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Falling Angels
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The Sea, the Sea
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The Assignation: Stories
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Lover Awakened (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #3)
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4.43 avg rating — 188,043 ratings
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Lady Knight (Protector of the Small, #4)
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The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #2)
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Megan Whalen Turner (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 49,392 ratings
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Prisoner (Kria, #1)
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Megan Derr (Goodreads Author)
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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The Slynx
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Remarkable Creatures
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The Philosopher's Pupil
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Corregidora
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The Flying Saucer Mystery (Nancy Drew, #58)
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The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)
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Bound (Kria, #2)
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The Collected Poems
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The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
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The Conservationist
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Honor
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Jaimey Grant (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 100 ratings
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The Time of Women
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My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
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The Ballad of Peckham Rye
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No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
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The Bastard Prince (Kria, #3)
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4.02 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
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Speak
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 625,365 ratings
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Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)
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Stealing Jenny
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Ellen Gable (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 1,948 ratings
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The Time: Night
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| 524 |
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Captivate (Submerged Sun, #1)
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Vanessa Garden (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 1,863 ratings
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Wilde Zwanen: drie dochters van China
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The Divorce Express
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The Secret of Red Gate Farm (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #6)
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The Realms of the Gods (Immortals, #4)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 57,551 ratings
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Five Children and It (The Psammead Trilogy, #1)
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Embrace
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Megan Derr (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 865 ratings
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The Second Sex
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Adam Bede
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The Witch Tree (Anna Denning Mystery #1)
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Karin Kaufman (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Here Comes the Messiah!
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De ontheemde
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Half the World in Winter
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Maggie Joel (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 174 ratings
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The Face on the Milk Carton (Janie Johnson, #1)
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The Phoenix and the Carpet
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Counterpoint (Song of the Fallen, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 3,615 ratings
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The Nightingale
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Bless This House
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The Piano Teacher
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| 544 |
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Wounded Spirits (Creek Country Saga, #1)
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April W. Gardner (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 524 ratings
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Because I Am Furniture
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Six Feet of the Country
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A God in Ruins (Todd Family #2)
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A Matter of Days
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3.85 avg rating — 2,461 ratings
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Nightbirds on Nantucket (The Wolves Chronicles, #3)
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Anchored (Belonging, #1)
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Rachel Haimowitz (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
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Sorcerer's Son (The Book of Elementals, #1)
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Demon
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Tosca Lee (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 3,556 ratings
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Вилла Рено
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My Sons Story
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| 554 |
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Impulse (Submerged Sun, #2)
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Vanessa Garden (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 607 ratings
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| 554 |
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Stitch (Stitch Trilogy, #1)
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Samantha Durante (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 1,280 ratings
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Squire (Protector of the Small, #3)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 54,870 ratings
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| 562 |
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The Tricksters
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Where He Belongs (Belonging, #0.5)
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Rachel Haimowitz (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery (Bunnicula, #1)
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World of Strangers
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| 562 |
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Stay
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Deb Caletti (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 11,316 ratings
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Second-Class Citizen
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The Second-Last Woman in England
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Maggie Joel (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 303 ratings
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The 13th Continuum (Continuum #1)
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Jennifer Brody (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 497 ratings
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The Book of Atrix Wolfe
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My Fair Captain (Sci-Regency #1)
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Little Birds
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The Judging (The Corescu Chronicles #1)
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Ellen C. Maze (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Waiting for You
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Susane Colasanti (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 21,914 ratings
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The Slave Girl
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Above All Things
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Tanis Rideout (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 3,916 ratings
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Inside Out (Insider, #1)
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Maria V. Snyder (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 25,024 ratings
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The Englor Affair (Sci-Regency, #2)
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The Egypt Game (Game #1)
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The House at Sunset (House, #3)
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Awake
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The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend (Hamilton High, #1)
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Kody Keplinger (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 195,736 ratings
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Drie sterke vrouwen
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Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
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Outside In (Insider, #2)
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Maria V. Snyder (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 14,112 ratings
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Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, #1)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 67,741 ratings
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Havemercy (Havemercy, #1)
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Jaida Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 2,798 ratings
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The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, #1)
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The Last Samurai
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Asleep (Asleep, #1)
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De stenen maagden
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Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
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Fever
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Mary Beth Keane (Goodreads Author)
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A Summer to Die
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
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Król Agis
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Emily's Hope
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Ellen Gable (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Bad Manners (Lilly Bennett, #1)
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Marne Davis Kellogg (Goodreads Author)
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Jan Rap en z'n maat
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The Light Between Oceans
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M.L. Stedman (Goodreads Author)
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My favorite writers are ALWAYS women. My husband enjoys men writers more and says women are too long winded but no one was was long winded as Tolstoy.
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I like more male writers than female ones, but that's mostly because I've been exposed to more male authors in my lifetime. I'm also not a huge fan of the Brontes and Jane Austen, which are sort of the classics in terms of female lit. So far, though, none of my least favorite female authors are on this list, which is good :)Janet Evanovitch is fun reading--but not exactly on par with the likes of Carson McCullers, Simone de Beauvoir or Joan Didion.
But I like the variety so far.
I loathe Jane Austen (like Mark Twain I guess) and I like the Bronte's ok the least known one being my favorite. Carson McCullers is boring IMO and Simone may have done lots for the women's movement but is not FUN reading. I read for fun now. I have not read Joan Didion. Maybe I should create a list for FUN reading. I want to have a laugh now and again and read nothing depressing.
True--don't get me wrong. I own all the Stephanie Plum series up until number 11. I just wish I could think of more "literature" by women that isn't from 100 years ago. I also really dislike Toni Morrison, Annie Proulx and Zora Neale Hurston.
But I *do* love Dorothy Parker!
Its a wonder any women were able to write back then as they were only supposed to keep house and have babies. (not much has changed but a little) I don't care for Annie Proulx either and so far have managed to avoid reading Toni Morrison. Goodreads has forced me to read many things in order to do the quiz but I try to read strictly for pleasure now.
My sister loves Dorothy Parker too and sends me cards, labels etc with Dorothy Parker quotes. What do you recommend?
My sister loves Dorothy Parker too and sends me cards, labels etc with Dorothy Parker quotes. What do you recommend?
I would say either "The Portable Dorothy Parker" or "The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker." Really any collection that has the short story "Th Phone Call" in it is worth the price and while she's known for her wit, some of her poetry and essays are very poignant.She's my hero, either way.
Thanks, will see if I can get it from the library.
yikes! did the name of the list have to have the word 'chicks' in it.
George Eliot is my favorite female author. She isn't nearly as frilly as Austen or the Brontes and she put a lot of research into her books. I'm convinced she was a brilliant lady.
The title and description for this list is just hideous. Condescending and misogynist. Ugh. Pls don't try and do feminism any favours! This is opposite of that.
Roshio wrote: "yikes! did the name of the list have to have the word 'chicks' in it."Jodi wrote: "The title and description for this list is just hideous. Condescending and misogynist. Ugh. Pls don't try and do feminism any favours! This is opposite of that."
Oh come on, can't you see the humor in it? :-) I could, which is why I've added heaps of excellent, sometimes even more or less forgotten, books written by women.
Please. No one ever said they couldn't, not even Roald Dahl.
Foxontherun wrote: "I also really dislike Toni Morrison..."I like her work, but I'll grant you that unlike some literature, it takes me a lot of pages before I finally get into the story. Having read a book of hers for my American literature classes, I know though that I'm going to like her work, no matter if it takes me quite a while to get into it :-)
Annie Proulx and Zora Neale Hurston are still on my TBR list, so it's not possible for me to give an opinion on their work.
Why do you find it embarrassing?
Because of course women can write. It's embarrassing that of the list's creator's favourite novels 90% are by men.
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