Upon reviewing the books I've read and loved, I realized I mostly only read works written by men… As a woman, I would love to be expand my horizons to women authors! Funnily enough, I think the only female author I've read is George Sand… I love classics, find them pretty reliable most of the time. I don't particularly enjoy science fiction or YA romance, but I'm open to anything. It can be fiction, non-fiction, etc.
It also doesn't have to be related to feminism or the state of women in society, but if you have any recommendations on that front, it would be much appreciated as well. I'm thinking something along the lines of Simone de Beauvoir.
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[Jesmyn Ward](https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/english/faculty-staff/jesmyn-ward#:~:text=Jesmyn%20Ward%20received%20her%20MFA,the%202017%20National%20Book%20Award) is a contemporary author whose Southern Historical Fiction, I believe, will join the classics.
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
*Arcadia* and *Fates and Furies* by Lauren Groff
*The Pisces* and *Milkfed* by Melissa Broder
*A Suburb of Monogamy* by Catherine Borders
*A Manual for Cleaning Women* by Lucia Berlin
*Swing Time* and *The Fraud* by Zadie Smith
*Americanah* by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ETA *Americanah* because I would give anything to read that book again for the first time.
Code name verity
The inheritance of loss
Dreams of the peaceful dragon
i like kate mortons books give one of hers a go
Some of my favorite women authors are (in no particular order):
LM Montgomery
Jane Langton
Angela Carter
Daphne Du Maurier
M.F.K. Fisher
Ruth Reichl
James Tiptree, Jr. (pen name for Alice Sheldon), “Her Smoke Rose Up Forever” (feminist sci-fi)
Basically everything by Anne Applebaum and Svetlana Alexievich (both non-fiction).
In the Garden of Spite by Camilla Bruce
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
The Twisted Ones and the Hollow Places by T Kingfisher (really anything by T Kingfisher for me)
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (another author with a few good works)
All’s Well by Mona Awad (another author with a few good works. Rouge is about beauty standards)
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
I enjoyed Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent.
{{ The Elegance of the Hedgehog }} by Muriel Barbery
Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor