| Titles | Order |
| The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman by Ken Bugul | Conflicting Cultures |
| After Henry by Joan Didion | Observations |
| After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie by Jean Rhys | Choices |
| Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape by Susan Brownmiller | Violence |
| AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag | Ways of Knowing |
| Alicia by Alicia Appleman-Jurman | Heritage |
| All but the Waltz: A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family by Mary Clearman Blew | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Allegra Maud Goldman by Edith Konecky | Growing Up |
| Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir by Sissela Bok | Work |
| The amber gods, and other stories by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford | Imagined Worlds |
| American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Ša | Conflicting Cultures |
| And the Bridge Is Love by Faye Moskowitz | Observations |
| And They Didn't Die by Lauretta Ngcobo | Power |
| Angie, I Says by Avra Wing | Work |
| Annapurna: A Woman's Place by Arlene Blum | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson | Mothers and Mothering |
| Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw | Choices |
| Artemisia by Anna Banti | Art |
| The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein | Art |
| Awaiting Trespass by Linda Ty-Casper | Power |
| The Awakening by Kate Chopin | Choices |
| Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi | Power |
| A Bag of Stories by Edla Van Steen | Imagined Worlds |
| Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories by Opal Palmer Adisa | Places and Homes |
| Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison | Families |
| The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver | Mothers and Mothering |
| Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates | Choices |
| I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots by Susan Straight | Mothers and Mothering |
| The Beggars' Strike by Aminata Sow Fall | Power |
| Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley | Observations |
| Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir by Jean Said Makdisi | Violence |
| Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell | Places and Homes |
| Belfast Woman by Mary Beckett | Places and Homes |
| The Bell by Iris Murdoch | Ethics |
| The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath | Trials and Adversity |
| Beloved by Toni Morrison | Violence |
| Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills by Latife Tekin | Trials and Adversity |
| The Big Mama Stories by Shay Youngblood | Mothers and Mothering |
| Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins | Ways of Knowing |
| Black Ice by Lorene Cary | Identity |
| Black women writers at work by Claudia Tate | Art |
| Blackberry Winter by Margaret Mead | Work |
| Blue Taxis: Stories about Africa by Eileen Drew | Conflicting Cultures |
| Bobbin Up by Dorothy Hewett | Work |
| Bone by Fae Myenne Ng | Families |
| The Bone People by Keri Hulme | Violence |
| Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan | Ethics |
| The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton | Heritage |
| The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan | Heritage |
| Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska | Heritage |
| Breakthrough by Mercedes Valdivieso | Identity |
| The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart | Mothers and Mothering |
| A bridge through time: A memoir by Laila Abou-Saif | Work |
| Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer | Heritage |
| Burmese Looking Glass: A Human Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution by Edith T. Mirante | Violence |
| The Butcher's Wife by Li Ang | Violence |
| Call Home the Heart by Fielding Burke | Work |
| Cantora by Sylvia Lopez-Medina | Families |
| Cartucho and My Mother's Hands by Nellie Campobello | Violence |
| Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth | Conflicting Cultures |
| Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood | Friendships and Interactions |
| The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars by Nadezhda Durova | Pioneers and Seekers |
| The Censors: A Bilingual Selection of Stories by Luisa Valenzuela | Trials and Adversity |
| Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko | Ways of Knowing |
| The Changelings by Jo Sinclair | Growing Up |
| Changes in Latitude: An Uncommon Anthropology by Joana McIntyre Varawa | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Changes: a Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Child of Fortune by Yūko Tsushima | Mothers and Mothering |
| Child of Her People by Anne Cameron | Mothers and Mothering |
| Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus by Carolina Maria de Jesus | Violence |
| Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute | Growing Up |
| A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin | Violence |
| Circe's Mountain by Marie Luise Kaschnitz | Friendships and Interactions |
| Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy | Growing Up |
| City of Kings by Rosario Castellanos | Power |
| Claiming Breath by Diane Glancy | Art |
| The Clay That Breathes: A Novella and Stories by Catherine Browder | Conflicting Cultures |
| Clay Walls by Kim Ronyoung | Conflicting Cultures |
| Cleaned Out by Annie Ernaux | Conflicting Cultures |
| Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai | Families |
| Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons | Families |
| Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns | Growing Up |
| The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop | Art |
| The Collector of Treasures by Bessie Head | Friendships and Interactions |
| Coming Home and Other Stories by Farida Karodia | Conflicting Cultures |
| Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody | Conflicting Cultures |
| Composing a Life by Mary Catherine Bateson | Work |
| The Confessions of Lady Nijo by Lady Nijo | Heritage |
| Constance Ring by Amalie Skram | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| The Convert by Elizabeth Robins | Choices |
| Coonardoo by Katharine Susannah Prichard | Conflicting Cultures |
| Copper Crown by Lane Von Herzen | Friendships and Interactions |
| The Coquette by Hannah W. Foster | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Cora Sandel: Selected Short Stories by Cora Sandel | Observations |
| Cordelia & other stories by Françoise Mallet-Joris | Friendships and Interactions |
| Corregidora by Gayl Jones | Identity |
| Cosima by Grazia Deledda | Art |
| The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett | Friendships and Interactions |
| A Country Year: Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell | Observations |
| Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa | Violence |
| Crick Crack, Monkey by Merle Hodge | Conflicting Cultures |
| Crossings by Chuang Hua | Families |
| Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice | Art |
| The curve of time : the classic memoir of a woman and her children who explored the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest by M. Wylie Blanchet | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether | Growing Up |
| Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places by Ursula K. Le Guin | Art |
| The Dangerous Age by Karin Michaëlis | Growing Old |
| Daughter of Earth by Agnes Smedley | Trials and Adversity |
| A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman by Ida Pruitt | Trials and Adversity |
| Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem through the Islamic Revolution by Sattareh Farman Farmaian | |
| Daughter of the Hills : A Woman's Part in the Coal Miners' Struggle by Myra Page | Pioneers and Seekers |
| The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey | Power |
| The Day I Began My Studies In Philosophy: And Other Stories by Margareta Ekström | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Daybook: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt | Art |
| Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot by Pearl Cleage | Ethics |
| Dear Departed by Marguerite Yourcenar | Heritage |
| The Devil Is Loose by Antonine Maillet | Pioneers and Seekers |
| The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank | Trials and Adversity |
| Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler | Ways of Knowing |
| Disappearing Acts by Terry McMillan | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Disappearing Moon Cafe: A Novel by Sky Lee | Identity |
| A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman | Observations |
| Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat | Observations |
| The District Governor's Daughters by Camilla Collett | Choices |
| Doc Susie: The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies by Virginia Cornell | Work |
| Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn | Violence |
| The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow | Choices |
| Dora, Doralina by Rachel de Queiroz | Identity |
| Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia | Families |
| Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes by Irena Klepfisz | Ways of Knowing |
| Dumba Nengue: Run for Your Life by Lina Magaia | Violence |
| The Dust Roads of Monferrato by Rosetta Loy | Heritage |
| Early Spring by Tove Ditlevsen | Growing Up |
| Efuru by Flora Nwapa | Heritage |
| Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook | Choices |
| Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons | Growing Up |
| Emma by Jane Austen | Identity |
| The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Eve's Tattoo by Emily Prager | Imagined Worlds |
| Evelina by Frances Burney | Ethics |
| Excellent Women by Barbara Pym | Observations |
| Exile in the Promised Land: A Memoir by Marcia Freedman | Pioneers and Seekers |
| False Years (Discoveries) by Josefina Vicens | Identity |
| Family Album by Claribel Alegría | Imagined Worlds |
| Family Pictures by Sue Miller | Families |
| Farm Under a Lake by Martha Bergland | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Fiela's Child by Dalene Matthee | Identity |
| Fierce Attachments: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick | Mothers and Mothering |
| The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing | Mothers and Mothering |
| Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong | Growing Up |
| Fifty Russian Winters: An American Woman's Life in the Soviet Union by Margaret Wettlin | Observations |
| The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley | Conflicting Cultures |
| Floating in My Mother's Palm by Ursula Hegi | Growing Up |
| The Floating World by Cynthia Kadohata | Growing Up |
| Floreana: A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Galapagos by Margret Wittmer | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Flowering Judas and Other Stories by Katherine Anne Porter | Observations |
| Forged under the Sun by María Elena Lucas | Work |
| Fortunate Lives by Robb Forman Dew | Families |
| The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West | Heritage |
| Frangipani House by Beryl Gilroy | Growing Old |
| Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | Imagined Worlds |
| Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera | Art |
| Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel by Fannie Flagg | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| From the Lanai and Other Hawaii Stories (MVP) by Jessica Saiki | Choices |
| Fruit Fields in My Blood: Okie Migrants in the West by Toby F. Sonneman | Work |
| G Is for Gumshone by Sue Grafton | Violence |
| Ganado Red by Susan Lowell | Heritage |
| The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield | Choices |
| The Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble | Conflicting Cultures |
| Getting Home Alive by Aurora Levins Morales | Places and Homes |
| The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson | Conflicting Cultures |
| The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark | Trials and Adversity |
| God bless the child by Kristin Hunter Lattany | Power |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor | Observations |
| The Good Times Are Killing Me by Lynda Barry | Places and Homes |
| Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara | Growing Up |
| Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook by Paula Gunn Allen | Power |
| Grey is the Colour of Hope by Irina Ratushinskai︠a︡ | Ethics |
| The Group by Mary McCarthy | Friendships and Interactions |
| Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea | Observations |
| Halfbreed by Maria Campbell | Conflicting Cultures |
| Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diaries by Hannah Senesh | Places and Homes |
| I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven | Ways of Knowing |
| Heartwork: Selected Short Stories by Solveig von Schoultz | Friendships and Interactions |
| Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Pioneers and Seekers |
| The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Her by Cherry Muhanji | Places and Homes |
| Her by Hilda Doolittle | Identity |
| The Hidden Hand, or, Capitola the Madcap by E. D. E. N. Southworth | Pioneers and Seekers |
| The History of Mary Prince by Mary Prince | Violence |
| Hitchhiking: Twelve German Tales by Gabriele Eckart | Friendships and Interactions |
| The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher | Work |
| Homemade Love by J. California Cooper | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts by Catharine Maria Sedgwick | Ethics |
| Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner | Choices |
| The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector | Trials and Adversity |
| The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton | Trials and Adversity |
| The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende | Imagined Worlds |
| The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán | Power |
| The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros | Places and Homes |
| The House Tibet by Georgia Savage | Violence |
| The House with the Blind Glass Windows by Herbjørg Wassmo | Trials and Adversity |
| Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson | Families |
| How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez | Heritage |
| How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ | Power |
| How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic | Ways of Knowing |
| I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman In Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu | Power |
| I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé | Imagined Worlds |
| The Iguana by Anna Maria Ortese — not in English Common Knowledge | Imagined Worlds |
| An Imagined World: A Story of Scientific Discovery by June Goodfield | Work |
| The impenetrable Madam X by Griselda Gambaro | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| In Diamond Square by Mercè Rodoreda | Observations |
| In My Mother's House by Kim Chernin | Mothers and Mothering |
| In Silence: Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf World by Ruth Sidransky | Ways of Knowing |
| Incantations and Other Stories by Anjana Appachana | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs | Trials and Adversity |
| Indiana by George Sand | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginsburg | Trials and Adversity |
| The Irish R.M. by E. Somerville | Places and Homes |
| Islanders by Helen R. Hull | Growing Old |
| Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison | Places and Homes |
| The Jailing of Cecelia Capture by Janet Campbell Hale | Identity |
| Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | Identity |
| Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee | Conflicting Cultures |
| Jerusalem Plays Hide and Seek by Ariella Deem | Identity |
| John Dollar by Marianne Wiggins | Power |
| Jubilee by Margaret Walker | Families |
| Juletane by Myriam Warner-Vieyra | Conflicting Cultures |
| The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau | Heritage |
| Kelroy: A Novel by Rebecca Rush | Power |
| Killing Color by Charlotte Watson Sherman | Power |
| Kindred by Octavia E. Butler | Imagined Worlds |
| The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan | Mothers and Mothering |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou | Growing Up |
| Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset | Growing Up |
| A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Lady's Maid by Margaret Forster | Work |
| The Lamplighter by Maria S. Cummins | Growing Up |
| The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin | Places and Homes |
| The Land of Look Behind: Prose and Poetry by Michelle Cliff | Conflicting Cultures |
| Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives by Carolyn Kay Steedman | Ways of Knowing |
| Lantern Slides by Edna O'Brien | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| The Last of the Menu Girls by Denise Chávez | Families |
| Later the Same Day by Grace Paley | Friendships and Interactions |
| Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir by Mamie Garvin Fields | Places and Homes |
| Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Kartini | Conflicting Cultures |
| Libby: The Alaskan Diaries and Letters of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880 by Betty John | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories by Rebecca Harding Davis | Ethics |
| Like One of The Family by Alice Childress | Work |
| Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Limbo: A Memoir about Life in a Nursing Home by a Survivor by Carobeth Laird | Growing Old |
| Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells | Families |
| The Little Hotel by Christina Stead | Observations |
| The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg | Observations |
| Little Women by Louisa May Alcott | Families |
| Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro | Growing Up |
| Living by Water: True Stories of Nature and Spirit by Brenda Peterson | Ways of Knowing |
| The Living is Easy by Dorothy West | Power |
| Living My Life: An Autobiography of Emma Goldman by Emma Goldman | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner | Choices |
| The Lone Pilgrim by Laurie Colwin | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Look me in the eye: Old women, aging, and ageism by Barbara Macdonald | Growing Old |
| The Loom and Other Stories by Ruth A. Sasaki | Families |
| The Loony-Bin Trip by Kate Millett | Violence |
| Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman | Conflicting Cultures |
| The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson | Ethics |
| Love Must Not Be Forgotten by Zhang Jie | Trials and Adversity |
| The Lover by Marguerite Duras | Growing Up |
| The Lover of Horses by Tess Gallagher | Friendships and Interactions |
| Lovers' Choice by Becky Birtha | Identity |
| Loving and Giving by Molly Keane | Families |
| Loving in the War Years by Cherríe Moraga | Heritage |
| The Löwensköld Ring by Selma Lagerlöf | Imagined Worlds |
| Magic Eyes: Scenes from an Andean Childhood by Wendy Ewald | Trials and Adversity |
| The Magnificent Spinster: A Novel by May Sarton | Choices |
| The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World by Ethel Johnston Phelps | Imagined Worlds |
| Mama Blanca's Memoirs by Teresa de la Parra | Growing Up |
| Mama Day by Gloria Naylor | Ways of Knowing |
| Man Made Language by Dale Spender | Ways of Knowing |
| Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography by Vicki Goldberg | Art |
| Margins by Terri De LA Pena | Identity |
| Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell | Ethics |
| Mary O'Grady by Mary Lavin | Mothers and Mothering |
| Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser | Power |
| Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks | Families |
| May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India by Elisabeth Bumiller | Observations |
| Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan | Power |
| The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers | Growing Up |
| The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea by Hyegyŏnggung Hong Ssi | Power |
| Memory Board by Jane Rule | Growing Old |
| Middlemarch by George Eliot | Friendships and Interactions |
| A Midwife's Story by Penny Armstrong | Work |
| A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | Work |
| Miss Sophie's Diary and Other Stories (Panda Books) by Ding Ling | Choices |
| The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley | Imagined Worlds |
| The Mixquiahuala Letters by Ana Castillo | Friendships and Interactions |
| The Moccasin Maker by E. Pauline Johnson | Conflicting Cultures |
| Mohawk Trail by Beth Brant | Ways of Knowing |
| A Mom's Life by Kathryn Grody | Mothers and Mothering |
| The Montreal Massacre by Louise Malette | Violence |
| Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively | Growing Old |
| More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave by Ruth Schwartz Cowan | Work |
| Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston | Heritage |
| Mountain Charley; Or, The Adventures of Mrs. E.J. Guerin, Who Was Thirteen Years in Male Attire by Elsa Jane Guerin | Pioneers and Seekers |
| A Mountainous Journey: A Poet's Autobiography by Fadwa Tuqan | Trials and Adversity |
| Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist by Kathleen Alcalá | Imagined Worlds |
| Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie | Observations |
| Mute phone calls and other stories by Ruth Zernova | Places and Homes |
| My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin | Choices |
| My Father's House: A Memoir of Incest and of Healing by Sylvia Fraser | Trials and Adversity |
| My Friend Annie by Jane Duncan | Growing Up |
| My Mother's House and Sido by Colette | Places and Homes |
| My Place by Sally Morgan | Heritage |
| My Story: The Compelling Autobiography of the Most Contreversial Indian Writer by Kamala Das | Ways of Knowing |
| My Ántonia by Willa Cather | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Nampally Road by Meena Alexander | Identity |
| A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman | Ways of Knowing |
| Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya | Trials and Adversity |
| Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga | Heritage |
| A New Home, Who'll Follow?: or Glimpses of Western Life by Caroline M. Kirkland | Pioneers and Seekers |
| New Islands and Other Stories by María Luisa Bombal | Imagined Worlds |
| Nightwood by Djuna Barnes | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Nisei Daughter by Monica Itoi Sone | Conflicting Cultures |
| The Nocturnal Naturalist: Exploring the Outdoors at Night by Cathy Johnson | Observations |
| Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom by Brenda Maddox | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Now in November by Josephine W. Johnson | Places and Homes |
| Obasan by Joy Kogawa | Heritage |
| Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman | Ways of Knowing |
| The Odd Woman by Gail Godwin | Identity |
| Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich | Mothers and Mothering |
| On the Golden Porch by Tatyana Tolstaya | Growing Old |
| Once Upon an Eskimo Time by Edna Wilder | Heritage |
| One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens | Work |
| One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty | Art |
| Or Else, the Lightning God, and Other Stories by Catherine Lim | Trials and Adversity |
| Oroonoko by Aphra Behn | Power |
| The Other Mother: A Woman's Love for the Child She Gave Up for Adoption by Carol Schaefer | Mothers and Mothering |
| Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson | Trials and Adversity |
| Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen | Places and Homes |
| Out of Time: A Novel by Paula Martinac | Imagined Worlds |
| Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame | Families |
| The Painted Alphabet by Diana Darling | Imagined Worlds |
| Paradise by Elena Castedo | Growing Up |
| Paradise of the Blind: A Novel by Dương Thu Hương | Families |
| Passing by Nella Larsen | Choices |
| The Past Is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg | Trials and Adversity |
| Pavillion of Women by Pearl S. Buck | Growing Old |
| The Pegnitz Junction by Mavis Gallant | Identity |
| Pembroke by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| A Persian Requiem by Simin Daneshvar | Power |
| Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard | Observations |
| Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish by Sue Bender | Ways of Knowing |
| Plaintext: Essays by Nancy Mairs | Trials and Adversity |
| The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker | Observations |
| Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe by Laurie Lisle | Art |
| Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker | Ethics |
| Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| The Potter's Field by Ellis Peters | Ethics |
| The Power of Horses and Other Stories by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn | Conflicting Cultures |
| Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall | Heritage |
| Praxis by Fay Weldon | Mothers and Mothering |
| Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction by Melissa Fay Greene | Power |
| Pride of Family: Four Generations of American Women of Color by Carole Ione | Mothers and Mothering |
| Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson | Families |
| The Princesse de Cleves by Madame de La Fayette | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Proud Shoes by Pauli Murray | Heritage |
| Purple Springs by Nellie L. McClung | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America by Mary Paik Lee | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Rains of Scorpions and Other Stories by Estela Portillo Trambley | Friendships and Interactions |
| Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Real Farm by Patricia Tichenor Westfall | Ways of Knowing |
| Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier | Trials and Adversity |
| Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 by Minnie Bruce Pratt | Identity |
| The Rector's Daughter by F. M. Mayor | Families |
| Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams | Places and Homes |
| Regeneration by Pat Barker | Violence |
| Requiem by Shizuko Go | Ethics |
| The Revolution of Little Girls by Blanche McCrary Boyd | Families |
| Rich In Love by Josephine Humphreys | Growing Up |
| Rich Like Us by Nayantara Sahgal | Friendships and Interactions |
| Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good by Beverly Donofrio | Mothers and Mothering |
| Rituals of Survival: A Woman's Portfolio by Nicholasa Mohr | Families |
| A River Sutra by Gita Mehta | Friendships and Interactions |
| River Time: The Frontier on the Lower Neuse by Janet Lembke | Places and Homes |
| The Riverhouse Stories: How Pubah S. Queen and Lazy LaRue Save the World by Andrea Carlisle | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway | Growing Up |
| Road Song by Natalie Kusz | Families |
| Road Through Miyama by Leila Philip | Art |
| The Roots of Ticasuk: An Eskimo Woman's Family Story by Ticasuk | Heritage |
| Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change by Sherna Berger Gluck | Work |
| Ruth Hall and Other Writings by Fanny Fern | Work |
| Saint and Strangers (Black Venus) by Angela Carter | Imagined Worlds |
| The Samaritan Treasure by Marianne Luban | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Sans Souci: And Other Stories by Dionne Brand | Conflicting Cultures |
| Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo by Ntozake Shange | Ways of Knowing |
| The Scent of the Gods by Fiona Cheong | Conflicting Cultures |
| Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras: Chilean Women and the Pinochet Dictatorship by Marjorie Agosín | Violence |
| The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir | Ways of Knowing |
| Second-Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta | Trials and Adversity |
| Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. Revised and Updated with four new stories. by Hisaye Yamamoto | Friendships and Interactions |
| Seventh Garment by Eugenia Fakinou | Heritage |
| Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman | Conflicting Cultures |
| The Shawl: A Story and Novella by Cynthia Ozick | Identity |
| The Ship of Fools by Cristina Peri Rossi | Imagined Worlds |
| Silences by Tillie Olsen | Art |
| Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood by Judith Ortiz Cofer | Growing Up |
| Silent Spring by Rachel Carson | Ethics |
| Singing Softly/Cantando Bajito by Carmen De Monteflores | Families |
| Sister Age by M. F. K. Fisher | Growing Old |
| Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde | Power |
| Six of One by Rita Mae Brown | Families |
| A Small Country by Sian James | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid | Ethics |
| So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ | Choices |
| Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya | Power |
| The solace of open spaces by Gretel Ehrlich | Places and Homes |
| Solitude by Víctor Català | Identity |
| Spiritual Narratives by Maria W. Stewart | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord | Heritage |
| Still Loved by the Sun: A Rape Survivor's Journal by Migael Scherer | Violence |
| The stillborn by Zaynab Alkali | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence | Growing Old |
| Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Storm in the Village by Miss Read | Work |
| The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner | Ethics |
| The Story of Avis by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | Art |
| Stradbroke dreamtime by Oodgeroo Noonuccal, | Places and Homes |
| The Straight Mind by Monique Wittig | Ways of Knowing |
| Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith | Ethics |
| The Street by Ann Petry | Identity |
| Street Games by Rosellen Brown | Places and Homes |
| Sultana's Dream: A Feminist Utopia and Selections from The Secluded Ones by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain | Power |
| The Summer of the Great-Grandmother by Madeleine L'Engle | Growing Old |
| Sweet Summer: Growing up with and without My Dad by Bebe Moore Campbell | Growing Up |
| Tahuri by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku | Growing Up |
| Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black by bell hooks | Ways of Knowing |
| Talking Indian: Reflections on Survival and Writing by Anna Lee Walters | Heritage |
| Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey by Lydia Minatoya | Identity |
| Talking to the Dead by Sylvia Watanabe | Places and Homes |
| A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story by Elaine Brown | Power |
| The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain | Choices |
| There Never Was a Once upon a Time (Discoveries) by Carmen Naranjo | Growing Up |
| This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga | Heritage |
| This Child's Gonna Live by Sarah E. Wright | Trials and Adversity |
| A Thousand Acres: A Novel by Jane Smiley | Families |
| Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf | Choices |
| Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman | Choices |
| The Threshing Floor: Short Stories by Barbara Burford | Power |
| Through the Arc of the Rain Forest by Karen Tei Yamashita | Imagined Worlds |
| Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson | Growing Old |
| To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | Ethics |
| Tracks by Robyn Davidson | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Tracks by Louise Erdrich | Heritage |
| Twilight and Other Stories by Shulamith Hareven | Friendships and Interactions |
| The Twilight Years by Sawako Ariyoshi | Growing Old |
| Two in the Far North by Margaret E. Murie | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival by Velma Wallis | Growing Old |
| Two Women in One by Nawal El-Saadawi | Choices |
| Typical American by Gish Jen | Ways of Knowing |
| The Ultraviolet Sky by Alma Luz Villanueva | Art |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe | Ethics |
| Various Miracles by Carol Shields | Observations |
| Veils: Short Stories by Nahid Rachlin | Conflicting Cultures |
| The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft | Power |
| Virginia by Ellen Glasgow | Mothers and Mothering |
| A Voice from the South by Anna Julia Cooper | Ethics |
| The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi | Choices |
| The Wall by Marlen Haushofer | Imagined Worlds |
| Walls: Resisting the Third Reich--One Woman's Story by Hiltgunt Zassenhaus | Ethics |
| A War of Eyes and Other Stories by Wanda Coleman | Trials and Adversity |
| Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria | Ways of Knowing |
| A Weave of Women (A Midland Book) by E. M. Broner | Friendships and Interactions |
| Weeds by Edith Summers Kelley | Identity |
| A Week Like Any Other: Novellas and Stories by Natalya Baranskaya | Work |
| The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall | Identity |
| West with the Night by Beryl Markham | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Why Is There Salt in the Sea? by Brigitte Schwaiger | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| Why Not Me?: The Story of Gladys Milton, Midwife by Wendy L. Bovard | Mothers and Mothering |
| Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang | Mothers and Mothering |
| Windbreak: A Woman Rancher on the Northern Plains by Linda M. Hasselstrom | Work |
| Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker | Places and Homes |
| Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy | Imagined Worlds |
| The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston | Heritage |
| The Woman Who Was Not All There by Paula Sharp | Mothers and Mothering |
| A Woman's Civil War: A Diary with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862 (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) by Cornelia Peake McDonald | Violence |
| Women and Appletrees by Moa Martinson | Work |
| Women in the Resistance by Margaret L. Rossiter | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan Al-Shaykh | Observations |
| Women of Shadows: A Study of the Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy by Ann Cornelisen | Places and Homes |
| The Women Outside: Meanings and Myths of Homelessness by Stephanie Golden | Power |
| Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind by Mary Field Belenky | Ways of Knowing |
| Women, Culture & Politics by Angela Y. Davis | Power |
| Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South by Shirley Abbott | Places and Homes |
| Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole | Pioneers and Seekers |
| Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory by Michelle M. Tokarczyk | Ways of Knowing |
| The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Volume 1 by Alice Dunbar-Nelson | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| The World and the Bo Tree by Helen Bevington | Observations |
| Worry Girl: Stories from a Childhood by Andrea Freud Loewenstein | Identity |
| The Writer on Her Work: New Essays in New Territory by Janet Sternburg | Art |
| Writing a Woman's Life by Carolyn G. Heilbrun | Ways of Knowing |
| Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë | Wives, Lovers, and Partners |
| The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Power |
| Yes Is Better Than No by Byrd Baylor | Violence |
| Yoruba Girl Dancing by Simi Bedford | Conflicting Cultures |
| Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism by Elly Bulkin | Ways of Knowing |
