Lists of Bests: The Great Books: Because women say so! http://www.listsofbests.com/list/30317 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! Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:40:17 GMT en-us 0 50 232 50 0 alias Grace. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/347468 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/347468"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/3442723434.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Allegra Maud Goldman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1814797 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1814797"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1558612815.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Konecky</div> Alma Rose: A Novel (Forbes, Edith) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2771137 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2771137"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580050115.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Forbes</div> Always Coming Home (California Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23816 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23816"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520227352.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ursula K. Le Guin</div> Among Women http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2771139 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louise Bernikow</div> Ancestral Truths: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2771140 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sara Maitland</div> Animal Dreams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968064 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968064"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1568496923.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> Annapurna: A Woman's Place (20th Anniversary Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65861 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65861"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1578050227.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056522787_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arlene Blum</div> Anything We Love Can Be Saved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494634 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494634"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0753819546.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Walker</div> Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58771 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58771"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060930179.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div> The Artist's Way http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41107 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41107"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1585421472.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julia Cameron</div> Autobiography of A Face http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336704 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336704"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0413774740.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lucy Grealy</div> Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1996189 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1996189"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307345424.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Faludi</div> Bailey's Cafe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2562020 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gloria Naylor</div> Bastard Out of Carolina (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978580 <div id="position">15</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> The Bean Trees http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2301809 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara KINGSOLVER</div> The Bell Jar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53107 <div id="position">17</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> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">18</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> Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabaskan Legend from Alaska http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2771144 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2771144"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0945397348.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46694881_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Velma Wallis</div> Bitter Medicine (A V. I. Warshawski Novel) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2493478 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2493478"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140113053.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sara Paretsky</div> The Bluest Eye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962238 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962238"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452287065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Bone People http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/347864 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/347864"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807130729.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Keri Hulme</div> Bones of Plenty (Borealis) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2771145 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2771145"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0873511751.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lois Philip Hudson</div> The Cape Ann (Contemporary American Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122177 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122177"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140119795.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Faith Sullivan</div> Cat's Eye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10317 <div id="position">25</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> Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1965281 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1965281"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143104918.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leslie Marmon Silko</div> The Chalice and the Blade http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/367074 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/367074"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553574302.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43053643_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Glenna Mcreynolds</div> Chamber Music http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/381317 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/381317"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393309452.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Grumbach</div> The Changelings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65423 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65423"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0935312404.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jo Sinclair</div> The Sparrow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2556646 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Doria Russell</div> Children of God (Ballantine Reader's Circle) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13387 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13387"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/044900483X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Doria Russell</div> A Chorus of Stones The Private Life of War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2394945 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Griffin</div> Circle of Stones: Woman's Journey to Herself http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/531842 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/531842"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1880913631.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Judith Duerk</div> Cold Sassy Tree http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1656032 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Olive Ann Burns</div> The Color Purple http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18026 <div id="position">35</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> Confessions of Madame Psyche http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66109 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66109"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/155861186X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothy Bryant</div> The Copper Crown (Contemporary Fiction, Plume) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/552915 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/552915"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452269164.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lane Von Herzen</div> The Creation of Patriarchy (Women & History) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/87432 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/87432"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195051858.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V63869282_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gerda Lerner</div> The Crone: Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/580841 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/580841"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0062509349.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara G. Walker</div> Crucial Conversations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/555582 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/555582"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393311023.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by May Sarton</div> Dakota: A Spiritual Geography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66888 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66888"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618127240.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kathleen Norris</div> Daughter of Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1816388 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1816388"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0935312684.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Agnes Smedley</div> Daughter of Elysium http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1526770 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Slonczewski</div> Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/335649 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/335649"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/014027684X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacki Lyden</div> Daughters of Copper Woman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2039486 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2039486"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/155017245X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Cameron</div> Diary of a Zen Nun http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1183117 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nan Shin</div> Different Daughters 3 Ed: A Book by Mothers of Lesbians http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/413340 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/413340"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573441279.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Different Mothers: Sons and Daughters of Lesbians Talk About Their Lives http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/413339 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Dollmaker http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1649532 <div id="position">49</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> Down the Wild River North(Condensed Selections) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2771148 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Constance Helmericks</div>