Friday, April 21, 2006

Books (by women) meme

Borrowed from Elle at Living Juicy. This should be interesting. I don't get the impression about myself that I read a lot of women authors.

Rules: BOLD those you’ve read, ITALICIZE the ones you’ve been meaning to read.

    Alcott, Louisa May–Little Women
    Allende, Isabel–The House of Spirits
    Angelou, Maya–I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    Atwood, Margaret–Cat’s Eye
    Austen, Jane–Emma
    Bambara, Toni Cade–Salt Eaters
    Barnes, Djuna–Nightwood
    de Beauvoir, Simone–The Second Sex
    Blume, Judy–Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret (over and over and over again)
    Burnett, Frances–The Secret Garden
    Bronte, Charlotte–Jane Eyre
    Bronte, Emily–Wuthering Heights
    Buck, Pearl S.–The Good Earth
    Byatt, A.S.–Possession
    Cather, Willa–My Antonia
    Christie, Agatha–Murder on the Orient Express
    Cisneros, Sandra–The House on Mango Street
    Clinton, Hillary Rodham–Living History
    Cooper, Anna Julia–A Voice From the South
    Danticat, Edwidge–Breath, Eyes, Memory
    Davis, Angela–Women, Culture, and Politics
    Desai, Anita–Clear Light of Day
    Dickinson, Emily–Collected Poems
    Duncan, Lois–I Know What You Did Last Summer
    DuMaurier, Daphne–Rebecca
    Eliot, Geroge–Middlemarch
    Emecheta, Buchi–Second Class Citizen
    Erdrich, Louise–Tracks
    Esquivel, Laura–Like Water for Chocolate (I think I read this, but if not I intend to do so)
    Flagg, Fannie–Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
    Friedan, Betty–The Feminine Mystique
    Frank, Anne–Diary of a Young Girl
    Gilman, Charlotte Perkins–The Yellow Wallpaper
    Gordimer, Nadine–July’s People
    Grafton, Sue–S is for Silence
    Hamilton, Edith–Mythology
    Highsmith, Patricia–The Talented Mr. Ripley (loved the book until the ending)
    Hooks, Bell–Bone Black
    Hurston, Zora Neale–Dust Tracks on the Road
    Jacobs, Harriet–Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Jackson, Helen Hunt–Ramona
    Jackson, Shirley–The Haunting of Hill House
    Jong, Erica–Fear of Flying
    Keene, Carolyn–The Nancy Drew Mysteries (any of them)
    Kidd, Sue Monk–The Secret Life of Bees (in the process of listening to the book on tape still)
    Kincaid, Jamaica–Lucy
    Kingsolver, Barbara–The Poisonwood Bible (again, think I read it but if not intended to)
    Kingston, Maxine Hong–The Woman Warrior
    Larsen, Nella–Passing
    L’Engle, Madeleine–A Wrinkle in Time
    Le Guin, Ursula K.–The Left Hand of Darkness
    Lee, Harper–To Kill a Mockingbird
    Lessing, Doris–The Golden Notebook
    Lively, Penelope–Moon Tiger
    Lorde, Audre–The Cancer Journals
    Martin, Ann M.–The Babysitters Club Series
    McCullers, Carson–The Member of the Wedding
    McMillan, Terry–Disappearing Acts
    Markandaya, Kamala–Nectar in a Sieve
    Marshall, Paule–Brown Girl, Brownstones
    Mitchell, Margaret–Gone with the Wind
    Montgomery, Lucy–Anne of Green Gables
    Morgan, Joan–When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost
    Morrison, Toni–Song of Solomon (one of my favorites of ALL time)
    Murasaki, Lady Shikibu–The Tale of Genji
    Munro, Alice–Lives of Girls and Women
    Murdoch, Iris–A Severed Head
    Naylor, Gloria–Mama Day
    Niffenegger, Audrey–The Time Traveller’s Wife
    Oates, Joyce Carol–We Were the Mulvaneys
    O’Connor, Flannery–A Good Man is Hard to Find
    Piercy, Marge–Woman on the Edge of Time
    Picoult, Jodi–My Sister’s Keeper
    Plath, Sylvia–The Bell Jar
    Porter, Katharine Anne–Ship of Fools
    Proulx, E. Annie–The Shipping News
    Rand, Ayn–The Fountainhead
    Ray, Rachel–365: No Repeats
    Rhys, Jean–Wide Sargasso Sea
    Robinson, Marilynne–Housekeeping
    Rocha, Sharon–For Laci
    Sebold, Alice–The Lovely Bones
    Shelley, Mary–Frankenstein
    Smith, Betty–A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    Smith, Zadie–White Teeth
    Spark, Muriel–The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    Spyri, Johanna–Heidi
    Strout, Elizabeth–Amy and Isabelle
    Steel, Danielle–The House
    Tan, Amy–The Joy Luck Club
    Tannen, Deborah–You’re Wearing That
    Ulrich, Laurel–A Midwife’s Tale
    Urquhart, Jane–Away
    Walker, Alice–The Temple of My Familiar
    Welty, Eudora–One Writer’s Beginnings
    Wharton, Edith–Age of Innocence
    Wilder, Laura Ingalls–Little House in the Big Woods
    Wollstonecraft, Mary–A Vindication of the Rights of Women
    Woolf, Virginia–A Room of One’s Own

Yah, that's what I thought. I'm sure many if not all of you have read way more of these than I have.

2 comments:

don't call me MA'AM said...

I've read more of those than I thought I had. I might have to post one of these, too. :-)

Good post!

Helen said...

Hiya Poppy! Speaking of books, I came across this link and thought you might like it!

http://www.librarything.com/

Peace................