Friday, May 28, 2021

Great Books by Women Authors

On March 29, 2021 by Alexis Rossi posted the following in the Internet Archives, I thought it worth sharing. The books listed are only a small taste of what is on the links.

On March 8th New York Public Library’s Gwen Glazer published a wonderful list of books in celebration of International Women’s Day:365 Books by Women Authors to Celebrate International Women’s Day All Year.

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

 

GREAT BOOKS BY WOMEN AUTHORS

Leila Aboulela, The Kindness of Enemies

Susan Abulhawa, The Blue Between Sky and Water

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow

Svetlana Alexievich, Voices From Chernobyl

Clare Allan, Poppy Shakespeare

Sarah Addison Allen, Lost Lake

Isabel Allende, Eva Luna

Karin Altenberg, Island of Wings

Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies

Tahmima Anam, The Good Muslim

Natacha Appanah, The Last Brother

Chloe Aridjis, Asunder

Bridget Asher, All of Us and Everything

Margaret Atwood, Oryx & Crake

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Mariama Bâ, Scarlet Song

Toni Cade Bambara, Those Bones Are Not My Child

Gioconda Belli, The Inhabited Woman

Karen Bender, Refund

Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III

Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Gwendolyn Brooks, The Bean Eaters

Lauren Buekes, The Shining Girls

NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Leonora Carrington, The hearing trumpet

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee

Susan Choi, American Woman

Kate Chopin, The Awakening

Sonya Chung, Long for This World

Caryl Churchill, Top Girls

Lucille Clifton, Mercy

Simin Daneshvar, Sutra & Other Stories

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

Edwidge Danticat, Claire of the Sea Light

Meaghan Daum, Unspeakable

Dola de Jong, The Tree and the Vine

Grazia Deledda, After the Divorce

Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day

Emily Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Joan Didion, Democracy

Rita Dove, On the Bus With Rosa Parks

Yasmine El Rashidi, Chronicle of a Last Summer

Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

George Eliot, Middlemarch

Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood

Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower

Paula Fox, Desperate Characters

Lauren Francis-Sharma, Til the Well Runs Dry

Ru Freeman, On Sal Mal Lane

Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances

Mary Gaitskill, The Mare

Petina Gappah, The Book of Memory

Elena Garro, First love ; &, Look for my obituary

Louise Gluck, Faithful and Virtuous Night

Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist

Jorie Graham, Erosion

Linda LeGarde Grover, The dance boots

Paula Gunn Allen, America the Beautiful: Last Poems

Marilyn Hacker, Names

Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

Eve Harris, The Marrying of Chani Kaufman

Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus

Bessie Head, The Collector of Treasures

Amy Hempel, Reasons to Live

Cristina Henriquez, The Book of Unknown Americans

Christine Dwyer Hickey, The Cold Eye of Heaven

Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

Arlie Hochschild, The Second Shift

Alice Hoffman, Survival Lessons

Sara Sue Hoklotubbe, Deception on All Accounts

bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Keri Hulme, The Bone People

Dương Thu Hương, Paradise of the Blind

Hồ Xuân Hương, Spring Essence

Ulfat Idilbi, Grandfather’s Tale

Elfriede Jelinek, Women As Lovers

Han Kang, The Vegetarian

Mary Karr, The Liar’s Club

Kazue Kato, Blue Exorcist

Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

Porochista Khakpour, The Last Illusion

Vénus Khoury-Ghata, A House at the Edge of Tears

Suki Kim, Without You, There Is No Us

Jamaica Kincaid, See Now Then

Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior

Natsuo Kirino, Out

Sana Krasikov, One More Year

Jean Kwok, Girl in Translation

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

Laila Lalami, Secret Son

Nella Larsen, Passing

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Random Family

Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

Yiyun Li, Kinder Than Solitude

Gloria Lisé, Departing at Dawn

Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

Inverna Lockpezer, Cuba: My Revolution

Alia Mamdouh, The Loved Ones

Dacia Maraini, The Silent Duchess

Ronit Matalon, The Sound of Our Steps

Ayana Mathis, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs

Ai Mi, Under the Hawthorn Tree

Gabriela Mistral, Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral

Nadifa Mohamed, Black Mamba Boy

Lorrie Moore, Bark

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