500 Great Books by Women

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This list is a great way to discover a range of women’s writing.

From the book 500 Great Books by Women: A Reader’s Guide by Erica Bauermeister, Jesse Larsen, & Holly Smith.

Note: There are actually more than 500 books listed in the original book (and on this list.)

The list is alphabetical by author.

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  1. 251.
    Paradise of the Blind: A Novel
    by Duong Thu Huong

  2. 252.
    Moses Man of the Mountain
    by Zora Neale Hurston

  3. 255.
    Ramona (Modern Library Classics)
    by Helen Hunt Jackson

  4. 256.
    The Lottery and Other Stories
    by Shirley Jackson

  5. 257.
    Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl Seven Years Concealed
    by Harriet Jacobs

  6. 258.
    A Small Country (Seren Classics)
    by Sian James

  7. 259.
    Typical American (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
    by Gish Jen

  8. 261.
    Heat and Dust. (Lernmaterialien)
    by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  9. 262.
    ?
    Love Must Not Be Forgotten (New Chinese Fiction)
    by Jie Zhang

  10. 263.
    ?
    The Nocturnal Naturalist
    by Cathy Johnson

  11. 264.
    Now in November
    by Josephine W. Johnson

  12. 265.
    The Moccasin Maker
    by E. Pauline Johnson

  13. 266.
    Corregidora
    by Gayl Jones

  14. 267.
    ?
    The Floating World
    by Cynthia Kadohata

  15. 268.
    ?
    Coming Home and Other Stories (African Writers Series)
    by Farida Karodia

  16. 269.
    Letters Of A Javanese Princess
    by Raden Adjeng Kartini

  17. 270.
    ?
    Circe's Mountain
    by Marie Luise Kaschnitz

  18. 271.
    ?
    Queen Lear (King Penguin)
    by Molly Keane

  19. 273.
    Weeds
    by Edith Summers Kelley

  20. 274.
    A Small Place
    by Jamaica Kincaid

  21. 275.
    The Bean Trees: A Novel
    by Barbara Kingsolver

  22. 276.
    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

  23. 277.
    New Home, A? Who'll Follow?; or, Glimpses of Western Life (Large Print)
    by Caroline Matilda Kirkland

  24. 279.
    Obasan
    by Joy Kogawa

  25. 280.
    Allegra Maud Goldman
    by Edith Konecky

  26. 281.
    Road Song
    by Natalie Kusz

  27. 282.
    The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journal, Book 2)
    by Madeleine L'Engle

  28. 283.
    ?
    The Löwensköld Ring
    by Selma Lagerlöf

  29. 284.
    Limbo: A Memoir about Life in a Nursing Home by a Survivor
    by Carobeth Laird

  30. 285.
    Passing (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Nella Larsen

  31. 286.
    The Stone Angel (Phoenix Fiction)
    by Margaret Laurence

  32. 287.
    ?
    Mary O'Grady (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Mary Lavin

  33. 288.
    The Princess of Cleves
    by Madame de Lafayette

  34. 289.

  35. 290.

  36. 291.
    Quiet Odyssey
    by Mary Paik Lee

  37. 292.
    Disappearing Moon Cafe: A Novel
    by Sky Lee

  38. 293.
    River Time
    by Janet Lembke

  39. 294.
    The Fifth Child
    by Doris Lessing

  40. 296.
    ?
    Miss Sophie's Diary
    by Ding; Translated By W.J.F. Jenner Ling

  41. 297.
    Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe
    by Laurie Lisle

  42. 298.
    The Hour of the Star (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Clarice Lispector

  43. 299.
    Moon Tiger
    by Penelope Lively

  44. 300.
    Worry Girl: Stories from a Childhood
    by Andrea Freud Loewenstein

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