Great Female Authors/Books:

read, want to read

Bronte Sisters: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfeld Halls

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse

Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey

Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Louisa May Alcott: all

Kate Chopin: The Awakening

George Eliot: Middlemarch

Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Motherfucking Wind

Zelda Fitzgerald: all

Gertrude Stein: all

Dorothy Parker: all

Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar

Harper Lee: TKAM

Toni Morrison: Beloved

Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Leslie Feinberg: Stone Butch Blues

Pearl S Buck: The Good Earth

Alice Walker: The Color Purple

Mary Gaitskill

Joan Didion

Colette

Joyce Carol Oates

Margaret Atwood: The Handmaiden’s Tale

Willa Cather: My Antonia

Zadie Smith: White Teeth, Autograph Man, On Beauty

Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies, Unaccustomed Earth

Arundhati Roy: God of Small Things

Kiran Desai: Inheritance of Loss, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

Other Stuff to Read this Winter:

East of Eden

Love in the Time of Cholera

Norwegian Wood

Beautiful Losers

Secret History

Metamorphosis

Poisonwood Bible

Farenheit 451

1984

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

The Marriage Plot

Middlesex

Battle Royale

1Q84

The Stranger’s Child

Wetlands

Never Let Me Go

Diving Bell and The Butterfly

History of Love

Brothers Kazmarov

In Cold Blood

Freedom

Sophie’s Choice