100 Best Books by American Women During the Past 100 Years, 1833-1933

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100 Best Books by American Women During the Past 100 Years, 1833-1933
1
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
15,366 members
289 reviews
4
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Pollyanna
by Eleanor H. Porter
5,820 members
78 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
33,064 members
472 reviews
4
2 Members
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4
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
10,625 members
239 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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5
Daddy-Long-Legs
by Jean Webster
3,789 members
118 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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6
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Illustrated Junior Libary)
by Margaret Sidney
4,663 members
49 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The complete poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
6,022 members
41 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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8
The Cat Who Went to Heaven
by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
2,444 members
52 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Country of the Pointed Firs
by Sarah Orne Jewett
1,056 members
29 reviews
3.8
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10
Twenty Years at Hull-House
by Jane Addams
908 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
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11
Death and Taxes
by Dorothy Parker
96 members
3 reviews
4.2
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12
The Gates Ajar
by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
61 members
3 reviews
3.2
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13
Coming of Age in Samoa
by Margaret Mead
1,504 members
19 reviews
½ 3.5
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14
A New England Nun, and Other Stories
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
132 members
2 reviews
4.1
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15
The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
5,963 members
64 reviews
3.9
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16
Miss Lulu Bett
by Zona Gale
39 members
½ 3.7
Member
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17
Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
6,884 members
174 reviews
4
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18
The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story
by Anna Katharine Green
561 members
20 reviews
½ 3.3
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19
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
19,534 members
208 reviews
3.8
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20
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
4,717 members
52 reviews
½ 3.6
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21
H.D.: Collected Poems, 1912-1944
by H.D.
486 members
2 reviews
4.1
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22
Ramona
by Helen Hunt Jackson
859 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
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23
Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
by Mary Mapes Dodge
4,722 members
37 reviews
½ 3.6
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24
The Wide, Wide World
by Susan Warner
292 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
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25
Little Lord Fauntleroy
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
3,823 members
54 reviews
½ 3.6
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26
Show Boat
by Edna Ferber
527 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
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27
The Poor Little Rich Girl
by Eleanor Gates
93 members
3 reviews
4.1
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28
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
1,379 members
10 reviews
½ 3.3
29
Elsie Dinsmore
by Martha Finley
843 members
12 reviews
½ 3.3
30
The Peterkin Papers
by Lucretia P. Hale
836 members
6 reviews
3.8
31
The Lamplighter
by Maria S. Cummins
520 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
32
Renascence and Other Poems
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
489 members
13 reviews
4
33
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
by Alice Hegan Rice
482 members
8 reviews
½ 3.3
34
Mozart
by Marcia Davenport
388 members
1 review
3.8
35
To Have and to Hold
by Mary Johnston
332 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
36
Mother
by Kathleen Norris
305 members
4 reviews
½ 4.5
37
The Promised Land
by Mary Antin
295 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
38
Scarlet Sister Mary
by Julia Peterkin
240 members
7 reviews
½ 3.4
39
St. Elmo
by Augusta J. Evans
214 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
40
American Humor: a Study of the National Character
by Constance Rourke
163 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
41
The Time of Man: A Novel
by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
113 members
2 reviews
3.1
42
The House of Exile
by Nora Waln
112 members
3.8
43
The Deepening Stream
by Dorothy Canfield
102 members
1 review
½ 4.3
44
A New England Girlhood
by Lucy Larcom
84 members
1 review
4
46
Rivers to the Sea
by Sara Teasdale
65 members
1 review
4.1
47
My Story of the War
by Mary A. Livermore
61 members
1 review
½ 3.3
48
Collected Poems of Elinor Wylie
by Elinor Wylie
58 members
2
49
Pere Marquette
by Agnes Repplier
55 members
1 review
50
The Sabbath in Puritan New England
by Alice Morse Earle
53 members
1 review
½ 4.7
52
The Little French Girl
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
51 members
53
Catherine the Great
by Katharine Anthony
49 members
1 review
½ 4.5
54
Woman and the New Race
by Margaret Sanger
47 members
1 review
3
55
Grandmother Brown's hundred years, 1827-1927
by Harriet Connor Brown
42 members
1 review
½ 3.4
56
Lummox
by Fannie Hurst
41 members
1 review
2.8
57
Earth Horizon: An Autobiography
by Mary Hunter Austin
37 members
1 review
4
58
John Keats
by Amy Lowell
36 members
½ 3.5
59
The Story of a Pioneer
by Anna Howard Shaw
34 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
60
Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple
by Sophie May
34 members
4
61
My Brother Theodore Roosevelt
by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
34 members
62
Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine
by Sarah Josepha Hale
31 members
1 review
4
64
New Orleans; the place and the people
by Grace Elizabeth King
27 members
4
65
In the Tennessee Mountains
by Charles Egbert Craddock
25 members
1 review
66
Carl Akeley's Africa
by Mary L. Jobe Akeley
23 members
1 review
½ 3.5
67
Letters from New-York
by Lydia Maria Child
23 members
½ 3.5
68
Old Chester Tales
by Margaret Deland
20 members
69
History of woman suffrage
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
20 members
70
Fashion! Or, Life in New York: A Comedy with Music, in Five Acts
by Anna Cora Mowatt
19 members
½ 3.5
71
Literature and art
by Margaret Fuller
16 members
72
Alison's House: A Play in Three Acts
by Susan Glaspell
15 members
1 review
½ 3.5
74
The Piper
by Josephine Preston Peabody
12 members
1 review
5
75
Meadow-Grass: Tales of New England Life
by Alice Brown
11 members
3
76
Josiah Allen's Wife as a P.A. / P.I.: Samantha at the Centennial
by Marietta Holley
11 members
77
Angels and Amazons: A Hundred Years of American Women
by Inez Haynes Irwin
10 members
78
Fiddler's Farewell
by Leonora Speyer
9 members
1 review
5
79
The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
by Martha Dickinson Bianchi
9 members
80
Women in Industry: A Study in American Economic History
by Edith Abbott
8 members
82
Spanish highways and byways
by Katharine Lee Bates
6 members
83
On understanding women
by Mary R. Beard
5 members
1 review
5
84
Alice and Phoebe Cary's Poems
by Alice Cary
5 members
85
The selected poems of Lizette Woodworth Reese
by Lizette Woodworth Reese
4 members
4
86
When Ladies Meet: A Comedy
by Rachel Crothers
4 members
87
A Woman Tenderfoot in Egypt
by Grace Thompson Seton
4 members
88
Sun-Up: A Play In Three Acts
by Lula Vollmer
4 members
1 review
89
Poets & their art
by Harriet Monroe
3 members
91
The Led-Horse Claim: A romance of the silver mines
by Mary Hallock Foote
2 members
92
Later Lyrics
by Julia Ward Howe
2 members
93
Introduction to the Study of Variable Stars
by Caroline E. Furness
1 member
94
Honey Out of the Rock
by Babette Deutsch
1 member
95
Lyrics and Sonnets
by Edith M. Thomas
1 member
96
Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States
by D. L. Dix
1 member
97
The poems and sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton
by Louise Chandler Moulton
1 member
98
Bells at evening and other verses
by Fanny Crosby
1 member
99
Husbands and homes
by Marion Harland
1 member