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Favorite Works By Female Authors
This is a list of the favorite works of female authors initially complied by a group of friends who all happen to work in academia. It is not a list of authors, but rather a list of works.
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,274,125 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,731,178 ratings
score: 684,
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7 people voted
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Orphan Train
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Christina Baker Kline (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 459,776 ratings
score: 674,
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7 people voted
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The Snow Child
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Eowyn Ivey (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 167,645 ratings
score: 645,
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7 people voted
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The Secret Life of Bees
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Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 1,341,304 ratings
score: 579,
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6 people voted
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 1,973,007 ratings
score: 549,
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6 people voted
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Practical Magic (Practical Magic, #1)
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Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 156,653 ratings
score: 508,
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6 people voted
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Revenge in 3 Parts (Angeline Porter Trilogy #1)
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Valerie J. Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 45 ratings
score: 498,
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5 people voted
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 797,614 ratings
score: 492,
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5 people voted
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The House of the Spirits
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 308,403 ratings
score: 489,
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5 people voted
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Mambo in Chinatown
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Jean Kwok (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 5,651 ratings
score: 484,
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5 people voted
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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4.28 avg rating — 322,768 ratings
score: 481,
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5 people voted
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Beloved
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3.97 avg rating — 480,048 ratings
score: 463,
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5 people voted
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Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
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4.04 avg rating — 209,405 ratings
score: 434,
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5 people voted
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The Joy Luck Club
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 704,939 ratings
score: 403,
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5 people voted
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 740,867 ratings
score: 401,
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5 people voted
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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4.26 avg rating — 145,053 ratings
score: 390,
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5 people voted
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The Light Between Oceans
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M.L. Stedman (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 474,833 ratings
score: 386,
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4 people voted
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Still Alice
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Lisa Genova (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 357,150 ratings
score: 383,
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4 people voted
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Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
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4.03 avg rating — 45,151 ratings
score: 381,
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5 people voted
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The Bell Jar
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4.05 avg rating — 1,170,620 ratings
score: 377,
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5 people voted
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 992,883 ratings
score: 365,
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5 people voted
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Bossypants
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3.96 avg rating — 1,044,726 ratings
score: 363,
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4 people voted
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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4.30 avg rating — 502,456 ratings
score: 362,
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4 people voted
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 223,607 ratings
score: 359,
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4 people voted
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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4.34 avg rating — 178,272 ratings
score: 352,
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4 people voted
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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3.99 avg rating — 117,454 ratings
score: 343,
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4 people voted
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| 28 |
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 279,693 ratings
score: 333,
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4 people voted
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| 29 |
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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3.87 avg rating — 251,104 ratings
score: 319,
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4 people voted
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Like Water for Chocolate
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3.95 avg rating — 389,079 ratings
score: 319,
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4 people voted
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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3.92 avg rating — 277,356 ratings
score: 317,
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4 people voted
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The Poisonwood Bible
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4.11 avg rating — 783,314 ratings
score: 301,
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4 people voted
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These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8)
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4.22 avg rating — 78,317 ratings
score: 289,
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3 people voted
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,138,737 ratings
score: 286,
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4 people voted
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Gilead (Gilead, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 121,865 ratings
score: 284,
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3 people voted
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,407,803 ratings
score: 284,
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3 people voted
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 235,627 ratings
score: 281,
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4 people voted
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| 38 |
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,749,494 ratings
score: 279,
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4 people voted
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| 39 |
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Bastard Out of Carolina
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4.14 avg rating — 47,220 ratings
score: 274,
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3 people voted
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Lucky Us
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3.22 avg rating — 17,927 ratings
score: 272,
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3 people voted
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Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 142,576 ratings
score: 272,
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3 people voted
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| 42 |
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To the Lighthouse
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3.81 avg rating — 209,119 ratings
score: 263,
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3 people voted
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| 42 |
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,247,632 ratings
score: 263,
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3 people voted
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Crow Lake
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4.01 avg rating — 27,759 ratings
score: 257,
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3 people voted
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The Ship Who Sang (Brainship, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 26,325 ratings
score: 256,
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3 people voted
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 194,734 ratings
score: 253,
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3 people voted
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Dark Places
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 822,211 ratings
score: 244,
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3 people voted
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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4.10 avg rating — 212,155 ratings
score: 244,
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4 people voted
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| 49 |
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Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)
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Gail Carriger (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 113,526 ratings
score: 239,
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3 people voted
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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3.97 avg rating — 42,175 ratings
score: 239,
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4 people voted
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King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian
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4.22 avg rating — 27,739 ratings
score: 236,
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3 people voted
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Terrier (Beka Cooper, #1)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 69,855 ratings
score: 232,
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3 people voted
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The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 616,415 ratings
score: 226,
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3 people voted
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The Dovekeepers
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Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 79,468 ratings
score: 218,
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3 people voted
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Water for Elephants
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Sara Gruen (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 1,685,489 ratings
score: 217,
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3 people voted
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Room
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Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 827,896 ratings
score: 215,
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3 people voted
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Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
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Elizabeth Wein (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 126,414 ratings
score: 215,
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3 people voted
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Blood and Chocolate
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3.80 avg rating — 43,789 ratings
score: 204,
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3 people voted
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 93,980 ratings
score: 201,
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3 people voted
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Stony Kill
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Marie White Small (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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Amarna Book I: Book of Ida
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Grea Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 71 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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Rebellion Book I: Book of Quay
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Grea Alexander (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 197,
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
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Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 35,162 ratings
score: 195,
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2 people voted
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Eva Luna
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 58,003 ratings
score: 195,
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The Women's Room
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3.99 avg rating — 9,314 ratings
score: 195,
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Cabello: Mineau (Cabello #1)
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Grea Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 55 ratings
score: 195,
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The Pack: Addison (The Pack, #1)
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Grea Alexander (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 195,
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Miael: Family
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Grea Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings
score: 195,
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 198,323 ratings
score: 193,
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The Shipping News
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3.88 avg rating — 151,243 ratings
score: 193,
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3 people voted
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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 228,952 ratings
score: 192,
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Fire and Hemlock
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3.96 avg rating — 11,027 ratings
score: 190,
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Testament of Youth
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4.11 avg rating — 12,259 ratings
score: 187,
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M.C. Higgins, the Great
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3.43 avg rating — 4,377 ratings
score: 186,
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The Invention of Wings
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Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 329,107 ratings
score: 184,
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The Tale of Genji
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3.72 avg rating — 14,447 ratings
score: 181,
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Kristin Lavransdatter
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4.31 avg rating — 14,022 ratings
score: 179,
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Becoming
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Michelle Obama (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 1,168,604 ratings
score: 172,
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The Girl on the Train
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Paula Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 3,223,074 ratings
score: 170,
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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3.66 avg rating — 29,542 ratings
score: 169,
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Assassination Vacation
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3.93 avg rating — 47,064 ratings
score: 169,
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500 Great Books by Women
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Erica Bauermeister (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 193 ratings
score: 168,
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Cold Comfort Farm
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3.88 avg rating — 54,115 ratings
score: 167,
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The Lathe of Heaven
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4.13 avg rating — 85,223 ratings
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Read or Die: A Story of Survival, Hope, and How a Life Was Saved One Book at a Time
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Daphne Russell (Goodreads Author)
4.65 avg rating — 57 ratings
score: 166,
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On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
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4.23 avg rating — 106,098 ratings
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Salt to the Sea
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 247,218 ratings
score: 165,
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
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4.51 avg rating — 18,649 ratings
score: 162,
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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3.73 avg rating — 33,406 ratings
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The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 318,838 ratings
score: 160,
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Remarkable Creatures
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 54,794 ratings
score: 158,
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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Karen Joy Fowler (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 126,001 ratings
score: 156,
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Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon, #6)
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4.05 avg rating — 11,410 ratings
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The Beans of Egypt, Maine
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3.58 avg rating — 3,839 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 270,294 ratings
score: 151,
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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4.37 avg rating — 50,231 ratings
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Brokeback Mountain
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4.02 avg rating — 50,466 ratings
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
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4.04 avg rating — 11,385 ratings
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 637,024 ratings
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Going Bovine
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 35,162 ratings
score: 145,
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Anyone can add books to this list.
How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
