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Women Writers: 250 Books By Women All Men Should Read

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First Posted: 06/01/11 08:37 AM ET Updated: 08/01/11 06:12 AM ET

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Esquire reposted a slide show of 75 books all men should read. The books are mostly fantastic and the headline phrasing didn't much bug us. After all, Esquire is a men's magazine and has always been marketed as such. The problem was that the list was all male writers, save for lone lady Flannery O'Connor.

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sandleto
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02:14 AM on 06/05/2011
What? Nothing by Ayn Rand? Never mind..
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02:14 AM on 06/04/2011
The Story of O....the list is a crock.
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There is no time or distance.
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10:09 PM on 06/03/2011
You're joking right? 250? Are we to take a week to make it through the list? Is there some central theme you might highlight that say, 20 of the books have in common?
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12:01 AM on 06/03/2011
This list is useless because it doesn't say why men should read them.
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09:12 PM on 06/02/2011
This is an odd list. I would have thought the list would be female books to help a man understand something from the feminine perspective, but some on the list that I have read are just plain good books that anyone would enjoy and get a lot out of reading! Do men really not read a good book just because the writer is female? That doesn't sound true to me.
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12:58 PM on 06/02/2011
marge piecy and the red tent by ann diamant.
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12:57 PM on 06/02/2011
250-75 what is the difference ?
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12:24 AM on 06/02/2011
No offense, but I was way more interested by the list from Esquire that this link provided.
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09:15 PM on 06/02/2011
Where is the Esquire link?
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09:18 PM on 06/02/2011
Sorry, never-mind, I found it.
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08:59 PM on 06/01/2011
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley! Most of those on that list are books that even I wouldn't read, much less recommend them to my husband! I can just see him reading "Sappho!" Yeah, right!
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12:02 AM on 06/03/2011
Frankenstein is a pretty good book, I read it for a Philosophy course...it reads quickly.
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12:16 PM on 06/01/2011
Like aerobic exercise and enough sleep, all men would do well to read books by women. What a great way to absorb women's wisdom.
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10:53 AM on 06/01/2011
Th list misses Denise Levertov, Anne Bradstreet, Muriel Rukeyser, Gwedenloyn Brooks. Also Doris Lessing's Children of Violence series of novels. Colette. Anne Jones' 'Winter in Kabul'--the best book I've read about the Afghanistan War. Monique Ali's novel "Brick Lane." Agnes Smedley's "Daughter of Earth."
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12:05 AM on 06/03/2011
My favorite Doris Lessing story is 'To Room Nineteen.'
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10:09 AM on 06/01/2011
Two best not on the list: 1) Gone with the Wind 2) Ship of Fools
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