Samantha Ellis' Heroines Book List

• Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen
• The Hero With a Thousand Faces | Joseph Campbell
• Fairy Tales | Hans Christian Andersen
• The Story of Henny Penny | Anon.
• Il Pentamerone | Giambattista Basile
• The Bloody Chamber | Angela Carter
• Woman Hating | Andrea Dworkin
• Grimm's Fairy Tales | Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
• Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times With Morals | Charles Perrault
• Transformations | Anne Sexton
• Titus Andronicus | William Shakespeare
• From the Beast to the Blonde | Marina Warner
• The Beauty Myth | Naomi Wolf
• Little Women | Louisa May Alcott
• Good Wives | Louisa May Alcott
• Little Men | Louisa May Alcott
• Jo's Boys | Louisa May Alcott
• A Long Fatal Love Chase | A.M. Barnard
• A Little Princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia | Richard Francis
• The Madwoman in the Attic | Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
• Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery
• Emily of New Moon | L.M. Montgomery
• The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery Vol. 1 | L.M. Montgomery
• Pollyanna | Eleanor H. Porter
• Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings | Mary Rubio
• Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
• Mansfield Park | Jane Austen
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret | Judy Blume
• Riders | Jilly Cooper
• Rivals | Jilly Cooper
• Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens
• Twilight | Stephanie Meyer
• Fat is a Feminist Issue | Susie Orbach
• Romeo and Juilet | William Shakespeare
• A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare
• Jane Austen: A Biography | Claire Tomalin
• Nights at the Circus | Angela Carter
• ✔ The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins
• Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert
• The Women's Room | Marilyn French
• The Female Eunuch | Germaine Greer
• A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen
• Fear of Flying | Erica Jong
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson
• Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell
• Southern Daughter: the Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Wind | Darden Asbury Pyron
• The Taming of the Shrew | William Shakespeare
• Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy
• Orlando | Virginia Woolf
• A Room of One's Own | Virginia Woolf
• Songs and Sonnets | John Donne
• Antonia White: A Life | Jane Dunn
• At Home in the World | Joyce Maynard
• The Portable Dorothy Parker | Dorothy Parker
• Franny and Zooey | J.D. Salinger
• Anthony and Cleopatra | William Shakespeare
• JD Salinger: A Life | Kenneth Slawenski
• A Frost in May | Antonia White
• The Savage God | Al Alvarez
• What Katy Did | Susan Coolidge
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy
• Birthday Letters | Ted Hughes
• The Silent Woman | Janet Malcolm
• The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
• Ariel | Sylvia Plath
• The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath | Sylvia Plath
• Clarissa | Samuel Richardson
• The Color Purple | Alice Walker
• In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose | Alice Walker
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Edward Albee
• Brecht on Theatre | Bertolt Brecht
• The Empty Space | Peter Brook
• Uncle Vanya | Anton Chekhov
• Private Lives | Noel Coward
• The Bacchae | Euripides
• A Room With a View | E.M. Forster
• Where Angels Fear to Tread | E.M. Forster
• Maurice | E.M. Forster
• E.M. Forster: A New Life | Wendy Moffat
• The Whicharts | Noel Streatfeild
• Ballet Shoes | Noel Streatfeild
• Marjorie Morningstar | Herman Wouk
• Lace | Shirley Conran
• A Taste of Honey | Shelagh Delaney
• When the Lights Go Down | Pauline Kael
• Joan's Book | Joan Littlewood
• Lovely Me: Life of Jacqueline Susann | Barbara Seaman
• Valley of the Dolls | Jacqueline Susann
• The Love Machine | Jacqueline Susann
• Once is Not Enough | Jacqueline Susann
• The Brontes | Juliet Barker
• Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte
• Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte
• Glass, Iron and God | Anne Carson
• Jamaica Inn | Daphne Du Maurier
• The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte | Daphne Du Maurier
• Reflections on the Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco
• Women Who Run With the Wolves | Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• The Bronte Myth | Lucasta Miller
• Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys
• Emma | Jane Austen
• Persuasion | Jane Austen
• The Murder at the Vicarage | Agatha Christie
• Consequences | E.M. Delafield
• Great Expectations | Charles Dickens
• Bridget Jones's Diary | Helen Fielding
• Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons
• Notes on a Scandal | Zoe Heller
• South Riding | Winifred Holtby
• Little House in the Big Woods | Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Little House on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder
• On the Banks of Plum Creek | Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Singled Out | Virginia Nicholson
• The Barbara Pym Cookbook | Hilary Pym and Honor Wyatt
• Excellent Women | Barbara Pym
• All Passion Spent | Vita Sackville-West
• Lolly Willowes | Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Summer Will Show | Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Mary Poppins | P.L. Travers
• To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf
• The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights | Anon., Translated | Malcolm Lyons and Ursula Lyons
• The Lucky Chance | Aphra Behn
• Killing Floor | Lee Child
• Breakfast at Tiffany's | Truman Capote
• Just Kids | Patti Smith