500 Great Books By Women discussion

Under 10 Ratings


A Bag of Stories - Edla Van Steen
A Mom's Life - Kathryn Grody


An Imagined World: A Story of Scientific Discovery - June Goodfield
Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories - Opal Palmer Adisa
Breakthrough - Mercedes Valdivieso
Circe's Mountain - Marie Luise Kaschnitz
The Clay That Breathes: A Novella and Stories - Catherine Browder

Coming Home and Other Stories - Farida Karodia
Cordelia and Other Stories - Françoise Mallet-Joris
The Day I Began My Studies in Philosophy and Other Stories - Margareta Ekström
The Devil is Loose - Antonine Maillet
Dumba Nengue: Run for Your Life: Peasant Tales of Tragedy in Mozambique - Lina Magaia

Exile in the Promised Land - Marcia Freedman
From the Lanai and Other Hawaii Stories - Jessica Saiki
Fruit Fields in My Blood: Okie Migrants in the West - Toby F. Sonneman
Heartwork - Solveig von Schoultz
Hitchhiking: Twelve German Tales - Gabriele Eckart

The Impenetrable Madame X - Griselda Gambaro
Jerusalem Plays Hide and Seek - Ariella Deem
Killing Color - Charlotte Watson Sherman
The Land of Look Behind: Prose and Poetry - Michelle Cliff
Limbo: A Memoir About Life in a Nursing Home by a Survivor - Carobeth Laird

Magic Eyes: Scenes from an Andean Girlhood - Wendy Ewald, Alicia Vásquez, María Vásquez
Mary O'Grady - Mary Josephine Lavin
The Montreal Massacre - Marie Chalouh, Louise Malette
Mountain Charley or the Adventures of Mrs. E. J. Guerin, Who Was Thirteen Years in Male Attire - Elsa Jane Guerin
Mute Phone Calls and Other Stories - Ruth Zernova

The Nocturnal Naturalist - Cathy Johnson
The Power of Horses and Other Stories - Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Rain of Scorpions and Other Stories - Estela Portillo Trambley
River Time: The Frontier on the Lower Neuse - Janet Lembke
The Roots of Ticasuk: An Eskimo Woman's Family Story - Ticasuk Brown

The Samaritan Treasure - Marianne Luban
Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras, Chilean Women, and the Pinochet Dictatorship - Marjorie Agosín
Singing Softly/Cantado Bajito - Carmen De Monteflores
Spiritual Narratives, edited by Sue E. Houchins
Talking Indian: Reflections on Survival and Writing - Anna Lee Walters

There Never Was a Once Upon a Time - Carmen Naranjo
The Threshing Floor - Barbara Burford
Why Not Me? The Story of Gladys Milton, Midwife - Wendy L. Bovard, Gladys Milton
Women in the Resistance - Margaret L. Rossiter
The Women Outside: Meanings and Myths of Homelessness - Stephanie Golden

The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Volume I - Alice Dunbar-Nelson
The World and the Bo Tree - Helen Bevington
The Worry Girl - Andrea Freud Loewenstein

Additions by Members of Goodreads

The Fourth Pig - Naomi Mitchison
The Matchbox House - Marilyn Duckworth
The World is Full of LaughterDolly Norah Sen



10 to 19 Ratings


Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir - Sissela Bok
A Belfast Woman - Mary Beckett
Blue Taxis: Stories About Africa - Eileen Drew
A Bridge Through Time - Laila Abou-Saif
A Small Country - Siân James
Call Home the Heart - Olive Tilford Dargan
The Changelings - Jo Sinclair
Changes in Latitude - Joana McIntyre Varawa

Cora Sandel: Selected Short Stories - Cora Sandel
Daughter of the Hills: A Woman's Part in the Coal Miner's Struggle - Myra Page
Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes - Irena Klepfisz
Family Album - Claribel Alegría
Ganado Red: A Novella and Stories - Susan Lowell

God Bless the Child - Kristin Hunter Lattany
Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism - Barbara MacDonald
Lover's Choice - Becky Birtha

The Moccasin Maker - E. Pauline Johnson
Mohawk Trail - Beth Brant
Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist - Kathleen Alcalá
Once Upon an Eskimo Time - Edna Wilder
Queen Lear - Molly Keane

Real-Farm - Patricia Tichenor Westfall
Rituals of Survival: A Woman's Portfolio - Nicholasa Mohr
Still Loved by the Sun: A Rape Survivor's Journal - Migael Scherer
Street Games - Rosellen Brown
Tahuri - Ngahuia Te Awekotuku

Twilight and Other Stories - Shulamith Hareven
Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory - Michelle M. Tokarczyk, Elizabeth A. Fay
The Writer on her Work, Volume II: New Essays in New Territory - Janet Sternburg

Additions by Members of Goodreads
Natural History: A Novel - Maureen Howard

20 to 49 Ratings


A War of Eyes and Other Stories - Wanda Coleman
The Amber Gods and Other Stories - Harriet Prescott Spofford
And the Bridge Is Love: Life Stories - Faye Moskowitz
Angie, I Says - Avra Wing
Awaiting Trespass - Linda Ty-Casper

The Big Mama Stories - Shay Youngblood
Black Women Writers at Work - Claudia Tate
Bobbin Up - Dorothy Hewett
Burmese Looking Glass: A Human Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution - Edith T. Mirante
The Censors - Luisa Valenzuela

Child of Her People - Anne Cameron
Christabel - Christabel Bielenberg
Claiming Breath - Diane Glancy
The Convert - Elizabeth Robins
The Dangerous Age - Karin Michaëlis

The False Years - Josefina Vicens
Forged Under the Sun/Forjado bajo el sol: The Life of María Elena Lucas - María Elena Lucas
Getting Home Alive - Aurora Levins Morales, Rosario Morales
Her - Cherry Muhanji
Islanders - Helen Hull

Kelroy - Rebecca Rush
Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir - Mamie Garvin Fields, Karen Fields
The Little Hotel - Christina Stead
Living by Water: Essays on Life, Land and Spirit - Brenda Peterson
The Loom and Other Stories - Ruth A. Sasaki

Love Must Not Be Forgotten - Zhang Jie
Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography - Vicki Goldberg
Margins - Terri de la Peña
Miss Sophie's Diary - Ding Ling
A Mountainous Journey - Fadwa Tuqan

My Friend Annie - Jane Duncan
Nampally Road - Meena Alexander
Paradise - Elena Castedo
The Pegnitz Junction - Mavis Gallant
Pembroke - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Pride of Family - Carole Ione
Purple Springs - Nellie L. McClung
Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 - Minnie Bruce Pratt
The Riverhouse Stories: How Pubah S. Queen and Lazy LaRue Save the World - Andrea Carlisle
The Road Through Miyama - Leila Philip

Rosie the Riveter Revisited - Sherna Berger Gluck
Sans Souci and Other Stories - Dionne Brand
The Scent of the Gods - Fiona Cheong
The Stillborn - Zaynab Alkali
Stradbroke Dreamtime - Oodgeroo Nunukul

Talking to the Dead - Sylvia Watanabe
This Child's Gonna Live - Sarah E. Wright
The Ultraviolet Sky - Alma Luz Villanueva
Windbreak: A Woman Rancher on the Northern Plains - Linda M. Hasselstrom
Women of the Shadows: The Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy - Ann Cornelisen

Veils - Nahid Rachlin
Virginia - Ellen Glasgow
Yes Is Better Than No - Byrd Baylor

Additions by Members of Goodreads

Amour dans une petite ville - Wang Anyi
Family Money - Nina Bawden
Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling - Carole Satyamurti
Queen Pokou: Concerto for a Sacrifice - Véronique Tadjo

Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women - Various
Wander - Jenn Manley Lee
Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon - Nicole Brossard

50 to 99 Ratings


A Farm Under a Lake - Martha Bergland
A New Home—Who'll Follow?, or Glimpses of Western Life - Caroline Kirkland
A Voice from the South - Anna Julia Cooper
A Weave of Women - E.M. Broner
A Week Like Any Other: Novellas and Stories - Natalya Baranskaya
And They Didn't Die - Lauretta G. Ngcobo

Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir - Jean Said Makdisi
Cantora - Sylvia López-Medina
The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars - Nadezhda Durova
Child of Fortune - Yūko Tsushima
City of Kings - Rosario Castellanos

Copper Crown - Lane von Herzen
Dear Departed - Marguerite Yourcenar
Dora, Doralina - Rachel de Queiroz
The Dust Roads of Monferrato - Rosetta Loy
Fifty Russian Winters - Margaret Wettlin

Fortunate Lives - Robb Forman Dew
Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Women's Sourcebook - Paula Gunn Allen
The House Tibet - Georgia Savage
In Silence - Ruth Sidransky

Incantations and Other Stories - Anjana Appachana
The Jailing of Cecelia Capture - Janet Campbell Hale
Juletane - Myriam Warner-Vieyra
Lantern Slides - Edna O'Brien
Libby: The Alaskan Diaries and Letters of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880, as Presented by her Granddaughter Betty John - Elizabeth Beaman John

The Lover of Horses - Tess Gallagher
Man Made Language - Dale Spender
New Islands and Other Stories - María Luisa Bombal
The Other Mother - Carol Schaefer

Out of Time - Paula Martinac
The Painted Alphabet - Diana Darling
Plaintext: Deciphering a Woman's Life - Nancy Mairs
Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America - Mary Paik Lee
Requiem - Shizuko Gō

Rich Like Us - Nayantara Sahgal
The Ship of Fools - Cristina Peri Rossi
Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento and Scoundrel Time - Lillian Hellman
Walls: Resisting the Third Reich, One Woman's Story - Hiltgunt Zassenhaus
Weeds - Edith Summers Kelley
The Woman Who Was Not All There - Paula Sharp

Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South - Shirley Abbott
Why Is There Salt in the Sea? - Brigitte Schwaiger
Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism - Elly Bulkin, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Barbara Smith

Additions by Members of Goodreads

Alice James - Jean Strouse
Dialogues in Paradise - Can Xue
The Expedition to the Baobab Tree - Wilma Stockenström
Ice and Fire - Andrea Dworkin

Miss Macintosh, My Darling - Marguerite Young
Takekurabe - Ichiyō Higuchi
Textermination - Christine Brooke-Rose
The White Bird Passes - Jessie Kesson


100 to 149 Ratings


The Abandoned Baobab - Ken Bugul
All But the Waltz: A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family - Mary Clearman Blew
Allegra Maud Goldman - Edith Konecky

Clay Walls - Ronyoung Kim
Cleaned Out - Annie Ernaux
Cosima - Grazia Deledda
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells - Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Deals with the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot - Pearl Cleage

The District Governor's Daughters - Camilla Collett
Eve's Tattoo - Emily Prager
The Floating World - Cynthia Kadohata
Hannah Senesh: Her Life & Diary - Hannah Senesh
The Iguana - Anna Maria Ortese
In My Mother's House - Kim Chernin

The Irish R.M. - Edith Somerville, Violet Florence Martin
The Last of the Menu Girls - Denise Chávez
Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life - Alice Childress
The Magnificent Spinster - May Sarton

On the Golden Porch - Tatyana Tolstaya
Or Else, The Lightning God & Other Stories - Catherine Lim
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories - Hisaye Yamamoto
The Seventh Garment - Eugenia Fakinou
The Story of Avis - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Sultana's Dream and Selections from The Secluded Ones - Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Talking to High Monks in the Snow - Lydia Minatoya
The Twilight Years - Sawako Ariyoshi
Yoruba Girl Dancing - Simi Bedford


Additions by Members of Goodreads

A Stranger in My Grave - Margaret Millar
The Rose Garden - Maeve Brennan
The Skin Chairs - Barbara Comyns
Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong - Hồ Xuân Hương