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50 Best-Loved Novels Written by a Woman |
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To support the Orange Prize for Fiction 2003, Orange has announced the
results of a poll determining the UK's 50 best loved novels written by a woman, past or present,
in English and published in the UK. The results were compiled by public
vote. Over 6,000 votes were collated via text message, voting cards in
public libraries and Orange Retail Shops, the Orange Prize for Fiction
website and a promotion with Classic FM.
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| 1 | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |
| 2 | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre |
| 3 | Emily Bronte | Jane Eyre |
| 4 | George Eliot | Middlemarch |
| 5 | Daphne Du Maaurier | Rebecca |
| 6 | Jane Austen | Persuasion |
| 7 | Jane Austen | Persuasion |
| 8 | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |
| 9 | Carol Shields | Unless |
| 10 | Harper lee | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 11 | Matgaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale |
| 12 | Zadie Smith | White Teeth |
| 13 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
| 14 | Margaret Mitchell | Gone With the Wind |
| 15 | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse |
| 16 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
| 17 | Barbara Kingsolver | The Poisonwood Bible |
| 18 | George Eliot | Silas Marner |
| 18 | A.S. Byatt | Possession |
| 20 | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss |
| 20 | Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things |
| 22 | Virginia Woolf | Mrs. Dalloway |
| 23 | Helen Fielding | Bridget Jones' Diary |
| 23 | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility |
| 25 | Margaret Atwood | The Blind Assassin |
| 26 | Joanne Harris | Chocolat |
| 27 | E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News |
| 28 | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women |
| 29 | Iris Murdoch | The Sea, The Sea |
| 30 | Lisa Williams | Family Bites |
| 31 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
| 31 | Rosamund Pulcher | The Shell Seekers |
| 33 | Virginia Woolf | Orlando |
| 33 | Colleen McCullough | The Thornbirds |
| 33 | Dodie Smith | I Capture the Castle |
| 36 | Tracy Chevalier | The Girl with the Pearl Earring |
| 36 | Jean Rhys | Wide Sargasso Sea |
| 36 | Jeanette Winterson | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit |
| 36 | Sarah Waters | Fingersmith |
| 40 | Jean Auel | Clan of the Cave Bear |
| 40 | Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar |
| 42 | Donna Tartt | The Secret History |
| 43 | Joanne Harris | Five Quarters of the Orange |
| 43 | Toni Morrison | Beloved |
| 43 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
| 46 | Ann Patchett | Bel Canto |
| 47 | Iris Murdoch | The Bell |
| 48 | Pat Barker | Regeneration |
| 49 | Kery Hulme | The Bone People |
| 49 | Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
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