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FEMINISTA'S 100 GREAT 20TH CENTURY
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FEMINISTA'S 100 GREAT 20TH CENTURY
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Dismayed that only 8 of the 100 works of fiction chosen by the Modern Library as the best of the century were written by women, the periodical Feminista published its own list in 1998. Women's online forums and lists were canvassed for the list. Works were restricted to one per author and mystery and mystery and science fiction genres were excluded.
| Allison, Dorothy | Bastard Out of Carolina |
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Atwood, Margaret | Cat's Eye |
| Bainbridge, Beryl | The Bottle Factory Outing |
| Bambara, Toni Cade | Gorilla, My Love |
| Barnes, Djuna | Nightwood |
| Barker, Pat | Regeneration |
| Brookner, Anita | Hotel du Lac |
| Brown, Rita | Rubyfruit Jungle |
| Buck, Pearl S. | The Good Earth |
| Byatt, A. S. | Possession |
| Carter, Angela | Nights at the Circus |
| Chopin, Kate | The Awakening |
| Cisneros, Sandra | The House on Mango Street |
| Compton-Burnett, Ivy | Elders and Betters |
| Desai, Anita | Clear Light of Day |
| Dinesen, Isak | Out of Africa |
| Doerr, Harriet | Stones for Ibarra |
| Drabble, Margaret | The Radiant Way |
| DuMaurier, Daphne | Rebecca |
| Emecheta, Buchi | Second Class Citizen |
| Erdich, Louise | Tracks |
| Fitzgerald, Penelope | At Freddie's |
| Flagg, Fannie | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe |
| Frame, Janet | Owls Do Cry |
| French, Marilyn | The Women's Room |
| Goldstein, Rebecca | The Mind-Body Problem |
| Gordimer, Nadine | July's People |
| Gordon, Mary | The Rest of Life |
| Hall, Radclyffe | The Well of Loneliness |
| Head, Bessie | When Rain Clouds Gather |
| Highsmith, Patricia | The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| Hobhouse, Janet | The Furies |
| Hulme, Keri | The Bone People |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Jackson, Shirley | The Haunting of Hill House |
| Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer | Heat and Dust |
| Jong, Erica | Fear of Flying |
| Kincaid, Jamaica | Lucy |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | The Bean Trees |
| Kingston, Maxine Hong | Tripmaster Monkey |
| Kogawa, Joy | Obasan |
| Laurence, Margaret | The Fire-Dwellers |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Lessing, Doris | The Golden Notebook |
| Lively, Penelope | Moon Tiger |
| Loos, Anita | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| Manning, Olivia | The Balkan Trilogy |
| McCarthy, Mary | The Group |
| McCullers, Carson | Ballad of the Sad Cafe |
| McMillan, Terry | Mama |
| Miller, Isabel | Patience and Sarah |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone With the Wind |
| Moore, Lorrie | Anagrams |
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved |
| Mukherjee, Bharati | Wife |
| Munro, Alice | Lives of Girls and Women |
| Murdoch, Iris | A Severed Head |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | You Must Remember This |
| O'Brien, Edna | House of Splendid Isolation |
| O'Connor, Flannery | A Good Man Is Hard to Find |
| Olsen, Tillie | Tell Me a Riddle |
| Paley, Grace | Enormous Changes at the Last Minute |
| Parker, Dorothy | Stories |
| Phillips, Jayne Anne | Black Tickets |
| Piercy, Marge | Braided Lives |
| Plath, Sylvia | The Bell Jar |
| Porter, Katharine Anne | Ship of Fools |
| Powell, Dawn | The Golden Spur |
| Proulx, E. Annie | The Shipping News |
| Rand, Ayn | The Fountainhead |
| Renault, Mary | The King Must Die |
| Rhys, Jean | Wide Sargasso Sea |
| Robinson, Marilynne | Housekeeping |
| Roy, Arundhati | The God of Small Things |
| Sarton, May | Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing |
| Shields, Carol | The Stone Diaries |
| Shreve, Anita | The Weight of Water |
| Silko, Leslie Marmon | Almanac of the Dead |
| Simpson, Mona | Anywhere But Here |
| Smart, Elizabeth | By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept |
| Smiley, Jane | The Age of Grief |
| Sontag, Susan | The Volcano Lover |
| Spark, Muriel | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| Stead, Christina | The Man Who Loved Children |
| Stein, Gertrude | Three Lives |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club |
| Taylor, Elizabeth | Angel |
| Tyler, Anne | If Morning Ever Comes |
| Urquart, Jane | Away |
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple |
| Weldon, Fay | The Life and Loves of a She-Devil |
| Welty, Eudora | Stories |
| West, Rebecca | The Return of the Soldier |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome |
| White, Antonia | Frost in May |
| Winterson, Jeanette | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit |
| Woolf, Virginia | Mrs. Dalloway |
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