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. 201.
    The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  2. 202.
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    Frangipani House (Caribbean Writers Series, No 37)
    by Beryl Gilroy

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  3. 203.
    Journey into the Whirlwind (Helen and Kurt Wolff Books)
    by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg

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  4. 204.
    The Little Virtues
    by Natalia Ginzburg

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  5. 205.
    Claiming Breath
    by Diane Glancy

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  6. 206.
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  7. 207.
    Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change
    by Sherna Berger Gluck

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  8. 208.
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    Requiem (Japan's Women Writers)
    by Shizuko Go

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  9. 209.
    The Odd Woman: A Novel
    by Gail Godwin

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  10. 210.
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  11. 211.
    The Women Outside: Meanings and Myths of Homelessness
    by Stephanie Golden

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  12. 212.
    Living My Life (Penguin Classics)
    by Emma Goldman

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  13. 214.
    Burger's Daughter
    by Nadine Gordimer

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  14. 215.
    Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
    by Vivian Gornick

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  15. 216.

  16. 217.
    The Keepers of the House
    by Shirley Ann Grau

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  17. 218.
    Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
    by Melissa Fay Greene

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  18. 219.
    A Chorus of Stones
    by Susan Griffin

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  19. 220.
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    Mom's Life
    by Kathryn Grody

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  20. 221.
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    Mountain Charley
    by Mrs. E.J. Guerin

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  21. 222.
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    HERmione
    by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

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  22. 223.
    Dogeaters
    by Jessica Hagedorn

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  23. 224.
    The Jailing of Cecelia Capture
    by Janet Campbell Hale

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  24. 225.
    The Well of Loneliness: A 1920s Classic of Lesbian Fiction
    by Radclyffe Hall

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  25. 226.
    The Book of Ruth (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Jane Hamilton

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  26. 227.
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    Twilight and Other Stories
    by Shulamith Hareven

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  27. 228.
    Italian Days
    by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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  28. 229.
    Windbreak: A Woman Rancher on the Northern Plains
    by Linda M. Hasselstrom

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  29. 230.
    The Wall
    by Marlen Haushofer

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  30. 231.
    A Collector of Treasures (African Writers)
    by Bessie Head

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  31. 232.
    Floating in My Mother's Palm
    by Ursula Hegi

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  32. 233.
    Writing a Woman's Life (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Carolyn G. Heilbrun

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  33. 234.
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    Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time
    by Lillian Hellman

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  34. 235.
    Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
    by Hayden Herrera

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  35. 236.
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    Bobbin Up (Virago modern classics)
    by Dorothy Hewett

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  36. 237.
    Crick Crack, Monkey
    by Merle Hodge

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  37. 238.
    Seventh Heaven
    by Alice Hoffman

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  38. 239.
    Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
    by Eva Hoffman

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  39. 240.
    Mean Spirit
    by Linda Hogan

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  40. 241.
    Memoirs of a Korean Queen (Korean Culture Series)
    by Lady Hong

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  41. 242.
    Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
    by Bell Hooks

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  42. 245.
    Crossings
    by Chuang Hua

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  43. 246.
    A Country Year: Living the Questions
    by Sue Hubbell

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  44. 247.
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    Islanders
    by Helen R. Hull

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  45. 248.
    The Bone People
    by Keri Hulme

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  46. 249.
    Rich in Love
    by Josephine Humphreys

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