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Women's Milestone Fiction

Professor Lisa Jardine and Annie Watkins from Queen Mary College at the University of London interviewed women about the novels that had changed their lives.

(found at: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1747821,00.html)
1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
2. Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
by Emily Bronte
  
3. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
  
4. Middlemarch (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by George Eliot
  
5. Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
6. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
7. The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics)
by Doris Lessing
  
8. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
9. Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain (Vintage)
by Marcel Proust
  
10. Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
11. Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
by Mary Shelley
  
12. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson, Jeanette)
by Jeanette Winterson
  
13. One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
14. The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
by George Eliot
  
15. Little Women (Signet Classics)
by Louisa May Alcott
  
16. Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
17. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
  
18. Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
  
19. Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
  
20. To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
  
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Created by fox woods on Apr 18, 2006.