Lists of Bests: Juliana's "19th & 20th Century Fiction: Female Authors" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/44093 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! Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:26:15 GMT en-us 0 50 89 50 0 Pride and Prejudice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1936348 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907520 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907520"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141441143.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div> Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11057 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11057"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393978893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> The Awakening (A Women's Press Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972770 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972770"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0704347334.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056468253_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Chopin</div> Castle Rackrent http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2961225 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2961225"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/013uYDSsxxL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maria Edgeworth</div> Middlemarch (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315000 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315000"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> The Revolt of Mother And Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2791050 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2791050"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11R9HAV1WAL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary E. Wilkins</div> Cranford (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907220 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907220"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439882.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Gaskell</div> The Yellow Wallpaper http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/210768 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/210768"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1591090377.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Perkins Gilman</div> The Country of the Pointed Firs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2908376 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2908376"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01o8QUDuyUL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Orne Jewett</div> Leila http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2999734 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Frankenstein (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39622 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39622"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743487583.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Shelley</div> Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337760 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337760"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1840224029.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet Beecher Stowe</div> Robert Elsmere http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2999736 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2999736"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/015BXJafCtL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Humphry, Mrs. Ward</div> Nightwood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1233905 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1233905"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811216713.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Djuna Barnes</div> The Mandarins (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2489828 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2489828"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007203942.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simone de Beauvoir</div> Seven Gothic Tales (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2289723 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2289723"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141187190.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isak Dinesen</div> The Death of the Heart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51366 <div id="position">18</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> My Antonia (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77978 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77978"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743487699.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> The Last of Cheri by Colette http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2999737 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2999737"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/011pxANxGQL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colette</div> Mother and Son http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2999740 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by I. Compton-Burnett</div> Rebecca http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1659451 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daphne du Maurier</div> Barren Ground (Virago Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2960576 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ellen Glasgow</div> Their Eyes Were Watching God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834 <div id="position">24</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> We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/982900 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/982900"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039970.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shirley Jackson</div> The Stone Angel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2779231 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2779231"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Y0K8GFD1L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Laurence</div> The Ballad and the Source (Virago Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2999741 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2999741"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ZMWZTVGVL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rosamond Lehmann</div> The Group http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4115 <div id="position">28</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 Heart Is a Lonely Hunter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337777 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337777"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618084746.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson McCullers</div> Bliss and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813530 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813530"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11A4HYJA5ZL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Katherine Mansfield</div> Children of the Albatross http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2999742 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anais Nin</div> The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2782026 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2782026"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Yy3F-XGQL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flannery O'Connor</div> Yonnondio: From The Thirties http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/985039 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/985039"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/080328621X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1092418460_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tillie Olsen</div> Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2560251 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2560251"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679603034.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Katherine An Porter</div> Quartet (Norton Paperback Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10879 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10879"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393315460.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Rhys</div> Pointed Roofs. Pilgrimage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2999743 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2999743"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/018lki208KL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothy Miller Richardson</div> Edwardians (Virago Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2829723 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2829723"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01FF8Q3XWDL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vita Sackville-West</div> Bonjour Tristesse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974798 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974798"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/2266127748.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div 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http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1317754 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1317754"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151247749.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eudora Welty</div> Birds Fall Down http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2733272 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2733272"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0860686620.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rebecca West</div> The House of Mirth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1345006 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1345006"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1844082938.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2191416 <div id="position">48</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> Memoirs of Hadrian http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/154964 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/154964"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374529264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marguerite Yourcenar</div> After the War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1946776 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1946776"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743422228.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Adams</div>