100 Influential Modern Novels Written by Women (compiled by Erica Jong, 1996)

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  • Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
  • Anne Rice, Interview With the Vampire
  • Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
  • Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
  • Virginia Woolf, The Waves
  • Virginia Woolf, Orlando
  • Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
  • Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
  • Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
  • Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
  • Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
  • Nadine Gordimer, Burger's Daughter
  • Harriette Simpson Arnow, The Dollmaker
  • Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
  • Willa Cather, My Ántonia
  • Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
  • Erica Jong, Fanny
  • Joy Kogawa, Obasan
  • Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
  • Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child
  • Doris Lessing, The Grass Is Singing
  • Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
  • Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
  • Lore Segal, Her First American
  • Alice Walker, The Color Purple
  • Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
  • Muriel Spark, Memento Mori
  • Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  • Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
  • Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
  • Susan Fromberg Shaeffer, Anya
  • Cynthia Ozick, Trust
  • Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
  • Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife
  • Ann Beattie, Chilly Scenes of Winter
  • Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer
  • Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays
  • Mary McCarthy, The Group
  • Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps
  • Grace Paley, The Little Disturbances of Man
  • Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
  • Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
  • Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
  • Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
  • Mona Simpson, Anywhere But Here
  • Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
  • Toni Morrison, Beloved
  • Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
  • Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mr. Fortune's Maggot
  • Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools
  • Laura Riding, Progress of Stories
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower
  • Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
  • A.S. Byatt, Possession
  • Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
  • Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle
  • Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
  • Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
  • Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
  • Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
  • Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  • Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
  • Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
  • Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
  • Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
  • Nancy Willard, Things Invisible to See
  • Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
  • Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Disturbances in the Field
  • Rosellen Brown, Civil Wars
  • Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
  • Harriet Doerr, The Mountain Lion
  • Stevie Smith. Novel on Yellow Paper
  • E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
  • Rebecca Goldstein, The Mind-Body Problem
  • P.D. James, The Children of Men
  • Ursula Hegi, Stones From the River
  • Fay Weldon, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
  • Katherine Mansfield, Collected Stories
  • Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills
  • Louise Erdrich, The Beet Queen
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
  • Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls Trilogy
  • Margaret Drabble, Realms of Gold
  • Margaret Drabble, The Waterfall
  • Dawn Powell, The Locusts Have No King
  • Marilyn French, The Women's Room
  • Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter
  • Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
  • Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
  • Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle
  • Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
  • Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
  • Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
  • Alice Hoffman, The Drowning Season
  • Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
  • Penelope Mortimer, The Pumpkin Eater
Author Comments: 

Erica Jong did a survey in 1996. asking thirty prominent male authors to put together a list of 100 influential female writers, in contrast to the male-majority Modern Library list. This is just a duplication of it.