NYRB Classics: Books by Women

1.
The Summer Book
The Summer Book 4.01 avg rating β€” 50,788 ratings
2.
Lolly Willowes
Lolly Willowes 3.70 avg rating β€” 12,117 ratings
3.
The Door
The Door 4.10 avg rating β€” 33,158 ratings
4.
The Slynx
The Slynx 3.81 avg rating β€” 5,497 ratings
5.
In a Lonely Place
In a Lonely Place 4.12 avg rating β€” 8,478 ratings
6.
Don't Look Now
Don't Look Now 4.03 avg rating β€” 3,595 ratings
7.
Down Below
Down Below 3.82 avg rating β€” 2,973 ratings
8.
The True Deceiver
The True Deceiver 3.82 avg rating β€” 7,210 ratings
9.
Thus Were Their Faces
Thus Were Their Faces 3.89 avg rating β€” 1,141 ratings
10.
Sleepless Nights
Sleepless Nights 3.62 avg rating β€” 4,116 ratings
11.
Love in a Fallen City
Love in a Fallen City 3.94 avg rating β€” 4,334 ratings
12.
The Enchanted April
The Enchanted April 3.90 avg rating β€” 38,741 ratings
13.
Speedboat
Speedboat 3.76 avg rating β€” 7,256 ratings
14.
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. 4.09 avg rating β€” 25,189 ratings
15.
Fair Play
Fair Play 3.89 avg rating β€” 7,045 ratings
16.
The Hearing Trumpet
The Hearing Trumpet really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 10,848 ratings
17.
Great Granny Webster
Great Granny Webster 3.73 avg rating β€” 2,510 ratings
18.
The Vet's Daughter
The Vet's Daughter 3.89 avg rating β€” 3,774 ratings
19.
Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel 3.88 avg rating β€” 2,499 ratings
20.
The Dud Avocado
The Dud Avocado 3.66 avg rating β€” 10,049 ratings
21.
Alice James: A Biography
Alice James: A Biography 3.85 avg rating β€” 182 ratings
22.
Little Reunions
Little Reunions 3.59 avg rating β€” 585 ratings
23.
Hons and Rebels
Hons and Rebels 4.11 avg rating β€” 5,315 ratings
24.
Katalin Street
Katalin Street 4.13 avg rating β€” 3,754 ratings
25.
The World I Live In
The World I Live In 3.97 avg rating β€” 1,223 ratings
26.
The Balkan Trilogy (Fortunes of War, #1-3)
The Balkan Trilogy (Fortunes of War, #1-3) 4.17 avg rating β€” 2,855 ratings
27.
The Expendable Man
The Expendable Man 4.08 avg rating β€” 3,259 ratings
28.
The Bridge of Beyond
The Bridge of Beyond 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,087 ratings
29.
Paris Stories
Paris Stories 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,686 ratings
30.
Abigail
Abigail 4.33 avg rating β€” 8,961 ratings
30.
The Corner That Held Them
The Corner That Held Them 3.94 avg rating β€” 1,677 ratings
32.
Woman Running in the Mountains
Woman Running in the Mountains 3.84 avg rating β€” 1,440 ratings
33.
Iza's Ballad (New York Review Books Classics)
Iza's Ballad (New York Review Books Classics) 4.32 avg rating β€” 4,765 ratings
34.
The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories
The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories 3.98 avg rating β€” 708 ratings
35.
The Ten Thousand Things
The Ten Thousand Things 3.80 avg rating β€” 1,832 ratings
36.
War and the Iliad
War and the Iliad 4.08 avg rating β€” 883 ratings
37.
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton 4.19 avg rating β€” 996 ratings
38.
The Fountain Overflows
The Fountain Overflows 3.70 avg rating β€” 3,325 ratings
39.
Talk
Talk 3.46 avg rating β€” 800 ratings
40.
Naked Earth
Naked Earth 3.90 avg rating β€” 399 ratings
41.
Mr. Fortune
Mr. Fortune 3.65 avg rating β€” 377 ratings
42.
Summer Will Show
Summer Will Show 3.59 avg rating β€” 944 ratings
43.
In the Freud Archives
In the Freud Archives 4.21 avg rating β€” 1,296 ratings
44.
The Pumpkin Eater
The Pumpkin Eater 3.66 avg rating β€” 2,974 ratings
45.
Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence, 1944–1945
Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence, 1944–1945 4.34 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
46.
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
by: Teffi
4.07 avg rating β€” 958 ratings
47.
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking 4.12 avg rating β€” 316 ratings
48.
Angel
Angel 3.88 avg rating β€” 3,010 ratings
49.
A View of the Harbour
A View of the Harbour 3.88 avg rating β€” 1,892 ratings
50.
After Claude
After Claude 3.53 avg rating β€” 1,259 ratings
51.
The Seventh Cross
The Seventh Cross 3.97 avg rating β€” 3,094 ratings
52.
The Dead Girls' Class Trip: Selected Stories
The Dead Girls' Class Trip: Selected Stories 3.91 avg rating β€” 836 ratings
53.
Basic Black with Pearls
Basic Black with Pearls 3.52 avg rating β€” 836 ratings
54.
A Book of Mediterranean Food
A Book of Mediterranean Food 4.18 avg rating β€” 407 ratings
55.
The Juniper Tree
The Juniper Tree 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,462 ratings
55.
Life with Picasso
Life with Picasso 4.09 avg rating β€” 5,237 ratings
57.
Notes of a Crocodile
Notes of a Crocodile 3.82 avg rating β€” 8,548 ratings
58.
Last Words from Montmartre
Last Words from Montmartre 3.85 avg rating β€” 2,526 ratings
59.
A Game of Hide and Seek
A Game of Hide and Seek 3.80 avg rating β€” 1,341 ratings
60.
KΓ€sebier Takes Berlin
KΓ€sebier Takes Berlin 3.60 avg rating β€” 319 ratings
60.
Good Behaviour
Good Behaviour 3.89 avg rating β€” 3,755 ratings
62.
Free Day
Free Day 3.86 avg rating β€” 1,097 ratings
63.
Boston Adventure (New York Review Books Classics)
Boston Adventure (New York Review Books Classics) 3.73 avg rating β€” 162 ratings
64.
A Fairly Good Time and Green Water, Green Sky (New York Review Books Classics)
A Fairly Good Time and Green Water, Green Sky (New York Review Books Classics) 3.92 avg rating β€” 156 ratings
64.
Eve's Hollywood
Eve's Hollywood 3.91 avg rating β€” 8,232 ratings
66.
Young Man with a Horn (New York Review Books Classics)
Young Man with a Horn (New York Review Books Classics) 3.88 avg rating β€” 579 ratings
67.
Letty Fox: Her Luck
Letty Fox: Her Luck 3.70 avg rating β€” 152 ratings
68.
Varieties of Exile
Varieties of Exile 3.94 avg rating β€” 626 ratings
69.
The Levant Trilogy
The Levant Trilogy 4.35 avg rating β€” 1,449 ratings
70.
White Walls: Collected Stories
White Walls: Collected Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 590 ratings
71.
The Kindness of Strangers (New York Review Books Classics)
The Kindness of Strangers (New York Review Books Classics) 4.10 avg rating β€” 201 ratings
72.
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths 3.87 avg rating β€” 4,230 ratings
73.
You'll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Taylor
You'll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Taylor 4.15 avg rating β€” 261 ratings
74.
Transit
Transit 3.70 avg rating β€” 3,105 ratings
74.
The Pure and the Impure
The Pure and the Impure
by: Colette
3.59 avg rating β€” 2,286 ratings
76.
The Mountain Lion
The Mountain Lion 3.86 avg rating β€” 1,345 ratings
76.
The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by Her Daughter
The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by Her Daughter 3.92 avg rating β€” 340 ratings
76.
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (New York Review Books Classics)
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (New York Review Books Classics)
by: Iona Opie
4.26 avg rating β€” 147 ratings
79.
Voltaire in Love (New York Review Books Classics)
Voltaire in Love (New York Review Books Classics) 3.63 avg rating β€” 465 ratings
80.
Victorine
Victorine 3.49 avg rating β€” 169 ratings
81.
Pitch Dark
Pitch Dark 3.79 avg rating β€” 1,622 ratings
82.
School for Love
School for Love 3.87 avg rating β€” 723 ratings
82.
On the Abolition of All Political Parties
On the Abolition of All Political Parties 4.04 avg rating β€” 1,707 ratings
84.
Original Letters from India (New York Review Books Classics)
Original Letters from India (New York Review Books Classics)
by: Eliza Fay
3.55 avg rating β€” 84 ratings
85.
Seduction and Betrayal
Seduction and Betrayal 3.88 avg rating β€” 636 ratings
86.
Picture
Picture 4.05 avg rating β€” 742 ratings
86.
Ghosts
Ghosts 3.88 avg rating β€” 820 ratings
88.
Three Summers
Three Summers 3.76 avg rating β€” 3,637 ratings
88.
Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints
Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints
by: Teffi
4.10 avg rating β€” 192 ratings
88.
Don't Look at Me Like That (New York Review Books Classics)
Don't Look at Me Like That (New York Review Books Classics) 3.93 avg rating β€” 780 ratings
88.
Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life
Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life 3.97 avg rating β€” 1,478 ratings
92.
Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi
Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi
by: Teffi
4.10 avg rating β€” 415 ratings
92.
Valentino / Sagittarius
Valentino / Sagittarius 3.97 avg rating β€” 739 ratings
92.
Instead of a Letter (New York Review Books Classics)
Instead of a Letter (New York Review Books Classics) 3.88 avg rating β€” 816 ratings
95.
The Farm in the Green Mountains
The Farm in the Green Mountains 3.94 avg rating β€” 552 ratings
95.
Fighting for Life (New York Review Books Classics)
Fighting for Life (New York Review Books Classics) 4.24 avg rating β€” 353 ratings
95.
Divorcing
Divorcing 3.69 avg rating β€” 576 ratings
95.
Lies and Sorcery
Lies and Sorcery 4.14 avg rating β€” 2,063 ratings
99.
More Was Lost: A Memoir
More Was Lost: A Memoir 4.17 avg rating β€” 294 ratings
99.
Cassandra at the Wedding (New York Review Books Classics)
Cassandra at the Wedding (New York Review Books Classics) 3.95 avg rating β€” 6,826 ratings
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