Jezebel came up with a list of 75 must-read books (mostly by women). I thought it might be fun to see which ones I've read (ones I've read are crossed out). Feel free to copy if you're in the mood for another book meme.
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
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion- Excellent Women, Barbara Pym
The Bell Jar, Sylvia PlathWide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys- The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert- Like Life, Lorrie Moore
Pride and Prejudice, Jane AustenJane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë- The Delta of Venus, Anais Nin
- A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (and Other Stories), Flannery O'ConnorThe Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx- You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, Alice Walker
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee- Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
- Earthly Paradise, Colette
- Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
- Property, Valerie Martin
- Middlemarch, George Eliot
Annie John, Jamaica KincaidThe Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir- Runaway, Alice Munro
- The Heart is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
- You Must Remember This, Joyce Carol Oates
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott- Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill
The Liars' Club, Mary KarrI Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya AngelouA Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith- And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison- The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Little Disturbances of Man, Grace Paley- The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
- The Group, Mary McCarthy
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi- The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne FrankFrankenstein, Mary Shelley- Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag
- In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
- The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
- Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
- Three Junes, Julia Glass
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft- Sophie's Choice, William Styron
- Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
- Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
Gone with the Wind, Margaret MitchellThe Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin- The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
- The Face of War, Martha Gellhorn
My Antonia, Willa Cather- Love In The Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Harsh Voice, Rebecca West
- Spending, Mary Gordon
- The Lover, Marguerite Duras
- The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
- Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen
- Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
- Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons- I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
Possession, A.S. Byatt
