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Women in Classical Antiquity

Hey so I’ve compiled a list of sources I have used at some point or other and/or seen recommended when it comes to the study of Women in Classical Antiquity. Feel free to add anything you have also found useful, though please try to keep it mainly to scholarly and balanced sources.

Historical Studies

  • Women and Law in Late Antiquity by Antti Arjava
  • New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World by Georgia Tsouvala, Ronnie Ancona
  • Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome By Sandra Boehringer
  • Engendering Aphrodite: Women & Society in Ancient Cyprus by Diane Bolger, Nancy Serwint
  • The Imperial Women of Rome: Power, Gender, Context by Mary Boatwright
  • Women and Monarchy in Macedonia by Elizabeth Carney
  • The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World by Elizabeth Carney, Sabine Müller
  • A Companion to Women in the Ancient World by Sheila Dillon, Sharon L. James
  • Pandora’s Daughters: The Role & Status of Women in Greek & Roman Antiquity by Mauren Fant, Mary Lefkowitz
  • Women in the Classical World: Image and Text by Elaine Fantham, et al.
  • Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Elite from Cornelia to Julia Domna by Emily A. Hemelrijk
  • Women and the Roman City in the Latin West by Emily Hemelrijk and Greg Woolf
  • Women’s Influence on Classical Civilization by Eireann Marshall, Fiona Mchardy
  • Roman Working Women in Ostia by Natalie Kampen
  • Women in Classical Antiquity: From Birth to Death by Laura K. McClure
  • Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity by Sarah Pomeroy
  • Spartan Women by Sarah Pomeroy
  • Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra by Sarah Pomeroy
  • Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Lisa Auanger
  • Women’s Lives, Women’s Voices: Roman Material Culture and Female Agency in the Bay of Naples by Molly Swetnam-Burland, Brenda Longfellow
  • Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges from the time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian by Susan Treggiari

Women in Religion & Mythology

  • Gender, Creation Myths and their Reception in Western Civilization: Prometheus, Pandora, Adam and Eve by Tovi Bibring, Lisa Maurice
  • The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell, Margaret Williamson
  • Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion by Matthew Dillon
  • Women Like This: New Perspectives on Jewish Women in the Greco-Roman World by Amy Jill-Levine
  • Women in Greek Myth by Mary Lefkowitz
  • Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons: Women in Roman Religion by Soralta Takács

Feminist Theory & Historiography

  • Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Readings and Sources by Laura K. McClure
  • Women in Antiquity: New Assessments by Richard Hawley, et al.
  • Heroines and Hysterics by Mary Lefkowitz
  • Women’s History and Ancient History by Sarah Pomeroy
  • Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women by Amy Richlin
  • Feminist Theory and the Classics by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, ‎Amy Richlin

Sourcebooks

  • Women’s Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800by Roger S. Bagnall, Raffaella Cribiore
  • Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and WidowhoodbyJudith Evans Grubbs
  • Women and Society in the Roman World: a Sourcebook of Inscriptions from the Roman West by Emily Hemelrijk
  • Clodia: A Sourcebook by Julia Dyson Hejduk 
  • Women’s Religions in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook by Ross Shepard Kraemer
  • Cleopatra: A Sourcebook by Prudence J. Jones
  • Women’s Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation by Mary Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Fant
  • Women in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook by Bonnie MacLachlan
  • Women in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook by Bonnie MacLachlan
  • Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook by Jane Rowlandson

Art Historical

  • Portraits of Livia: Imaging the Imperial Woman in Augustan Rome by Elizabeth Bartman
  • Roman Women by Eve D'Ambra
  • Julia Augusta: images of Rome’s first empress on the coins of the Roman Empire by Tracene Harvey
  • Images of Women in Antiquity by Averil Cameron and Amelie Kuhrt
  • The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World by Sheilia Dillon
  • I, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome by Diana E.E. Kleiner
  • I Claudia II: Women in Roman Art and Society by Diana E.E. Kleiner
  • Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality, and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology by Olga Koloski-Ostrow
  • Imperial Women: A Study in Public Images, 40 B.C.-A.D. 68 by Susan Wood
  • Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth by Susan Walker, Peter Higgins

Studies of Historical Personages

  • Zenobia: Shooting Star of Palmyra by Nathanael Andrade
  • Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire by Anthony A. Barrett
  • Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome by Anthony A. Barrett
  • Sabina Augusta: An Imperial Journey by T. Corey Brennan 
  • Arsinoe of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life by Elizabeth Carney
  • Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power by Elizabeth Carney
  • Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great by Elizabeth Carney
  • Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt by Dee Clayman
  • Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem by Elizabeth A. Clark
  • Cornelia: Mother of the Gracchi by Suzanne Dixon
  • Cleopatra’s Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen by Jane Draycott
  • Hypatia of Alexandria by Maria Dzielska
  • Julia Augusti: The Emperor’s Daughter by Elaine Fantham
  • Representing Agrippina: Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire by Judith Ginsburg
  • Antonia Augusta: Portrait of a Great Roman Lady By Nikos Kokkinos
  • Faustina I and II: Imperial Women of the Golden Age by Barbara Levick
  • Julia Domna: Syrian Empress by Barbara Levick
  • Turia: A Roman Woman’s Civil War by Josiah Osgood
  • Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
  • Cleopatra’s Daughter: and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Age by Duane W. Roller
  • Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic by Celia E. Schultz
  • The Women of Pliny’s Letters by Jo-Ann Shelton
  • Clodia Metelli: The Tribune’s Sister by Marilyn Berglund Skinner
  • Servilia and Her Family by Susan Treggiari
  • Terentia, Tullia and Publilia: The Women of Cicero’s Family by Susan Treggiari

Lectures, Documentaries, & Online Sources

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i dont know how else to put this but to approach books (or any media, really) solely for the sake of relatability is genuinely incredibly heartbreaking……to have such little (or such unwilling) imaginative scope that you cannot stretch yourself, even marginally, in a different direction to what you’ve known or are used to knowing when the very POINT of stories is to transport you somewhere else, into someone else, so you can do just that……..when fran lebowiz said a book “is supposed to be a door!” and george saunders said good prose “is like empathy training wheels” they were right!!! they were so so so SO absolutely entirely right!!!!!

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If you expect fiction, especially so-called genre fiction, to educate you on politics, social issues and morality, you might just read too little nonfiction

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Or you may know some high-quality genre fiction writers.

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OP answering 'tell me you haven't read Pratchett without telling me you haven't read Pratchett' with their whole chest

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I have, in fact, read Pratchett. And my point still stands, because it’s less about what individual fiction writers put into their fiction, and more about everyone and their grandmother approaching fiction with the expectation of being educated on these matters and complaining when a fantasy novel doesn’t contain correct messages on every social and political issue because it’s too busy telling a story. Pratchett is good, but you’re still doing him a disservice as a writer of fiction if you rely solely on Discworld for your political education.

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Take, for instance, The Handmaid’s Tale, an explicitly political work of fiction. It can serve as a wake-up call and a rallying cry with regards to women’s reproductive rights in particular and feminism in general. But it cannot give you a complete understanding of the history and struggles of the real world feminist movement, because it is a work of fiction set in a fictional society, and Atwood is first and foremost an author telling a story, not a schoolteacher educating you on history and politics. If you want to understand, for instance, the events leading to Roe v. Wade being overturned, you’re at some point going to need more substance than «oh this is just like Gilead».

Or take Animal Farm. You can’t understand the Russian Revolution and Soviet Communism just by reading Animal Farm, on the contrary you need knowledge of both the Soviet Union and Orwell’s own political views to fully comprehend the political allegory acted out by the farm animals. Even the most political fiction isn’t a substitute for nonfiction if you want a nuanced understanding of the politics and social issues around you.

Look, I’m not forcing anyone at gunpoint to read nonfiction, nor insinuating that nonfiction is inherently better than fiction, they’re just different things and I’m tired of seeing people read fiction and complain that it doesn’t do the things nonfiction does.

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Something I find interesting, is that both wwx and lwj on a surface lever fall under a very basic definition of the (western) gary stu trope. Incredibly beautiful and handsome, masters of the six arts, extremely strong as well as prodigies of their generations. Wwx goes through awful, traumatizing things, yet in the end he's able to make peace with it to seemingly no detrimental psychological effects, making him resilient to a near ridicolous degree. With this he does tick a lot of boxes that potentially make for a very unsatisfying character, however he still don't feel like one. One distinction on wether or not such a character feels satisfying relies a lot on the conflict they find themself in, and how they deal with it.

A lot of stories tend to also feature overly simplistic conflicts and solutions. In a superhero movie for example, the conflict is the bad guy doing bad guy stuff, and the solution is to punch the bad guy until he stops doing bad guy stuff. Another is the 'misunderstanding' trope. It's not necessarily a bad trope in itself, but is often used as a crutch for conflict in which you're waiting for the solution which is to just talk. A gary stu/Maru sue character is often defined by their ability to easily deal with any conflict they meet, making it very unsatisfying since there's never really any stakes in it to begin with. In mdzs however, the conflict of the past is beyond what abilities wwx and lwj has. It's not that they're not skilled enough, but that the problem is too complicated for one (or two) people to deal with, and the means to deal with it lies beyond anything they possess.

Mdzs deals a lot with systemic problems. Take out the big bad guy and his army who terrorized the lesser clans (wrh), well, the system that made him still exist, power hungry people still exist, and now there's a new person stepping into the vacuum left behind (jgs). Many of the events that follow can be seen as elaborate trolley-problems. With each action there are both foreseen and unforeseen consequences. There's no one solution that won't be followed by negative repercussions down the road. Lwj himself is forced into a state of passivity, as there's nothing he can do for wwx that is A) something wwx would specifically not wish for or B) something that could potentially bring harm to his own sect and family.

Additionally, many of the character's best traits are not only treated as conflict solving, but also grounds for the growth of other conflicts. Wwx's power itself paints a target on his back, escalating when coupled with his sense of justice and willingness to speak up against the people in power. How the other characters around react to these incredible types of people is an aspect that makes it or breaks it, brewing either respect and reverence or fear and envy based on the character's offensiveness towards the status quo.

In the end, there is also a difference between what we regard as a wish-fullfilment character and an ideal character. One is the ideal state of life while the other is the ideal state of person, though the lines can often blur. Both wwx and lwj are highly ideal characters, as stated by mxtx, and are meant to be looked up to as a goal one can strive towards. Even if they're not able to solve everything wrong with the world, they're still relatively flawless. They embody that sort of ideal that centers around perseverence, resilience and unconditional kindness. It's that sort of ideal that does not come naturally, but require constant effort to uphold, and I don't know, I just really like that.

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The belief system doesn’t add up | Josephine Bartosch | The Critic Magazine
This article is taken from the August/September 2021 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we're offeri
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Imagine waking-up to discover oneself living in a theocracy; in workplaces and even when chatting with friends it becomes obligatory to signal one’s belief. Kids are subjected to indoctrination sessions at school. The national broadcaster schedules regular religious programmes, and the police, civil service and courts pay a tithe to faith leaders.
Citizens who ask questions are socially shunned, becoming legitimate targets for violence and hatred; some find themselves in police cells and at risk of having their children taken into care. The only respite can be found on small corners of the internet, spaces where dangerous apostates meet, renegade sites such as Mumsnet.
This isn’t the plot of some hackneyed dystopian novel — this is today’s world as described by Helen Joyce in Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality.
There are no mad mullahs to point at, no frothing rabbis and no black-clad priests condemning non-believers to an eternity in hell. And yet, just as with religion, angry men wearing dresses are compelling speech, forbidding women from meeting and excommunicating apostates. Each example in this opening scenario is happening in Britain today thanks to the extraordinary rise of trans ideology.
I am a veteran of the trans war against reality, having written extensively on the topic over the past few years. Trans is the book I wish I’d had the foresight to pitch and the insight to write, and I was primed to bitterly pick at it. On reading I was forced to put envy aside and concede, Joyce has done a bloody good job.
A practising atheist, Joyce deftly picks apart the tenets of gender identity, positioning it as a belief system which seeks to make biological sex irrelevant. She charts the destruction trans ideology has wrought on language, institutions, women’s rights, family relationships and the bodies of vulnerable youth. On “transition” itself Joyce is clear:
“Whether a religion makes its believers happy is irrelevant to the question of whether god exists, or whether everyone else should be compelled to pay it lip service.”
There are multiple ways of understanding the trans take-over of civil society. In 1979 the visionary feminist ethicist Janice Raymond argued that transsexualism was born of the male desire to colonise womanhood. Today, some posit that trans ideology is part of the fourth industrial revolution: capitalism turning inwards to mine the human body and sell identities.
The gurus of the “intellectual dark web” blame everything from “feminised teaching” to cultural Marxism and hormones in the water. Joyce focuses instead on what can be proven and what is found wanting.
Joyce is mathematician by training, and she brings a clear-eyed, systematic approach to her analysis. Trans might best be described as an expansive “null hypothesis”, a detailed debunking of the hypothesis that being a woman or a man is a matter of conscious self-identification. But despite the empirical approach, the book is positively juicy; first person interviews and colourful detail illustrate each point.
The origin of transgenderism is traced to the maverick theories of sexologists in Weimer-era Berlin. Today’s Gender Studies professors and their shiny-eyed acolytes might imagine the vogueish idea that “sex is a spectrum” to be a recent scientific revelation. Joyce conclusively disproves the concept, positioning it as a convenient if unscientific explanation of transvestism and homosexuality that first transfixed rogue surgeons a century ago.
Joyce does not shy away from the grubby underbelly of trans identities; exposing the pornographic fantasies that drive the desire to “change sex” for many men. One no longer has to scour the fetid recesses of the internet to find evidence of these fetishes, authors like the trans activist, Andrea Long Chu, are quite upfront about what being female means to them: “an open mouth, an expectant asshole and blank, blank eyes”.
Those who understand themselves to be more than vessels for male sexuality include transwidows, the women whose partners choose to transition. Expected to stand by their man, even when he decides he is a “she”, transwidows are relegated to props in their partner’s new identity. Trans is one of very few books to acknowledge their existence.
Joyce felt moved to write Trans after listening to detransitioners; people who, like transwidows, are collateral in the trans crusade against reality. She reports of one detransitioned woman that “the label ‘lesbian’ revolted her, since she associated the word with pornography sniggered over by male classmates”.
Unlike their male counterparts, most females referred to gender identity clinics are same-sex attracted. The procedures they undergo to become simulacrums of the opposite sex can be understood as socially sanctioned self-harm; the manifestation of internalised homophobia. Their stories are a raw reminder of the sacrifice trans ideology demands.
Joyce’s final chapters trace how a niche ideology with all the internal coherence of Scientology has come to capture institutions, governments and minds. The idea that a shadowy cabal of patriarchs is plotting to eliminate biological sex sounds like tinfoil-hat territory. Nonetheless, it is true that there are a handful of billionaire philanthropists exerting their influence on policy across the globe.
The vision of men like Jennifer Pritzker, Jon Stryker and George Soros is being pushed through human rights organisations, international law and academia. Their intentions may be benign, but their impact is every bit as devasting as earlier forms of imperialism.
The power of these men might be limited were it not for the fact they operate under the shadow of the pharmaceutical industry. Naturally, the manufacturers of drugs and implants stand to benefit from the surgical and hormonal manipulation of the human body. Joyce wryly observes that, “helping gender-dysphoric people feel comfortable in their bodies makes no-one much money; turning them into lifelong patients is highly profitable”.
From The Coddling of the American Mind to Cynical Theories, a flurry of recent books argue that liberal values and enlightenment reasoning are the best tools to undo superstitious beliefs. This is also the conclusion to which Joyce is drawn, and throughout Trans she slices through the knotty problem of gender identity with a sharp intellect, weighted with evidence.
The march of critical theories across institutions will continue to fuel outrage in the Daily Mail and prompt soul-searching in the Guardian. These trendy ideas will be fleeting; forgotten as quickly as the political correctness of the 1990s. But trans ideology is different, the division of organisms into two sexes can be traced to around two billion years ago — the hubris needed to imagine this irrelevant is staggering.
The quest to eliminate sex in civil society is not just well-funded and wrong-headed, it taps into a dark truth about male power and sexuality. So entrenched are positions on either side of the debate that each word becomes a tribal signifier. As a hard-line feminist, I found the use of preferred pronouns throughout Trans jarring. But as a writer I appreciate some small battles must be conceded so as not to alienate the majority. Nonetheless, a nod to the feminist scholars who’ve been battling this behemoth for decades would have been welcome.
Trans gives a compelling, comprehensive overview of how and why this science-denying ideology has conquered the world. Ultimately, it is a story of inequality; both economic and sexed. Trans is a book that ought to be read by every legislator, policy maker and activist. But the bleak truth is that those whose minds are already closed will never open its cover.
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I’ve been thinking about Howl’s Moving Castle and how Sophie’s curse is a physical symbol of her self belief of being romantically unlovable (especially after growing up with beautiful, sought after women in her family.) How Howl tries to undo the curse the moment she steps into his castle but he *cant* because Sophie doesn’t want it to be broken. How, in the film, Sophie gets so close to breaking the curse in the field, but hearing Howl call her beautiful went against her self views, so she reinforces her sense of self by turning 90 again.

And the way that her love and kindness make her younger again and again. How film Sophie sacrifices her long hair, perhaps what past Sophie would have seen as her only beauty, for Howl but she’s grown so much that she still remains young, perhaps even confident about her grey hair, showing that Sophie no longer links her appearance to her lovability or worth and she learned to accept herself as she is. In this essay I-

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This essay is a group project now and y’all are pulling your weight

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hi radfems what are your favorite novels? i’m trying to read/reading mostly female authors but my shelves are still looking very male

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The last thing I read that really stands out is Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. Her writing is so good.

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If you like YA Libba Brays Great and Terrible Beauty series is good. Victorian girls school, magic, betrayals, wlw.

Holly Black is more YA but fun if you like urban fantasy (I do think a lot of her books have het romance shoved in but the world building is rad)

Blood Water Paint is really interesting so far tho I’m only like half in. It’s an almost poetry almost diary like writing from the pov of famous painter Artemisia Gentileschi.

A Dowry of Blood by ST Gibbons is another I’ve just picked up but already love. Dracula’s brides pov, very lush language, bisexuals everywhere, sensuality and death galore.

All time favorite books are The Secret Life of Bees, The Red Tent, and House of The Spirits. All written by women, all very much stories that focus around women and their relationships to each other.

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The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff. A detailed account of the Salem witch trials in the style of a thriller type novel. Also Circe and The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller are great choices, especially if you’re interested in Greek mythology.

  • The Song of Achilles seconded, for sure. 
  • Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • The Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman. 
  • Woman on The Edge of Time by Marge Piercy. 
  • The Belljar by Plath. 
  • Cormoran Strike-series by Robert Galbraith (jkr)
  • Motherhood by Sheila Heti if you can ignore the het sex it discusses her journey to choosing not to be a mother.
  • Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangaremba
  • The Archangel-series by Nalini Singh
  • The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield was amazing. There’s a second book out by her that i can’t recall the title of. 
  • Witch Central-series by Deborah Geary

and it might have been intended for children but i´ll never stop loving the Tortall-series by Tamora Pierce. The same goes for Dealing with Dragons. It’s timeless tbh.

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Feminist Fiction Masterpost

People expressed interest in a book recommendation master post of feminist fiction, as there is obviously a lack of such, for those of us tired of reading the same misogynist bullshit. I’ve compiled a list of the fiction I’ve read, you might not agree with my assessment - if so, please excuse me.

Fantasy

Tortall-universe by Tamora Pierce
Beka Cooper
Alanna of Trebond
Keladry of Mindelan
Veralidaine Sarrasri
Alienne of Pirate’s swoop
Emelan-universe by Tamora Pierce
The Magician’s Guild by Trudi Canavan
Prequel
Sequel 
Age of the Five trilogy by Trudi Canavan
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Enchanted Forest Chronicles
(Not really fantasy, mostly a fairytale and geared towards kids but awesome anyway)
Hidden Sea Tales by A.M Dellamonica
(Books 2 and 3 have yet to be published.)
 Damar-series by Robin McKinley
Exiles-series by Melanie Rawn
The Empire Trilogy by Raymond E, Feist
Crown Of Stars-series by Kate Elliot
Fairy Tales by Mercedes Lackey
Doran-series by Monica Furlong
Santa Olivia-series by Jacqueline Carey
Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony
Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice
Angels Unlimited by Annie Dalton
(Mostly for girls and teenagers, but fuck if I didn’t adore this.Read it first time as a fourth grader or something, thinking of re-reading it.)
Castings by Pamela Freeman
The Orphan’s Tales by Catherynne M. Valente
The Graceling Realm by Kristin Cashore
The Sevenwaters-series by Juliet Marillier
Keeper Chronicles
The Icemark Chronicles by Stuart Hill
When Women Were Warriors by Catherine M. Wilson
The Chanters of Tremaris by Kate Constable
The Guild Hunter-series by Nalini Singh
The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan
Katriona-series by Lene Kaaberbøl
The Books of Pellinor by Allison Croggon
Chicagoland Vampires by Chloe Neill
Stand Alone Stories or those series where I’ve only read the first book
Earthseed-series by Octavia Butler(Black woman!)
Xenogenesis-series by Octavia Butler
Patternmaster-series by Octavia
Stand-alone novels by Octavia Butler 
Hainish Cycle-series by Ursula K. Le Guin
(All following books are stand-alone, but exist in the same universe)
Great Alta-series
Stand alone

Mystery/Thriller/Suspense

The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting
No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Millenium by Stieg Larsson
Stand alone

MISC

Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
Stand Alone Stories

Ah, thank you darling! <3

you’re welcome!<3

I took Muchamore’s books off this list since he had recently shown himself to be misogynist and lesbophobic, so I added a handful of other books I read to the list.

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Avoid sci-hub too👀

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If you want to read an academic article that's behind a paywall just email the author and ask politely if they will send you the article. Most academics will be thrilled that you want to read their work and will gladly send it to you.

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How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

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Anonymous asked:

Can you recommend us some books?

ouyangzizhensdad answered:

My tastes in books terms of fiction have been pretty basic these past few years, since it was mostly the self-indulgent things I would read in-between academic stuff and non-fiction. It’s pretty much almost only older British novels in the public domain (which means you can find the ebooks for free online and on Amazon, don’t get caught paying for them) and historical novels but Make It Gay. 

  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (and everything else she has written, I assume the fact that I am a Austen head). Also if you are into self-published P&P fanfics, do give Sophie Turner’s A Constant Love a try.
  • The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (or in fact pretty much anything by Sarah Waters. I have a soft spot for Fingersmith, as one does)
  • The World Unseen by Shamin Sharif
  • Maurice by E.M. Forster
  • The Only Gold by Tamara Allen
  • Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  • She sings of unhappy far-off things by Carea J. Werlinger
  • The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

With regards to non-fiction, I’ll try to keep it short and include some variety of topics and styles:

  • The Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet:  Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, editors: Anna Tsing, Elain Gan, Nils Bubandt and Heather Anne Swanson.
  • The presentation of self in everyday life by Erving Goffman (I particularly recommend this book for writers because it can help you think about characterisation differently) 
  • The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by Mikhail Bakhtin
  • The Already Dead: The New Time of Politics, Culture, and Illness by Eric  Cazdyn 
  • Hunger by Roxanne Gay (warning though this book talks about very upsetting stuff that happened to the writer)
  • The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
  • Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan by Miyako Inoue
  • Land and Society in Britain, 1700-1914: Essays in Honour of F.M.L. Thompson, editors Negley Harte and Roland Quinault and  English Landed Society in the nineteenth century By F.M.L. Thompson (but since it was published in 1963 it might be difficult to find a copy)
  • Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational mobility and the politics of destination in China by Julie Y. Chu
  • We, the people of Europe?: Reflections of transnational citizenship, editor Étienne Balibar
  • Becoming Modern Women: Love & Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature & Culture by Suzuki Michiko
  • Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in America by Amy Erdman Farrell
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