100 Great 20th Century English-language Works of Fiction by Women
This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.
About this list
Feminista!, 96 Books
Feminista! created this list in response to the infamous Modern Library list. Here's their description:
While we’d [Feminista!] agree that the Modern Library’s list features some extraordinary and wonderful works of fiction, we’re a little dismayed by a list of major 20th century English language novels that completely overlooks such writers as Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer, Zora Neale Hurston, Harper Lee, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison and Sylvia Plath. We could go on, but instead we’ve compiled our own list of 100 Great 20th Century English-language Works of Fiction by Women. In order to choose the works on the list, women’s online forums and lists were canvassed. Unlike the Modern Library’s, our list is not ranked. We’ve also restricted it to one work per author, since our aim was to showcase the extraordinary richness and variety of 20th century fiction by women.
This list was originally published in 1998 and was added to this site over 2 years ago.
