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Common KnowledgeBook awards100 Must-Read Classics By Women

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After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Ša
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge
The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts
Camilla by Fanny Burney
Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Cotillion by Georgette Heyer
The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride by Julia C. Collins
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank
Efuru by Flora Nwapa
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Frost in May by Antonia White
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Householder by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann
Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: The Alfoxden Journal 1798, The Grasmere Journals 1800-1803 by Dorothy Wordsworth
The King Must Die by Mary Renault
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader by Ida B. Wells
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Women / Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott
The Living is Easy by Dorothy West
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
Mariana by Monica Dickens
Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Miss Buncle's Book by D. E. Stevenson
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings by Sui Sin Far
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst
Nada by Carmen Laforet
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
Nisei Daughter by Monica Itoi Sone
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson
Passing by Nella Larsen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Phillis Wheatley, Complete Writings by Phillis Wheatley
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Sei Shonagon
Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories by Amrita Pritam
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral by Jessie Redmon Fauset
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty
The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy Emmuska
Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Thus were their faces: stories by Silvina Ocampo
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Wine of Solitude by Irène Némirovsky
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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