Orange's "Top 50 books written by women in English"

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A list of the United Kingdom’s top 50 books written by women in English, as compiled by the Orange cellular phone company, sponsors of the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Note: There are more than 50 books because of ties.

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  1. 1.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  2. 2.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontė

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  3. 3.
    Wuthering Heights (Classic Novels Series)
    by Emily Bronte

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  4. 4.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  5. 5.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

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  6. 6.
    Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  7. 7.
    Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  8. 8.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  9. 9.
    Unless: A Novel
    by Carol Shields

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  10. 10.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  11. 11.
    The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)
    by Margaret Atwood

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  12. 12.
    White Teeth: A Novel
    by Zadie Smith

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  13. 13.
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    by J.K. Rowling

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  14. 14.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  15. 15.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  16. 16.
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
    by J. K. Rowling

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  17. 17.
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  18. 18.
    Silas Marner (Enriched Classics Series)
    by George Eliot

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  19. 19.
    Possession: A Romance
    by A.S. Byatt

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  20. 20.
    The God of Small Things
    by Arundhati Roy

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  21. 21.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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  22. 22.
    The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  23. 23.
    Bridget Jones's Diary - A Novel
    by Helen Fielding

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  24. 24.
    Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  25. 25.
    The Blind Assassin: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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  26. 26.
    Chocolat
    by Joanne Harris

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  27. 27.
    Shipping News: A Novel (Scribner Classics)
    by Annie Proulx

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  28. 28.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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  29. 29.
    The Sea, The Sea (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Iris Murdoch

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  30. 30.
    I Capture the Castle
    by Dodie Smith

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  31. 31.
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    Family Bites
    by Lisa Williams

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  32. 32.
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)
    by J. K. Rowling

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  33. 33.
    The Shell Seekers
    by Rosamunde Pilcher

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  34. 34.
    Orlando: A Biography (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  35. 35.
    The Thorn Birds (Modern Classics)
    by Colleen McCullough

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  36. 36.
    Fingersmith
    by Sarah Waters

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  37. 37.
    Girl with a Pearl Earring: (Deluxe Edition)
    by Tracy Chevalier

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  38. 38.
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson, Jeanette)
    by Jeanette Winterson

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  39. 39.
    Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea

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  40. 40.
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    Clan of the Cave Bear
    by Jean Auel

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  41. 41.
    Bell Jar (P.S.)
    by Sylvia Plath

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  42. 42.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt

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  43. 43.
    Five Quarters of the Orange
    by Joanne Harris

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  44. 44.
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)
    by J. K. Rowling

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  45. 45.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  46. 46.
    Bel Canto (P.S.)
    by Ann Patchett

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  47. 47.
    Hotel Du Lac
    by Anita Brookner

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  48. 48.
    The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Iris Murdoch

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  49. 49.
    Regeneration
    by Pat Barker

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  50. 50.
    The Bone People
    by Keri Hulme

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Created by agent_soma on Oct 27, 2006.
 

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Untitled — 1 year ago

Added a list source, and also noticed that it has 51 books, not 50.