(ya) booookkkksss!!!! & other recs

[chinbat]

Hey lords and ladies. Here's an amazing post from ontd. 15 pages of YA book recs featuring female protagonists. Go ontd! Even though the comm is ripe for/with wank I love that there is also a (small?, persistent) strong presence of feminists on there willing to educate/debate, and we get posts like this that call out the misogyny in a book that

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[supergasnojutsu]

i own a ton of those books on your list. if you wanna pick them up from me when i'm back during thanksgiving you are free to. also, i saw that you're going to melting pot for chantel's b-day! wanna commute together? let's save gas and the planet.

here are the following books i'm pretty confident i have: walk 2 moons, chasing redbird, the rose and the beast, his dark materials trilogy, the westing game, are you there god?..., wayside school is falling down

i would say that gail carson levine pretty much only features strong female protagonists in her novels. i didn't read the thing so i don't know if anyone talked about her but she's a huge name in YA fiction (what w/ ella enchanted and everything) and she does women justice.

[chinbat]

yes I would love to.

yeah I read Ella Enchanted before and I love it also. I own it but I lost it somewhere so.. I'm pretty sad about that. I think I glanced at some of her (one) other book (at the time) but it didn't really jive with me, but I'll check it out.

[chinbat]

I think mostly cos it was yet another book revolving around romance (yeah I know, if it's in YA it's likely to be about romance anyway) and even if it featured a strong girl protagonist I was sick of the whole girl --> thinks about love only connection.

[supergasnojutsu]

what was the book?

i read the one about the 2 sisters and that plot was more about one sister saving the other sister. the love plot was kind of secondary.

and fairest doesn't really have romance as the central plot i would say... plus i liked fairest because the main character was neither pretty nor thin, two things which are annoyingly common in books in general.

[supergasnojutsu]

the darkangel series is also pretty good. the main character is female and she pretty much carries the entire series, saves the man of her dreams multiple times, and then saves the world.

though, the second time i read it i sometimes found the main character to be kind of whiny and stupid.... but that might just be because I, as the reader, found some of the plot twists to be obvious but the people in the story didn't.