Feminista’s 100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by Women
Dorothy Allison: Bastard Out of Carolina
Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Margaret Atwood: Cat’s Eye
Beryl Bainbridge: The Bottle Factory Outing
Toni Cade Bambara: Gorilla, My Love
Djuna Barnes: Nightwood
Pat Barker: Regeneration
Anita Brookner: Hotel du Lac
Rita Mae Brown: Rubyfruit Jungle
Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth
A.S. Byatt: Possession<
Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus
Ana Castillo: So Far From God
Willa Cather: My Antonia
Kate Chopin: The Awakening
Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
Ivy Compton-Burnett: Elders and Betters
Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day
Isak Dinesen: Out of Africa
Harriet Doerr: Stones for Ibarra
Margaret Drabble: The Radiant Way
Daphne DuMaurier: Rebecca
Buchi Emecheta: Second Class Citizen
Louise Erdrich: Tracks
Penelope Fitzgerald: At Freddie's
Fannie Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Janet Frame: Owls Do Cry
Marilyn French: The Women's Room
Rebecca Goldstein: The Mind-Body Problem
Nadine Gordimer: July's People
Mary Gordon: The Rest of Life
Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness
Bessie Head: When Rain Clouds Gather
Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Janet Hobhouse: The Furies
Keri Hulme: The Bone People
Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes were Watching God
Shirley Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: Heat and Dust
Erica Jong: Fear of Flying
Jamaica Kincaid: Lucy
Barbara Kingsolver: The Bean Trees
Maxine Hong Kingston: Tripmaster Monkey
Joy Kogawa: Obasan
Margaret Laurence: The Fire-Dwellers
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook
Penelope Lively: Moon Tiger
Anita Loos: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Olivia Manning: The Balkan Trilogy
Leslie Marmon Silko: Almanac of the Dead
Mary McCarthy: The Group
Carson McCullers: Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Terry McMillan: Mama
Isabel Miller: Patience and Sarah
Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind
Lorrie Moore: Anagrams
Toni Morrison: Beloved
Bharati Mukherjee: Wife
Alice Munro: Lives of Girls and Women
Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head
Joyce Carol Oates: You Must Remember This
Edna O'Brien: House of Splendid Isolation
Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find
Tillie Olsen: Tell Me a Riddle
Grace Paley: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Dorothy Parker: Stories
Jayne Anne Phillips: Black Tickets
Marge Piercy: Braided Lives
Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar
Katharine Anne Porter: Ship of Fools
Dawn Powell: The Golden Spur
E. Annie Proulx: The Shipping News
Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead
Mary Renault: The King Must Die
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
May Sarton: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
Carol Shields: The Stone Diaries
Anita Shreve: The Weight of Water
Mona Simpson: Anywhere But Here
Elizabeth Smart: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Jane Smiley: The Age of Grief
Susan Sontag: The Volcano Lover
Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Christina Stead: The Man Who Loved Children
Gertrude Stein: Three Lives
Elizabeth Taylor: Angel
Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club
Anne Tyler: If Morning Ever Comes
Jane Urquhart: Away
Alice Walker: The Color Purple
Fay Weldon: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Eudora Welty: Stories
Rebecca West: The Return of the Soldier
Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome
Antonia White: Frost in May
Jeannette Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway