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. 351.
    There Never Was a Once upon a Time (Discoveries)
    by Carmen Naranjo

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  2. 352.
    The Heptameron (Penguin Classics)
    by Marguerite de Navarre

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  3. 353.
    Mama Day
    by Gloria Naylor

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  4. 354.
    Bone: Novel, A
    by Fae M. Ng

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  5. 355.
    And They Didn't Die
    by Lauretta Ngcobo

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  6. 356.
    Confessions of Lady Nijo

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  7. 357.
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    Stradbroke Dreamtime (Imprint Lives)
    by Oodgeroo Noonuccal

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  8. 358.
    Efuru (African Writers)
    by Flora Nwapa

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  9. 359.
    Lantern Slides: Short Stories
    by Edna O'Brien

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  10. 360.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  11. 361.
    Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (Plume)
    by Joyce Carol Oates

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  12. 362.
    Silences
    by Tillie Olsen

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  13. 363.
    The Iguana
    by Anna Maria Ortese

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  14. 364.
    The Shawl
    by Cynthia Ozick

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  15. 366.

  16. 367.

  17. 368.

  18. 369.
    Living by Water: True Stories of Nature and Spirit
    by Brenda Peterson

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  19. 370.
    The Street
    by Ann Petry

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  20. 371.
    The Story of Avis
    by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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  21. 372.
    Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World
    by Ethel J. Phelps

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  22. 373.
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    Road Through Miyama (Vintage Departures)
    by Leila Philip

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  23. 374.
    Woman on the Edge of Time
    by Marge Piercy

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  24. 375.
    The Bell Jar (P.S.)
    by Sylvia Plath

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  25. 376.
    Flowering Judas (Women Writers)
    by Katherine Anne Porter

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  26. 377.
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    Eve's Tattoo
    by Emily Prager

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  27. 378.
    Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991
    by Minnie Bruce Pratt

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  28. 379.
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    Coonardoo (Imprint Classics)
    by Katharine Susannah Prichard

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  29. 380.

  30. 381.
    Excellent Women
    by Barbara Pym

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  31. 382.
    Veils: Short Stories
    by Nahid Rachlin

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  32. 383.
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    Grey Is Color of Hope
    by Irina Ratushinskaya

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  33. 384.
    Storm in the Village (The Fairacre Series #3)
    by Miss Read

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  34. 385.

  35. 386.
    Cry to Heaven
    by Anne Rice

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  36. 387.
    Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience and Institution
    by Adrienne Cecile Rich

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  37. 388.
    The Getting of Wisdom (Mercury House Neglected Literary Classics)
    by Henry Handel Richardson

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  38. 390.
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    The Convert
    by Elizabeth Robins

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  39. 391.
    Housekeeping: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

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  40. 392.
    The Time of the Doves (La Plaza del Diamante)
    by Merce Rodoreda

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  41. 393.
    Clay Walls
    by Kim Ronyoung

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  42. 394.
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    Ship of Fools
    by Cristina Peri Rossi

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  43. 395.
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    Women in the Resistance
    by Margaret L. Rossiter

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  44. 396.
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    Memory Board
    by Jane Rule

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  45. 397.
    Kelroy: A Novel (Early American Women Writers)
    by Rebecca Rush

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  46. 398.
    How to Suppress Women's Writing
    by Joanna Russ

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  47. 399.
    Bonjour Tristesse
    by Francoise Sagan

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  48. 400.
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    Rich Like Us
    by Nayantara Sahgal

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