Seen most recently at Knits with Cats.
Allcott, Louisa May–Little Women
Allende, Isabel–The House of the Spirits Angelou, Maya–I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Atwood, Margaret–Cat's Eye
Austen, Jane–Emma*
Bambara, Toni Cade–Salt Eaters??
Bank, Melissa-Girls' Guide To Hunting And Fishing
Barnes, Djuna–Nightwoodde
Beauvoir, Simone–The Second Sex
Blume, Judy–Are You There God? It's Me Margaret (a long time ago).
Burnett, Frances–The Secret Garden
Bronte, Charlotte–Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily–Wuthering Heights
Buck, Pearl S.–The Good Earth
Byatt, A.S.–Possession
Cather, Willa–My Antonia* (and it is one of my favorite books)
Chopin, Kate–The Awakening
Christie, Agatha–Murder on the Orient Express*
Cisneros, Sandra–The House on Mango Street
Clinton, Hillary Rodham–Living History
Cooper, Anna Julia–A Voice From the South??
Danticat, Edwidge–Breath, Eyes, Memory??
Davis, Angela–Women, Culture, and Politics
Desai, Anita–Clear Light of Day
Diamant, Anita-The Red Tent
Dickinson, Emily–Collected Poems
Duncan, Lois–I Know What You Did Last Summer
DuMaurier, Daphne–Rebecca
Eliot, George–Middlemarch (another of my favorite books)
Emecheta, Buchi–Second Class Citizen
Erdrich, Louise–Tracks*
Esquivel, Laura–Like Water for Chocolate
Fielding, Helen-Bridget Jones's Diary
Fisher, M. F. K. - The Art of Eating * +
Flagg, Fannie–Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Friedan, Betty–The Feminine Mystique
Frank, Anne–Diary of a Young Girl
Gedge, Pauline-Child Of The Morning??
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins–The Yellow Wallpaper??
Gordimer, Nadine–July's People
Grafton, Sue–S is for Silence
Hamilton, Edith–Mythology
Highsmith, Patricia–The Talented Mr. Ripley (creepy!)
hooks, bell–Bone Black
Hurston, Zora Neale–Dust Tracks on the Road
Jacobs, Harriet–Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Jackson, Helen Hunt–Ramona
Jackson, Shirley–The Haunting of Hill House*
Jong, Erica–Fear of Flying
Keene, Carolyn–The Nancy Drew Mysteries (I must confess to not having read any. But I might, sometime)
Kidd, Sue Monk–The Secret Life of Bees Kincaid, Jamaica–Lucy
Kingsolver, Barbara–The Poisonwood Bible*
Kingston, Maxine Hong–The Woman Warrior
Klein, Naomi-No Logo??
Lamott, Ann - Bird by Bird *+
Larsen, Nella–Passing??
Laurence, Margaret-The Stone Angel??
L'Engle, Madeleine–A Wrinkle in Time*
Le Guin, Ursula K.–The Left Hand of Darkness*
Lee, Harper–To Kill a Mockingbird
Lessing, Doris–The Golden Notebook
Lively, Penelope–Moon Tiger
Lorde, Audre–The Cancer Journals
Martin, Ann M.–The Babysitters Club Series (any of them)
McCullers, Carson–The Member of the Wedding*
McMillan, Terry–Disappearing Acts
Markandaya, Kamala–Nectar in a Sieve??
Marshall, Paule–Brown Girl, Brownstones??
Mccullough, Colleen-The Thorn Birds
McDonald, Anne-Marie-Fall On Your Knees
Mitchell, Margaret–Gone with the Wind
Montgomery, Lucy–Anne of Green Gables
Morgan, Joan–When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost??
Morrison, Toni–Song of Solomon
Murasaki, Lady Shikibu–The Tale of Genji
Munro, Alice–Lives of Girls and Women
Murdoch, Iris–Severed Head
Naylor, Gloria–Mama Day??
Niffenegger, Audrey–The Time Traveller's Wife
Nin, Anais-Little Birds
Oates, Joyce Carol–We Were the Mulvaneys*
O'Connor, Flannery–A Good Man is Hard to Find*
Piercy, Marge–Woman on the Edge of Time
Picoult, Jodi–My Sister's Keeper
Plath, Sylvia–The Bell Jar
Porter, Katharine Anne–Ship of Fools (* only if short stories count)
Proulx, E. Annie–The Shipping News
Rand, Ayn–The Fountainhead
Ray, Rachel–365: No Repeats*
Rhys, Jean–Wide Sargasso Sea
Rice, Anne-Interview With A Vampire
Robinson, Marilynne–Housekeeping
Rocha, Sharon–For Laci??
Sebold, Alice–The Lovely Bones
Shelley, Mary–Frankenstein
Shields, Carol-The Stone Diaries Smith, Betty–A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith, Zadie–White Teeth
Spark, Muriel–The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie* (And I also saw the movie)
Spyri, Johanna–Heidi (one of my favorites when I was a kid)
Strout, Elizabeth–Amy and Isabelle
Steel, Danielle–The House
Tan, Amy–The Joy Luck Club*
Tannen, Deborah–You're Wearing That
Tyler, Anne-The Accidental Tourist*
Ulrich, Laurel–A Midwife's Tale
Urquhart, Jane–Away
Walker, Alice–The Temple of My Familiar
Welty, Eudora–One Writer's Beginnings*
Wharton, Edith–Age of Innocence*
Wilder, Laura Ingalls–Little House in the Big Woods* (the whole series)
Winterson, Jeanette-Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Wolf, Naomi-The Beauty Myth
Wollstonecraft, Mary–A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Woolf, Virginia–A Room of One's Own
Banana Yoshimoto-Kitchen??
I'm sure I will now get comments or e-mails observing "but you MUST read so-and-so" off of the names I've not italicized. (I would welcome a brief description of the books I question marked, if you know them. Some look intriguing.)
I realize that several of my favorite books are on there, and one of my favorite authors (Madeline L'Engle). I also added another "favorite" author (M.F.K. Fisher).
1 comment:
i see you italicized the timetraveler's wife. a VERY good book. i read it on the recommendation of a fellow blogger, because we both had an affinity for diana gabaldon. while this was less romantic (ie romance novelesque (and yes that's a word (i'm making them up all the time, lol, go read puck's comments!))), it was definitely good, and (warning) it will make you cry. well, be very sad. i didn't cry, but that was because the story was so twisted around itself, that you knew how it was going to end. suprises like dumbledore make me cry. however, even though it could make a creditable attempt at hiding behind a spiral staircase, it still makes sense. go find it, you'll like it. (and i didn't pick any you'd not italicized, but noticed that you and i have similar tastes; ones you've read, i had italicized, and ones i've read, you had italicized (for the most part, lol)
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