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Juliana's "19th & 20th Century Fiction: Female Authors"

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This list was compiled from an extensive book list called 19th and 20th Century Fiction by Women Writers, which can be found here: http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/womensfiction.html.

It includes some of the most entertaining, influential novels of the past two centuries, all written by the girls we know and love. The link includes the list grouped by eras, and then divided alphabetically by author. It also offers a one-line description of each novel. Credit to Madison Public Library for compiling the list.

The website has several other interesting booklists you might like to check out. Click under the "fiction" tag to find lists similar to this one. Happy reading, everyone!

  1. 1.
    Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

  2. 2.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  3. 3.
    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Brontë

  4. 4.
    The Awakening (A Women's Press Classic)
    by Kate Chopin

  5. 5.
    Castle Rackrent
    by Maria Edgeworth

  6. 6.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

  7. 7.
    The Revolt of Mother And Other Stories
    by Mary E. Wilkins

  8. 8.
    Cranford (Penguin Classics)
    by Elizabeth Gaskell

  9. 9.
    The Yellow Wallpaper
    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  10. 10.
    The Country of the Pointed Firs
    by Sarah Orne Jewett

  11. 11.
    ?
    Leila

  12. 12.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

  13. 13.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  14. 14.
    Robert Elsmere
    by Humphry, Mrs. Ward

  15. 15.
    Nightwood (New Edition)
    by Djuna Barnes

  16. 16.
    The Mandarins (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Simone de Beauvoir

  17. 17.
    Seven Gothic Tales (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Isak Dinesen

  18. 18.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

  19. 19.
    My Antonia (Enriched Classics (Pocket))
    by Willa Cather

  20. 20.
    The Last of Cheri by Colette
    by Colette

  21. 21.
    ?
    Mother and Son
    by I. Compton-Burnett

  22. 22.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne du Maurier

  23. 23.
    ?
    Barren Ground (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Ellen Glasgow

  24. 24.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

  25. 26.
    The Stone Angel
    by Margaret Laurence

  26. 27.
    The Ballad and the Source (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Rosamond Lehmann

  27. 28.
    The Group
    by Mary McCarthy

  28. 29.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

  29. 30.
    Bliss and Other Stories
    by Katherine Mansfield

  30. 31.
    ?
    Children of the Albatross
    by Anais Nin

  31. 32.
    The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

  32. 33.
    Yonnondio: From the Thirties
    by Tillie Olsen

  33. 34.
    Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Modern Library)
    by Katherine Anne Porter

  34. 35.
    Quartet (Norton Paperback Fiction)
    by Jean Rhys

  35. 36.
    Pointed Roofs. Pilgrimage
    by Dorothy Miller Richardson

  36. 37.
    The Edwardians (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Vita Sackville-West

  37. 38.
    Bonjour Tristesse
    by Francoise Sagan

  38. 39.
    ?
    Britannia Mews
    by Margery Sharp

  39. 40.
    ?
    The Catherine Wheel
    by Jean Stafford

  40. 41.
    Three Lives (Introduction by Carl Van Vechten)
    by Gertrude Stein

  41. 42.
    Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Sigrid Undset

  42. 43.
    Lolly Willowes Or The Loving Huntsman
    by Sylvia Townsend Warner

  43. 44.
    Precious Bane
    by Mary Webb

  44. 45.
    Delta Wedding
    by Eudora Welty

  45. 46.
    Birds Fall Down
    by Rebecca West

  46. 47.
    The House of Mirth
    by Edith Wharton

  47. 48.
    To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

  48. 49.
    Memoirs of Hadrian
    by Marguerite Yourcenar

  49. 50.
    After the War
    by Alice Adams

  50. 51.
    Daughter of Fortune: A Novel
    by Isabel Allende

  51. 52.
    The Blind Assassin
    by Margaret Atwood

  52. 53.
    Until the Real Thing Comes Along
    by Elizabeth Berg

  53. 54.
    Scarlet Feather
    by Maeve Binchy

  54. 55.
    Where You Belong
    by Barbara Taylor Bradford

  55. 56.
    Half a Heart
    by Rosellen Brown

  56. 57.
    The Gates of Ivory
    by Margaret Drabble

  57. 58.
    The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: A Novel
    by Louise Erdrich

  58. 59.
    Like Water For Chocolate
    by Laura Esquivel

  59. 60.
    Charms for the Easy Life (P.S.)
    by Kaye Gibbons

  60. 61.
    STARCARBON.
    by Ellen. Gilchrist

  61. 62.
    ?
    Evensong
    by Gail Godwin

  62. 63.
    Disobedience: A Novel
    by Jane Hamilton

  63. 64.
    Ella in Bloom
    by Shelby Hearon

  64. 65.
    The River King
    by Alice Hoffman

  65. 66.

  66. 67.
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Barbara Kingsolver

  67. 68.
    Mara and Dann: An Adventure
    by Doris Lessing

  68. 69.
    Final Vinyl Days: And Other Stories
    by Jill McCorkle

  69. 70.
    Charming Billy
    by Alice McDermott

  70. 71.
    A Day Late and a Dollar Short
    by Terry McMillan

  71. 72.
    Feather Crowns
    by Bobbie Ann Mason

  72. 73.
    While I Was Gone
    by Sue Miller

  73. 74.
    Sleeping Beauties
    by Susanna Moore

  74. 75.
    Toni Morrison's Paradise (MAXnotes)
    by David M. Gracer

  75. 76.
    Leave It to Me (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Bharati Mukherjee

  76. 77.
    The Green Knight
    by Iris Murdoch

  77. 78.
    Faithless: Tales of Transgression
    by Joyce Carol Oates

  78. 79.
    Three Women: A Novel
    by Marge Piercy

  79. 80.
    The Shipping News : A Novel
    by Annie Proulx

  80. 81.
    The Weight of Water
    by Anita Shreve

  81. 82.
    Nora, Nora
    by Anne Rivers Siddons

  82. 83.
    Horse Heaven
    by Jane Smiley

  83. 84.
    Aiding and Abetting: A Novel
    by Muriel Spark

  84. 86.
    Marrying the Mistress
    by Joanna Trollope

  85. 87.
    Back When We Were Grownups
    by Anne Tyler

  86. 88.
    The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart
    by Alice Walker

  87. 89.
    ?
    Rhode Island Blues
    by Fay Weldon

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Created by Juliana on Nov 07, 2007.
 

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