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100 Best Works by Women Writers Based on the 1998 list by Feminista!

Author. Title, Publication Date

• Allison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina, 1992
• Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969
• Atwood, Margaret. Cat's Eye, 1988
• Bainbridge, Beryl. The Bottle Factory Outing, 1974
• Bambara, Toni Cade. Gorilla, My Love, 1992
• Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood, 1937
• Barker, Pat. Regeneration, 1992
• Brookner, Anita. Hotel du Lac, 1984
• Brown, Rita Mae. Rubyfruit Jungle, 1973
• Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth, 1931
• Byatt, A.S. Possession: A Romance, 1990
• Carter, Angela. Nights at the Circus, 1984
• Castillo, Ana. So Far From God, 1993
• Cather, Willa. My Antonia, 1918
• Chopin, Kate. The Awakening, 1900
• Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street, 1984
• Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Elders and Betters, 1944
• Desai, Anita. Clear Light of Day, 1980
• Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa, 1938
• Doerr, Harriet. Stones for Ibarra, 1984
• Drabble, Margaret. The Radiant Way, 1987
• DuMaurier, Daphne. Rebecca, 1938
• Emecheta, Buchi. Second Class Citizen, 1974
• Erdrich, Louise. Tracks: A Novel, 1988
• Fitzgerald, Penelope. At Freddie's, 1985
• Flagg, Fannie. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, 1987
• Frame, Janet. Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room, 1969
• French, Marilyn. The Women's Room, 1977
• Goldstein, Rebecca. The Mind-Body Problem: A Novel, 1983
• Gordimer, Nadine. July's People, 1981
• Gordon, Mary. The Rest of Life, 1993
• Hall, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness, 1928
• Head, Bessie. When Rain Clouds Gather, 1968
• Highsmith, Patricia. The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1955
• Hobhouse, Janet. The Furies, 1993
• Hulme, Keri. The Bone People, 1983
• Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937
• Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House, 1959
• Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Heat and Dust, 1975
• Jong, Erica. Fear of Flying, 1973
• Kincaid, Jamaica. Lucy, 1990
• Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees, 1988
• Kingston, Maxine Hong. Tripmaster Monkey, 1989
• Kogawa, Joy. Obasan, 1981
• Laurence, Margaret. The Fire-Dwellers, 1969
• Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
• Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook, 1962
• Lively, Penelope. Moon Tiger, 1987
• Loos, Anita. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1925
• McCarthy, Mary. The Group, 1963
• McCullers, Carson. Ballad of the Sad Cafe, 1951
• McMillan, Terry. Mama, 1987
• Manning, Olivia. The Balkan Trilogy, 1981
• Miller, Isabel. Patience and Sarah, 1969
• Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind, 1936
• Moore, Lorrie. Anagrams: A Novel, 1986
• Morrison, Toni. Beloved: A Novel, 1987
• Mukherjee, Bharati. Wife, 1975
• Munro, Alice. Lives of Girls and Women, 1971
• Murdoch, Iris. A Severed Head, 1961
• Oates, Joyce Carol. You Must Remember This, 1987
• O'Brien, Edna. House of Splendid Isolation, 1994
• O'Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find, 1955
• Olsen, Tillie. Tell Me a Riddle, 1979
• Paley, Grace. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, 1974
• Parker, Dorothy. The Collected Dorothy Parker, 1973
• Phillips, Jayne Anne. Black Tickets, 1979
• Piercy, Marge. Braided Lives, 1982
• Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar, 1963
• Porter, Katharine Anne. Ship of Fools, 1962
• Powell, Dawn. The Golden Spur, 1962
• Proulx, E. Annie. The Shipping News, 1993
• Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead, 1943
• Renault, Mary. The King Must Die, 1958
• Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966
• Robinson, Marilynne. Housekeeping, 1980
• Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things, 1997
• Sarton, May. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965
• Shields, Carol. The Stone Diaries, 1994
• Shreve, Anita. The Weight of Water, 1997
• Silko, Leslie Marmon. Almanac of the Dead, 1991
• Simpson, Mona. Anywhere But Here, 1986
• Smart, Elizabeth. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, 1966
• Smiley, Jane. The Age of Grief, 1987
• Sontag, Susan. The Volcano Lover, 1992
• Spark, Muriel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1961
• Stead, Christina. The Man Who Loved Children, 1965
• Stein, Gertrude. Three Lives, 1909
• Taylor, Elizabeth. Angel, 1957
• Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club, 1989
• Tyler, Anne. If Morning Ever Comes, 1964
• Urquhart, Jane. Away, 1993
• Walker, Alice. The Color Purple, 1982
• Weldon, Fay. The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, 1983
• Welty, Eudora. Selected Stories, 1943
• West, Rebecca. The Return of the Soldier, 1918
• Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome, 1911
• White, Antonia. Frost in May, 1933
• Winterson, Jeannette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, 1985
• Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway, 1925