2003-06-27

Yet another addition to the Classic Books & Movies lists all over the net:

100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by Women via Feminista
Bold text = Read it
Asterisk = Read it over & over


Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings *
Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye *


Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing
Toni Cade Bambara, Gorilla, My Love
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
Pat Barker, Regeneration
Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle
Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
A.S. Byatt, Possession


Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
Ana Castillo, So Far From God
Willa Cather, My Antonia
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street

Ivy Compton-Burnett, Elders and Betters

Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa
Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
Margaret Drabble, The Radiant Way
Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca

Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
Louise Erdrich, Tracks

Penelope Fitzgerald, At Freddie's
Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe *
Janet Frame, Owls Do Cry
Marilyn French, The Women's Room

Rebecca Goldstein, The Mind-Body Problem
Nadine Gordimer, July's People
Mary Gordon, The Rest of Life

Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Janet Hobhouse, The Furies
Keri Hulme, The Bone People
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes were Watching God *

Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy
Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey
Joy Kogawa, Obasan

Margaret Laurence, The Fire-Dwellers
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird *
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Olivia Manning, The Balkan Trilogy
Leslie Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead
Mary McCarthy, The Group
Carson McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Terry McMillan, Mama
Isabel Miller, Patience and Sarah
Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
Toni Morrison, Beloved *
Bharati Mukherjee, Wife
Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women
Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head


Joyce Carol Oates, You Must Remember This
Edna O'Brien, House of Splendid Isolation
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find
Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle

Grace Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Dorothy Parker, Stories *
Jayne Anne Phillips, Black Tickets
Marge Piercy, Braided Lives
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar *
Katharine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools
Dawn Powell, The Golden Spur
E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead *
Mary Renault, The King Must Die
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things *

May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water
Mona Simpson, Anywhere But Here
Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Jane Smiley, The Age of Grief
Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Christina Stead, The Man Who Loved Children
Gertrude Stein, Three Lives

Elizabeth Taylor, Angel
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club *
Anne Tyler, If Morning Ever Comes

Jane Urquhart, Away

Alice Walker, The Color Purple *
Fay Weldon, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Eudora Welty, Stories
Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome *
Antonia White, Frost in May
Jeannette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway *

It would appear I have some reading to do.

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