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Lenore's eclectic list of
good reads by women authors

* Canadian authors are denoted with an asterisk.
# If I have read more than one book by the same author, I have suggested one title and indicated more are available with the pound sign.
Anthologies

Cooke, Judy (ed.) The Minerva Anthology of 20th Century Women's Fiction

Passionate favorites

Cameron, Anne* Kick the Can #

Emecheta, Buchi Second Class Citizen #

Rule, Jane* After the Fire #

Popular reading

Elisabeth Bowers* Ladies' Night #

French, Marilyn The Women's Room #

Grafton, Sue A is for alibi #

Paretsky, Sarah Indemnity Only #

Zaremba, Eve Work for a million #

Novels & Personal accounts

Atwood, Margaret* Handmaid's Tale #

Danica, Elly Don't #

Fraser, Sylvia In My Father's House

Glaister, Lesley Honour Thy Father #

Glasscock, Sarah Anna LMNO

Gowdy, Barbara* Falling Angels #

Kogawa, Joy* Obasan #

Lau, Evelyn* Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid #

Manning, Olivia The Spoilt City #

Maracle, Lee* Ravensong #

Mukherjee, Bharati Jasmine

Murdoch, Iris The Bell

Morris, Mary Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Travelling Alone #

O'Brien, Edna Girl with Green Eyes #

Shange, Ntozake Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo #

Smiley, Jane A Thousand Acres #

Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club #

Trapido, Barbara Brother of the more Famous Jack #

Walker, Alice The Color Purple #

Anne Marie MacDonald Fall on Your Knees

Classics

Austen, Jane Sense and Sensibility #

Duras, Margariet The Lover #

Elliot, George Middlemarch

Laurence, Margaret* The Diviners #

Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar

Rhys, Jean Wide Sargasso Sea #

Non-fiction

Cameron, Julia with Mark Bryan The Artist's Way

Goldberg, Natalie Writing Down the Bones #

Lammot, Annie Bird by Bird#

Teifer, Leonora Sex is not a Natural Act

Lenore's eclectic list of good reads by women authors

Lenore's eclectic list of
good reads by women authors