100 Influential Modern Novels Written by Women
Submitted by diaskeaus on Sun, 03/25/2007 - 09:04
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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.
thanks for posting this.