Lists of Bests: Erica Jong's Top 100 20th Century Novels by Women http://www.listsofbests.com/list/14195 Based on an informal survey of people on Erica Jong's mailing list, courtesy of nealcassady. Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:15:51 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Gone with the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967922 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967922"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446675539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Mitchell</div> Interview With the Vampire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979364 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Rice</div> To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2191416 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2191416"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192805606.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V35902211_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Mrs. Dalloway http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3816 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3816"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151009988.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> The Waves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1275510 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Orlando: A Biography (Wordsworth Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2040528 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2040528"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/1853262390.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056529064_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Nightwood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2191423 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Djuna Barnes</div> The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14748 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14748"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486420493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/231019 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/231019"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593080743.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/346855 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/346855"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437808.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> The Well of Loneliness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1020934 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Radcliffe Hall</div> Burger's Daughter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/106469 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/106469"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140055932.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132599554_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nadine Gordimer</div> The Dollmaker http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1649532 <div id="position">13</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> The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/713466 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/713466"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307264602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> My Antonia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968281 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968281"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1583485090.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> Fear of Flying http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1011714 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1011714"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451209435.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erica Jong</div> Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/87832 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/87832"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393324354.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erica Jong</div> Obasan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10232 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10232"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385468865.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43049087_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joy Kogawa</div> The Golden Notebook (Paladin Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014824 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014824"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0586089233.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Lessing</div> The Fifth Child http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18628 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18628"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679721827.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1118225827_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Lessing</div> The Grass Is Singing (Penguin Reading Lab Level 5) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2191447 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2191447"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0582417899.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lessing</div> To Kill a Mockingbird http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307932 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307932"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060935464.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1115951817_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harper Lee</div> Woman on the Edge of Time (A Women's Press Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2170467 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2170467"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0704346567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marge Piercy</div> A Thousand Acres: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28920 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28920"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033837.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Smiley</div> Her First American: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/482305 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/482305"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1565849493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lore Segal</div> The Color Purple http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18026 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18026"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671727796.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Walker</div> The Third Life of Grange Copeland http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48569 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48569"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156028360.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1080010932_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Walker</div> The Mists of Avalon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1650114 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1650114"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GGOCIE.01-AAEFE3WYZRJMA._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marion Zimmer Bradley</div> Memento Mori http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25147 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25147"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811214389.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Muriel Spark</div> The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1320 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1320"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060931736.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414511_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Muriel Spark</div> Bastard Out of Carolina (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978580 <div id="position">31</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> Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58874 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58874"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140818030.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Rhys</div> Anya: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/78679 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/78679"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393325210.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114482709_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer</div> Trust: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/177373 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/177373"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618470514.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cynthia Ozick</div> The Joy Luck Club http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1739198 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1739198"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GIW43M.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V63225860_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amy Tan</div> The Kitchen God's Wife http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1721330 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1721330"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038109.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amy Tan</div> Chilly Scenes of Winter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18745 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18745"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732349.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Beattie</div> Their Eyes Were Watching God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061120065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zora Neale Hurston</div> A Book of Common Prayer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18968 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18968"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679754865.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Didion</div> Play It As It Lays: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77205 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77205"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374529949.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Didion</div> The Group http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4115 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4115"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156372088.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422687_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary McCarthy</div> The Company She Keeps http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54282 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54282"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156027860.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary McCarthy</div> The Little Disturbances of Man (Contemporary American Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/374542 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/374542"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140075577.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Grace Paley</div> The Bell Jar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53107 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53107"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000B5H6WY.01-A336YHK8BZZDZL._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sylvia Plath</div> The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17296 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17296"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618526412.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson McCullers</div> The Death of the Heart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51366 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51366"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385720173.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Bowen</div> Wise Blood: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8546 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8546"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374505845.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438166_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flannery O'Connor</div> Anywhere but Here http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18824 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18824"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679737383.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1081536304_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mona Simpson</div> Song of Solomon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56284 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56284"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/140003342X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div>