BBC Women's Watershed Books

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"Woman’s Hour invites you to nominate the novel which has spoken to you on a personal level. It may have changed the way you look at yourself or simply made you happy to be a woman. As a man, it may have affected your understanding of the women in your life. Your selection can be written by a man or a woman, in this country or abroad, as long as it touched your life in some way." ~ www.bbc.co.uk (2004)

Winners are listed in this order:
#1 (WINNER)
#2 – 5 Alphabetical order (TOP 5)
#5 – 10 Alphabetical order (TOP 10)
#11 – 30 Alphabetical order (TOP 30)
#31 – 132 Alphabetical order (NEXT 100 plus 1)

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  1. 1.
    Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  2. 2.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood

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  3. 3.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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  5. 5.
    The Women's Room (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Marilyn French

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  6. 6.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  7. 7.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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  8. 8.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  9. 9.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

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  10. 10.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  11. 11.
    Angelique (Volume 1)
    by Sergeanne Golon

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  12. 12.
    Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  13. 13.
    The Awakening (Unabridged Classics)
    by Kate Chopin

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  14. 14.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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  15. 15.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  16. 16.
    Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
    by Sebastian Faulks

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  17. 17.
    Bridget Jones's Diary - A Novel
    by Helen Fielding

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  18. 18.
    Fear of Flying
    by Erica Jong

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  19. 19.
    The Game of Kings
    by Dorothy Dunnett

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  20. 21.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  21. 22.
    I Capture the Castle
    by Dodie Smith

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    The L-Shaped Room
    by Lynne Reid Banks

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  23. 24.
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson, Jeanette)
    by Jeanette Winterson

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  24. 25.
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  25. 26.
    Precious Bane
    by Mary Webb

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  26. 27.
    The Red Tent
    by Anita Diamant

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  27. 28.
    To the Lighthouse (1927)
    by Virginia, Woolf

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  28. 29.
    Unless: A Novel
    by Carol Shields

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  29. 30.
    Woman on the Edge of Time (A Women's Press Classic)
    by Marge Piercy

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  30. 31.
    The Alchemist (Plus)
    by Paulo Coelho

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  31. 32.
    Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)
    by L. M. Montgomery

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  32. 33.
    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand

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  33. 34.
    Ballet Shoes (Puffin Books)
    by Noel Streatfeild

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  34. 35.
    Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
    by Kate Atkinson

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  35. 36.
    Black Beauty
    by Anna Sewell

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  36. 37.
    The Bloody Chamber
    by Angela Carter

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  37. 38.
    The Bone People
    by Keri Hulme

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  38. 39.
    Bonjour Tristesse
    by Francoise Sagan

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  39. 40.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  40. 41.
    The Bridges of Madison County
    by Robert James Waller

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  41. 42.
    Brick Lane: A Novel
    by Monica Ali

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  42. 43.
    Brother of the More Famous Jack
    by Barbara Trapido

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  43. 44.
    By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
    by Elizabeth Smart

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  44. 45.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  45. 46.
    Cat's Eye
    by Margaret Atwood

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  46. 47.
    Chocolat
    by Joanne Harris

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  47. 48.
    The Clan of the Cave Bear
    by Jean M. Auel

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  48. 49.
    Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Stella Gibbons

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  49. 50.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

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