Just BOLD those you?ve read, ITALICIZE the ones you?ve been meaning to read and ??? the ones you have never heard of.
Alcott, Louisa May ? Little Women
Allende, Isabe l? The House of Spirits
Angelou, Maya ? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Atwood, Margaret ? Cat?s Eye
Austen, Jane ? Emma
Bambara, Toni Cade ? Salt Eaters ???
Barnes, Djuna ? Nightwood ???
de Beauvoir, Simone ? The Second Sex
Blume, Judy ? Are You There God? It?s Me Margaret
Burnett, Frances ? The Secret Garden
Bronte, Charlotte ? Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily ? Wuthering Heights
Buck, Pearl S. ? The Good Earth ???
Byatt, A.S. ? Possession
Cather, Willa ? My Antonia ???
Christie, Agatha ? Murder on the Orient Express
Cisneros, Sandra ? The House on Mango Street ???
Clinton, Hillary Rodham ? Living History
Cooper, Anna Julia ? A Voice From the South ???
Danticat, Edwidge ? Breath, Eyes, Memory ???
Davis, Angela ? Women, Culture, and Politics ???
Desai, Anita ? Clear Light of Day
Dickinson, Emily ? Collected Poems
Duncan, Lois ? I Know What You Did Last Summer??
DuMaurier, Daphne ? Rebecca
Eliot, George ? Middlemarch
Emecheta, Buchi ? Second Class Citizen ???
Erdrich, Louise ? Tracks ???
Esquivel, Laura ? Like Water for Chocolate
Flagg, Fannie ? Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Friedan, Betty ? The Feminine Mystique
Frank, Anne ? Diary of a Young Girl
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins ? The Yellow Wallpaper ???
Gordimer, Nadine ? July?s People ???
Grafton, Sue ? S is for Silence??
Hamilton, Edith ? Mythology ???
Highsmith, Patricia ? The Talented Mr. Ripley
Hooks, Bell ? Bone Black ???
Hurston, Zora Neale ? Dust Tracks on the Road ???
Jacobs, Harriet ? Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ???
Jackson, Helen Hunt ? Ramona/??
Jackson, Shirley ? The Haunting of Hill House???
Jong, Erica – fear of flying???
Keene, Caroly – the nancy drew mysteries
Kidd, Sue Monk ? The Secret Life of Bees ???
Kincaid, Jamaica ? Lucy ???
Kingsolver, Barbara ? The Poisonwood Bible ???
Kingston, Maxine Hong ? The Woman Warrior ???
Larsen, Nella ? Passing???
L?Engle, Madeleine ? A Wrinkle in Time
Le Guin, Ursula K. ? The Left Hand of Darkness
Lee, Harper ? To Kill a Mockingbird
Lessing, Doris ? The Golden Notebook
Lively, Penelope ? Moon Tiger
Lorde, Audre ? The Cancer Journals ???
Martin, Ann M. ? The Babysitters Club Series
McCullers, Carson ? The Member of the Wedding ???
McMillan, Terry ? Disappearing Acts ???
Markandaya, Kamala ? Nectar in a Sieve ???
Marshall, Paule ? Brown Girl, Brownstones ???
Mitchell, Margaret ? Gone with the Wind
Montgomery, Lucy ? Anne of Green Gables
Morgan, Joan ? When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost ???
Morrison, Toni ? Song of Solomon
Murasaki, Lady Shikibu ? The Tale of Genji ???
Munro, Alice ? Lives of Girls and Women ???
Murdoch, Iris ? Severed Head
Naylor, Gloria ? Mama Day ???
Niffenegger, Audrey ? The Time Traveller?s Wife
Oates, Joyce Carol ? We Were the Mulvaneys ???
O?Connor, Flannery ? A Good Man is Hard to Find ???
Piercy, Marge ? Woman on the Edge of Time
Picoult, Jodi ? My Sister?s Keeper
Plath, Sylvia ? The Bell Jar
Porter, Katharine Anne ? Ship of Fools ???
Proulx, E. Annie ? The Shipping News
Rand, Ayn ? The Fountainhead ???
Ray, Rachel ? 365: No Repeats ???
Rhys, Jean ? Wide Sargasso Sea ???
Robinson, Marilynne ? Housekeeping ???
Rocha, Sharon ? For Laci ???
Sebold, Alice ? The Lovely Bones ???
Shelley, Mary ? Frankenstein
Smith, Betty ? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ???
Smith, Zadie ? White Teeth ???
Spark, Muriel ? The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Spyri, Johanna ? Heidi
Strout, Elizabeth ? Amy and Isabelle ???
Steel, Danielle ? The House
Tan, Amy ? The Joy Luck Club
Tannen, Deborah ? You?re Wearing That ???
Ulrich, Laurel ? A Midwife?s Tale??
Urquhart, Jane ? Away ???
Walker, Alice ? The Temple of My Familiar ???
Welty, Eudora ? One Writer?s Beginnings ???
Wharton, Edith ? Age of Innocence
Wilder, Laura Ingalls ? Little House in the Big Woods
Wollstonecraft, Mary ? A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Woolf, Virginia ? A Room of One?s Own
as I said, got from JAX. Not usre why these particular books chosen, as can think of other great female authors – Sheri tpper, Julian May, and I don’t think necesaarily my favourite bokos by the author chosen. so maybe there should be an underline for read another book by that author!
I think Jan traced it back to its origin, and it was something to do with bestseller lists and stuff?
Yes, I thought it was a shame it didn’t have Sheri Tepper on it. I quite like Julian May, but not hugely. Robin Hobbs? Go for sci-fi and there’s Lois McMaster Bujold as well…I could go on. I probably will.
Impressive! How do you find the time to read?
i am addicted to it, and read until book finished often – ie 4am!
I’m impressed. i’m not a huge fan of female writers as a rule so have hardly read any. Like you though once I start I can’t stop and carry the book around with me!