classic & modern classic literature by women. limiting myself to one book per author. please let me know who i've missed!
created by goodwitchs
last updated May, 2026
Carol
Patricia Highsmith
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Herland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
My Sisterâs Keeper
Jodi Picoult
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell
My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, #1)
Elena Ferrante
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)
Madeleine L'Engle
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë
Anne of Green Gables (Great Illustrated Classics)
Eliza Gatewood Warren
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Minor Detail
Adania Shibli
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Maya Angelou
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