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. 51.
    Credo
    by Melvyn Bragg

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  2. 52.
    Crime and Punishment
    by F.M. Dostoevsky

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  3. 53.
    The Country Girls
    by Edna O'Brien

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  4. 54.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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  5. 55.
    Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    by Rebecca Wells

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  6. 56.
    Down Among the Women (Cassandra Editions)
    by Fay Weldon

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  7. 57.
    The Dispossessed
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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  8. 58.
    Dune
    by Frank Herbert

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  9. 59.
    The Edible Woman
    by Margaret Atwood

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  10. 60.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  11. 61.
    Evening Class
    by Maeve Binchy

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  12. 62.
    Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  13. 63.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by John Fowles

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  14. 64.
    Fugitive Pieces: A Novel
    by Anne Michaels

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  15. 65.
    Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)
    by Dorothy L. Sayers

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  16. 66.
    The God of Small Things
    by Arundhati Roy

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  17. 67.
    The Good Women of China
    by Xinran

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  18. 68.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  19. 69.
    The Grass Is Singing
    by Doris Lessing

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  20. 70.
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    Happy As a Dead Cat
    by Jill Miller

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  22. 72.
    The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Edith Wharton

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  23. 73.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende

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  24. 74.
    Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by E. M. Forster

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  25. 75.
    I Don't Know How She Does It
    by Allison Pearson

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  26. 76.
    Jemima J
    by Jane Green

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  27. 77.
    Jude the Obscure (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  28. 78.
    Katherine
    by Anya Seton

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  29. 79.
    Kinflicks (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Lisa Alther

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  30. 80.
    Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Sigrid Undset

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  31. 81.
    Ladder of Years
    by Anne Tyler

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  32. 82.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  33. 83.
    Life and Loves of a She Devil
    by Fay Weldon

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  34. 84.
    The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  35. 85.
    Love in a Cold Climate
    by Nancy Mitford

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  36. 86.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  37. 87.
    The Lovely Bones
    by Alice Sebold

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  38. 88.
    Lucky : A Memoir
    by Alice Sebold

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  39. 89.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  40. 90.
    Martha Quest: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Doris Lessing

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  41. 91.
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    by Arthur Golden

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  42. 92.
    The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  43. 93.
    The Millstone
    by Margaret Drabble

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  44. 94.
    Miss Garnet's Angel
    by Salley Vickers

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  45. 95.
    The Mists of Avalon
    by Marion Zimmer Bradley

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  46. 96.
    Nights at the Circus
    by Angela Carter

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  47. 97.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  48. 98.
    Orlando (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  49. 99.
    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  50. 100.
    Pippi Longstocking (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Astrid Lindgren

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