Best Books by American Women

1.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,689,890 ratings
2.
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,393,401 ratings
3.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,258,095 ratings
4.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,154,193 ratings
5.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 4.30 avg rating — 499,289 ratings
6.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,282 ratings
7.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 477,039 ratings
8.
The Help
The Help 4.47 avg rating — 2,962,424 ratings
9.
The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9)
The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9) 4.36 avg rating — 156,361 ratings
10.
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 257,790 ratings
11.
The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible 4.11 avg rating — 779,857 ratings
12.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,832 ratings
13.
A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)
A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 1,263,467 ratings
14.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.18 avg rating — 29,674 ratings
15.
The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,581 ratings
16.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence 3.97 avg rating — 189,952 ratings
17.
The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club
by: Amy Tan
3.97 avg rating — 703,444 ratings
18.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth 3.97 avg rating — 103,548 ratings
19.
My Ántonia
My Ántonia 3.84 avg rating — 144,875 ratings
20.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 569,008 ratings
21.
A Little Princess
A Little Princess 4.23 avg rating — 320,528 ratings
22.
Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome 3.45 avg rating — 134,945 ratings
23.
Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.24 avg rating — 8,571 ratings
24.
The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life 4.08 avg rating — 150,155 ratings
25.
The Yearling
The Yearling 4.03 avg rating — 30,136 ratings
26.
The Lottery and Other Stories
The Lottery and Other Stories 4.02 avg rating — 82,504 ratings
27.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 4.15 avg rating — 123,953 ratings
28.
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,159 ratings
29.
A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Acres 3.82 avg rating — 71,376 ratings
30.
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper 4.07 avg rating — 338,319 ratings
31.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 4.05 avg rating — 43,239 ratings
32.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 4.28 avg rating — 321,402 ratings
33.
The Kitchen God's Wife
The Kitchen God's Wife
by: Amy Tan
4.04 avg rating — 87,073 ratings
34.
The Shipping News
The Shipping News 3.88 avg rating — 150,747 ratings
35.
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson 4.28 avg rating — 105,240 ratings
36.
Beezus and Ramona (Ramona, #1)
Beezus and Ramona (Ramona, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 103,181 ratings
37.
My Sister’s Keeper
My Sister’s Keeper 4.11 avg rating — 1,263,912 ratings
38.
Katherine
Katherine 4.21 avg rating — 35,120 ratings
39.
The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees 4.10 avg rating — 1,337,606 ratings
40.
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by: Anne Rice
4.02 avg rating — 633,897 ratings
41.
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 209,505 ratings
42.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 4.19 avg rating — 794,035 ratings
43.
Harriet the Spy
Harriet the Spy 3.95 avg rating — 100,381 ratings
44.
Goodnight Moon
Goodnight Moon 4.32 avg rating — 389,675 ratings
45.
Little Women / Little Men / Jo's Boys
Little Women / Little Men / Jo's Boys 4.36 avg rating — 7,643 ratings
45.
Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,405 ratings
47.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3.92 avg rating — 239,381 ratings
48.
The Portable Dorothy Parker
The Portable Dorothy Parker 4.33 avg rating — 11,888 ratings
49.
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop 3.97 avg rating — 41,774 ratings
50.
The Hundred Secret Senses
The Hundred Secret Senses
by: Amy Tan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 46,178 ratings
51.
So Big
So Big 4.08 avg rating — 12,247 ratings
52.
The Snow Child
The Snow Child 4.01 avg rating — 166,435 ratings
53.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 3.99 avg rating — 116,851 ratings
54.
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet, #3)
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet, #3) 4.07 avg rating — 110,843 ratings
55.
The Earthsea Trilogy (Earthsea Cycle, #1-3)
The Earthsea Trilogy (Earthsea Cycle, #1-3) 4.28 avg rating — 21,564 ratings
56.
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories 3.87 avg rating — 2,722 ratings
57.
Sula
Sula 4.05 avg rating — 117,044 ratings
58.
The Little Foxes
The Little Foxes 3.94 avg rating — 5,559 ratings
59.
Pavilion of Women
Pavilion of Women 4.15 avg rating — 15,178 ratings
60.
Housekeeping
Housekeeping 3.81 avg rating — 57,357 ratings
60.
Vein Fire
Vein Fire 3.94 avg rating — 175 ratings
62.
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Close Range: Wyoming Stories 3.99 avg rating — 18,096 ratings
63.
The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Bonesetter's Daughter
by: Amy Tan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 131,943 ratings
64.
The Works of Anne Bradstreet
The Works of Anne Bradstreet 3.68 avg rating — 579 ratings
65.
The Women's Room
The Women's Room 3.99 avg rating — 9,268 ratings
66.
Joy of Cooking
Joy of Cooking 4.13 avg rating — 195,112 ratings
67.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,860 ratings
68.
Novels and Stories: Deephaven / A Country Doctor / The Country of the Pointed Firs / Dunnet Landing Stories / Selected Stories and Sketches
Novels and Stories: Deephaven / A Country Doctor / The Country of the Pointed Firs / Dunnet Landing Stories / Selected Stories and Sketches 4.33 avg rating — 111 ratings
69.
The Dispossessed
The Dispossessed 4.25 avg rating — 143,195 ratings
70.
Joy in the Morning
Joy in the Morning 3.94 avg rating — 8,763 ratings
71.
The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank 4.06 avg rating — 11,853 ratings
72.
Breathing Lessons
Breathing Lessons 3.66 avg rating — 32,326 ratings
72.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 4.16 avg rating — 217,112 ratings
74.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Woman in the Nineteenth Century 3.62 avg rating — 709 ratings
75.
Complete Novels and Stories
Complete Novels and Stories 4.25 avg rating — 646 ratings
76.
Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works 4.49 avg rating — 3,440 ratings
77.
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Pale Horse, Pale Rider 3.96 avg rating — 4,806 ratings
78.
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2) 3.90 avg rating — 36,235 ratings
79.
The House on Prospect
The House on Prospect 3.97 avg rating — 70 ratings
80.
Lykaia
Lykaia 3.99 avg rating — 102 ratings
81.
Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)
Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 28,029 ratings
82.
The History of Love
The History of Love 3.92 avg rating — 139,283 ratings
83.
East Wind: West Wind
East Wind: West Wind 4.06 avg rating — 9,492 ratings
84.
Roman Fever and Other Stories
Roman Fever and Other Stories 4.10 avg rating — 2,040 ratings
84.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.20 avg rating — 8,257 ratings
86.
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 239,081 ratings
87.
The Keepers of the House
The Keepers of the House 4.01 avg rating — 13,377 ratings
88.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by: Lisa See
4.09 avg rating — 382,971 ratings
89.
Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts
Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts 3.38 avg rating — 1,788 ratings
89.
The Sunne in Splendour
The Sunne in Splendour 4.41 avg rating — 22,486 ratings
91.
Stones for Ibarra
Stones for Ibarra really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,296 ratings
92.
Summer
Summer 3.67 avg rating — 17,850 ratings
93.
The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating — 82,614 ratings
94.
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
The Third Life of Grange Copeland 4.14 avg rating — 4,584 ratings
95.
The Buccaneers
The Buccaneers 3.87 avg rating — 8,019 ratings
95.
The Accidental Tourist
The Accidental Tourist 3.90 avg rating — 107,787 ratings
97.
Prodigal Summer
Prodigal Summer 4.05 avg rating — 123,789 ratings
98.
Saint Maybe
Saint Maybe 3.89 avg rating — 18,644 ratings
99.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Witch of Blackbird Pond 4.02 avg rating — 157,971 ratings
100.
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 89,438 ratings
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