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> Title: Great Books by Women Authors
> Author: Alexis Rossi
> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:21:00 -1000

On March 8th New York Public Librarys Gwen Glazer published a wonderful list of books in celebration of International Womens Day: 365 Books by Women Authors to Celebrate International Women's Day All Year [1].

In the spirit of continuing to celebrate female authors past the confines of Womens History Month, weve gathered some of these books into a special collection called Great Books by Women Authors [2] to make it easier to find your next exceptional read. You will also find these books via Open Library [3] as listed below. Happy reading!

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Great Books by Women Authors                                                   

Leila Aboulela, The Kindness of Enemies [7]                                     
Susan Abulhawa, The Blue Between Sky and Water [8]                              
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun [9]                              
Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova [10]                       
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow [11]                                       
Svetlana Alexievich, Voices From Chernobyl [12]                                 
Clare Allan, Poppy Shakespeare [13]                                             
Sarah Addison Allen, Lost Lake [14]                                             
Isabel Allende, Eva Luna [15]                                                   
Karin Altenberg, Island of Wings [16]                                           
Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies [17]                              
Tahmima Anam, The Good Muslim [18]                                              
Natacha Appanah, The Last Brother [19]                                          
Chloe Aridjis, Asunder [20]                                                     
Bridget Asher, All of Us and Everything [21]                                    
Margaret Atwood, Oryx & Crake [22]                                              
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice [23]                                           
Mariama B?, Scarlet Song [24]                                                   
Toni Cade Bambara, Those Bones Are Not My Child [25]                            
Gioconda Belli, The Inhabited Woman [26]                                        
Karen Bender, Refund [27]                                                       
Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III [28]                                            
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers [29]                               
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre [30]                                                
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights [31]                                            
Gwendolyn Brooks, The Bean Eaters [32]                                          
Lauren Buekes, The Shining Girls [33]                                           
NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names [34]                                       
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity [35]     
Leonora Carrington, The hearing trumpet [36]                                    
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee [37]                                              
Susan Choi, American Woman [38]                                                 
Kate Chopin, The Awakening [39]                                                 
Sonya Chung, Long for This World [40]                                           
Caryl Churchill, Top Girls [41]                                                 
Lucille Clifton, Mercy [42]                                                     
Simin Daneshvar, Sutra & Other Stories [43]                                     
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions [44]                                     
Edwidge Danticat, Claire of the Sea Light [45]                                  
Meaghan Daum, Unspeakable [46]                                                  
Dola de Jong, The Tree and the Vine [47]                                        
Grazia Deledda, After the Divorce [48]                                          
Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day [49]                                            
Emily Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson [50]                              
Joan Didion, Democracy [51]                                                     
Rita Dove, On the Bus With Rosa Parks [52]                                      
Yasmine El Rashidi, Chronicle of a Last Summer [53]                             
Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero [54]                                      
George Eliot, Middlemarch [55]                                                  
Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood [56]                                     
Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues [57]                                         
Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend [58]                                        
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower [59]                                       
Paula Fox, Desperate Characters [60]                                            
Lauren Francis-Sharma, Til the Well Runs Dry [61]                               
Ru Freeman, On Sal Mal Lane [62]                                                
Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances [63]                                    
Mary Gaitskill, The Mare [64]                                                   
Petina Gappah, The Book of Memory [65]                                          
Elena Garro, First love ; &, Look for my obituary [66]                          
Louise Gluck, Faithful and Virtuous Night [67]                                  
Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist [68]                                       
Jorie Graham, Erosion [69]                                                      
Linda LeGarde Grover, The dance boots [70]                                      
Paula Gunn Allen, America the Beautiful: Last Poems [71]                        
Marilyn Hacker, Names [72]                                                      
Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness [73]                                     
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun [74]                                    
Eve Harris, The Marrying of Chani Kaufman [75]                                  
Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route [76]
Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus [77]                                      
Bessie Head, The Collector of Treasures [78]                                    
Amy Hempel, Reasons to Live [79]                                                
Cristina Henriquez, The Book of Unknown Americans [80]                          
Christine Dwyer Hickey, The Cold Eye of Heaven [81]                             
Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt [82]                                      
Arlie Hochschild, The Second Shift [83]                                         
Alice Hoffman, Survival Lessons [84]                                            
Sara Sue Hoklotubbe, Deception on All Accounts [85]                             
bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics [86]                 
Keri Hulme, The Bone People [87]                                                
D??ng Thu H??ng, Paradise of the Blind [88]                                     
H? Xu?n H??ng, Spring Essence [89]                                              
Ulfat Idilbi, Grandfathers Tale [90]                                            
Elfriede Jelinek, Women As Lovers [91]                                          
Han Kang, The Vegetarian [92]                                                   
Mary Karr, The Liars Club [93]                                                  
Kazue Kato, Blue Exorcist [94]                                                  
Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey [95]                                                  
Porochista Khakpour, The Last Illusion [96]                                     
V?nus Khoury-Ghata, A House at the Edge of Tears [97]                           
Suki Kim, Without You, There Is No Us [98]                                      
Jamaica Kincaid, See Now Then [99]                                              
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible [100]                                  
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior [101]                                   
Natsuo Kirino, Out [102]                                                        
Sana Krasikov, One More Year [103]                                              
Jean Kwok, Girl in Translation [104]                                            
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland [105]                                                
Laila Lalami, Secret Son [106]                                                  
Nella Larsen, Passing [107]                                                     
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Random Family [108]                                      
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird [109]                                         
Yiyun Li, Kinder Than Solitude [110]                                            
Gloria Lis?, Departing at Dawn [111]                                            
Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star [112]                                   
Inverna Lockpezer, Cuba: My Revolution [113]                                    
Alia Mamdouh, The Loved Ones [114]                                              
Dacia Maraini, The Silent Duchess [115]                                         
Ronit Matalon, The Sound of Our Steps [116]                                     
Ayana Mathis, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie [117]                                 
Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing [118]                             
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter [119]                            
Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs [120]                                         
Ai Mi, Under the Hawthorn Tree [121]                                            
Gabriela Mistral, Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral [122]                      
Nadifa Mohamed, Black Mamba Boy [123]                                           
Lorrie Moore, Bark [124]                                                        
Marianne Moore, The Poems of Marianne Moore [125]                               
Toni Morrison, Sula [126]                                                       
Bharati Mukherjee, The Tree Bride [127]                                         
Alice Munro, Family Furnishings [128]                                           
Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head [129]                                              
Eileen Myles, School of Fish [130]                                              
Azar Nafisi, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books [131]          
Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You [132]                                   
Hualing Nieh, Mulberry and Peach [133]                                          
Sara Novi?, Girl at War [134]                                                   
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, I Do Not Come to You by Chance [135]                    
Silvia Ocampo, Thus Were Their Faces [136]                                      
Nnedi Okorafor, Binti [137]                                                     
Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic [138]                                     
Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox [139]                                                    
Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation [140]                                             
Cynthia Ozick, Foreign Bodies [141]                                             
ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere [142]                                      
Grace Paley, The Little Disturbances of Man [143]                               
Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog [144]                                         
Shahrnush Parsipur, Kissing the Sword [145]                                     
Ann Patchett, Bel Canto [146]                                                   
Anna Politkovskaya, A Russian Diary [147]                                       
Katha Pollitt, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights [148]                            
Claudia Rankine, Citizen [149]                                                  
Alifa Rifaat, Distant View of a Minaret and Others Stories [150]                
Suzanne Rivecca, Death Is Not An Option [151]                                   
Riverbend, Baghdad Burning [152]                                                
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things [153]                                    
Vedrana Rudan, Night [154]                                                      
Sonia Sanchez, Does Your House Have Lions? [155]                                
Sappho, The Complete Works of Sappho [156]                                      
Noo Saro-Wiwa, Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria [157]            
?sne Seierstad, The Angel of Grozny [158]                                       
Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton [159]                            
Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji [160]                                       
Kyung-sook Shin, Please Look After Mom [161]                                    
Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book [162]                                             
Ana Maria Shuah, The Weight of Temptation [163]                                 
Leslie Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead [164]                                  
Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars [165]                                              
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [166]                                     
Marivi Soliven, The Mango Bride [167]                                           
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost [168]                             
Susan Sontag, Styles of Radical Will [169]                                      
Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love [170]                                             
Gertrude Stein, Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and other early writings [171]               
Aoibbhean Sweeney, Among Other Things, Ive Taken Up Smoking [172]               
Elizabeth Crane, When the Messenger Is Hot [173]                                
Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement [174]                                          
Valerie Taylor, The Girls in 3-B [175]                                          
Lygia Fagunda Telles, The Girl in the Photograph [176]                          
Lynne Tillman, No Lease on Life [177]                                           
Dubravka Ugresic, Thank You For Not Reading [178]                               
Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters Street [179]                                     
Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas [180]                                
Jean Valentine, Little Boat [181]                                               
Lara Vapnyar, There Are Jews in My House [182]                                  
Marja-Liisa Vartio, The Parsons Widow [183]                                     
Josefina Vicens, The Empty Book [184]                                           
Alice Walker, The Color Purple [185]                                            
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith [186]                                                 
Eudora Welty, The Optimists Daughter [187]                                      
Phillis Wheatley, The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley [188]                          
Zoe Wicomb, You Cant Get Lost In Cape Town [189]                                
Joy Williams, The Visiting Privilege [190]                                      
G. Willow Wilson, Ms. Marvel [191]                                              
Virginia Woolf, Orlando [192]                                                   
Alexis Wright, Carpentaria [193]                                                
Sarah E. Wright, This Childs Gonna Live [194]                                   
Tiphanie Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning [195]                               
Samar Yazbek, Cinnamon [196]                                                    
Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen [197]                                                 
Haifa Zangana, Dreaming of Baghdad [198]                                        

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