Erica Jong's Top 100 20th Century Novels by Women

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Based on an informal survey of people on Erica Jong’s mailing list, courtesy of nealcassady.

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  1. 1.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  2. 2.
    Interview With the Vampire
    by Anne Rice

  3. 3.
    To the Lighthouse
    by V. Woolf

  4. 4.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

  5. 5.
    The Waves
    by Virginia Woolf

  6. 6.
    Orlando (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

  7. 7.
    Nightwood (New Edition)
    by Djuna Barnes

  8. 8.
    The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Edith Wharton

  9. 9.
    The Age of Innocence
    by Edith Wharton

  10. 10.
    Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

  11. 11.
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    The Well of Loneliness
    by Radcliffe Hall

  12. 12.
    Burger's Daughter
    by Nadine Gordimer

  13. 13.
    Dollmaker, The
    by Harriette Simpson Arnow

  14. 14.
    The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)
    by Margaret Atwood

  15. 15.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

  16. 16.
    Fear of Flying
    by Erica Jong

  17. 18.
    Obasan
    by Joy Kogawa

  18. 19.
    The Golden Notebook (Paladin Books)
    by Doris Lessing

  19. 20.
    The Fifth Child
    by Doris Lessing

  20. 21.

  21. 22.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  22. 23.
    Woman on the Edge of Time (A Women's Press Classic)
    by Marge Piercy

  23. 24.
    A Thousand Acres: A Novel
    by Jane Smiley

  24. 25.
    Her First American: A Novel
    by Lore Segal

  25. 26.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

  26. 27.
    The Third Life of Grange Copeland
    by Alice Walker

  27. 28.
    Mists of Avalon
    by n/a

  28. 29.
    Memento Mori
    by Muriel Spark

  29. 30.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics)
    by Muriel Spark

  30. 31.
    Bastard out of Carolina: (Plume Essential Edition)
    by Dorothy Allison

  31. 32.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions)
    by Jean Rhys

  32. 33.
    Anya: A Novel
    by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

  33. 34.
    Trust: A Novel
    by Cynthia Ozick

  34. 35.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

  35. 36.
    The Kitchen God's Wife
    by Amy Tan

  36. 37.
    Chilly Scenes of Winter
    by Ann Beattie

  37. 38.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

  38. 39.
    A Book of Common Prayer
    by Joan Didion

  39. 40.
    Play It As It Lays: A Novel
    by Joan Didion

  40. 41.
    The Group
    by Mary McCarthy

  41. 42.
    The Company She Keeps
    by Mary McCarthy

  42. 44.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  43. 45.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

  44. 46.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

  45. 47.
    Wise Blood: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

  46. 48.
    Anywhere but Here
    by Mona Simpson

  47. 49.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison

  48. 50.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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