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500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide by Erica Bauermeister
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500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide

by Erica Bauermeister

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englishrose60 in Girlybooks : What books by and/or about women are you reading May-August 08? (Aug 5, 2008, 4:56pm)

#233 - I also find 500 Great Books by Women a good resource. I would like to see a more up to date list - are you offering?? Forget to mention I have just finished Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist - another good read.

TerrierGirl in Girlybooks : What books by and/or about women are you reading May-August 08? (Aug 5, 2008, 2:38pm)

I don't know what I'd do without 500 Great Books by Women! It has kept my book group going when we all felt dry for ideas. (Of course, that was before Library Thing--I'm never without ideas now!!) Even just the category groupings in themselves can be a great jumping-off point for more ideas. It ...

almigwin in Girlybooks : What books by and/or about women are you reading May-August 08? (Aug 5, 2008, 11:27am)

Just got 500 great books by women (in English or translated into English), and it is a wonderful resource. It has indexes by geography, a chronological index, and is organized by subject matter. (Like motherhood, for instance). It was done in the eighties, so it isn't current and the coverage ...

marietherese in Girlybooks : GIRLYBOOKS MESSAGE BOARD (Jan 20, 2008, 6:42pm)

I wonder if Jong asked only male writers to participate in the survey as a sort of contrast or addendum to lists like 500 Great Books by Women and other female compiled listings of women-authored books. These sorts of lists were fairly popular at the time that Jong ran her survey (the 500 volume ...

avaland in Girlybooks : 500 Great Books by Women (Dec 13, 2007, 6:03pm)

I thought I'd start another interesting book-about-books-based thread. These entries are from 500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide by Erica Bauermeister, Jesse Larsen and Holly Smith. From the back of the book: "Here is an artiiculate guide to more than 500 boos written by women, a unique ...

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