> Feed: Internet Archive Blogs > 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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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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