Women's Stories

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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
33,097 members
472 reviews
4
5 Members
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Explanations
aulsmith: Family of women.
2
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
41,680 members
416 reviews
½ 3.4
5 Members
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
93,722 members
1,510 reviews
½ 4.4
5 Members
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Explanations
aulsmith : Except for Elizabeth and Darcy's sister, I really dislike the other women in this book.
4
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
15,373 members
289 reviews
4
5 Members
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5
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
43,962 members
574 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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Explanations
aulsmith: Family of women
6
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
23,207 members
376 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
5,865 members
189 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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Explanations
aulsmith: A woman teacher at a girl's school.
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The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
9,736 members
131 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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9
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
42,089 members
1,312 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,459 members
447 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
67,789 members
1,017 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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Explanations
aulsmith : Jane's okay, but then there's the madwoman in the attic ...
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
48,296 members
1,233 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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Persuasion
by Jane Austen
33,145 members
576 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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Explanations
aulsmith: A woman learns to make her own way.
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
22,535 members
369 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
23,920 members
685 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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Ange'el
by Jamie Le Fay
4 members
5
2 Members
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
15,274 members
242 reviews
½ 3.5
4 Members
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The Stepford Wives
by Ira Levin
3,525 members
105 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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Emma
by Jane Austen
43,949 members
567 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Rosemary's Baby
by Ira Levin
5,392 members
157 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
29,730 members
426 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote
4,182 members
101 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
32,622 members
559 reviews
4
3 Members
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
by Joan Lindsay
2,239 members
70 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
21,580 members
264 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
17,750 members
391 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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These Is My Words
by Nancy E. Turner
2,027 members
92 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
6,187 members
112 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
20,353 members
312 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe
8,564 members
111 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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Daisy Miller
by Henry James
3,999 members
91 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
by Jean M. Auel
13,848 members
300 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
29,420 members
611 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
34,202 members
1,536 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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Explanations
aulsmith : There's a lot of unconscious stereotyping both of women and African-Americans in this book. I'd give it a miss.
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The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
2,945 members
22 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
6,633 members
143 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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A Room with a View
by E. M. Forster
12,559 members
246 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
10,219 members
208 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
13,622 members
243 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
19,261 members
220 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
26,701 members
1,014 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The Edible Woman
by Margaret Atwood
4,370 members
90 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Effi Briest
by Theodor Fontane
2,492 members
36 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
10,727 members
212 reviews
4
2 Members
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Burial Rites
by Hannah Kent
4,264 members
304 reviews
4
2 Members
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Manon Lescaut
by Abbé Prévost
2,362 members
59 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
3,062 members
46 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
9,493 members
433 reviews
4
Member
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
by Kate Atkinson
5,204 members
145 reviews
3.9
Member
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Jane and Prudence
by Barbara Pym
1,284 members
63 reviews
3.9
Member
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The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
by Deborah J. Swiss
228 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
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Yearning
by Kate Belle
18 members
2 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
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Dragonclaw
by Kate Forsyth
1,115 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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Air: Or, Have Not Have
by Geoff Ryman
926 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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Voss
by Patrick White
1,573 members
27 reviews
4
Member
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The Daughters of Mars
by Thomas Keneally
755 members
38 reviews
4
Member
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
by Geraldine Brooks
2,465 members
49 reviews
4
Member
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Martha Quest
by Doris Lessing
1,149 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
5,977 members
99 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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The Ladies of Missalonghi
by Colleen McCullough
1,055 members
32 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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Novel on Yellow Paper
by Stevie Smith
556 members
6 reviews
3.8
Member
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Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
by Adeline Yen Mah
2,999 members
57 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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63
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
by Anita Loos
1,117 members
34 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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Explanations
thorold: More subversive than you might think
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Excellent Women
by Barbara Pym
3,101 members
136 reviews
4
Member
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The Heart of Mid-Lothian
by Sir Walter Scott
1,226 members
18 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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66
Beauty in Thorns
by Kate Forsyth
45 members
3 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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67
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by Jeanette Winterson
6,950 members
160 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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68
The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
18,319 members
931 reviews
4
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69
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
21,242 members
1,309 reviews
4.2
Member
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70
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
14,432 members
482 reviews
4
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Anna Karenina [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.]
by Leo Tolstoy
250 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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Dolores Claiborne
by Stephen King
9,993 members
112 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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73
The Diviners
by Margaret Laurence
1,286 members
22 reviews
4.1
Member
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Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
by Christopher Moore
5,216 members
164 reviews
3.8
Member
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75
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
33,968 members
935 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
22,233 members
384 reviews
4
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77
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
23,900 members
887 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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78
The Robber Bride
by Margaret Atwood
7,950 members
139 reviews
3.8
Member
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79
Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood
9,779 members
177 reviews
3.9
Member
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80
The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
18,140 members
401 reviews
4
81
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
14,009 members
290 reviews
½ 3.6
82
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by Lisa See
12,011 members
462 reviews
4
83
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
by Rebecca Wells
11,452 members
120 reviews
½ 3.6
84
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang
9,235 members
174 reviews
4.2
85
Vagina Monologues
by V
3,607 members
64 reviews
3.8
86
Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
5,878 members
80 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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Explanations
aulsmith : An interesting choice, but I think the men are as interesting as the women
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Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
39,100 members
597 reviews
4
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The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
17,828 members
311 reviews
4.1
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