1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: titles written by women

• A Day Off, by Storm Jameson (1933)
• A Question of Power, by Bessie Head (1973)
• A Severed Head, by Iris Murdoch (1961)
• Adam Bede, by George Eliot (1859)
• Alberta and Jacob, by Cora Sandel (1926)
• Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood (1996)
• Anagrams, by Lorrie Moore (1986)
• Andrea, by Carmen Laforet (1945)
• Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid (1985)
• As If I Am Not There, by Slavenka Drakulic (1999)
• Asphodel, by H.D. (1992)
• Astradeni, by Eugenia Fakinou (1991)
• Beloved, by Toni Morrison (1987)
• Blaming, by Elizabeth Taylor (1976)
• Blood and Guts in High School, by Kathy Acker (1984)
• Bonjour Tristesse, by Francoise Sagan (1954)
• Burger's Daughter, by Nadine Gordimer (1979)
• Camilla, by Fanny Burney (1796)
• Carry Me Down, by M.J. Hyland (2006)
• ✔ Castle Rackrent, by Maria Edgeworth (1800)
• Cider with Rosie, by Laurie Lee (1959)
• Claudine's House, by Colette (1922)
• Clear Light of Day, by Anita Desai (1980)
• Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons (1932)
• Cost, by Roxana Robinson (2008)
• Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1853)
• Crossfire, by Miyabe Miyuki (1998)
• Delta of Venus, by Anais Nin (1977)
• Democracy, by Joan Didion (1984)
• Emma, by Jane Austen (1816)
• ✔ Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton (1911)
• Eva Trout, by Elizabeth Bowen (1968)
• Evelina, by Fanny Burney (1778)
• Everything That Rises Must Converge, by Flannery O'Connor (1965)
• Excellent Women, by Barbara Pym (1952)
• Faces in the Water, by Janet Frame (1961)
• Fall on Your Knees, by Ann-Marie MacDonald (1996)
• Fear and Trembling, by Amelie Nothomb (1999)
• Fear of Flying, by Erica Jong (1973)
• Fool's Gold, by Maro Douka (1979)
• Forever a Stranger, by Hella Haasse (1996)
• ✔ Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818)
• Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels (1996)
• Girl with Green Eyes, by Edna O'Brien (1962)
• Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
• Good Morning, Midnight, by Jean Rhys (1939)
• Gosta Berling's Saga, by Selma Lagerlof (1891)
• Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006)
• Hallucinating Foucault, by Patricia Duncker (1996)
• Here's to You, Jesusa!, by Elena Poniatowska (1969)
• Hideous Kinky, by Esther Freud (1992)
• Home, by Marilynne Robinson (2008)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou (1970)
• Indigo, by Marina Warner (1992)
• Interview with the Vampire, by Anne Rice (1976)
• ✔ Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte (1847)
• July's People, by Nadine Gordimer (1981)
• Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto (1987)
• Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Undset (1920-2)
• Land, by Park Kgong-ni (1969-94)
• Leaden Wings, by Zhang Jie (1981)
• Life and Death of Harriett Frean, by May Sinclair (1922)
• Life is a Caravanserai, by Emine Sevgi Ozdamar (1992)
• Like Life, by Lorrie Moore (1990)
• Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel (1989)
• Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
• Lives of Girls & Women, by Alice Munro (1971)
• Looking for the Possible Dance, by A.L. Kennedy (1993)
• Love in a Cold Climate, by Nancy Mitford (1949)
• Love in Excess, by Eliza Haywood (1719)
• Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich (1984)
• Love's Work, by Gillian Rose (1995)
• Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen (1814)
• Margot and the Angels, by Kristien Hemmerechts (1997)
• Memoirs of Hadrian, by Marguerite Yourcenar (1951)
• Memoirs of Rain, by Sunetra Gupta (1992)
• Middlemarch, by George Eliot (1871-2)
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, by Winifred Watson (1938)
• ✔ Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf (1925)
• Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy L. Sayers (1933)
• Nervous Conditions, by Tsitsi Dangaremba (1988)
• Nights at the Circus, by Angela Carter (1984)
• Nightwood, by Djuna Barnes (1936)
• North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1855)
• Of Love and Shadows, by Isabel Allende (1987)
• Orlando, by Virginia Woolf (1928)
• Oroonoko, by Aphra Behn (1688)
• Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen (1937)
• Paradise of the Blind, by Duong Thu Huong (1988)
• Passing, by Nella Larsen (1929)
• Patterns of Childhood, by Christa Wolf (1976)
• Pavel's Letters, by Monika Maron (1999)
• Pilgrimage, by Dorothy Richardson (1967)
• Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren (1945)
• Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion (1970)
• Possessing the Secret of Joy, by Alice Walker (1992)
• Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen (1813)
• Quartet in Autumn, by Barbara Pym (1977)
• Quicksand, by Nella Larsen (1928)
• Reasons to Live, by Amy Hempel (1985)
• ✔ Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
• Regeneration, by Pat Barker (1991)
• Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen (1811)
• Sexing the Cherry, by Jeanette Winterson (1989)
• Silas Marner, by George Eliot (1861)
• Simon and the Oaks, by Marianne Fredriksson (1985)
• So Long a Letter, by Mariama Ba (1979)
• Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., by Edith Somerville and Violet Martin/Martin Ross (1899)
• Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison (1977)
• Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky (2004)
• Summer Will Show, by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1936)
• Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood (1972)
• Testament of Youth, by Vera Brittain (1933)
• The Accidental, by Ali Smith (2005)
• The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (1920)
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein (1933)
• The Awakening, by Kate Chopin (1899)
• The Back Room, by Carmen Martin Gaite (1978)
• The Beggar Maid, by Alice Munro (1978)
• ✔ The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (1963)
• The Bell, by Iris Murdoch (1958)
• The Bitter Glass, by Eilis Dillon (1958)
• The Blind Side of the Heart, by Julia Franck (2007)
• The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison (1970)
• The Children's Book, by A.S. Byatt (2009)
• The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (1982)
• The Commandant, by Jessica Anderson (1975)
• The Country Girls, by Edna O'Brien (1960)
• The Devil's Pool, by George Sand (1845)
• The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)
• The Diviners, by Margaret Laurence (1974)
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery (2006)
• The End of the Story, by Lydia Davis (1995)
• The Female Quixote, by Charlotte Lennox (1752)
• The First Garden, by Anne Hebert (1988)
• The Gathering, by Anne Enright (2007)
• The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker (1996)
• The Girls of Slender Means, by Muriel Spark (1963)
• The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy (1997)
• The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing (1962)
• The Grass is Singing, by Doris Lessing (1950)
• ✔ The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood (1985)
• The Heat of the Day, by Elizabeth Bowen (1949)
• The Holder of the World, by Bharati Mukherjee (1993)
• The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector (1977)
• ✔ The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton (1905)
• The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende (1982)
• The House with the Blind Glass Windows, by Herbjorg Wassmo (1981)
• The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai (2006)
• The Laws, by Connie Palmen (1991)
• The Lover, by Marguerite Duras (1984)
• The Making of Americans, by Gertrude Stein (1925)
• The Man Who Loved Children, by Christina Stead (1940)
• The Mandarins, by Simone de Beauvoir (1954)
• The Manors of Ulloa, by Emilia Pardo Bazan (1886)
• The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot (1860)
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie (1926)
• The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, by Dubravka Ugresic (1999)
• The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe (1794)
• The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri (2003)
• The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy L. Sayers (1934)
• The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty (1972)
• The Passion According to G.H., by Clarice Lispector (1964)
• The Piano Teacher, by Elfriede Jelinek (1983)
• The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark (1961)
• The Princess of Cleves, by Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette (1678)
• The Professor's House, by Willa Cather (1925)
• The Quest for Christa T., by Christa Wolf (1968)
• The Radiant Way, by Margaret Drabble (1987)
• The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein, by Marguerite Duras (1964)
• The Return of the Soldier, by Rebecca West (1918)
• The Sea, the Sea, by Iris Murdoch (1978)
• The Secret History, by Donna Tartt (1992)
• The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx (1993)
• The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields (1993)
• The Story of O, by Pauline Reage (1954)
• The Summer Book, by Tove Jansson (1972)
• The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu (11th C)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith (1955)
• ✔ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte (1848)
• The Thinking Reed, by Rebecca West (1936)
• The Tin Flute, by Gabrielle Roy (1945)
• The Trick is to Keep Breathing, by Janice Galloway (1989)
• The Twilight Years, by Sawako Ariyoshi (1972)
• The Twins, by Tessa de Loo (1993)
• The Vice Consul, by Marguerite Duras (1966)
• The Virgin in the Garden, by A.S. Byatt (1978)
• ✔ The Waves, by Virginia Woolf (1931)
• The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall (1928)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
• them, by Joyce Carol Oates (1969)
• ✔ To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (1960)
• ✔ To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf (1927)
• To the North, by Elizabeth Bowen (1932)
• Transit, by Anna Seghers (1944)
• Troubling Love, by Elena Ferrante (1995)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
• Under the Net, by Iris Murdoch (1954)
• What I Loved, by Siri Hustvedt (2003)
• White Teeth, by Zadie Smith (2000)
• Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys (1966)
• Wild Swans, by Jung Chang (1991)
• Wise Blood, by Flannery O'Connor (1952)
• Woman at Point Zero, by Nawal El Saadawi (1975)
• Written on the Body, by Jeanette Winterson (1992)
• ✔ Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte (1847)