explained to the husband and kids how very very important it was. And then, nothing. I keep intending to pick it back up.
The Bold As Love series by Gwyneth Jones. I know I am always on about these books but they are fucking wonderful.
The help by Katherine Stockett x
‘The Turkish Embassy Letters’ by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She was self-taught and ran away from her expected female obligations. She travelled across Europe in mad circumstances and casually brought the inoculation for Smallpox back to the U.K. She was also very close friends with Alexander Pope. The book is a fascinating read. Other than that, I would recommend the private letters, poems, essays and speeches of our multi-lingual Queen Elizabeth I. A very clever lady, she knew how to manipulate her Privy Council and stay alive.
I like the sound of those!
Lady MWM was incredibly ahead of her time. So much so that when she was dying/died, her family tried to burn all of her work. The letters survive only because a priest made a copy. Much of it was lost which is such a shame!
The book of her letters is available in bookshops as are those of Queen Elizabeth I.
QEI rocked though! She talked her way out of execution and many other incidences. Her famous Tilbury speech is, I think, both clever and emotional as was her last speech to Parliament, known as the ‘Golden Speech’.
Wow, incredible women! Thanks for the info, I’ll definitely look these up.