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The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 772,907 ratings — published 1982
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,559,656 ratings — published 1985
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,413,351 ratings — published 1847
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,007,732 ratings — published 1813
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,314,009 ratings — published 1963
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,901,719 ratings — published 2022
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 281,237 ratings — published 1929
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,372,947 ratings — published 2001
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,430,847 ratings — published 2017
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 400,542 ratings — published 1937
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,820,007 ratings — published 2024
Big Little Lies (Big Little Lies, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,151,208 ratings — published 2014
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,292,486 ratings — published 1847
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 386,887 ratings — published 1892
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.69 — 233,634 ratings — published 1899
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 809,810 ratings — published 1817
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 514,212 ratings — published 1987
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 598,078 ratings — published 1969
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 718,624 ratings — published 1989
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.77 — 374,822 ratings — published 1925
Maybe in Another Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 424,813 ratings — published 2015
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.39 — 341,638 ratings — published 2012
The Wedding People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,438,586 ratings — published 2024
Beach Read (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,788,620 ratings — published 2020
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,831,371 ratings — published 2016
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.87 — 610,558 ratings — published 2012
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 226,046 ratings — published 1927
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 323,187 ratings — published 1970
The Five-Star Weekend (Sommer in Nantucket, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 450,074 ratings — published 2023
Carrie Soto Is Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.19 — 781,713 ratings — published 2022
Mrs. Everything (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 96,254 ratings — published 2019
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 273,527 ratings — published 2019
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 102,801 ratings — published 1992
Firefly Lane (Firefly Lane, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 508,440 ratings — published 2008
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,291,701 ratings — published 2004
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 334,917 ratings — published 1987
Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 317,606 ratings — published 2002
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.01 — 371,317 ratings — published 1999
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,870,174 ratings — published 2006
Happy Place (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,548,647 ratings — published 2023
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,689,387 ratings — published 2022
Big Summer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.59 — 152,146 ratings — published 2020
The Flatshare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 474,548 ratings — published 2019
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,471,534 ratings — published 2018
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,378,715 ratings — published 2015
Winter Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 487,606 ratings — published 2010
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 347,487 ratings — published 1982
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,096,894 ratings — published 2009
Orlando (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.87 — 122,849 ratings — published 1928
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 643,653 ratings — published 1997
“I suppose this is what you would call unwomanly; but I have got into a habit of expressing myself. It doesn't matter to me, and you may think me unwomanly if you like.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening
“One of these days," she said, "I am going to pull myself together for a while and think - try to determine what character of a woman I am; for, candidly, I don't know.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening







