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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 — 2,290,369 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,779,119 ratings
score: 684,
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Orphan Train
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Christina Baker Kline (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 461,163 ratings
score: 674,
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The Snow Child
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Eowyn Ivey (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 169,048 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 — 1,345,304 ratings
score: 579,
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6 people voted
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 1,996,838 ratings
score: 549,
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Practical Magic (Practical Magic, #1)
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Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 161,963 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 — 802,237 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 — 312,588 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 — 5,667 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 — 324,332 ratings
score: 481,
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5 people voted
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Beloved
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3.98 avg rating — 483,694 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 — 210,199 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 — 706,595 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 — 745,150 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 — 147,269 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 — 476,258 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 — 358,409 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 — 45,215 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 — 1,188,308 ratings
score: 377,
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 997,096 ratings
score: 365,
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5 people voted
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Bossypants
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3.96 avg rating — 1,048,352 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 — 506,187 ratings
score: 362,
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4 people voted
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 224,979 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 — 180,277 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 — 118,237 ratings
score: 343,
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4 people voted
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 280,767 ratings
score: 333,
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4 people voted
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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3.87 avg rating — 252,674 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 — 390,861 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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3.91 avg rating — 285,600 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 — 787,271 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 — 78,654 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 — 11,226,179 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 — 122,815 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 — 2,423,326 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 — 237,271 ratings
score: 281,
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4 people voted
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,767,740 ratings
score: 279,
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4 people voted
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Bastard Out of Carolina
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4.14 avg rating — 47,460 ratings
score: 274,
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3 people voted
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Lucky Us
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3.22 avg rating — 17,967 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 — 142,996 ratings
score: 272,
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3 people voted
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To the Lighthouse
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3.81 avg rating — 211,360 ratings
score: 263,
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3 people voted
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,250,996 ratings
score: 263,
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3 people voted
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Crow Lake
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4.01 avg rating — 28,027 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 — 26,389 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 — 194,991 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 — 829,120 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 — 215,247 ratings
score: 244,
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4 people voted
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Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)
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Gail Carriger (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 113,743 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 — 42,628 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 — 27,798 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 — 69,917 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 — 620,220 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 — 79,705 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 — 1,690,549 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 — 830,244 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 — 127,096 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 — 43,845 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 — 95,188 ratings
score: 201,
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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)
3.99 avg rating — 72 ratings
score: 198,
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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 — 35,301 ratings
score: 195,
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Eva Luna
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 58,542 ratings
score: 195,
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The Women's Room
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3.99 avg rating — 9,350 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)
4.07 avg rating — 199,779 ratings
score: 193,
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The Shipping News
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3.88 avg rating — 151,769 ratings
score: 193,
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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 230,588 ratings
score: 192,
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Fire and Hemlock
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3.96 avg rating — 11,065 ratings
score: 190,
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Testament of Youth
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4.11 avg rating — 12,311 ratings
score: 187,
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M.C. Higgins, the Great
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3.43 avg rating — 4,388 ratings
score: 186,
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The Invention of Wings
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Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 330,315 ratings
score: 184,
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The Tale of Genji
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3.72 avg rating — 14,577 ratings
score: 181,
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Kristin Lavransdatter
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4.31 avg rating — 14,199 ratings
score: 179,
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Becoming
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Michelle Obama (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 1,178,163 ratings
score: 172,
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The Girl on the Train
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Paula Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 3,245,181 ratings
score: 170,
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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3.66 avg rating — 30,085 ratings
score: 169,
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Assassination Vacation
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3.93 avg rating — 47,137 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 — 54,496 ratings
score: 167,
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The Lathe of Heaven
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4.13 avg rating — 86,345 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 — 106,526 ratings
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Salt to the Sea
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 250,241 ratings
score: 165,
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
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4.51 avg rating — 18,894 ratings
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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3.73 avg rating — 33,612 ratings
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The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 321,209 ratings
score: 160,
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Remarkable Creatures
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 55,132 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 — 126,401 ratings
score: 156,
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Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon, #6)
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4.05 avg rating — 11,459 ratings
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The Beans of Egypt, Maine
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3.58 avg rating — 3,852 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 272,507 ratings
score: 151,
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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4.37 avg rating — 51,260 ratings
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Brokeback Mountain
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4.02 avg rating — 51,103 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 — 11,449 ratings
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 642,010 ratings
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Going Bovine
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 35,204 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.
