Women authors of fantasy or similar

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My 12 year old DS was (light heartedly) accused of being sexist today because most of his favourite authors are men. He loves fantasy - he has read the six of crows book which are by a woman, and enjoyed Cressida Cowell books when he was younger. Please help me find more books by women that he might enjoy. He is an advanced reader, so complex/long books are not a problem.
Thank you.

Not really my area, but Diana Wynne Jones, Ursula le Guin and Madeleine l'Engle come to mind.

Susan Cooper. Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula le Guin as mentioned above. I’m less keen on Madeleine L’Engle but that’s just me. Also Catherine Fisher who should be much better known. Her Chronoptika Quartet starting with The Obsidian Mirror is particularly good but all her books are excellent.

Anne McCaffrey

Robin Hobb

Robin McKinley and Margaret Mahy

Joan Aiken

Don't worry about it- let's him read what he wants! I hardly ever read books by men.

Thank you for all of the suggestions. I shall forward them all to him to check out. He is part of a literature quiz team, and the teacher who leads the team said that they usually do badly on the questions about books written by women, hence the discussion.

Tamora Pierce - she wrote about a training school for knights
Elizabeth Moon

Robin McKinley, Robin Hobb and early Anne McCaffrey (she later lost her way imo) are all brilliant.

Vorkosigan Saga , maybe when he's a little older

Penric and Desdemona (same author)

And i second Robin Hobb - start with Assassins Apprentice

All of the already mentioned and I’ll throw in Sherri Tepper, who has won lots of awards.

Janny Wurts for a companion to the Magician series?
Margaret Weis for old school fantasy.
Martha Wells wonderful Murder Bot series
Becky Chambers

Lian Hearne (Gillian Rubinstein) especially her Tales of the Otori, Across a Nightingale Floor etc are very readable.

MaggieBsBoat I love Sheri Tepper, I can reread her books with just as much enjoyment as the first time. She should be more widely known.

I am mid-reread of the Realm of the Elderlings saga by Robin Hobb; I am immersed in that world and can highly recommend that OP's son joins me.

Fourthing or fifthing Robin Hobb. I’ve just read Assassin’s Apprentice trilogy for the first time and it’s brilliant. My mum read them first years ago after recommendations from the teenage boy down the road via his mum.

I’m about to start on the liveships trilogy, but sad to be leaving behind the first set of characters- I think a later trilogy comes back to them?

Other than that, def Ursula le guin. Left hand of darkness is where I started on the more grown up ones as a teen, after loving earthsea.

@Talipesmum is Assassin's apprentice Ok for a 12 year old content wise? (He is fairly robust - he has read Lord of the rings, and the hunger games trilogy)

I’d say yes, very little in the way of sex scenes or nasty violence descriptions. They’re alluded to, but it’s more that our character meets with his gf at night, a little described but at a level suitable for younger teens I’d say. I mean, do flick through it, but my impression as I was reading was that I’d be recommending it to younger teen kids - it was nice that it felt fine in that sense. Violence - there’s quite a lot alluded to, but it’s not gory and brutal like others are. If hunger games is fine then so is this.

That's brilliant. Thank you for taking the time to reply to me :)

Shannon Chakraborty is the critically acclaimed, author of The Daevabad Trilogy

It is a more grown up version of Aladdin. The first book is City of Brass

Mary Shelley? She wrote Frankenstein.

I would stop at the first trilogy though. There's some rapes/violence in the following books which he should probably be a bit older for. But the whole series is absolutely amazing

The Skandar series by A F Steadman.

Book 4 comes out on Thursday.

Agree with Robin Hobb and Diana Wynne Jones.
Naomi Novik also great.

This is an old but great series if he likes Dragons, magic, D&D

Dragonlance Saga by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and Margaret Weiss.
(Tracy is only male in this collaborative series by 3 authors)

First book is Dragons of Autumn Twilight.

Definitely Dianne Wynne Jones and Susan Cooper! Also the "Inda" series (and others) by Sherwood Smith, and for SF there's Ann Leckie, Connie Willis...