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500 Great Books by Women

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.

Pages: Pages: 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
1. Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South
by Shirley Abbott
  
2. A Natural History of the Senses
by Diane Ackerman
  
3.
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 Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories
by Opal Palmer Adisa
  
4.
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 Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras : Chilean Women and the Pinochet Dictatorship
by Marjorie Agosin
  
5. Changes: A Love Story
by Ama Ata Aidoo
  
6. Women of Sand and Myrrh: A Novel
by Hanan Al-Shaykh
  
7. Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist
by Kathleen Alcala
  
8.
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 Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
  
9. Family Album
by Claribel Alegria
  
10.
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 Nampally Road
by Meena Alexander
  
11.
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 The Stillborn (Longman African Classics)
by Zaynab Alkali
  
12.
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 Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook
by Paula Gunn Allen
  
13. The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
  
14. Bastard Out of Carolina (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition)
by Dorothy Allison
  
15. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition)
by Julia Alvarez
  
16. Tirra Lirra by the River  
17.
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 The Butcher's Wife
by Li Ang
  
18. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
  
19. Aquamarine
by Carol Anshaw
  
20.
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 This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color  
21. Incantations and Other Stories
by Anjana Appachana
  
22.
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 Alicia: My Story
by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
  
23.
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 The Twilight Years
by Sawako Ariyoshi
  
24. Enchanted April: Classic Collection (Classic Collection) [UNABRIDGED] (Classic Collection)
by Elizabeth Von Arnim
  
25.
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 A Midwife's Story
by Penny Armstrong
  
26. The Dollmaker
by Harriette Arnow
  
27. Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood
  
28. Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
29. The Land of Little Rain (Modern Library Classics)
by Mary Austin
  
30. So Long a Letter (African Writers Series)
by Mariama Ba
  
31. Gorilla, My Love
by Toni Cade Bambara
  
32. Artemisia (Second Edition) (European Women Writers)
by Anna Banti
  
33. A Week Like Any Other: Novellas and Stories
by Natalya Baranskaya
  
34. Regeneration
by Pat Barker
  
35. Nightwood
by Djuna Barnes
  
36. The Good Times Are Killing Me
by Lynda Barry
  
37. Composing a Life
by Mary Catherine Bateson
  
38.
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 Yes Is Better Than No
by Byrd Baylor
  
39. The House of Ulloa (Penguin Classics)
by Emilia Pardo Bazan
  
40. Libby: The Sketches, Letters & Journal of Libby Beaman, Recorded in the Pribilof Islands 1879-1880
by Libby Beaman
  
41.
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 A Belfast Woman
by Mary Beckett
  
42. Yoruba Girl Dancing
by Simi Bedford
  
43. Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works (Penguin Classics)
by Aphra Behn
  
44. Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind
by Mary Belenky
  
45. Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish
by Sue Bender
  
46.
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 Farm Under a Lake
by Martha Bergland
  
47. The World and the Bo Tree
by Helen Bevington
  
48. When I Was a German, 1934-1945: An Englishwoman in Nazi Germany
by Christabel Bielenberg
  
49.
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 A Bridge Through Time: A Memoir
by Laila Abou Saif
  
50. Circle of Friends
by Maeve Binchy
  
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Created by desertlizard on Jul 17, 2006.