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100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by Women

This list taken from the 100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by Women.

1. Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
2. Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
3. Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
4. Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing
5. Toni Cade Bambara, Gorilla, My Love
6. Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
7. Pat Barker, Regeneration
8. Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
9. Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle
10. Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
11. A.S. Byatt, Possession
12. Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
13. Ana Castillo, So Far From God
14. Willa Cather, My Antonia
15. Kate Chopin, The Awakening
16. Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
17. Ivy Compton-Burnett, Elders and Betters
18. Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
19. Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa
20. Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
21. Margaret Drabble, The Radiant Way
22. Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca
23. Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
24. Louise Erdrich, Tracks
25. Penelope Fitzgerald, At Freddie's
26. Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
27. Janet Frame, Owls Do Cry
28. Marilyn French, The Women's Room
29. Rebecca Goldstein, The Mind-Body Problem
30. Nadine Gordimer, July's People
31. Mary Gordon, The Rest of Life
32. Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
33. Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather
34. Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
35. Janet Hobhouse, The Furies
36. Keri Hulme, The Bone People
37. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes were Watching God
38. Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
39. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
40. Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
41. Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy
42. Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
43. Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey
44. Joy Kogawa, Obasan
45. Margaret Laurence, The Fire-Dwellers
46. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
47. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
48. Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
49. Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
50. Olivia Manning, The Balkan Trilogy
51. Leslie Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead
52. Mary McCarthy, The Group
53. Carson McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Cafe
54. Terry McMillan, Mama
55. Isabel Miller, Patience and Sarah
56. Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
57. Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
58. Toni Morrison, Beloved
59. Bharati Mukherjee, Wife
60. Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women
61. Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
62. Joyce Carol Oates, You Must Remember This
63. Edna O'Brien, House of Splendid Isolation
64. Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find
65. Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle
66. Grace Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
67. Dorothy Parker, Stories
68. Jayne Anne Phillips, Black Tickets
69. Marge Piercy, Braided Lives
70. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
71. Katharine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools
72. Dawn Powell, The Golden Spur
73. E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
74. Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
75. Mary Renault, The King Must Die
76. Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
77. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
78. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
79. May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
80. Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
81. Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water
82. Mona Simpson, Anywhere But Here
83. Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
84. Jane Smiley, The Age of Grief
85. Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover
86. Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
87. Christina Stead, The Man Who Loved Children
88. Gertrude Stein, Three Lives
89. Elizabeth Taylor, Angel
90. Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
91. Anne Tyler, If Morning Ever Comes
92. Jane Urquhart, Away
93. Alice Walker, The Color Purple
94. Fay Weldon, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
95. Eudora Welty, Stories
96. Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
97. Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
98. Antonia White, Frost in May
99. Jeannette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
100. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

12:20 p.m. - 2003-06-25

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