Elena Ferrante's 40 favourite books by female authors

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From the Guardian Newspaper Friday 20th November 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/21/elena-ferrante-names-her-40-favourite-books-by-female-authors
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The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
21,704 members
405 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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2
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
17,786 members
391 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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3
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
13,471 members
418 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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4
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9,591 members
343 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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6
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,624 members
447 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
11,224 members
657 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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8
Dear Life
by Alice Munro
3,165 members
121 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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The Fifth Child
by Doris Lessing
2,671 members
92 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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10
Accabadora
by Michela Murgia
593 members
38 reviews
4
4 Members
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11
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
15,035 members
268 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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12
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
13,242 members
282 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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13
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
12,148 members
329 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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14
Normal People
by Sally Rooney
10,820 members
367 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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15
The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
6,102 members
167 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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16
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
4,722 members
110 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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17
The Door
by Magda Szabó
2,298 members
105 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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18
The Years
by Annie Ernaux
1,846 members
73 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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19
Malina
by Ingeborg Bachmann
936 members
15 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Conservationist
by Nadine Gordimer
901 members
28 reviews
½ 3.3
3 Members
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21
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
12,170 members
397 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
4,366 members
226 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Outline
by Rachel Cusk
2,545 members
127 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Blonde
by Joyce Carol Oates
2,435 members
68 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Piano Teacher
by Elfriede Jelinek
2,252 members
39 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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26
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
by Lucia Berlin
2,224 members
77 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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27
Family Lexicon
by Natalia Ginzburg
1,611 members
35 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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28
The Passion According to G.H.
by Clarice Lispector
1,608 members
29 reviews
4
2 Members
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29
Breasts and Eggs
by Mieko Kawakami
1,579 members
38 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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30
Arturo's Island
by Elsa Morante
953 members
21 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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31
Cassandra
by Christa Wolf
833 members
14 reviews
4
2 Members
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32
The Bay Is Not Naples
by Anna Maria Ortese
249 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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33
The Bell
by Iris Murdoch
2,254 members
57 reviews
3.9
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34
Lost Children Archive
by Valeria Luiselli
1,513 members
73 reviews
3.8
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35
The Ball
by Irène Némirovsky
711 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
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36
Motherhood
by Sheila Heti
532 members
18 reviews
½ 3.6
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37
A Girl Returned
by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
466 members
26 reviews
4
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38
Disoriental
by Négar Djavadi
462 members
15 reviews
4.1
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39
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
by Shokoofeh Azar
322 members
16 reviews
½ 3.6
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40
The Love Object: Stories
by Edna O'Brien
125 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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