Well my specialty is children's books and middle-grade fiction, so I'll just go with that, if it's okay. There's a great book that came out like three years ago called The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone. It's about a ten-year-old girl who is informed her adventuring parents have died, and in their magic-bound will, force her to go on adventures herself, having to deliver presents to her ten aunts. In the process she does things like save a baby, play detective to free one aunt from prison, and then magic gets involved and she finds out the truth of what happens to her parents. It's a very cute quirky story (I can accept the argument that it tries too hard in that regard, but I liked it,) and even though some aunts were single and some were married, it's never implied that even one was lesbian. The aunts have different personalities (from strict to playful to stoic to businesslike to depressed) so it's got good values. It's very much a reluctant hero story, and Bronte isn't perfect (at one point she learns the hard way what the definition of "bribery" is, but at least the police chief gives her a chance to retract her offer,) but for girls with good attention spans, I couldn't recommend it highly enough.
What's it like in the library space? I work in legal ones and haven't been in a public one for years. I'm still in the ALA and all that so ugh just based on the articles, the library related subreddits, and my own public library they're so woke I don't know how anyone that isn't could stand it.
You know, when I try to think back through the books I've read in my life (for fun), Jaina Solo is the only one I can think of that ever came close to feeling like a main protagonist in her own right (but still had to share that with her twin brother). Plenty of strong female characters in Star Wars novels that aren't some agenda token.
80s/90s Norwegian book series called "Kompaniet" (The Company) unfortunately I don't think it ever got finished past the first two books.
Literally a teenage handball team is kidnapped by a alien species and tasked with traversing a planet inhabited by belligerent and hostile locals. Their only help is a gun store owner and former mercenary who stops by to pick one of them up and manages to get caught alongside them.
Trust me it sounds weird as fuck, but it was written by a, in gun owning circles, well known writer and editor of a Norwegian gun magazine in print from the 70s to the early 2000s. He uses the books to describe small unit actions in detail, criticise "big army" institutionalism, all while giving probably the best description of teenage girl group dynamics I have ever read in a book.
There's the witches books written by Terry Pratchett. Literally any of them. But if we're talking movies there's Terminator 1 and 2, Alien, and the Buffy TV series...
Great hard sci fi - ensemble cast with a few females, some of which are portrayed as competent without being mary sues - actual good writing because the characters are all fucked up (the writer Stephen R Donaldson writes fucked up really well)
A lot of rape - including the rape victims despairing, working through their trauma, and using the experiences to strengthen themselves. Something like this could never get published these days.
I enjoyed Kushiel's Dart. Intelligent courtesan acts as a spy on her assignments in a non-magic fantasy medieval setting. Realistic and believable strengths and faults. Lots of competent male side characters. My only complaint is it takes a while before the action kicks in.
Your best bet would probably be to hit up foreign works, unless you want to do a lot of digging into Western novels. But I know a lot of Manga/Anime has strong and heroic female characters, if that is your thing.
I have NOT read it, but the guy who created Conan the Barbarian also created a female protagonist called "Red Sonya", set in the 16th century, fighting against the Ottomans. It may be worth looking into.
Her idea later inspired a comic book character called Red Sonja set in the Conan era, written in the 1970s that could be good too. They apparentlY SJW'd it recently, but the early stuff could be good.
"I'll fake my own death so we can be together, but she's such a retard that she doesn't work it out and kills herself so I have to commit seppuku instead of moving the fuck on."
Its also worth pointing out that the whole point of the play, as written by Shakespeare, basically boiled down to "Look at these absolutely retarded children throw their life away on a Puppy-Love tier fling. The Retards."
Ha. But Romeo and Juliet can be read both ways. The Romantics can pine for Romeo and Juliet to get together, and the Cynics can laugh at stupid pretty people committing suicide.
If you can give loose definitions of "based," "uncucked" and "heroic," I might be able to help you out. I work in a library.
Well my specialty is children's books and middle-grade fiction, so I'll just go with that, if it's okay. There's a great book that came out like three years ago called The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone. It's about a ten-year-old girl who is informed her adventuring parents have died, and in their magic-bound will, force her to go on adventures herself, having to deliver presents to her ten aunts. In the process she does things like save a baby, play detective to free one aunt from prison, and then magic gets involved and she finds out the truth of what happens to her parents. It's a very cute quirky story (I can accept the argument that it tries too hard in that regard, but I liked it,) and even though some aunts were single and some were married, it's never implied that even one was lesbian. The aunts have different personalities (from strict to playful to stoic to businesslike to depressed) so it's got good values. It's very much a reluctant hero story, and Bronte isn't perfect (at one point she learns the hard way what the definition of "bribery" is, but at least the police chief gives her a chance to retract her offer,) but for girls with good attention spans, I couldn't recommend it highly enough.
What's it like in the library space? I work in legal ones and haven't been in a public one for years. I'm still in the ALA and all that so ugh just based on the articles, the library related subreddits, and my own public library they're so woke I don't know how anyone that isn't could stand it.
hahahahahahahah
Dagny Taggart in Atlas Shrugged
You know, when I try to think back through the books I've read in my life (for fun), Jaina Solo is the only one I can think of that ever came close to feeling like a main protagonist in her own right (but still had to share that with her twin brother). Plenty of strong female characters in Star Wars novels that aren't some agenda token.
80s/90s Norwegian book series called "Kompaniet" (The Company) unfortunately I don't think it ever got finished past the first two books.
Literally a teenage handball team is kidnapped by a alien species and tasked with traversing a planet inhabited by belligerent and hostile locals. Their only help is a gun store owner and former mercenary who stops by to pick one of them up and manages to get caught alongside them.
Trust me it sounds weird as fuck, but it was written by a, in gun owning circles, well known writer and editor of a Norwegian gun magazine in print from the 70s to the early 2000s. He uses the books to describe small unit actions in detail, criticise "big army" institutionalism, all while giving probably the best description of teenage girl group dynamics I have ever read in a book.
Jaina Solo. I thought Moraine in WOT was good. Friday by Heinlein wasn’t bad.
Brandon Sanderson in general is a nominally safe bet, and he's written a bunch of young adult stuff too.
There's the witches books written by Terry Pratchett. Literally any of them. But if we're talking movies there's Terminator 1 and 2, Alien, and the Buffy TV series...
Wheel of Time
https://infogalactic.com/info/The_Gap_Cycle
Great hard sci fi - ensemble cast with a few females, some of which are portrayed as competent without being mary sues - actual good writing because the characters are all fucked up (the writer Stephen R Donaldson writes fucked up really well)
A lot of rape - including the rape victims despairing, working through their trauma, and using the experiences to strengthen themselves. Something like this could never get published these days.
Will check it out.
Book of the Ancestor trilogy by Mark Lawrence.
Your best bet would probably be to hit up foreign works, unless you want to do a lot of digging into Western novels. But I know a lot of Manga/Anime has strong and heroic female characters, if that is your thing.
I have NOT read it, but the guy who created Conan the Barbarian also created a female protagonist called "Red Sonya", set in the 16th century, fighting against the Ottomans. It may be worth looking into.
Her idea later inspired a comic book character called Red Sonja set in the Conan era, written in the 1970s that could be good too. They apparentlY SJW'd it recently, but the early stuff could be good.
Age range?
Romeo and Juliet.
Literally cringeworthy simping.
"I'll fake my own death so we can be together, but she's such a retard that she doesn't work it out and kills herself so I have to commit seppuku instead of moving the fuck on."
Its also worth pointing out that the whole point of the play, as written by Shakespeare, basically boiled down to "Look at these absolutely retarded children throw their life away on a Puppy-Love tier fling. The Retards."
Can you tell I never liked it enough to remember any of it? I don't even know how I got an A in English Literature back then.
Are you sure that's right though? I swear it's the other way around.
I guess I'll just rewrite my answer.
"She fakes her death and I'm such a worthless simp that I decide to kill myself to "be with her" rather than moving the fuck on. "
I mean, look who you're replying to.
I guess like TheImpossible1, I now have my personal Klansman stalker.
This is a public forum, retard. If you're going to spout leftist bullshit constantly, you're going to get called on it.
I'd so fucking banned you from my "public forum" long ago if I was him.
A perfect example of why proles like you shouldn't have any power.
Said a member of aristocracy.
Ha. But Romeo and Juliet can be read both ways. The Romantics can pine for Romeo and Juliet to get together, and the Cynics can laugh at stupid pretty people committing suicide.