Does anyone else have this issue or am I just a Misogynistic Pig.

Dunno. I like to read Rand and Paglia.

It definitely matters what you read. Care to share any specific books that you couldn't finish. Was there any pattern?

There's definitely nothing wrong with you just based off of you having your own taste. You may have just tapped into a particularly bad (for you) vein of writers that don't resonate with you. It could happen with men too. There's a lot of writing out there. Ursula K. Le Guin seems to be universally loved, and from the first time I read something of hers I could see why...it's damn good stuff. It may not suit you, but you could try her out.

I love women. Hell, I’ve got two daughters.

Still, I don’t like books written by women, podcasts hosted by women, or female sports announcers.

I just don’t want to hear women’s voices unless I have to, I guess. Don’t feel bad.

On the fiction side, I read a lot of Anne McCaffrey (Dragonriders of Pern) and thought most of it was very good - probably undderated. I also like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

On the non-fiction side, Annie Jacobsen's book are extremely well-written, even if some of the topics are a little sensationalized.

Finally, Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is one of the best books, on any topic, in any genre, ever.

I read some of the Murderbot Diary books recently, written by a woman. I enjoyed them.

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I read a lot of Anne McCaffrey (Dragonriders of Pern) and thought most of it was very good - probably undderated.

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I read a lot of her stuff many decades ago. Better than average for science fiction. The female sci-fi/fantasy writer I really liked was Ursula LeGuin. I've been going through several of her books recently and she is about as good as anybody I can think of, in sci-fi or anything else.

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Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is one of the best books, on any topic, in any genre, ever.

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Agreed.

All that said, when Audible.com has their daily deal it's almost always a female writer, and by now I dismiss it without giving it serious consideration.

I guess genre is a factor

Agatha Christie and Lois Duncan have many good books

I even sort of like a couple Jane Austen classics

Mary Shelley is another

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Dunno. I like to read Rand and Paglia.

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They're not woke women in the sense of third wave feminists. They're more like cool butch chicks you'd wanna slam some beers with.

I like Anne Rice, Gillian Flynn. Agatha Christie. Mary Shelley, Harper Lee, Shirley Jackson, JK Rowling, Ayn Rand,

Have you read Anne Rice's The Witching Hour? Julien Mayfair ranks high among my favorite fictional characters of all time.
The Feast of All Saints is another of her best. She really brings historical New Orleans to life in all its creepy, decrepit glory.

Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series is really good. I believe it's seven books starting just after the death of the Gracchi brothers and going all the way to the ascension of Augustus. Gaius Marius and especially Lucius Cornelius Sulla both just jump off the page. It's well researched with extensive citations. By far the best and most accurate historical novels on Rome that I've come across. (Little known but fascinating tidbit on Julius Caesar: Sulla was such a terrible horseman that he rode a donkey on campaign. When his wife finally persuaded him to allow Caesar to step down as Flamen Dialis and embark on a military career he stipulated that to teach JC humility he was forbidden from riding a horse. So for the first 10 or so years of his military career Caesar also rode a donkey. That's how scary Sulla was.)