Question for the Book people here....
Normally the mrs gets all her books from the library, but has a very small collection that she's bought. For Xmas this year she'd like to add a 'classic' to this collection... she likes biographies about women, or books by female authors.
Any suggestions?
Normally the mrs gets all her books from the library, but has a very small collection that she's bought. For Xmas this year she'd like to add a 'classic' to this collection... she likes biographies about women, or books by female authors.
Any suggestions?
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Simone de Bovoire's The Second Sex, Sara Vowell
2. Sonya Purnells "A Woman of No Importance"
3. Louisa May Alcotts Little Women.
4. Any Jane Austen
5. Sylvia Plaths The Bell Jar
6. Dr. Helen Fry's Women In Intelligence
7. Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
I hope your book is doing well.
https://www.amazon.com/KNIGHTS-GAMBIT-Kevin-G-Robinson-ebook/dp/B08TV1LRW5/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&sr=1-1
I'm also proud that it made the top 100 & top 20 finishing at no. 13 on Amazons poltical fiction list just under George Orwells 1984
Thank you. :)
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Earthsea-Complete-Illustrated-Cycle/dp/1481465589
The Folio society looks really cool. Thanks for the link.
- Jane Austen ("Emma" is the masterpiece, for me)
- George Eliot, "Middlemarch"
- Hilary Mantel, especially the "Wolf Hall" trilogy
For classic light reading at Christmas: Georgette Heyer.
“The Time Traveller’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger
“Old Baggage”, “Crooked Heart” & “V for Victory” by Lissa Evans
I'm up to 76 now :)
Would an autobiography (coauthored, so I guess a biography but told in the first person) be OK? Daughter of Persia by Sattareh Farman Farmaian.
Both old enough to be classics :) happy to tell you more about them, incredibly interesting.
I can't believe how many suggestions i've had.
The Hannah Pakula one is a long biography of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter Vicky, who was unlucky enough to be Kaiser Wilhelm II's mother. She was very smart and liberal - and punished for it.
A Woman of No Importance, by Sonia Purnell, a true story of one of the most courageous and successful spies during World War II
Francoise Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse.
It is a good story that explores relationship between daughters and fathers, and competition between women.
You have now added significantly to my 'want to buy' list!
I've had over 30 suggestions so far, and the list just keeps growing.... and amazingly no trolls, or bad experiences.
This place is just so much better.
I can't thank everybody enough.
https://www.amazon.com/Sophia-Suffragette-Revolutionary-Anita-Anand/dp/1632860813
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Other people's lives are often interesting but rarely have I read a non-fiction book that was so gripping.
This one's definitely going near the top of the list. What a story.
Thanks.
https://www.amazon.com/Wavewalker/dp/0008498504
Helen Hooven Santmeyer
A great suggestion. Thank you.
https://www.philippagregory.com/books/normal-women#
They hid spy messages in the patterns of their knitting,very cool and it includes knitting as a very important part :)
https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=25020
For example, if she likes history or physics or animals, you can narrow down whose Biography she'll enjoy.
For a book retelling a classic written by a woman: Madeleine Miller’s Song of Achilles.
A more modern work: Piranesi by Susannah Clerk
For an older classic: Anais Nin - A Spy in the House of Love
Thanks for the ideas.
She’s always been fascinating.
I'll see what i can find. Thanks.
Demon Copperhead by (the fantastic) Barbara Kingsolver
Steinbeck and Donleavy sound like books i'd enjoy more than her, but Eleanor Roosevelt looks interesting. Cheers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Jar
https://www.amazon.com/Room-Ones-Own-Virginia-Woolf/dp/0156787334/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&sr=1-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Purple
The Only Woman in the Room
A Woman of No Importance
An interesting suggestion, thanks. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_(Byatt_novel)
There aren't any banned books here....
It's a good point actually. Anything DeSantis is afraid of is probably worth reading. Thanks.
A.S.Bryatt : Possession
Philippa Gregory : Normal Women
Phyllis Latour Doyle: The Forgotten Spy
John Steinbeck : Travels with Charley
J.P.Donleavy : The Ginger man
Eleanor Roosevelt : You Learn by Living
Elinor Cleghorn : Unwell women
Leo Tolstoy : Anna Karenina :
Madeline Miller : The Song of Achilles
Susanna Clarke : Piranesi
Anais Nin : A Spy in the House of Love.
Janina Ramirez : Femina
Bettany Hughes :
Alex von Tunzelman :
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crypt-Alice-Roberts/dp/1398519235
Alice Roberts : Crypt
Suzanne Heywood : Wavewalker
Jane Austin : Emma
George Eliot : Middlemarch
Hilary Mantel : Wolf Hall
Georgette Heyer :
Kate Mosse : Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaires
Anita Anand : Sophia: princess, suffragette, revolutionary
Helen Castor : She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights
Ursula K. Le Guin : The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition from 2018
Charlotte Gordon : Romantic Outlaws The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley
Virginia Woolf : A room of One's Own
Sonya Purnells "A Woman of No Importance"
Louisa May Alcotts Little Women.
Any Jane Austen
Sylvia Plaths The Bell Jar
Dr. Helen Fry's Women In Intelligence
Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
It's a term of endearment that we use and she's fine with it.
Her Mum died last year, so thanks for the suggestion but i don't think it's a good fit at the moment.
Women historians, anything by Bettany Hughes or Alex von Tunzelman as well.