Who are your favorite women authors?

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Rachel Carson

Cornelia Funke and Lurlene McDaniel

I love all of Cornelia Funke's books, as they're action packed yet personal. They are in strange places, but you feel like you're home with them!

Lurlene McDaniel makes really good books, but they are so sad. Her books are always about death and how to survive, which is sad but it makes me reflect on my own life.

Margaret Atwood--all of her books, all the time. am thrilled to see so many others like her

Will also second:
Simone Weil
and
Edwidge Danticat

but also
VIRGINIA WOOLF!! ! (my greatest love)
Jeanette Winterson
Toni Morrison
A.S. Byatt
Alice Notley
Louise Gluck
Sharon Olds
Fanny Howe
Anne Carson
P.D. James
Heather McHugh
(and many more)

On the subject of fantasy and children's books, though, did anyone ever read Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles? They were about this feminist princess named Cimorene and were also hilarious.

Some very good authors already mentioned, but I have to add

Barbara Kingsolver!

Excellent, excellent writing - The Bean Trees is fantastic, as is The Poisonwood Bible.

Jennifer Armintrout

Ugh, all my favorite authors are men . It seems like the works of H P Lovecraft have a distinctinve Male slant to them. Even though machismo is completely and totally absent-not to mention sexuality which Lovecraft despised.

I like alot of the authors mentioned on here, but Libba Bray is amazing as well.
I didn't see her mentioned.

Funnily enough, I've noticed that I tend to dislike books written by female authors. I also tend to dislike female characters, but oh well.

I looked through the lists around here, as well as some of the books I have, and I knew a lot of them, but I wasn't particularly impressed.

I've been reading some of the 'bones' books by Kathy Reichs, having been turned on to them by the (very aspie) lead character of the tv series by the same name; to my surprise, I like the tv character much better. The heroine of the books is much more stereotypically female, much less aspie.

I love reading Jane Austen and i do love some of the Bronte sisters. Of course i am reading Simone deBeavoir's "Memoirs of a dutiful daughter" at the moment and loving that! (Can anyone tell me if she is aspie?)

My favorite all time book is "Tirra Lirra by the River" by Jessica Anderson and I loved "Lillian's Story" by Kate Grenville and the other stand alone Lillian stories that go with it. There is also Arlene Chai, Isabelle Allende, Sue Woolfe, Holly Lisle, Willa Cather and Margaret Attwood.

Would love to message anyone who is interested in discussing their love of books.

I wish I could appreciate Jane Austin but I just Cant

Emily Dickinson
Sylvia Plath
Virginia Woolf
Jeanette Winterson
Margaret Attwood
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
E. Annie Proulx
Banana Yoshimoto

Virginia Woolf is another favourite of mine, as is Mary Shelley.

Kate Mosse, she's brilliant. Author of Labyrinth and Sepulchre... ok, so they're not anything tooo intellectual but I love the historical elements, the mystical parts, and the characters are great. Plus the stories are so interesting and I love the part of France they're set in. (No, this isn't the model!).

Isabel Allende
Emily Bronte
Jane Austen... (I know, I know!)

Anne McCaffrey and Anne Rice, hands down for me.