My DH has expressed an interest in reading a book by a woman

[ringle]

He is an academic and very well and widely read. Save that he has never read a book by a woman.

He likes classic texts basically. Stuff that would make him better read.

Where to start? Could you help me make a shortlist?

[MyNewHobbyIsGin]

Your DH is not well or widely read if he has never read a female author.

[AlternativeTentacle]

Not withstanding the ridiculousness of not having read a book by a woman...i googled it for you...here are three results.

bookriot.com/2017/03/10/100-must-read-classics-by-women/

www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/1112241/classic-novels-written-by-women

//www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/1112241/classic-novels-written-by-women

[NannyR]

How has he managed that? When choosing what to read, I don't think I even take the sex of the author into consideration.

[TheLuminaries]

George Eliot - at least she has a man's name, so your DH can pretend Middlemarch isn't written by a woman.

Seriously, your DH is not well read if he hasn't at the very least read Austen, Shelley, the Brontes, Woolf, Eliot - these Eng Lit 101, you are not well read without them.

[Ttbb]

I think he may be pulling your leg OP

[Callamia]

He’s ‘expressed an interest’? That’s big of him

How has he not read any Atwood? Or Sue Townsend (he’s never read Adrian Mole? What a life wasted).

[AllTheWittyNamesAreGone]

Genuine question.
How has he never read a book written by a woman?

[Anasnake]

Has he never read Harry Potter ??

[MrsFezziwig]

Who is having a laugh - him or you?

[AlternativeTentacle]

Has he never read Harry Potter

Gosh no - an academic reading a non-academic book BY A MERE WOMAN? That would spoilt his reputation, surely?

[CertainHalfDesertedStreets]

Tell him we're not interested but thanks anyway.

[Catalufa]

Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf definitely.

Possession - AS Byatt
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

For something more modern, my favourite female authors are Barbara Kingsolver and Margaret Atwood.

[ParadiseCity]

I decided not to bother reading books by men for a while. Men seem to be better promoted, turned into films more often and generally have an unfair advantage over women authors.

Anyway - I am making this list for the benefit of women reading this post and not some lazy arse 'girl authors:go!' bloke. I've got Atwood, Helke Sander, Bella Pollen, Hong Ying, Beverley Naidoo, Margaret Foster & Suzanne Collins in my waiting to read pile. Plus a spooky Irish ghost one I can't remember and is upstairs but I cba to check.

[CertainHalfDesertedStreets]

Guys he's 'well and widely read' I think he can probably use Google. Let's let him do that, eh?

[AlternativeTentacle]

Evidently not if he needs the wife to do his research for him.

[InfiniteCurve]

Well....how about he goes to a bookshop and looks on the book cover,where usually the authors name is found,see if it's a female name,read the blurb,and buy the book.
Or not,if he doesn't fancy it.Much like buying a book by a man really
And if he is old enough to be married,and an academic,how has he managed not to read any books written by women? He must be pretty embarrassed.......

[elQuintoConyo]

I'd suggest Maeve Binchy, Kathy Lette and Miriam Keys.

Barbara Cartland wrote some classics.

[DrinkFeckArseGirls]

He never read Bronte sisters, Virginia Woolf? Clearly not well read. As boy - Astrid Lindgren?

[DrinkFeckArseGirls]

I’m guessing he read books by women but just assumed they were written by men.

[BakedBeans47]

Jeez really?!

[FinallyHere]

George Elliot? Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Sigh.

[buckeejit]

Megalolz. What sort of an academic is he?!

[CertainHalfDesertedStreets]

Maybe he's an academic as in 'it's academic really'?

[Jerseysilkvelour]

Deffo tell him to start with Enid Blyton.

[Mammysin]

Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Michelle Magorian's "Goodnight Mr Tom" Harper Lee " To Kill a Mockingbird" definitely Mary Wollstonecraft's " A Vindication of the Rights of Woman". Poor you and what intellectual poverty your partner has 🤔