Lists of Bests: Erica Jong's Top 100 20th Century Novels by Women

Send to Printer Erica Jong's Top 100 20th Century Novels by Women Based on an informal survey of people on Erica Jong’s mailing list, courtesy of nealcassady.
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	1.		Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
	2.	?	Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
	3.		To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics) by Virginia Woolf
	4.		Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
	5.	?	The Waves by Virginia Woolf
	6.		Orlando: A Biography (Wordsworth Classics) by Virginia Woolf
	7.	?	Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
	8.		The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions) by Edith Wharton
	9.		The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Edith Wharton
	10.		Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics) by Edith Wharton
	11.	?	The Well of Loneliness by Radcliffe Hall
	12.		Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
	13.		The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
	14.		The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library) by Margaret Atwood
	15.		My Antonia by Willa Cather
	16.		Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
	17.		Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones by Erica Jong
	18.		Obasan by Joy Kogawa
	19.		The Golden Notebook (Paladin Books) by Doris Lessing
	20.		The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
	21.		The Grass Is Singing (Penguin Reading Lab Level 5) by Lessing
	22.		To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
	23.		Woman on the Edge of Time (A Women's Press Classic) by Marge Piercy
	24.		A Thousand Acres: A Novel by Jane Smiley
	25.		Her First American: A Novel by Lore Segal
	26.		The Color Purple by Alice Walker
	27.		The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker
	28.		The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
	29.		Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
	30.		The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics) by Muriel Spark
	31.		Bastard Out of Carolina (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition) by Dorothy Allison
	32.		Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions) by Jean Rhys
	33.		Anya: A Novel by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
	34.		Trust: A Novel by Cynthia Ozick
	35.		The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
	36.		The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
	37.		Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann Beattie
	38.		Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
	39.		A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
	40.		Play It As It Lays: A Novel by Joan Didion
	41.		The Group by Mary McCarthy
	42.		The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy
	43.		The Little Disturbances of Man (Contemporary American Fiction) by Grace Paley
	44.		The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
	45.		The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) by Carson McCullers
	46.		The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
	47.		Wise Blood: A Novel by Flannery O'Connor
	48.		Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson
	49.		Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
	50.		Beloved by Toni Morrison
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