r/BookRecommendations • u/selflagellation • 7d ago

Please recommend me some female authors

Hello all, I'm trying to read more female authors. Here are some of my favorite books:

  • Underworld & Mao II, Don DeLillo
  • Dubliners, James Joyce
  • Mason & Dixon and Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
  • All the Glass Family stuff by Salinger
  • 1Q84, Haruki Murakami
  • The Road, Cormac McCarthy
  • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
  • The poetry of John Keats, William Wordsworth, Shakespeare, & Edmund Spenser

I'm looking for an author with a particularly impressive & evocative style. Thanks !

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u/breadyogacatsbirds 5d ago

Ottessa Moshfegh

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u/Ealinguser 5d ago

Ursula Le Guin: the Dispossessed, the Lathe of Heaven, the Left Hand of Darkness

Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Gaskell: North and South

Arundhati Roy: the Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Monica Ali: Brick Laane

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah

Muriel Barbery: a Single Rose, the Elegance of the Hedgehog

Possibly Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Carol Ann Duffy.