500 Great Books By Women discussion

Included Thus Far
Dalkey Archive Press
Europa Editions
New Directions Publishing
New York Review of Books Classics (NYRB)
Penguin Classics
Penguin Modern Classics
Virago Modern Classics


Dalkey Archive Press

Cleaned Out - Annie Ernaux
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes (also New Directions)

Additions by Members of Goodreads
Miss Macintosh, My Darling - Marguerite Young


Europa Editions

The Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante


New Directions Publishing

The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes (also Dalkey)

Additions by Members of Goodreads
Textermination - Christine Brooke-Rose
Visitation - Jenny Erpenbeck
Where Europe Begins: Stories - Yōko Tawada


New York Review of Books Classics (NYRB)

The Bridge of Beyond - Simone Schwarz-Bart
The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim (also PMC, VMC)
The Fountain Overflows - Rebecca West (also VMC)
Lolly Willowes; or The Loving Huntsman - Sylvia Townsend Warner (also VMC)

Additions by Members of Goodreads
Alice James - Jean Strouse
Love in a Fallen City - Eileen Chang
Pitch Dark - Renata Adler
Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick (also VMC)
The Slynx - Tatyana Tolstaya
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
The Ten Thousand Things - Maria Dermoût


Penguin Classics

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Heptameron - Marguerite de Navarre
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (also VMC)
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (also VMC)

Additions by Members of Goodreads
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil - Hannah Arendt
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (also VMC)


Penguin Modern Classics

AIDS and Its Metaphors (as within Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors) - Susan Sontag
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim (also NYRB, VMC)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

The Lottery and Other Stories - Shirley Jackson
Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
Out of Africa - Karen Blixen
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir

Additions by Members of Goodreads
Love in a Fallen City - Eileen Chang
The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf


Virago Modern Classics

Daddy Was a Number Runner - Louise Meriwether
Daughter of Earth - Agnes Smedley
Dear Departed - Marguerite Yourcenar
Ellen Foster - Kaye Gibbons
Emma - Jane Austen

The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim (also NYRB, PMC)
Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
The Fountain Overflows - Rebecca West (also NYRB)
The Getting of Wisdom - Ethel Florence Lindsay Richardson (Henry Handel Richardson)
The Group - Mary McCarthy

The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (also PC)
The Living is Easy - Dorothy West
Lolly Willowes; or The Loving Huntsman - Sylvia Townsend Warner (also NYRB)
Mary O'Grady - Mary Josephine Lavin

My Ántonia - Willa Cather
My Brilliant Career - Stella Marie Sarah Miles Franklin (Miles Franklin)
Now in November - Josephine Winslow Johnson
The Odd Woman - Gail Godwin
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

The Rector's Daughter - F.M. Mayor
The Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner
The Street - Ann Petry
The Time of the Doves - Mercè Rodoreda (VMC Title: In Diamond Square)
The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall

West with the Night - Beryl Markham
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (also PC)
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Additions by Members of Goodreads
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
Family Money - Nina Bawden
The Land of Spices - Kate O'Brien
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (also VMC)
The Skin Chairs - Barbara Comyns

Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick (also NYRB)
The White Bird Passes - Jessie Kesson
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles