100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by Women, Feminista

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Dorothy Allison
Bastard Out of Carolina

Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Margaret Atwood
Cat’s Eye

Beryl Bainbridge
The Bottle Factory Outing

Toni Cade Bambara

Gorilla, My Love

Djuna Barnes
Nightwood

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Pat Barker
Regeneration

Anita Brookner
Hotel du Lac

Rita Mae Brown

Rubyfruit Jungle

Pearl S. Buck
The Good Earth

A.S. Byatt
Possession

Angela Carter
Nights at the Circus

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Ana Castillo
So Far From God

Willa Cather
My Antonia

Kate Chopin
The Awakening

Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street

Ivy Compton-Burnett
Elders and Betters

Anita Desai
Clear Light of Day

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Isak Dinesen
Out of Africa

Harriet Doerr
Stones for Ibarra

Margaret Drabble
The Radiant Way

Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca

Buchi Emecheta
Second Class Citizen

Louise Erdrich
Tracks

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Penelope Fitzgerald
At Freddie’s

Fannie Flagg
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop
Café

Janet Frame
Owls Do Cry

Marilyn French
The Women’s Room

Rebecca Goldstein
The Mind-Body Problem

Nadine Gordimer
July’s People

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Mary Gordon
The Rest of Life

Radclyffe Hall
The Well of Loneliness

Bessie Head
When Rain Clouds Gather

Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr. Ripley

Janet Hobhouse
The Furies

Keri Hulme
The Bone People

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Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Heat and Dust

Erica Jong
Fear of Flying

Jamaica Kincaid
Lucy

Barbara Kingsolver
The Bean Trees

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Maxine Hong Kingston

Tripmaster Monkey

Joy Kogawa
Obasan

Margaret Laurence
The Fire-Dwellers

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

Doris Lessing
The Golden Notebook

Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger

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Anita Loos
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Olivia Manning
The Balkan Trilogy

Leslie Marmon Silko

Almanac of the Dead

Mary McCarthy
The Group

Carson McCullers
Ballad of the Sad Café

Terry McMillan
Mama

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Isabel Miller
Patience and Sarah

Margaret Mitchell
Gone With the Wind

Lorrie Moore
Anagrams

Toni Morrison
Beloved

Bharati Mukherjee
Wife

Alice Munro
Lives of Girls and Women

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Iris Murdoch
A Severed Head

Joyce Carol Oates

You Must Remember This

Edna O’Brien
House of Splendid Isolation

Flannery O’Connor
A Good Man is Hard to Find

Tillie Olsen
Tell Me a Riddle

Grace Paley
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

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Dorothy Parker
Stories

Jayne Anne Phillips

Black Tickets

Marge Piercy
Braided Lives

Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar

Katherine Anne Porter

Ship of Fools

Dawn Powell
The Golden Spur

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E. Annie Proulx
The Shipping News

Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead

Mary Renault
The King Must Die

Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea

Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping

Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things

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May Sarton
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing

Carol Shields
The Stone Diaries

Anita Shreve
The Weight of Water

Mona Simpson
Anywhere But Here

Elizabeth Smart
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and
Wept

Jane Smiley
The Age of Grief

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Susan Sontag
The Volcano Lover

Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Christina Stead
The Man Who Loved Children

Gertrude Stein
Three Lives

Elizabeth Taylor
Angel

Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club

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Anne Tyler
If Morning Ever Comes

Jane Urquhart
Away

Alice Walker
The Color Purple

Fay Weldon
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

Eudora Welty
Stories

Rebecca West
The Return of the Soldier

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Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome

Antonia White
Frost in May

Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway

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