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. 101.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  2. 102.
    Praxis
    by Fay Weldon

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  3. 103.
    Prodigal Summer: A Novel
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  4. 104.
    PS, I Love You
    by Cecelia Ahern

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  5. 105.
    The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
    by Robert Tressell

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  6. 106.
    Rector's Wife
    by Joanna Trollope

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  7. 107.
    Rubyfruit Jungle
    by Rita Mae Brown

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  8. 108.
    The Shipping News : A Novel
    by Annie Proulx

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  9. 109.
    Sons and Lovers (Signet Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  10. 110.
    South Riding
    by Winifred Holtby

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  11. 111.
    The Stone Diaries
    by Carol Shields

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  12. 112.
    The Summer Before the Dark (Flamingo Modern Classic)
    by Doris Lessing

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  13. 113.
    Sunset Song
    by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

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  14. 114.
    Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller)
    by Arthur Ransome

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  15. 115.
    The Temple of My Familiar
    by Alice Walker

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  16. 116.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  17. 117.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
    by Betty Smith

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  18. 118.
    A Town Like Alice
    by Nevil Shute

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  19. 119.
    The Passion (Winterson, Jeanette)
    by Jeanette Winterson

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  20. 120.

  21. 121.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    by Milan Kundera

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  22. 122.
    Valley of the Dolls
    by Jacqueline Susann

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  23. 123.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  24. 124.
    War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  25. 125.
    The Weather in the Streets
    by Rosamond Lehmann

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  26. 126.
    The Well of Loneliness
    by Radclyffe Hall

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  27. 127.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions)
    by Jean Rhys

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  28. 128.
    The Woman Who Walked into Doors
    by Roddy Doyle

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  29. 129.
    Written on the Body
    by Jeanette Winterson

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  30. 130.
    Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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  31. 131.
    The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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