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The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 776,536 ratings — published 1982
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,582,919 ratings — published 1985
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,430,438 ratings — published 1847
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,043,090 ratings — published 1813
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,331,557 ratings — published 1963
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,920,718 ratings — published 2022
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 285,740 ratings — published 1929
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,375,896 ratings — published 2001
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,488,005 ratings — published 2017
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 402,927 ratings — published 1937
Big Little Lies (Big Little Lies, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,164,450 ratings — published 2014
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,313,682 ratings — published 1847
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,859,592 ratings — published 2024
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 392,419 ratings — published 1892
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.69 — 234,864 ratings — published 1899
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 815,496 ratings — published 1817
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 519,077 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 — 601,088 ratings — published 1969
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 720,193 ratings — published 1989
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.77 — 379,177 ratings — published 1925
Maybe in Another Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 430,008 ratings — published 2015
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.39 — 343,626 ratings — published 2012
The Wedding People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,494,192 ratings — published 2024
Beach Read (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,809,542 ratings — published 2020
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,864,853 ratings — published 2016
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.87 — 612,546 ratings — published 2012
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 228,187 ratings — published 1927
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 329,511 ratings — published 1970
The Five-Star Weekend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 466,938 ratings — published 2023
Carrie Soto Is Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.19 — 790,684 ratings — published 2022
Mrs. Everything (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 96,526 ratings — published 2019
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 274,935 ratings — published 2019
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,501,860 ratings — published 2018
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 104,170 ratings — published 1992
Firefly Lane (Firefly Lane, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 513,053 ratings — published 2008
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,295,255 ratings — published 2004
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 336,423 ratings — published 1987
Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 318,030 ratings — published 2002
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.01 — 372,795 ratings — published 1999
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,874,387 ratings — published 2006
Happy Place (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,563,945 ratings — published 2023
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,707,364 ratings — published 2022
Big Summer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.59 — 152,486 ratings — published 2020
The Flatshare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 477,525 ratings — published 2019
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,423,381 ratings — published 2015
Winter Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 495,924 ratings — published 2010
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 352,401 ratings — published 1982
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,110,418 ratings — published 2009
Orlando (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 3.87 — 124,284 ratings — published 1928
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as womens-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 645,814 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







