These Are the 100 Most-Read Female Writers in College Classes

Time ^ | February 25, 2016 | David Johnson

[C19fan]

Toni Morrison and Jane Austen are among the most-read female writers on college campuses, a new TIME analysis found.

[C19fan]

Toni Morrison is the first fiction author at #3. F that! I had to read a Morrison college and it was awful. I'm glad I picked up the great 19th century authors on my own. The list is littered with authors that fill the curriculum of "Blank" studies courses and let us say affirmative action authors to show "diversity". Give me dead white woman any day.

[ronnie raygun]

Puke fest for the little snowflake pukes they educate

[Slyfox]

No Flannery O’Connor.

[detective]

From the article:

“The original version of this story included Evelyn Waugh, who was a man.”

[nickcarraway]

Jane Austen is one of the most conservative fiction writers there is. Only Fyodor Dostoevsky springs to mind in that league.

[Huskrrrr]

No Flannery O’Connor.

One of my favorites, too. Also no Shirley Jackson.

[C19fan]

Three strikes:

a: Southern
b: White
c: Practicing Catholic

[Pilgrim's Progress]

59th on the list for Ayn Rand? Being this is a liberal mag I’m surprised she’s mentioned at all.

[nickcarraway]

Pathetic.

However Waugh's wife was also named Evelyn.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

There was a lot of merriment over this on Twitter earlier today.

[nickcarraway]

No Rigoberta Menchu?

[Dr. Sivana]

I expected the list to be worse. Headscratchers include Barbara Bush’s book coming in at #19. Before I read the list, I made my own short list. Browning, Austen, Wharton, George Elliot, Virginia Woolf (whom I dislike, but belongs on the list) and both Bronte sisters were included. Emily Dickinson was not. I would include Maragaret Sanger on the list, for to know her is to despise her.

I can’t even argue with the choice of leftists: de Beauvoir and Friedan would be required reading for a mature mind ready to understand the feminist movement. Throw in some Camille Paglia (not on the list) for the heretical version.

Ayn Rand is included. She belongs there.

Rachel Carson also belongs there , for her influence if nothing else.

I don’t think Sylvia Plath’s writing is anythng special, her prose reads like a bad Erma Bombeck column at times, aith a touch of Walker Percy.

Most of the rest I hadn’t heard of. Though I like Phyllis Schlafley’s books, I don’t think her “A Choice Not an Echo” is the kind of thing that lands one in the Top 100.

[Dr. Sivana]

No Flannery O’Connor.

You're right! A little dark for my taste, but a gifted writer. No Lady Fullerton, either. (Though I don't expect her to be in the list. Well Regarded in her time, but almost forgotten, like Willkie Collins.)

[nickcarraway]

J.K. Rowling? Why is this being taught in college?

[Dr. Sivana]

“The original version of this story included Evelyn Waugh, who was a man.”

And George Elliot, who was a woman.

Some of the Brit writers can almost be classfied as women. (Not Waugh, however)

[nickcarraway]

She is still overrated.

[Dr. Sivana]

No Rigoberta Menchu?

That's so 1980s. Third World is out. Homoeverything is in.

[needmorePaine]

One of my favorites, too. Also no Shirley Jackson.

She is #35.

[Slyfox]

Flannery's best work was "A Good Man is Hard to Find."

[Gamecock]

I like Art Vandelay. He’s an obscure writer. Beatnik, from the village, he wrote Venetian Blinds.