Top 10 books written by women or about women
Devote your spare time to the most interesting books
1. Donna Tartt, the Goldfinch
The book, written by an American writer, has been a bestseller for several years. A novel about growing up an American teenager with a difficult destiny. The tragic event, that affected the boy’s life, takes place at the first part of the story, being the beginning of the whole story.
2. Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
The novel is about how no matter how successful you are in life, your past will always catch up with you if you can't come to terms with it.
3. Alice Ann Munro, any collection of short stories
She is a Canadian Nobel Prize-winning writer and International Booker Prize winner. The master of the short genre. Monroe's stories are imbued with light and empathy for the hero, easy to read and long remain in the memory.
4. Jean Iris Murdoch, The sea, The sea
The English writer and philosopher, Booker Prize winner. Murdoch's prose is unique in that it easily penetrates the inner world of not only female, but also male characters. The author's works are psychological and well reveal all shades of relationships between men and women.
5. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Sylvia Platt is an icon of feminist literature, but for the average reader, her story is a confession “Under a glass dome " is valuable because it allows you to get into the mind of a person who is in deep clinical depression, to understand his motives and reasons for his actions.
6. Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend, Book One
The novel consists of four parts, each of which describes the period of life of two Neapolitan friends – Lena and Lila.
- Childhood
- Youth
- Youth
- Maturity
7. Tatyana Tolstaya, a collection of any short stories and essays
Tolstaya is the most focused on the language modern Russian writer. The author even in the most everyday and simple things manages to find in them and funny, and pathetic and native to the pain.
Lyudmila Ulitskaya, novels and stories
The author is a classic of modern Russian women's prose. Ulitskaya writes a lot about the dramatic fate of women, the post-war period, the Soviet period and modernity.
9. Guzel Yakhina, Zuleikha opens her eyes
A novel by a young Russian writer about the life of a 30-year-old girl whose fate changed dramatically after the dekulakization of the 1930s.
10. Louise May Alcott, Little Women
The novel by an American writer, published in two parts, tells the story of four different sisters of the same family who grow up during the American civil war.
