Lists of Bests: 500 Great Books by Women http://www.listsofbests.com/list/10063 This list is a great way to discover a range of women's writing. From the book _500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide_ by Erica Bauermeister, Jesse Larsen, & Holly Smith. _Note: There are actually more than 500 books listed in the original book (and on this list.)_ The list is alphabetical by author. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:53:40 GMT en-us 0 50 508 50 0 Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813166 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813166"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395901448.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shirley Abbott</div> A Natural History of the Senses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18794 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18794"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679735666.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114050577_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diane Ackerman</div> Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813201 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Opal Palmer Adisa</div> Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras : Chilean Women and the Pinochet Dictatorship http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813215 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marjorie Agosin</div> Changes: A Love Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/327338 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/327338"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1558610650.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ama Ata Aidoo</div> Women of Sand and Myrrh: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107359 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107359"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0385423586.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113629906_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hanan Al-Shaykh</div> Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813250 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813250"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0934971250.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1067922218_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kathleen Alcala</div> Little Women http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1734120 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louisa May Alcott</div> Family Album http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813257 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813257"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0915306948.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056507386_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Claribel Alegria</div> Nampally Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1471739 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Meena Alexander</div> The Stillborn (Longman African Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1405624 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zaynab Alkali</div> Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/965313 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paula Gunn Allen</div> The House of the Spirits http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15719 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15719"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553273914.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div> Bastard Out of Carolina (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978580 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978580"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452287057.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothy Allison</div> How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/983012 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/983012"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452287073.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julia Alvarez</div> Tirra Lirra by the River http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/794632 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/794632"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330359711.01-AAHG4D7PZH1B6._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Butcher's Wife http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813335 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Li Ang</div> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2734567 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2734567"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/086068511X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maya Angelou</div> Aquamarine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65405 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65405"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395877555.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carol Anshaw</div> This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83226 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Incantations and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813369 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813369"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0813518288.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056495738_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anjana Appachana</div> Alicia: My Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972121 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alicia Appleman-Jurman</div> The Twilight Years http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813385 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sawako Ariyoshi</div> Enchanted April: Classic Collection (Classic Collection) [UNABRIDGED] (Classic Collection) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001507 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001507"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786172924.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Von Arnim</div> A Midwife's Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813423 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Penny Armstrong</div> The Dollmaker http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1649532 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1649532"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060529342.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414339_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriette Arnow</div> Cat's Eye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10317 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10317"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385491026.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Emma (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4214 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4214"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192802372.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> The Land of Little Rain (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813457 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813457"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812968522.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056495528_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Austin</div> So Long a Letter (African Writers Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12229 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12229"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0435905554.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mariama Ba</div> Gorilla, My Love http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18841 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18841"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679738983.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Cade Bambara</div> Artemisia (Second Edition) (European Women Writers) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/554230 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/554230"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0803262132.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anna Banti</div> A Week Like Any Other: Novellas and Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114178 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114178"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0931188806.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1078179687_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Natalya Baranskaya</div> Regeneration http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14040 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14040"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452270073.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132610379_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pat Barker</div> Nightwood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25080 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25080"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811200051.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Djuna Barnes</div> The Good Times Are Killing Me http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30985 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30985"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/157061105X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lynda Barry</div> Composing a Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813545 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813545"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0802138047.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056491860_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Catherine Bateson</div> Yes Is Better Than No http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813555 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Byrd Baylor</div> The House of Ulloa (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2701607 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2701607"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140445021.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emilia Pardo Bazan</div> Libby: The Sketches, Letters & Journal of Libby Beaman, Recorded in the Pribilof Islands 1879-1880 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1569355 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1569355"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/157178067X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057197851_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Libby Beaman</div> A Belfast Woman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813613 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Beckett</div> Yoruba Girl Dancing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/433212 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/433212"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140232931.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132599562_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simi Bedford</div> Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3178 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3178"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140433384.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aphra Behn</div> Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1168795 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1168795"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465090990.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Belenky</div> Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1783 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1783"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0062501860.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414758_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sue Bender</div> Farm Under a Lake http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813642 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martha Bergland</div> The World and the Bo Tree http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813643 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813643"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0822311658.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V41827794_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Helen Bevington</div> When I Was a German, 1934-1945: An Englishwoman in Nazi Germany http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1620380 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1620380"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0803261519.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christabel Bielenberg</div> A Bridge Through Time: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813194 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laila Abou Saif</div> Circle of Friends http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1424821 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1424821"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099498596.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maeve Binchy</div>