75 Books Every Woman Should Read (And What I’ve Read).
- The Lottery (and Other Stories), Shirley Jackson – nope
- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf – nope
- The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton -nope
- White Teeth, Zadie Smith – nope
- The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende – nope, but on my list (and other Allende read)
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion – nope
- Excellent Women, Barbara Pym – nope
- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath – nope, but on my list
- Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys – nope
- The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri – nope, but on my list
- Beloved, Toni Morrison – nope, but on my list (and other Morrison read)
- Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert – nope, but on my list (?)
- Like Life, Lorrie Moore – nope
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen – nope, but on my list
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë – nope
- The Delta of Venus, Anais Nin – nope
- A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley – nope
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find (and Other Stories), Flannery O’Connor – nope, but on my list (and other O’Connor read)
- The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx – nope, but on my list (and other Proulx read)
- You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down, Alice Walker – nope (other Walker read)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston – yes, one of my top 20 ever
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee – yes, one of my top 20 ever
- Fear of Flying, Erica Jong – nope
- Earthly Paradise, Colette – nope
- Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt – yes, ehhh
- Property, Valerie Martin – nope
- Middlemarch, George Eliot – nope, but on my list
- Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid – nope
- The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir – nope, but on my list (?)
- Runaway, Alice Munro – nope
- The Heart is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers – nope, but on my list
- The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston – nope
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë – nope, but on my list
- You Must Remember This, Joyce Carol Oates – nope, but on my list
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott – of course
- Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill – never heard of
- The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr – nope
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou – nope, but on my list (?)
- A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith – yes, one of top 20 ever
- And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie – yes
- Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison – nope, but maybe on list
- The Secret History, Donna Tartt – yes, top 50 ever
- The Little Disturbances of Man, Grace Paley – nope
- The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker – nope
- The Group, Mary McCarthy – nope
- Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi – nope, but on my list (?)
- The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing – nope
- The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank – of course, top 20 ever
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley – yes, top 50 ever
- Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag – nope
- In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez – nope, on my list (?)
- The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck – nope, on my list (?)
- Fun Home, Alison Bechdel – nope
- Three Junes, Julia Glass – possibly in the future
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft – nope, but on my list
- Sophie’s Choice, William Styron – nope, but on my list
- Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann – nope, but on my list (for fun)
- Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford – never heard of
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell – of course
- The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin – no, but other LeGuin and possibly this in the future
- The Red Tent, Anita Diamant – nope, but on my list
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera – yes, one of my top 20
- The Face of War, Martha Gellhorn – never heard of
- My Antonia, Willa Cather – nope, on my list
- Love In The Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez – nope, on my list, other Marquez read
- The Harsh Voice, Rebecca West – never heard of
- Spending, Mary Gordon – never heard of
- The Lover, Marguerite Duras – possibly
- The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy – possibly
- Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen – never heard of
- Nightwood, Djuna Barnes – never heard of
- Three Lives, Gertrude Stein – possibly
- Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons – nope, on my list
- I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith – never heard of
- Possession, A.S. Byatt – possibly, other Byatt read
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