Believable women characters written by men

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By JoBB & Eric Kettunen

Some male writers struggle to write compelling female characters. We think these succeeded

1 The Virgin Suicides (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition)

Jeffrey Eugenides

2 Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

3 The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

4 Atonement

Ian McEwan

5 Mrs. Fletcher

Tom Perrotta

6 Freedom

Jonathan Franzen

7 Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare

8 Women In Love

D.H. Lawrence

9 Rabbit, Run

John Updike

10 Mothering Sunday

Graham Swift

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