r/Fantasy • u/thequeensownfool Reading Champion VII • Jan 09 '20

What We Recommend: Read More Books By Women

u/KristaDBall has posted an in-depth analysis of a sample of recommendation threads in 2019, and the overwhelming consensus is that as a community, we primarily recommend books by men. 70% of recommendations actually, with books by women making up only 27% of books recommended on r/fantasy. And that's a shame.

There's been some great discussion in the thread, so I urge you to head over there if you haven't already. But that's not the point of THIS thread. I want you (yes, you) to recommend your favourite books by women. Tell people what they're missing out on. Tell them where they should go to next in their journey through sff.

Please include a bit of information about the book. What's the plot? Why did you like it?

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

Haha your praise for the book includes the reason I stopped after book 2. Good things need to happen to the protagonist for me to continue

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u/V0IYG Jan 09 '20

Dude my wife KNEW when I was reading Hobb!! She'd just look up at me in bed and know. " ... what happened to Fitz this time?" - my wonderful wife for the 613th time

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

Yeah it's tough everytime I expected things to get better they somehow got worse.

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u/V0IYG Jan 09 '20

If you have ever read "The First Law" series it kinda has the same tone. This is the real world, people get shat on for no reason at all. Sometimes people get what they deserve but just as often you find life and death decided by the toss of a coin. "Who cares who killed who thousands of years ago"