Books by Women meme
You’re supposed to bold the ones you’ve read, italicise the ones you’ve been meaning to read, and stick some question-marks on the ones you’ve never heard of.
Some of the choices for the list aren’t what I’d have chosen - I think there are better Margaret Atwoods, for example, and Ms Clinton is only there by virtue of her connections, let’s face it. But it was interesting and killed a few minutes
Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women
Allende, Isabel - 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, Carolyn - The Nancy Drew Mysteries (any of them)
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
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Coo, you’ve read loads!