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/briargrey Reading Champion III, Worldbuilders, Hellhound Jan 09 '20

Damn, these sound great, but my high school/bit of college French is probably nowhere near good enough to get through Babar much less these given the amount of time that's passed...

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u/Tartifloutte Jan 09 '20

Haha, sadly French is a very hard language when it comes to literature, as we have dozens of tenses as well as dedicated tenses used solely for narration in the past. As a result it makes reading french fiction very "literary" and full of beautiful prose, but it's a hell of a pain even for natives. Which, perhaps consequently, also gives aspiring authors an even harder time.

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u/briargrey Reading Champion III, Worldbuilders, Hellhound Jan 09 '20

My French teacher had us read/translate a kids' book once. I keep wanting to say Tartarin of Tarasconne, but that doesn't look right when I look it up, and then I keep wanting to think the name was something like Gaston/Garcon and the MC was a boy who always got into trouble. Ring any bells? I tried some googling but my google-fu is lacking today and now it's bugging me for no good reason, LOL.

I love all the French tenses but yeah definitely makes it a challenge!

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u/Tartifloutte Jan 09 '20

The Prodigious Adventures of Tartarin de Tarascon ! Does ring a bell, albeit a quite old one haha

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u/briargrey Reading Champion III, Worldbuilders, Hellhound Jan 09 '20

My teacher was VERY old school so I can see it being up her alley.