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"100 Great 20th Century Works by Women Authors" from Feminista

*Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
*I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
*Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
*The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
*Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara
*Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
*Regeneration by Pat Barker
*Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
*Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
*The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
*Possession by A.S. Byatt
*Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
*So Far From God by Ana Castillo
*My Antonia by Willa Cather
*The Awakening by Kate Chopin
*The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
*Elders and Betters by Ivy Compton-Burnett
*Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
*Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
*Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
*The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
*Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
*Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
*Tracks by Louise Erdrich
*At Freddie's by Penelope Fitzgerald
*Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
*Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame
*The Women's Room by Marilyn French
*The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein
*July's People by Nadine Gordimer
*The Rest of Life by Mary Gordon
*The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
*When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head
*The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
*The Furies by Janet Hobhouse
*The Bone People by Keri Hulme
*Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
*The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
*Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
*Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
*Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
*The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
*Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Hong Kingston
*Obasan by Joy Kogawa
*The Fire-Dwellers by Margaret Laurence
*To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
*The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
*Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
*Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
*The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
*Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
*The Group by Mary McCarthy
*Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
*Mama by Terry McMillan
*Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller
*Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
*Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
*Beloved by Toni Morrison
*Wife by Bharati Mukherjee
*Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
*A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
*You Must Remember This by Joyce Carol Oates
*House of Splendid Isolation by Edna O'Brien
*A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
*Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen
*Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley
*Stories by Dorothy Parker
*Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips
*Braided Lives by Marge Piercy
*The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
*Ship of Fools by Katharine Anne Porter
*The Golden Spur by Dawn Powell
*The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
*The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
*The King Must Die by Mary Renault
*Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
*Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
*The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
*Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton
*The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
*The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
*Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson
*By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
*The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley
*The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag
*The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
*The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
*Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
*Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
*The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
*If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler
*Away by Jane Urquhart
*The Color Purple by Alice Walker
*The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon
*Stories by Eudora Welty
*The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
*Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
*Frost in May by Antonia White
*Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeannette Winterson
*Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

see what else I'm reading

Bookish Resources

Biblioz.com - "A magical portal to millions of out-of-print books
Dymocks - My favourite bookstore
Angus & Robertson - My other favourite bookstore
Amazon - How could we forget them?

other mentions of this list

*E. Lockhart's Blog - book recommendations from the Feminista list for teenagers
*mo pie's escapades - she wants to read through the list too
*loobylu - a blog reader is making her way through this and other reading lists

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