Books by Women meme
Found this list on several blogs I've read today. Thought it seemed appropriate for here :-)
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, 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
Hmmmm - I've got rather a lot highlighted compared to many of the blogs this list is on. Worst thing is that I own a sizable number of those higlighted as well - in boxes somewhere ... I'm beinging to see where I spent my earnings over the last few years !!
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, 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
Hmmmm - I've got rather a lot highlighted compared to many of the blogs this list is on. Worst thing is that I own a sizable number of those higlighted as well - in boxes somewhere ... I'm beinging to see where I spent my earnings over the last few years !!
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