Do any of you ladies or men notice any differences in books by female authors?

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21. a little survey of my book shelves

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shows pretty good mix of male/ female authors. Margaret Atwood, Susan Jacoby,, Barbara Kingsolver, Naomi Klein and Toni Morrison are all represented.

I read a lot of Sci Fi, and for that I prefer male authors like Philip K Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson Issac Asimov to name a few

I read a lot of Cormac McCarthy , Kurt Vonnegut, John Steinbeck.


All told I probably read more male authors by a small margin

Rebecca Skloot did an excellent job on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, just as Isabel Wilkerson wrote the wonderful book The Warmth of Other Suns

Another favorite is Jared Diamond and of course my favorite iconoclast, Richard Dawkins.

Of course I could never leave out Douglas Adams--that just would not be right!


Men/ women have different outlook on sex, violence and even at times a view on the role of male/female that is disturbing but if it is appropriate to the setting it doesn't bother me much