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 Thu Huong Duong

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

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

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  4. 256.
    The Lottery: And Other Stories
    by Shirley Jackson

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

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  6. 258.
    A Small Country
    by Sian James

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

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  8. 260.

  9. 261.
    Heat and Dust. (Lernmaterialien)
    by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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  10. 262.
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    Love Must Not Be Forgotten (New Chinese Fiction)
    by Jie Zhang

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  11. 263.
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    The Nocturnal Naturalist
    by Cathy Johnson

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  12. 264.
    Now in November
    by Josephine W. Johnson

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  13. 265.
    The Moccasin Maker
    by E. Pauline Johnson

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  14. 266.
    Corregidora
    by Gayl Jones

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  15. 267.
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    The Floating World
    by Cynthia Kadohata

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  16. 268.
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    Coming Home and Other Stories (African Writers Series)
    by Farida Karodia

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  17. 269.
    Letters of a Javanese Princess
    by Raden Adjeng Kartini

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  18. 270.
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    Circe's Mountain
    by Marie Luise Kaschnitz

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  19. 271.
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    Queen Lear (King Penguin)
    by Molly Keane

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  20. 273.
    Weeds
    by Edith Summers Kelley

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  21. 274.
    A Small Place
    by Jamaica Kincaid

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  22. 275.
    The Bean Trees: A Novel
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  23. 276.
    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

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  24. 277.
    New Home, A? Who'll Follow?; or, Glimpses of Western Life (Large Print)
    by Caroline Matilda Kirkland

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  25. 278.
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  26. 279.
    Obasan
    by Joy Kogawa

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  27. 280.
    Allegra Maud Goldman
    by Edith Konecky

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  28. 281.
    Road Song
    by Natalie Kusz

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  29. 282.
    The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journal, Book 2)
    by Madeleine L'Engle

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  30. 283.
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    The Löwensköld Ring
    by Selma Lagerlöf

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  31. 284.
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    Limbo: A Memoir about Life in a Nursing Home by a Survivor
    by Carobeth Laird

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  32. 285.
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    Passing (Norton Critical Edition)
    by Nella Larsen

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  33. 286.
    The Stone Angel (Phoenix Fiction Series)
    by Margaret Laurence

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  34. 287.
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    Mary O'Grady (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Mary Lavin

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  35. 288.
    The Princess of Cleves
    by Madame De Lafayette

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  36. 289.

  37. 290.

  38. 291.
    Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America
    by Mary Paik Lee

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  39. 292.
    Disappearing Moon Cafe: A Novel
    by Sky Lee

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  40. 293.
    River Time
    by Janet Lembke

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  41. 294.
    The Fifth Child
    by Doris Lessing

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  42. 296.
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    Miss Sophie's Diary
    by Ding; Translated By W.J.F. Jenner Ling

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  43. 297.
    Portrait of an Artist
    by Laurie Lisle

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  44. 298.
    The Hour of the Star (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Clarice Lispector

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  45. 299.
    Moon Tiger
    by Penelope Lively

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  46. 300.
    Worry Girl: Stories from a Childhood
    by Andrea Freud Loewenstein

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