We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Tamora Pierce in general.
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata.
The Bronte sisters works.
This seems like an easy one, to be honest. While women aren’t perfect, but I could just go on endlessly listing female authors. I think the harder question would be when do male authors get it right.
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*My Year of Rest and Relaxation*, *Circe*, *To the Lighthouse*, *The Crying of Lot 49* are all really good. Though it’s kind of a broad question without more qualifiers.
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Thursday Next from Jasper Fforde’s literary detective series. Start with The Eyre Affair, you won’t regret it.
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Almost anything written by Julie E. Czerned. Her sci-fi works, anyway. She’s gotten into fantasy the last several years, but I haven’t managed to read any of them. For several of her characters, being female doesn’t matter very much. They just happen to be so.
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I will never get tired of recommending **The Other Bennet Sister** by Janice Hadlow. It’s a Pride and Prejudice spin-off that offers a sensitive and nuanced portrayal of Mary Bennet. I’ve never felt so seen by a book.
**Dread Nation** and **The Deathless Divide** by Justina Ireland has my very favorite depiction of female friendship.
**Queenie** by Candice Carty Williams has an immensely lovable, realistically flawed main character. I wanted to hug her and shake her all at the same time.
I fell in love with Tish from **If Beale Street Could Talk** almost immediately.
Empress Matilda’s (Maude in the book) characterization in **When Christ and His Saints Slept** is a well constructed look at a woman at odds with her time.
Catelyn Stark from **A Song of Ice and Fire** is one of the best written women I’ve ever read and I will die on this hill. I don’t like her very much— she doesn’t have much in the way of compassion— but she’s rarely wrong. And when she is wrong, it’s because she’s one of the fiercest mothers I’ve read.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Tamora Pierce in general.
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata.
The Bronte sisters works.
This seems like an easy one, to be honest. While women aren’t perfect, but I could just go on endlessly listing female authors. I think the harder question would be when do male authors get it right.
*My Year of Rest and Relaxation*, *Circe*, *To the Lighthouse*, *The Crying of Lot 49* are all really good. Though it’s kind of a broad question without more qualifiers.
Thursday Next from Jasper Fforde’s literary detective series. Start with The Eyre Affair, you won’t regret it.
Almost anything written by Julie E. Czerned. Her sci-fi works, anyway. She’s gotten into fantasy the last several years, but I haven’t managed to read any of them. For several of her characters, being female doesn’t matter very much. They just happen to be so.
I will never get tired of recommending **The Other Bennet Sister** by Janice Hadlow. It’s a Pride and Prejudice spin-off that offers a sensitive and nuanced portrayal of Mary Bennet. I’ve never felt so seen by a book.
**Dread Nation** and **The Deathless Divide** by Justina Ireland has my very favorite depiction of female friendship.
**Queenie** by Candice Carty Williams has an immensely lovable, realistically flawed main character. I wanted to hug her and shake her all at the same time.
I fell in love with Tish from **If Beale Street Could Talk** almost immediately.
Empress Matilda’s (Maude in the book) characterization in **When Christ and His Saints Slept** is a well constructed look at a woman at odds with her time.
Catelyn Stark from **A Song of Ice and Fire** is one of the best written women I’ve ever read and I will die on this hill. I don’t like her very much— she doesn’t have much in the way of compassion— but she’s rarely wrong. And when she is wrong, it’s because she’s one of the fiercest mothers I’ve read.
Inda – Sherwood Smith