Lists of Bests: BBC Women's Watershed Books

Send to Printer BBC Women's Watershed Books "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.		Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
	2.		The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
	3.		Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
	4.		To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics) by Harper Lee
	5.		The Women's Room (Virago Modern Classics) by Marilyn French
	6.		The Color Purple by Alice Walker
	7.		Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
	8.		Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot
	9.		Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
	10.		Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
	11.		Angelique (Volume 1) by Sergeanne Golon
	12.		Anna Karenina (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
	13.		The Awakening (Unabridged Classics) by Kate Chopin
	14.		The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
	15.		Beloved by Toni Morrison
	16.		Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks
	17.	?	Bridget Jones's Diary - A Novel by Helen Fielding
	18.		Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
	19.		The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
	20.		The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics) by Doris Lessing
	21.		Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
	22.	?	I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
	23.	?	The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
	24.		Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson, Jeanette) by Jeanette Winterson
	25.		The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Barbara Kingsolver
	26.		Precious Bane by Mary Webb
	27.		The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
	28.		To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia, Woolf
	29.		Unless: A Novel by Carol Shields
	30.		Woman on the Edge of Time (A Women's Press Classic) by Marge Piercy
	31.		The Alchemist (Plus) by Paulo Coelho
	32.		Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics) by L. M. Montgomery
	33.		Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
	34.		Ballet Shoes (Puffin Books) by Noel Streatfeild
	35.		Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel by Kate Atkinson
	36.		Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
	37.		The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
	38.		The Bone People by Keri Hulme
	39.		Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
	40.		Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
	41.		The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
	42.		Brick Lane: A Novel by Monica Ali
	43.		Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido
	44.		By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
	45.		The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
	46.		Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
	47.		Chocolat by Joanne Harris
	48.		The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
	49.		Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Modern Classics) by Stella Gibbons
	50.		The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas père
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