Tuesday, September 23, 2008

more books women should read

Jezebel has completed their list of 75 books every woman should read (the original post was linked below).

I've read only 44 of them . . . clearly I have some work to do!

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  1. Here are the 44 I've read:

    # The Lottery (and Other Stories), Shirley Jackson
    # To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
    # The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
    # White Teeth, Zadie Smith
    # The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
    The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
    # The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
    # Beloved, Toni Morrison
    # Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
    # Like Life, Lorrie Moore
    # Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
    # Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
    # The Delta of Venus, Anais Nin
    # A Good Man Is Hard To Find (and Other Stories), Flannery O'Connor
    # The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
    # Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
    # To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
    #Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
    # Middlemarch, George Eliot
    # Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid
    # The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
    # The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
    # Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
    # Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
    # I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
    # A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith
    # The Secret History, Donna Tartt
    # The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
    Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
    # The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
    # Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
    In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
    # Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
    # Three Junes, Julia Glass
    # A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft
    # Sophie's Choice, William Styron
    # Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
    # Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
    # The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
    # The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
    # My Antonia, Willa Cather
    # Love In The Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
    Possession, A.S. Byatt

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