Uncovered Classics

133 Works 592,933 Books 12,590 Reviews ½ 4.0
A response to Feminista’s list of “100 great 20th century works of fiction by women” with more authors of color and works in translation.
Categories:
All, 1900s (3), 1910s (4), 1920s (6), 1930s (7), 1940s (5), 1950s (12), 1960s (19), 1970s (19), 1980s (38), , 1990s (20)
Years:
All, 1997 (1), 1992 (1), 1988 (1), 1982 (2), 1979 (1), 1975 (2), 1973 (1), 1970 (1), 1966 (2), 1965 (1), 1963 (2), 1960 (1), 1951 (1), 1938 (1), 1937 (1), 1903 (1), 1900 (1)
WorkCategoryYear
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
1990s1998
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
1990s1997
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
1990s1997
Last Words from Montmartre by Miaojin Qiu
1990s1995
House of Splendid Isolation by Edna O'Brien
1990s1994
Away by Jane Urquhart
1990s1993
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1990s1993
The Rest of Life: Three Novellas by Mary Gordon
1990s1993
So Far from God by Ana Castillo
1990s1993
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1990s1993
Bone by Fae Myenne Ng
1990s1993
The Furies by Janet Hobhouse
1990s1992
The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag
1990s1992
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
1990s1992
Requiem by Shizuko Go
1990s1992
Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
1990s1991
Regeneration by Pat Barker
1990s1991
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
1990s1990
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
1990s1990
Possession by A.S. Byatt
1990s1990
I myself am a woman : selected writings of Ding Ling by Ding Ling
1980s1989
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
1980s1989
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories by Hisaye Yamamoto
1940s1988
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
1980s1988
Bata, Bata... Pa'No Ka Ginawa? by Lualhati Bautista
1980s1988
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
1980s1988
Paradise of the Blind by Thu Hương Dương
1980s1988
Beloved by Toni Morrison
1980s1987
The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley
1980s1987
You Must Remember This by Joyce Carol Oates
1980s1987
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
1980s1987
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
1980s1987
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
1980s1987
Mama by Terry McMillan
1980s1987
Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson
1980s1986
The Mixquiahuala Letters by Ana Castillo
1980s1986
Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
1980s1986
Awaiting Trespass by Linda Ty-Casper
1980s1985
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
1980s1985
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
1980s1985
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
1980s1984
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
1980s1984
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
1980s1984
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
1980s1984
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
1980s1984
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
1980s1984
The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein
1980s1983
The Life and Loves of a She Devil by Fay Weldon
1980s1983
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
1980s1982
Dictée by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
1980s1982
At Freddie's by Penelope Fitzgerald
1980s1982
The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman by Ken Bugul
1980s1982
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
1980s1982
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1980s1982
July's People by Nadine Gordimer
1980s1981
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
1980s1981
Braided Lives by Marge Piercy
1980s1981
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
1980s1980
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
1980s1980
Black Tickets: Stories by Jayne Anne Phillips
1970s1979
Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen
1970s1979
The Women's Room by Marilyn French
1970s1977
Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo
1970s1977
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1970s1975
Corregidora by Gayl Jones
1970s1975
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
1970s1975
Wife by Bharati Mukherjee
1970s1975
for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange
1970s1975
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
1970s1974
Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
1970s1974
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories by Grace Paley
1970s1974
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
1970s1973
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
1970s1973
The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
1970s1973
The Girl in the Photograph by Lygia Fagundes Telles
1970s1973
Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara
1970s1972
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
1970s1971
The Naked Tree by Pak Wan-So
1970s1970
The Fire Dwellers by Margaret Laurence
1960s1969
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
1960s1969
Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller
1960s1969
Jubilee by Margaret Walker
1960s1966
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
1960s1966
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
1960s1966
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton
1960s1965
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
1960s1965
If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler
1960s1964
The Group by Mary McCarthy
1960s1963
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
1960s1963
Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus by Carolina Maria de Jesus
1960s1962
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
1960s1962
Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
1960s1962
The Golden Spur by Dawn Powell
1960s1962
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
1960s1961
A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
1960s1961
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1960s1960
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
1960s1960
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
1950s1959
Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall
1950s1959
The King Must Die by Mary Renault
1950s1958
Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame
1950s1957
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
1950s1957
Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life by Alice Childress
1950s1956
Proud Shoes by Pauli Murray
1950s1956
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
1950s1955
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
1950s1955
Naked Earth by Eileen Chang
1950s1954
Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
1950s1953
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers
1950s1951
The Living Is Easy by Dorothy West
1940s1948
The Street by Ann Petry
1930s1946
Elders and Betters by Ivy Compton-Burnett
1940s1944
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
1940s1943
Selected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
1940s1943
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
1930s1938
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
1930s1938
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
1930s1937
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
1930s1936
Frost in May by Antonia White
1930s1933
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1930s1931
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
1920s1928
Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset
1920s1928
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
1920s1928
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
1920s1925
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
1920s1925
American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Ša
1920s1921
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
1910s1918
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
1910s1918
Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings by Sui Sin Far
1910s1912
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
1910s1911
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
1900s1909
Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self by Pauline Hopkins
1900s1903
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
1900s1900
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