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

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.

(found at: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,954089,00.html)

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1. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
2. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
3. Wuthering Heights (Classic Novels Series)
by Emily Bronte
  
4. Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
by George Eliot
  
5.
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 Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
6. Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
7. Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
8. Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
by Mary Shelley
  
9. Unless: A Novel
by Carol Shields
  
10. To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
  
11. The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)
by Margaret Atwood
  
12. White Teeth: A Novel
by Zadie Smith
  
13. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
by J.K. Rowling
  
14. Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
  
15. To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
by Virginia Woolf
  
16. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
by J. K. Rowling
  
17. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Barbara Kingsolver
  
18. Silas Marner (Enriched Classics Series)
by George Eliot
  
19. Possession: A Romance
by A.S. Byatt
  
20. The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
  
21. Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
  
22. The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
by George Eliot
  
23.
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 Bridget Jones's Diary - A Novel
by Helen Fielding
  
24. Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
25. The Blind Assassin: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
  
26. Chocolat
by Joanne Harris
  
27. Shipping News: A Novel (Scribner Classics)
by Annie Proulx
  
28. Little Women (Signet Classics)
by Louisa May Alcott
  
29. The Sea, The Sea (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Iris Murdoch
  
30. I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
  
31.
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 Family Bites
by Lisa Williams
  
32. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)
by J. K. Rowling
  
33. The Shell Seekers
by Rosamunde Pilcher
  
34. Orlando: A Biography (Wordsworth Classics)
by Virginia Woolf
  
35. The Thorn Birds (Modern Classics)
by Colleen McCullough
  
36. Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
  
37. Girl with a Pearl Earring: (Deluxe Edition)
by Tracy Chevalier
  
38. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson, Jeanette)
by Jeanette Winterson
  
39. Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea  
40.
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 Clan of the Cave Bear
by Jean Auel
  
41. Bell Jar (P.S.)
by Sylvia Plath
  
42. The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
  
43. Five Quarters of the Orange
by Joanne Harris
  
44. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)
by J. K. Rowling
  
45. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
46. Bel Canto (P.S.)
by Ann Patchett
  
47. Hotel Du Lac
by Anita Brookner
  
48. The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Iris Murdoch
  
49. Regeneration
by Pat Barker
  
50. The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
  
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Created by agent_soma on Oct 27, 2006.