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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister
Male authors, by and large, produce books with male protagonists because, in part, men find it easier to write convincingly about men; women naturally tend to have female protagonists because they find them easier to write convincingly about women than men.
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I agree with you about "100 best" lists, but I don't think what you wrote above is correct, or complete. There's a tendency that everybody read books about men, and women read books about women. (There's a similar tendency for race: Books about white people are considered to be for everybody, and books about people of color for people of color.) So women will be more used to reading and writing about men than vice versa.
Here's an interesting article about price winning books:
http://nicolagriffith.com/2015/05/26...to-win-awards/ Summary:
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When women win literary awards for fiction it’s usually for writing from a male perspective and/or about men. The more prestigious the award, the more likely the subject of the narrative will be male.
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