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What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: April 22, 2024

Weekly Recommendation Thread: April 26, 2024
MOD

Welcome to our weekly recommendation thread! A few years ago now the mod team decided to condense the many "suggest some books" threads into one big mega-thread, in order to consolidate the subreddit and diversify the front page a little. Since then, we have removed suggestion threads and directed their posters to this thread instead. This tradition continues, so let's jump right in!

The Rules

  • Every comment in reply to this self-post must be a request for suggestions.

  • All suggestions made in this thread must be direct replies to other people's requests. Do not post suggestions in reply to this self-post.

  • All unrelated comments will be deleted in the interest of cleanliness.


How to get the best recommendations

The most successful recommendation requests include a description of the kind of book being sought. This might be a particular kind of protagonist, setting, plot, atmosphere, theme, or subject matter. You may be looking for something similar to another book (or film, TV show, game, etc), and examples are great! Just be sure to explain what you liked about them too. Other helpful things to think about are genre, length and reading level.


All Weekly Recommendation Threads are linked below the header throughout the week to guarantee that this thread remains active day-to-day. For those bursting with books that you are hungry to suggest, we've set the suggested sort to new; you may need to set this manually if your app or settings ignores suggested sort.

If this thread has not slaked your desire for tasty book suggestions, we propose that you head on over to the aptly named subreddit r/suggestmeabook.

  • The Management


Since we spend a lot of time talking about men writing women poorly, I want to know some examples of men who write awesome women.
Since we spend a lot of time talking about men writing women poorly, I want to know some examples of men who write awesome women.

We get it. Men really don’t have a clue about what women go through pretty often. But they can’t all be terrible. There are definitely strong women that have been written by men that must exist. So let’s talk about them. Who are they? What makes them strong? I wonder what makes men better at writing women than others? What makes a good female character? This was inspired by reading the 9000th comment today about wheel of time and how Robert Jordan can’t write females. I’m currently in the middle of book 9. I am also of email and I don’t see a huge problem with it. They may be may not be as dimensional as Robin Hobbs female characters, for example. But they definitely have got something going for them I think. So I’m curious to know what makes a well written female character for you and who among the male authors does it best?