Monday 13 January 2014

Lists: Jezebel's 75 Books Every Woman Should Read

I think this list was community-voted, but I am not sure. There’s also an Esquire one, for men, which I think was an inspiration for Jezebel’s? Maybe the other way round. Anyway, I regard gender separation, especially in matters like these, a nuisance.
 
Another thing I regard as nuisance is Esquire’s website, so that list will have to wait.

Start: April 2013
Updated: 13.01.2014
Finish:

  1. The Lottery (and Other Stories), Shirley Jackson
  2. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
  3. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
  4. White Teeth, Zadie Smith
  5. The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
  6. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
  7. Excellent Women, Barbara Pym
  8. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
  9. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
  10. The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
  11. Beloved, Toni Morrison
  12. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
  13. Like Life, Lorrie Moore
  14. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  15. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
  16. The Delta of Venus, Anais Nin (DNF)
  17. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
  18. A Good Man Is Hard To Find (and Other Stories), Flannery O’Connor
  19. The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
  20. You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down, Alice Walker
  21. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
  22. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  23. Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
  24. Earthly Paradise, Colette
  25. Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
  26. Property, Valerie Martin
  27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
  28. Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid
  29. The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
  30. Runaway, Alice Munro
  31. The Heart is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
  32. The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
  33. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
  34. You Must Remember This, Joyce Carol Oates
  35. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
  36. Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill
  37. The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr
  38. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
  39. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith
  40. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
  41. Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
  42. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
  43. The Little Disturbances of Man, Grace Paley
  44. The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
  45. The Group, Mary McCarthy
  46. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
  47. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
  48. The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
  49. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
  50. Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag
  51. In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
  52. The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
  53. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
  54. Three Junes, Julia Glass
  55. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft
  56. Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
  57. Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
  58. Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
  59. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
  60. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin
  61. The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
  62. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
  63. The Face of War, Martha Gellhorn
  64. My Antonia, Willa Cather
  65. Love In The Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  66. The Harsh Voice, Rebecca West
  67. Spending, Mary Gordon
  68. The Lover, Marguerite Duras
  69. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
  70. Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen
  71. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
  72. Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
  73. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
  74. I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
  75. Possession, A.S. Byatt
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