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

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  2. 2.
    Interview With the Vampire
    by Anne Rice

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  3. 3.
    To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  4. 4.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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  5. 5.
    The Waves
    by Virginia Woolf

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  6. 6.
    Orlando: A Biography (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

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    Nightwood
    by Djuna Barnes

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

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  9. 9.
    The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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

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    The Well of Loneliness
    by Radcliffe Hall

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  12. 12.
    Burger's Daughter
    by Nadine Gordimer

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  13. 13.
    The Dollmaker
    by Harriette Arnow

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

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  15. 15.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

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  16. 16.
    Fear of Flying
    by Erica Jong

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  17. 18.
    Obasan
    by Joy Kogawa

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

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  19. 20.
    The Fifth Child
    by Doris Lessing

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  21. 22.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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

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

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

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  25. 26.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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

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  27. 28.
    The Mists of Avalon
    by Marion Zimmer Bradley

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  28. 29.
    Memento Mori
    by Muriel Spark

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

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  30. 32.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions)
    by Jean Rhys

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  31. 33.
    Anya: A Novel
    by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

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  32. 34.
    Trust: A Novel
    by Cynthia Ozick

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  33. 35.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

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  34. 36.
    The Kitchen God's Wife
    by Amy Tan

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  35. 37.
    Chilly Scenes of Winter
    by Ann Beattie

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  36. 38.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  37. 39.
    A Book of Common Prayer
    by Joan Didion

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  38. 40.
    Play It As It Lays: A Novel
    by Joan Didion

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  39. 41.
    The Group
    by Mary McCarthy

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  40. 42.
    The Company She Keeps
    by Mary McCarthy

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  41. 44.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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  42. 45.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers

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  43. 46.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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  44. 47.
    Wise Blood: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  45. 48.
    Anywhere but Here
    by Mona Simpson

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  46. 49.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison

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  47. 50.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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