Books by Contemporary Women Writers

Allende, Isabelle:
The House of the Spirits

Allison, Dorothy:
Bastard Out of Carolina 

Atwood, Margaret:
Cat's Eye
Handmaid's Tale 

Beattie, Ann:
The Burning House
Where You'll Find Me


Cather, Willa:
My Antonia

Chute, Carolyn:
The Beans of Egypt, Maine

Ehrlich, Gretel:
The Solace of Open Spaces

Erdrich, Louise:
Love Medicine
The Beet Queen
Tracks
The Bingo Palace
Tales of Burning Love
The Antelope's Wife
The Last Report on the Miracles at No Horse
The Master Butcher's Singing Club
The Painted Drum
The Plague of Doves

Farmer, Beverly:
Milk
Home Time

Fitch, Janet:
White Oleander 

Flagg, Fannie:
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Gibbons, Kaye:
A Cure for Dreams

Gilchrist, Ellen:
The Annunciation
Victory Over Japan
In the Land of Dreamy Dreams
Drunk With Love
The Anna Papers
Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle
I Cannot Get You Close Enough
Net of Jewels
Star Carbon: A Meditation of Love
Anabasis: A Journey to the Interior
Rhoda: A Life in Stories
The Courts of Love
Sarah Conley
Flights of Angels
The Cabal and Other Stories
I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting With My Daddy

Hinton, S.E.:
The Outsiders

Taylor-Hall, Mary Anne:
Come and Go, Molly Snow

Houston, Pam:
Cowboys Are My Weakness
Waltzing the Cat

Lee, Harper:
To Kill a Mockingbird

Mason, Bobbi Ann:
In Country

Maynard, Joyce:
Baby Love

Morrison, Toni:
Beloved

Olson, Tillie:
Tell Me a Riddle

Paley, Grace:
The Little Disturbances of Man
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Later the Same Day

Parker, Dorothy:
The Collected Dorothy Parker

Phillips, Jayne Anne:
Machine Dreams

Proulx, Annie:
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
The Shipping News

Robinson, Marilynne:
Housekeeping

Roy, Arundhati:
The God of Small Things

Siebold, Alice:
The Lovely Bones

Silko, Leslie Marmon:
Almanac of the Dead

Simpson, Mona:
Anywhere But Here

Smiley, Jane:
A Thousand Acres

Smith, Lee:
The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed
Black Mountain Breakdown
Oral History
Family Linen
Fair and Tender Ladies
The Devil's Dream
Saving Grace
Christmas Letters
The Last Girls
On Agate Hill 

Tyler, Ann:
Breathing Lessons

Walker, Alice:
The Color Purple  

Warlick, Ashley:
The Distance From the Heart of Things
Seek the Living
The Summer After June