Latitude Festival's Top 20 Books by Women

This is one of the 743 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.

About this list

The Latitude Festival(2016) invited all festival goers to vote for their top 20 favorite books by women. The participants wrote their choices on luggage tags and tied them to The Tree of Stories in the festival’s Faraway Forest.

Latitude Festival is an annual music and arts festival set within the grounds of Henham Park, near Southwold, Suffolk, England

This list was originally published in 2016 and was added to this site over 2 years ago.

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Rank	Book	Authors	Year	Country	Language
49	Beloved	Toni Morrison	1987	American	English
2463	On Beauty	Zadie Smith	2005	British	English
14901	Labyrinth	Kate Mosse	2005	British	English
277	A Wizard Of Earthsea	Ursula K. Le Guin	1968	American	English
15	Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë	1847	British	English
12	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	1813	British	English
358	The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy	1997	Indian	English
1157	Half of a Yellow Sun	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	2006	Nigerian	English
521	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou	1969	American	English
14901	How To Be A Woman	Caitlin Moran	2011	British	English
14901	The Lacuna	Barbara Kingsolver	2009	American	English
7009	The Girl On The Train	Paula Hawkins	2015	British	English
159	The Color Purple	Alice Walker	1982	American	English
117	The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter	Carson McCullers	1940	American	English
1691	The Lovely Bones	Alice Sebold	2002	American	English
740	The Goldfinch	Donna Tartt	2013	American	English
132	The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood	1985	Canadian	English
3869	We Need To Talk About Kevin	Lionel Shriver	2003	American	English
290	The House of the Spirits	Isabel Allende	1982	Chilean	Spanish
16	To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	1960	American	English