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The Great Books: Because women say so!

A little while ago I came across this book put together by book groups at the Minnesota Women’s Press, Inc. It contains over 200 books that the included groups think are key books for women (and probably men, too) to be reading. Enjoy!

Pages: Pages: 1 3 4 5
1. alias Grace.
by Margaret Atwood
  
2. Allegra Maud Goldman
by Edith Konecky
  
3. Alma Rose: A Novel (Forbes, Edith)
by Edith Forbes
  
4. Always Coming Home (California Fiction)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
  
5.
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 Among Women
by Louise Bernikow
  
6.
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 Ancestral Truths: A Novel
by Sara Maitland
  
7. Animal Dreams
by Barbara Kingsolver
  
8. Annapurna: A Woman's Place (20th Anniversary Edition)
by Arlene Blum
  
9. Anything We Love Can Be Saved
by Alice Walker
  
10. Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses
by Isabel Allende
  
11. The Artist's Way
by Julia Cameron
  
12. Autobiography of A Face
by Lucy Grealy
  
13. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi
  
14.
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 Bailey's Cafe
by Gloria Naylor
  
15. Bastard Out of Carolina (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition)
by Dorothy Allison
  
16.
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 The Bean Trees
by Barbara KINGSOLVER
  
17. The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
  
18. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
19. Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabaskan Legend from Alaska
by Velma Wallis
  
20. Bitter Medicine (A V. I. Warshawski Novel)
by Sara Paretsky
  
21. The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
  
22. The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
  
23. Bones of Plenty (Borealis)
by Lois Philip Hudson
  
24. The Cape Ann (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Faith Sullivan
  
25. Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood
  
26. Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
by Leslie Marmon Silko
  
27. The Chalice and the Blade
by Glenna Mcreynolds
  
28. Chamber Music
by Doris Grumbach
  
29. The Changelings
by Jo Sinclair
  
30.
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 The Sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell
  
31. Children of God (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Mary Doria Russell
  
32.
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 A Chorus of Stones The Private Life of War
by Susan Griffin
  
33. Circle of Stones: Woman's Journey to Herself
by Judith Duerk
  
34.
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 Cold Sassy Tree
by Olive Ann Burns
  
35. The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
  
36. Confessions of Madame Psyche
by Dorothy Bryant
  
37. The Copper Crown (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
by Lane Von Herzen
  
38. The Creation of Patriarchy (Women & History)
by Gerda Lerner
  
39. The Crone: Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power
by Barbara G. Walker
  
40. Crucial Conversations
by May Sarton
  
41. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
by Kathleen Norris
  
42. Daughter of Earth
by Agnes Smedley
  
43.
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 Daughter of Elysium
by Joan Slonczewski
  
44. Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir
by Jacki Lyden
  
45. Daughters of Copper Woman
by Anne Cameron
  
46.
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 Diary of a Zen Nun
by Nan Shin
  
47. Different Daughters 3 Ed: A Book by Mothers of Lesbians  
48.
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 Different Mothers: Sons and Daughters of Lesbians Talk About Their Lives  
49. The Dollmaker
by Harriette Arnow
  
50.
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 Down the Wild River North(Condensed Selections)
by Constance Helmericks
  
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Created by larisa5656 on Apr 06, 2007.