Lists of Bests: Feminista!'s "100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by Women" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/52 While we'd [Feminista!] agree that the Modern Library's list features some extraordinary and wonderful works of fiction, we're a little dismayed by a list of major 20th century English language novels that completely overlooks such writers as Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer, Zora Neale Hurston, Harper Lee, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison and Sylvia Plath. We could go on, but instead we've compiled our own list of 100 Great 20th Century English-language Works of Fiction by Women. In order to choose the works on the list, women's online forums and lists were canvassed. Unlike the Modern Library's, our list is not ranked. We've also restricted it to one work per author, since our aim was to showcase the extraordinary richness and variety of 20th century fiction by women. 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