87 Books Written by Women That Are So Good, You Won't Be Able to Put Them Down

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Without women, some pretty amazing things wouldn't exist. Book-lovers know best that women have changed the world in so many important ways — oftentimes, with their words. We've rounded up more than 80 novels, essays, poem collections, and memoirs written by women writers. From popular books-turned-movies like The Hunger Games and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to classics like Anne of Green Gables and To Kill a Mockingbird, there's a piece of literature in here for almost everyone to enjoy. If you haven't read these amazing literary works in your lifetime, now's the time!

This list was originally published in 2020 and was added to this site over 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17152 A Breath Of Snow And Ashes Diana Gabaldon 2005 American English
173 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 1929 British English
13941 A Tale For The Time Being Ruth Ozeki 2013 American English
244 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith 1943 American English
293 A Wrinkle In Time Madeleine L'Engle 1962 American English
4202 Ain't I A Woman? bell hooks 1981 American English
443 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 Nigerian English
17152 An Echo In The Bone Diana Gabaldon 2009 American English
191 And Then There Were None Agatha Christie 1939 British English
250 Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery 1908 Canadian English
461 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand 1957 American English
49 Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 American English
17152 Dragonfly In Amber Diana Gabaldon 1992 American English
17152 Drums Of Autumn Diana Gabaldon 1996 American English
39 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
17152 Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone Diana Gabaldon 2021 American English
2144 Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets J. K. Rowling 1998 British English
2232 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling 2007 British English
1842 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling 2000 British English
1755 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. Rowling 2005 British English
1910 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling 2003 British English
1017 Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban J. K. Rowling 1999 British English
236 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
17152 Heroines Kate Zambreno 2012 American English
2086 Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones 1986 British English
13560 I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai 2013 Pakistani English
521 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 1969 American English
661 Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice 1976 American English
29 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 British English
1585 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke 2004 British English
6733 Jubilee Margaret Walker 1966 American English
513 Kindred Octavia E. Butler 1979 American English
1442 Little House In The Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder 1932 American English
28 Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 British English
160 My Antonia Willa Cather 1918 American English
1365 Nectar in a Sieve Kamala Markandaya 1954 Indian English
2693 Near To The Wild Heart Clarice Lispector 1943 Brazilian Portuguese
269 Nightwood Djuna Barnes 1936 American English
1890 Obasan Joy Kogawa 1981 Canadian English
2468 On Beauty Zadie Smith 2005 British English
842 Outlander Diana Gabaldon 1991 American English
670 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 2000 French French
1886 Poems, New And Collected, 1957 1997 Wislawa Szymborska 1998 Polish Polish
13 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
59 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 1938 British English
1536 Rubyfruit Jungle Rita Mae Brown 1973 American English
162 Silent Spring Rachel Carson 1962 American English
4576 Alanna Tamora Pierce 1983 American English
14985 In The Hand Of The Goddess Tamora Pierce 1984 American English
14985 The Woman Who Rides Like A Man Tamora Pierce 1986 American English
14985 Lioness Rampant Tamora Pierce 1988 American English
5117 Swamplandia! Karen Russell 2011 American English
92 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1920 American English
103 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 1963 American English
308 The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison 1970 American English
157 The Color Purple Alice Walker 1982 American English
569 The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen 1938 British, Irish English
113 The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 1947 Dutch Dutch
709 The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan 1963 American English
17152 The Fiery Cross Diana Gabaldon 2001 American English
1799 The Giver Lois Lowry 1993 American English
2394 The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls 2005 American English
359 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 1997 Indian English
61 The Golden Notebook Doris May Lessing 1962 British English
281 The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck 1931 American English
1588 The Guns of August Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 1962 American English
132 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 1985 Canadian English
118 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers 1940 American English
217 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1905 American English
291 The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende 1982 Chilean Spanish
1634 The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros 1984 American English
1388 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 2008 American English
738 The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan 1989 American English
3272 The Luminaries Eleanor Catton 2013 New Zealand English
9893 The Love of a Good Woman Alice Munro 1998 Canadian English
568 The Mandarins Simone de Beauvoir 1954 French French
1129 The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri 2003 American English
140 The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir 1949 French French
130 The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu 1001 Japanese Classical japanese
755 The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall 1928 British English
370 The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2005 American English
914 The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1938 American English
68 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 1937 American English
2987 Tipping The Velvet Sarah Waters 1998 British English
16 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 American English
17152 Voyager Diana Gabaldon 1993 American English
14232 We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2014 Nigerian English
221 White Teeth Zadie Smith 2000 British English
158 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys 1966 British English
7175 Wild Cheryl Strayed 2012 American English
15 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 British English
17152 Written In My Own Heart's Blood Diana Gabaldon 2014 American English
1666 Zami Audre Lorde 1982 American English