classics written by women
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last updated February, 2026
The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez
Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Margaret Atwood
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Maya Angelou
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
L.M. Montgomery
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
Arturo's Island
Elsa Morante
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
Agatha Christie
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey
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