Feminista!'s 100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by Women

Submitted by marslike on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 18:24
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  1. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
  2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  3. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
  4. The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
  5. Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara
  6. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
  7. Regeneration by Pat Barker
  8. Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
  9. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
  10. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  11. Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
  12. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
  13. So Far from God: A novel by Ana Castillo
  14. My Antonia by Willa Cather
  15. Awakening by Kate Chopin
  16. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
  17. Elders and Betters by Ivy Compton-Burnett
  18. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
  19. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
  20. Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
  21. The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
  22. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  23. Second-Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
  24. Tracks RI by Louise Erdrich
  25. At Freddie's by Penelope Fitzgerald
  26. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
  27. Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame
  28. Women's Room by Marilyn French
  29. The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein
  30. July's People by Nadine Gordimer
  31. The Rest of Life: Three Novellas by Mary Gordon
  32. The Well of Loneliness: A 1920s Classic of Lesbian Fiction by Radclyffe Hall
  33. When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head
  34. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
  35. Furies by Janet Hobhouse
  36. The Bone People: A Novel by Keri Hulme
  37. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  38. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  39. Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  40. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
  41. Lucy: A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid
  42. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
  43. Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston
  44. Obasan by Joy Kogawa
  45. The Fire-Dwellers Margaret Laurence
  46. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  47. The Golden Notebook by Doris M. Lessing
  48. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
  49. Gentlemen Prefer Blonds and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady by Anita Loos
  50. The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
  51. Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
  52. The Group by Mary McCarthy
  53. Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
  54. Mama by Terry McMillan
  55. Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller
  56. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  57. Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
  58. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  59. Wife by Bharati Mukherjee
  60. Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
  61. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
  62. You Must Remember This by Joyce Carol Oates
  63. The House of Splendid Isolation by Edna O'Brien
  64. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
  65. Tell Me A Riddle by Tillie Olsen
  66. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories by Grace Paley
  67. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
  68. Black Tickets: Stories by Jayne Anne Phillips
  69. Braided Lives: A Novel by Marge Peircy
  70. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  71. Ship of Fools by Katherine Ann Porter
  72. The Golden Spur by Dawn Powell
  73. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
  74. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  75. The Kind Must Die: A Novel by Mary Renault
  76. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  77. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
  78. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  79. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton
  80. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
  81. The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
  82. Anywhere by Here by Mona Simpson
  83. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
  84. Age of Grief by Jane Smiley
  85. The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag
  86. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
  87. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
  88. Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
  89. Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
  90. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  91. If Morning Ever Comes: A Novel by Anne Tyler
  92. Away: A Novel by Jane Urquhart
  93. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  94. Life and Loves of a She Devil by Fay Weldon
  95. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
  96. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
  97. Ethan Frome by Anita Shreve
  98. Frost in May by Antonia White
  99. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
  100. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Author Comments: 

While I've read surprisingly few of these but the list is also full of things I legitimately want to read.

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Feminista!'s 100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by Women