500 Great Books By Women discussion

11th Century

1008 – The Tale of Genji- Murasaki Shikibu ( Additions by Members of Goodreads )

13th Century

1271 - Confessions of Lady Nijō - Lady Nijō

15th Century

1405 - The Book of the City of Ladies - Christine de Pizan

16th Century

1558 - The Heptameron - Marguerite de Navarre

17th Century

1677 - Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works - Aphra Behn
1678 - The Princess of Clèves - Madame de La Fayette

18th Century

1778 - Evelina; or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World - Fanny Burney
1792 - A Vindication of the Rights of Women - Mary Wollstonecraft
1796 - Memoirs of a Korean Queen - Lady Hyegyeong
1797 - The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton - Hannah Webster Foster


19th Century


1800 - Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth

1812 - Kelroy - Rebecca Rush
1813 - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ( Additions by Members of Goodreads )
1816 - Emma - Jane Austen
1817 - Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

1827 - Hope Leslie; or Early Times in Massachusetts - Catharine Maria Sedgwick

1831 - The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself - Mary Prince
1832 - Indiana - George Sand
1835 - Spiritual Narratives - Sue E. Houchins (editor)
1839 - A New Home—Who'll Follow?, or Glimpses of Western Life - Caroline Kirkland

1847 - Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
1848 - Mary Barton: A Tale From Manchester Life - Elizabeth Gaskell
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë

1851 - Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
1854 - The District Governor's Daughters - Camilla Collett
The Lamplighter - Maria Susanna Cummins
1855 - Ruth Hall and Other Writings - Fanny Fern
1857 - Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Mary Seacole
1859 - The Hidden Hand - E.D.E.N. Southworth
Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story House, North, Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There - Harriet E. Wilson

1861 - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs
Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories - Rebecca Harding Davis
Mountain Charley or the Adventures of Mrs. E. J. Guerin, Who Was Thirteen Years in Male Attire - Elsa Jane Guerin

1862 - A Woman's Civil War - Cornelia Peake Mcdonald
1863 - The Amber Gods and Other Stories - Harriet Prescott Spofford
The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars - Nadezhda Durova
1868 - Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House - Elizabeth Keckley
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

1871 - Middlemarch - Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)
1876 - Daniel Deronda - Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) ( Additions by Members of Goodreads )
1877 - The Story of Avis - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
1879 - A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains - Isabella L. Bird

1883 - The Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner
1884 - Ramona - Helen Hunt Jackson
1885 - Constance Ring - Amalie Skram
1886 - The House of Ulloa - Emilia Pardo Bazán
1887 - Ten Days in a Madhouse - Nellie Bly ( Additions by Members of Goodreads )

1892 - The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1893 - Pembroke - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
1895 - The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Volume I - Alice Dunbar-Nelson
1896 - The Country of Pointed Firs - Sarah Orne Jewett
Takekurabe - Ichiyō Higuchi ( Additions by Members of Goodreads )
1899 - The Awakening - Kate Chopin
The Irish R.M. - Edith Somerville, Violet Florence Martin
Letters of a Javanese Princess - Raden Adjeng Kartini
A Voice from the South - Anna Julia Cooper


20th Century


1900’s

1901 - My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
1903 - The Land of Little Rain - Mary Austin
1905 - The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Solitude - Caterina Albert i Paradís
Sultana's Dream and Selections from The Secluded Ones - Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
1907 - The Convert - Elizabeth Robins

1910’s

1910 - The Dangerous Age - Karin Michaëlis
The Getting of Wisdom - Ethel Florence Lindsay Richardson
1913 - The Moccasin Maker - E. Pauline Johnson
Virginia - Ellen Glasgow
1918 - My Ántonia - Willa Cather


1920’s

1920 - The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton ( Additions by Members of Goodreads )

1921 - American Indian Stories - Zitkala-Ša
Hannah Senesh: Her Life & Diary - Hannah Senesh
Purple Springs - Nellie L. McClung

1922 - The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Garden Party and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield

1923 - Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
Weeds - Edith Summers Kelley

1924 - The Home-Maker - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Rector's Daughter - F.M. Mayor
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Padmarag - Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

1925 - Bread Givers - Anzia Yezierska
The Löwensköld Ring - Selma Lagerlöf
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Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
The Professor's House - Willa Cather

1926 - Lolly Willowes; or The Loving Huntsman - Sylvia Townsend Warner

1927 - Islanders - Helen Hull
Miss Sophie's Diary - Ding Ling
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To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

1928 - Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells - Ida B. Wells-Barnett
HERmione - H.D.
The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
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Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Quicksand - Nella Larsen

1929 - Coonardoo - Katharine Susannah Prichard
Daughter of Earth - Agnes Smedley
Mama Blanca's Memoirs - Teresa de la Parra
Passing - Nella Larsen


1930’s


1930 - Flowering Judas - Katherine Anne Porter

1931 - After Leaving Mr. McKenzie - Jean Rhys
Cartucho/My Mother's Hands - Nellie Campobello
Living My Life - Emma Goldman

1932 - Call Home the Heart - Olive Tilford Dargan
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

1933 - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
Women and Appletrees - Moa Martinson

1934 - Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
Now in November - Josephine Winslow Johnson

1936 - The Fourth Pig - Naomi Mitchison ( Additions by Members of Goodreads )

1937 - Cosima - Grazia Deledda
Elizabeth Bishop: The Collected Prose 1937-1970 - Elizabeth Bishop
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
Out of Africa - Karen Blixen
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Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

1938 - Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Three Guineas - Virginia Woolf

1939 - Moses, Man of the Mountain - Zora Neale Hurston
One Pair of Hands - Monica Dickens


1940’s


1940 - New Islands and Other Stories - María Luisa Bombal
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

1942 - West with the Night - Beryl Markham
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The Land of Spices - Kate O'Brien

1943 - Winter Wheat - Mildred Walker
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Love in a Fallen City - Eileen Chang
Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles

1944 - The Portable Dorothy Parker - Dorothy Parker
Strange Fruit - Lillian E. Smith
Waterlily - Ella Cara Deloria
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Love in a Fallen City - Eileen Chang

1945 - A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman - Ning Lao T'ai-T'ai
Fifth Chinese Daughter - Jade Snow Wong

1946 - The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers
The Pavilion of Women - Pearl S. Buck
The Street - Ann Petry

1947 - Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - The Diary of a Young Girl
Artemisia - Anna Banti

1948 - A Good Man Is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
The Living is Easy - Dorothy West
The Lottery and Other Stories - Shirley Jackson
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories - Hisaye Yamamoto

1949 - The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
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In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages - Hella S. Haasse


1950’s


1950 - Daughter of the Hills: A Woman's Part in the Coal Miner's Struggle - Myra Page
Mary O'Grady - Mary Josephine Lavin
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The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing

1951 - The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
Heartwork - Solveig von Schoultz

1952 - Circe's Mountain - Marie Luise Kaschnitz
Excellent Women - Barbara Pym

1953 - Maud Martha - Gwendolyn Brooks
My Mother's House - Colette
Nisei Daughter - Monica Itoi Sone
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A Writer's Diary - Virginia Woolf

1954 - The Dollmaker - Harriette Simpson Arnow
The Group - Mary McCarthy
Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala Markandaya

1955 - Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
The Changelings - Jo Sinclair
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
The Ten Thousand Things - Maria Dermoût

1956 - Cordelia and Other Stories - Françoise Mallet-Joris
The Fountain Overflows - Rebecca West
Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life - Alice Childress
Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family - Pauli Murray

1957 - The Waiting Years - Fumiko Enchi

1958 - The Bell - Iris Murdoch
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The Locusts Have No King - Dawn Powell
The White Bird Passes - Jessie Kesson

1959 - Bobbin Up - Dorothy Hewett
The Flame Trees of Thika - Elspeth Huxley
Floreana: A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Galapagos - Margret Wittmer
Storm in the Village - Miss Read


1960’s


1960 - Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus - Carolina Maria de Jesus
City of Kings - Rosario Castellanos
Cora Sandel: Selected Short Stories - Cora Sandel
Owls Do Cry - Janet Frame
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
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A Stranger in My Grave - Margaret Millar

1961 - Breakthrough - Mercedes Valdivieso
Mute Phone Calls and Other Stories - Ruth Zernova
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The Matchbox House - Marilyn Duckworth
Sunlight on a Broken Column - Attia Hosain

1962 - The Little Virtues - Natalia Ginzburg
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
The Time of the Doves - Mercè Rodoreda
Two in the Far North - Margaret E. Murie
The Wall - Marlen Haushofer
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The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
The Skin Chairs - Barbara Comyns
Under the Sea-Wind - Rachel Carson

1963 - The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil - Hannah Arendt

1964 - God Bless the Child - Kristin Hunter Lattany
The Keepers of the House - Shirley Ann Grau
The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence

1965 - Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village - Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
The Iguana - Anna Maria Ortese
My Friend Annie - Jane Duncan
Sofia Petrovna - Lydia Chukovskaya
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Miss Macintosh, My Darling - Marguerite Young

1966 - Efuru - Flora Nwapa
Family Album - Claribel Alegría
Jubilee - Margaret Walker
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Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

1967 - Early Spring - Tove Ditlevsen
Journey into the Whirlwind - Evgenia Ginzburg
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Ice - Anna Kavan
Starlight - Stella Gibbons

1968 - Christabel - Christabel Bielenberg
Coming of Age in Mississippi - Anne Moody
Crossings - Chuang Hua
The Curve of Time - M. Wylie Blanchet
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Ice and Fire - Andrea Dworkin

1969 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Mary, Queen of Scots - Antonia Fraser
A Persian Requiem - سیمین دانشور
This Child's Gonna Live - Sarah E. Wright
A Week Like Any Other: Novellas and Stories - Natalya Baranskaya


1970’s


1970 - Crick Crack, Monkey - Merle Hodge
Daddy Was a Number Runner - Louise Meriwether
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The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Dark Spring - Unica Zürn

1971 - Lives of Girls and Women - Alice Munro
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Malina - Ingeborg Bachmann

1972 - Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years - Margaret Mead
The Bridge of Beyond - Simone Schwarz-Bart
Stradbroke Dreamtime - Oodgeroo Nunukul
The Twilight Years - Sawako Ariyoshi
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The Summer Book - Tove Jansson

1973 - Half-Breed - Maria Campbell
I Heard the Owl Call My Name - Margaret Craven
The Little Hotel - Christina Stead
Requiem - Shizuko Gō
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The Summer Before the Dark - Doris Lessing

1974 - Cleaned Out - Annie Ernaux
Dear Departed - Marguerite Yourcenar
The Odd Woman - Gail Godwin
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard
The Roots of Ticasuk: An Eskimo Woman's Family Story - Ticasuk Brown
Second Class Citizen - Buchi Emecheta
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother - Madeleine L'Engle
Walls: Resisting the Third Reich, One Woman's Story - Hiltgunt Zassenhaus
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The Conservationist - Nadine Gordimer
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin

1975 - Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape - Susan Brownmiller
Corregidora - Gayl Jones
Dora, Doralina - Rachel de Queiroz
Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Rain of Scorpions and Other Stories - Estela Portillo Trambley
Two Women in One - Nawal El Saadawi
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts - Maxine Hong Kingston
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Letter to a Child Never Born - Oriana Fallaci
The Nature of Alexander - Mary Renault

1976 - Allegra Maud Goldman - Edith Konecky
The Censors - Luisa Valenzuela
Jerusalem Plays Hide and Seek - Ariella Deem
My Story - Kamala Suraiyya
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution - Adrienne Rich
Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy

1977 - Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko
Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales - Bessie Head
The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
Why Is There Salt in the Sea? - Brigitte Schwaiger
Women of the Shadows: The Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy - Ann Cornelisen
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Delta of Venus - Anaïs Nin
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison

1978 - Child of Fortune - Yūko Tsushima
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century - Barbara W. Tuchman
Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism - Barbara MacDonald
Praxis - Fay Weldon
Silences - Tillie Olsen
Tirra Lirra by the River - Jessica Anderson
A Weave of Women - E.M. Broner
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The Black Unicorn - Audre Lorde
The Changeling - Joy Williams

1979 - The Beggars' Strike, or The Dregs of Society - Aminata Sow Fall
Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
A Small Country - Siân James
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color - Cherríe L. Moraga
Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento and Scoundrel Time - Lillian Hellman
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Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick


1980’s


1980 - Annapurna: A Woman's Place - Arlene Blum
A Belfast Woman - Mary Beckett
Clear Light of Day - Anita Desai
Man Made Language - Dale Spender
Or Else, The Lightning God & Other Stories - Catherine Lim
Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe - Laurie Lisle
So Long a Letter - Mariama Bâ
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Alice James - Jean Strouse

1981 - Gorilla, My Love - Toni Cade Bambara
The House with the Blind Glass Windows - Herbjørg Wassmo
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
An Imagined World: A Story of Scientific Discovery - June Goodfield
The Lone Pilgrim and Other Stories - Laurie Colwin
The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World - Ethel Johnston Phelps
Obasan - Joy Kogawa
Spring Moon - Bette Bao Lord
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The Expedition to the Baobab Tree - Wilma Stockenström
July's People - Nadine Gordimer

1982 - Beka Lamb - Zee Edgell
Cry to Heaven - Anne Rice
Daybook: The Journal of an Artist - Anne Truitt
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler
The False Years - Josefina Vicens
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Juletane - Myriam Warner-Vieyra
The Lover of Horses - Tess Gallagher
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo - Ntozake Shange
Tracks - Robyn Davidson
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey - Lillian Schlissel
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The Color Purple - Alice Walker
King Hereafter - Dorothy Dunnett

1983 - The Butcher's Wife - Li Ang
Distant View of a Minaret - Alifa Rifaat
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo - Hayden Herrera
How to Suppress Women's Writing - Joanna Russ
I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala - Rigoberta Menchú
In My Mother's House - Kim Chernin
Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir - Mamie Garvin Fields, Karen Fields
Loving in the War Years - Cherríe L. Moraga
The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave - Ruth Schwartz Cowan
My Place - Sally Morgan
One Writer's Beginnings - Eudora Welty
Praisesong for the Widow - Paule Marshall
The Seventh Garment - Eugenia Fakinou
Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South - Shirley Abbott
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The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
Pitch Dark - Renata Adler

1984 - The Abandoned Baobab - Ken Bugul
Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills - Latife Tekin
Childhood - Nathalie Sarraute
Cold Sassy Tree - Olive Ann Burns
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
The Impenetrable Madame X - Griselda Gambaro
The Pegnitz Junction - Mavis Gallant
The Ship of Fools - Cristina Peri Rossi
Sister Age - M.F.K. Fisher
Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism - Elly Bulkin, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Barbara Smith
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Sarah Phillips - Andrea Lee

1985 - Awaiting Trespass - Linda Ty-Casper
The Bone People - Keri Hulme
A Bridge Through Time - Laila Abou-Saif
Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner
The Jailing of Cecelia Capture - Janet Campbell Hale
The Land of Look Behind: Prose and Poetry - Michelle Cliff
Later the Same Day - Grace Paley
The Lover - Marguerite Duras
The Magnificent Spinster - May Sarton
Mohawk Trail - Beth Brant
A Mountainous Journey - Fadwa Tuqan
Rich Like Us - Nayantara Sahgal
Rituals of Survival: A Woman's Portfolio - Nicholasa Mohr
Saints and Strangers - Angela Carter
The Solace of Open Spaces - Gretel Ehrlich
Stones for Ibarra - Harriet Doerr
Various Miracles - Carol Shields
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The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
The Women's Decameron - Julia Voznesenskaya

1986 - Anywhere But Here - Mona Simpson
Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories - Opal Palmer Adisa
A Country Year: Living the Questions - Sue Hubbell
The Devil is Loose - Antonine Maillet
Fiela's Child - Dalene Matthee
Frangipani House - Beryl Gilroy
Getting Home Alive - Aurora Levins Morales, Rosario Morales
Homemade Love - J. California Cooper
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem - Maryse Condé
The Last of the Menu Girls - Denise Chávez
Love Must Not Be Forgotten - Zhang Jie
A Midwife's Story - Penny Armstrong, Sheryl Feldman
The Mixquiahuala Letters - Ana Castillo
Plaintext: Deciphering a Woman's Life - Nancy Mairs
The Riverhouse Stories: How Pubah S. Queen and Lazy LaRue Save the World - Andrea Carlisle
Women in the Resistance - Margaret L. Rossiter
Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice and Mind - Mary Field Belenky, Nancy Rule Goldberger, Jill Mattuck Tarule, Blythe McVicker Clinchy
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Amour dans une petite ville - Wang Anyi

1987 – Child of Her People - Anne Cameron
Clay Walls - Kim Ronyoung
The Dust Roads of Monferrato - Rosetta Loy
Fierce Attachments - Vivian Gornick
Hitchhiking: Twelve German Tales - Gabriele Eckart
Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives - Carolyn Steedman
Libby: The Alaskan Diaries and Letters of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880, as Presented by her Granddaughter Betty John - Elizabeth Beaman John
Lover's Choice - Becky Birtha
Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography - Vicki Goldberg
Memory Board - Jane Rule
Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
My Father's House - Sylvia Fraser
On the Golden Porch - Tatyana Tolstaya
Once Upon an Eskimo Time - Edna Wilder
Rich in Love - Josephine Humphreys
Rosie the Riveter Revisited - Sherna Berger Gluck
Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras, Chilean Women, and the Pinochet Dictatorship - Marjorie Agosín
The Threshing Floor - Barbara Burford
Windbreak: A Woman Rancher on the Northern Plains - Linda M. Hasselstrom
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The Door - Magda Szabó

1988 - Alicia: My Story - Alicia Appleman-Jurman
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
Coming Home and Other Stories - Farida Karodia
Dumba Nengue: Run for Your Life: Peasant Tales of Tragedy in Mozambique - Lina Magaia
Ellen Foster - Kaye Gibbons
The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg
Ganado Red: A Novella and Stories - Susan Lowell
The Good Times are Killing Me - Lynda Barry
Grey Is the Color of Hope - Irina Ratushinskaya
The House Tibet - Georgia Savage
Mama Day - Gloria Naylor
Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce - Brenda Maddox
Paradise of the Blind - Dương Thu Hương
Queen Lear - Molly Keane
Sans Souci and Other Stories - Dionne Brand
A Small Place - Jamaica Kincaid
The Stillborn - Zaynab Alkali
Tracks - Louise Erdrich
The Ultraviolet Sky - Alma Luz Villanueva
A War of Eyes and Other Stories - Wanda Coleman
The Woman Who Was Not All There - Paula Sharp
Women of Sand and Myrrh - Hanan Al-Shaykh
Writing a Woman's Life - Carolyn G. Heilbrun
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Breaking and Entering - Joy Williams
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
War's Unwomanly Face - Svetlana Alexievich

1989 - AIDS and Its Metaphors - Susan Sontag
The Big Mama Stories - Shay Youngblood
Black Women Writers at Work - Claudia Tate
Blue Taxis: Stories About Africa - Eileen Drew
Circle of Friends - Maeve Binchy
Composing a Life - Mary Catherine Bateson
Dancing on the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Day I Began My Studies in Philosophy and Other Stories - Margareta Ekström
Disappearing Acts - Terry McMillan
A Farm Under a Lake - Martha Bergland
The Floating World - Cynthia Kadohata
Italian Days - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Jasmine - Bharati Mukherjee
John Dollar - Marianne Wiggins
Limbo: A Memoir About Life in a Nursing Home by a Survivor - Carobeth Laird
Lost in Translation - Eva Hoffman
The Nocturnal Naturalist - Cathy Johnson
Plain and Simple - Sue Bender
Real-Farm - Patricia Tichenor Westfall
River Time: The Frontier on the Lower Neuse - Janet Lembke
The Road from Coorain - Jill Ker Conway
The Road Through Miyama - Leila Philip
The Shawl - Cynthia Ozick
Singing Softly/Cantado Bajito - Carmen De Monteflores
Six of One - Rita Mae Brown
Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad - Bebe Moore Campbell
Tahuri - Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black - bell hooks
There Never Was a Once Upon a Time - Carmen Naranjo
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Dialogues in Paradise - Can Xue


1990’s


1990 – And They Didn't Die - Lauretta G. Ngcobo
Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir - Jean Said Makdisi
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment - Patricia Hill Collins
Changes in Latitude - Joana McIntyre Varawa
Disappearing Moon Cafe - Sky Lee
Dogeaters - Jessica Hagedorn
Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes - Irena Klepfisz
Exile in the Promised Land - Marcia Freedman
Family Pictures - Sue Miller
Floating in My Mother's Palm - Ursula Hegi
"G" Is for Gumshoe - Sue Grafton
Her - Cherry Muhanji
In Silence - Ruth Sidransky
Lady's Maid - Margaret Forster
Lantern Slides - Edna O'Brien
Living by Water: Essays on Life, Land and Spirit - Brenda Peterson
The Loony-Bin Trip - Kate Millett
May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India - Elisabeth Bumiller
Mean Spirit - Linda Hogan
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785-1812 - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
A Natural History of the Senses - Diane Ackerman
Out of Time - Paula Martinac
Paradise - Elena Castedo
Possession - A.S. Byatt
The Potter's Field - Ellis Peters
The Power of Horses and Other Stories - Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America - Mary Paik Lee
Riding in Cars with Boys - Beverly Donofrio
Road Song - Natalie Kusz
The Samaritan Treasure - Marianne Luban
Seventh Heaven - Alice Hoffman
Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood - Judith Ortiz Cofer
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest - Karen Tei Yamashita
Women, Culture, & Politics - Angela Y. Davis
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Through a Window - Jane Goodall

1991 – All But the Waltz: A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family - Mary Clearman Blew
Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir - Sissela Bok
And the Bridge Is Love: Life Stories - Faye Moskowitz
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women - Susan Faludi
A Bag of Stories - Edla Van Steen
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart - Joyce Carol Oates
Black Ice - Lorene Cary
Changes - Ama Ata Aidoo
The Clay That Breathes: A Novella and Stories - Catherine Browder
Copper Crown - Lane von Herzen
Cracking India - Bapsi Sidhwa
Doc Susie: The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies - Virginia Cornell
Eve's Tattoo - Emily Prager
Fortunate Lives - Robb Forman Dew
From the Lanai and Other Hawaii Stories - Jessica Saiki
The Gates of Ivory - Margaret Drabble
Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Women's Sourcebook - Paula Gunn Allen
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed - Slavenka Drakulić
The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
The Loom and Other Stories - Ruth A. Sasaki
A Mom's Life - Kathryn Grody
The Montreal Massacre - Marie Chalouh, Louise Malette
Nampally Road - Meena Alexander
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America - Lillian Faderman
The Other Mother - Carol Schaefer
Praying for Sheetrock - Melissa Fay Greene
Pride of Family - Carole Ione
Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 - Minnie Bruce Pratt
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place - Terry Tempest Williams
The Revolution of Little Girls - Blanche McCrary Boyd
The Scent of the Gods - Fiona Cheong
Street Games - Rosellen Brown
A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
Typical American - Gish Jen
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
The World and the Bo Tree - Helen Bevington
The Writer on her Work, Volume II: New Essays in New Territory - Janet Sternburg
Yes Is Better Than No - Byrd Baylor
Additions by Members of Goodreads
Family Money - Nina Bawden
Where Europe Begins: Stories - Yōko Tawada

1992 - After Henry - Joan Didion
Angie, I Says - Avra Wing
Aquamarine - Carol Anshaw
Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
Cantora - Sylvia López-Medina
A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War - Susan Griffin
Claiming Breath - Diane Glancy
Daughter of Persia - Sattareh Farman Farmaian
Dreaming in Cuban - Cristina García
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume One: 1884-1933 - Blanche Wiesen Cook
Fifty Russian Winters - Margaret Wettlin
Fruit Fields in My Blood: Okie Migrants in the West - Toby F. Sonneman
I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots - Susan Straight
Incantations and Other Stories - Anjana Appachana
Killing Color - Charlotte Watson Sherman
Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies - Laura Esquivel
Little Altars Everywhere - Rebecca Wells
Magic Eyes: Scenes from an Andean Girlhood - Wendy Ewald, Alicia Vásquez, María Vásquez
Margins - Terri de la Peña
Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist - Kathleen Alcalá
The Painted Alphabet - Diana Darling
Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia - Jean Sasson
Regeneration - Pat Barker
Still Loved by the Sun: A Rape Survivor's Journal - Migael Scherer
The Straight Mind (and Other Essays) - Monique Wittig
Talking Indian: Reflections on Survival and Writing - Anna Lee Walters
Talking to High Monks in the Snow - Lydia Minatoya
Talking to the Dead - Sylvia Watanabe
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story - Elaine Brown
Twilight and Other Stories - Shulamith Hareven
Veils - Nahid Rachlin
The Women Outside: Meanings and Myths of Homelessness - Stephanie Golden
The Worry Girl - Andrea Freud Loewenstein
Yoruba Girl Dancing - Simi Bedford
Additions by Members of Goodreads
Assata: An Autobiography - Assata Shakur
Natural History: A Novel - Maureen Howard

1993 - Bone - Fae Myenne Ng
Burmese Looking Glass: A Human Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution - Edith T. Mirante
Deals with the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot - Pearl Cleage
Forged Under the Sun/Forjado bajo el sol: The Life of María Elena Lucas - María Elena Lucas
A River Sutra - Gita Mehta
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival - Velma Wallis
Why Not Me? The Story of Gladys Milton, Midwife - Wendy L. Bovard, Gladys Milton
Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory - Michelle M. Tokarczyk, Elizabeth A. Fay
Additions by Members of Goodreads
Red Azalea - Anchee Min
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing - Hélène Cixous

Additions by Members of Goodreads (From Here on Out)

1994 - Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter

1995 - The Blue Flower - Penelope Fitzgerald

1996 - Hallucinating Foucault - Patricia Duncker
The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy - Mina Loy

1997 – The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Kissing the Witch - Emma Donoghue
The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels - Ágota Kristóf
Textermination - Christine Brooke-Rose

1998 - Defiance - Carole Maso
I Love Dick - Chris Kraus
The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro
My Year of Meats - Ruth Ozeki

1999 - Baise-Moi - Virginie Despentes
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Rose Garden - Maeve Brennan
White Teeth - Zadie Smith



21st Century



2000’s


2000 – The Complete Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt
The Slynx - Tatyana Tolstaya
Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong - Hồ Xuân Hương

2001 - The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos - Anne Carson
Beside the Sea - Véronique Olmi
Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon - Nicole Brossard

2002 - The Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices - Xinran

2003 - Dot in the Universe - Lucy Ellmann
What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] - Zoë Heller

2004 – A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews
Agaat - Marlene Van Niekerk
Honored Guest - Joy Williams
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
The Ministry of Pain - Dubravka Ugrešić

2005 - The Lake - Banana Yoshimoto
On Beauty - Zadie Smith

2006 – The Bastard of Istanbul - Elif Shafak
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In the Night Garden - Catherynne M. Valente
Iran Awakening - Shirin Ebadi
Native Guard - Natasha Trethewey

2007 - Brother, I'm Dying - Edwidge Danticat
The Collected Stories - Grace Paley
Day - A.L. Kennedy

2008 - Purge - Sofi Oksanen
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth - Xiaolu Guo
Visitation - Jenny Erpenbeck
Walk the Blue Fields - Claire Keegan

2009 – A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx - Elaine Showalter
The Hunger Angel - Herta Müller
Queen Pokou: Concerto for a Sacrifice - Véronique Tadjo
Ru - Kim Thúy
Three Strong Women - Marie NDiaye
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel


2010’s


2010 – A Drunken Dream and Other Stories - Moto Hagio
The Memory of Love - Aminatta Forna
Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating - Elisabeth Tova Bailey

2011 – Blue Nights - Joan Didion
Green Girl - Kate Zambreno
Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi
Wander - Jenn Manley Lee

2012 – Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo
Home - Toni Morrison
There But For The - Ali Smith
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson

2013 – Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
The Translator - Nina Schuyler
what purpose did i serve in your life - Marie Calloway

2014 – A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing - Eimear McBride
Can't and Won't - Lydia Davis
Dept. of Speculation - Jenny Offill
Dust - Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Faithful and Virtuous Night - Louise Glück
How to be both - Ali Smith
I Am China - Xiaolu Guo
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

2015 - Almost Famous Women - Megan Mayhew Bergman
Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling - Carole Satyamurti