48 of the Best Books by Women Authors to Read in Your Lifetime
11/12/2024 06:55 PM
Literature hasn't always been kind to women. Male writers have abused, infantilized, degraded, and ignored women characters for as long as stories have been told. Great writing was long considered something only a man can produce. Generations of women were barred from reading and writing, and some, until the 19th century, were even expelled to psychiatric hospitals for spending too much time with a book or newspaper. Still, remarkably, some of the world's greatest works of literature have come from a woman's pen. From Murasaki Shikibu's 11th century "The Tale of Genji," considered the world's . . .
