500 Great Books By Women discussion

A

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
The Awakening - Kate Chopin

Additions by Members of Goodreads
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

B

The Bell - Iris Murdoch
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer

Additions by Members of Goodreads
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

C

Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
Clear Light of Day - Anita Desai
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

Additions by Members of Goodreads
The Color Purple - Alice Walker

D

Additions by Members of Goodreads
Daniel Deronda - Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)
Delta of Venus - Anaïs Nin
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin

E

Emma - Jane Austen
Evelina; or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World - Fanny Burney
Excellent Women - Barbara Pym

F

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

G

The Garden Party and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield
The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark


Additions by Members of Goodreads
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing

H

The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The House of Ulloa - Emilia Pardo Bazán
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
The House with the Blind Glass Windows - Herbjørg Wassmo

Additions by Members of Goodreads
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

I

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

J

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

Additions by Members of Goodreads
July's People - Nadine Gordimer

K

Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset

Additions by Members of Goodreads
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto

L

Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies - Laura Esquivel
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Lives of Girls and Women - Alice Munro
The Lover - Marguerite Duras

M

Mary Barton: A Tale From Manchester Life - Elizabeth Gaskell
Middlemarch - Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)

Additions by Members of Goodreads
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

N

Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes

O

Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works - Aphra Behn
Out of Africa - Karen Blixen

Additions by Members of Goodreads

On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
Orlando - Virginia Woolf

P

Paradise of the Blind - Dương Thu Hương
Passing - Nella Larsen
Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
Possession - A.S. Byatt
The Princess of Clèves - Madame de La Fayette

Additions by Members of Goodreads
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Professor's House - Willa Cather

R

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Regeneration - Pat Barker

S

So Long a Letter - Mariama Bâ
Solitude - Víctor Català (Caterina Albert i Paradís)

Additions by Members of Goodreads
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson

T

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Twilight Years - Sawako Ariyoshi

Additions by Members of Goodreads
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
There But For The - Ali Smith
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf


U

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

W

The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

Additions by Members of Goodreads
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

Y

The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman