500 Great Books By Women discussion

My list:

Artemisia
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography
The Writer on Her Work: New Essays in New Territory

Because it is Bitter, and Because it is My Heart
The Convert
From the Lanai and Other Hawaii Stories
So Long a Letter
The Waiting Years

Cleaned Out
Coming of Age in Mississippi
Half-Breed
The Land Of Look Behind: Prose And Poetry

Deals with the Devil, and Other Reasons to Riot
Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts
Requiem
A Voice from the South

Circe's Mountain
The Group
Later the Same Day
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
Twilight and Other Stories
The Dangerous Age
Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism
The Twilight Years

The Changelings

Burger's Daughter
The Confessions of Lady Nijo
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

The Jailing of Cecelia Capture
Jerusalem Plays Hide and Seek
Nampally Road

The Iguana
The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

After Henry
The Little Virtues
The Nocturnal Naturalist: Exploring the Outdoors at Night
The Time of the Doves
Women of Sand and Myrrh

The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars
Exile in the Promised Land: A Memoir
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Mountain Charley: Or the Adventures of Mrs. E. J. Guerin, Who Was Thirteen Years in Male Attire
West with the Night
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

The Land of Little Rain
Stradbroke Dreamtime

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Kelroy
Killing Color
Mean Spirit
Sofia Petrovna
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
Women, Culture, and Politics
The Women Outside: Meanings and Myths of Homelessness

Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills
Daughter of Earth
Journey into the Whirlwind
A Mountainous Journey: An Autobiography
My Father's House
Plaintext

Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
The Butcher's Wife
A Chorus of Stones
The Loony-Bin Trip
The Montreal Massacre

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes
Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives
Man Made Language
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
The Straight Mind: And Other Essays
Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind
Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory
Writing a Woman's Life
Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism

Indiana
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 1

Composing a Life
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution
More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave

ALL THE BOOKS BY WOMEN.

I'm going to try and read as many as I can find, especially fiction, autobiography and travel memoirs.
I already have a number on hold at the Vancouver library and will be picking them up this Sunday.

A list of 500 books was just too daunting, so I recently made my own list of just 50 to get me started on my quest

Middlemarch
Possession: A Romance
The House of the Spirits
Beloved
A Thousand Acres
Murder on the Orient Express
The House of Mirth
The Awakening
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Kindred
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Lottery and Other Stories
Regeneration
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Excellent Women
Moon Tiger
The Stone Angel
The House on Mango Street
The Bone People
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Testament of Youth
Castle Rackrent
Silent Spring
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
The Bell
The Hour of the Star
Three Guineas
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
The Road from Coorain
The Book of the City of Ladies
The Wall
The Country of the Pointed Firs
My Ántonia
Oroonoko
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good
American Indian Stories
Artemisia
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
The Solace of Open Spaces
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Passing
The Floating World
The Confessions of Lady Nijo
The fifth child
The Bean Trees