100 Best 20th Century Books by Women

1.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,690,156 ratings
2.
Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,939 ratings
3.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,298 ratings
4.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,821 ratings
5.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 477,054 ratings
6.
The House of the Spirits
The House of the Spirits 4.29 avg rating — 304,706 ratings
7.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,258,109 ratings
8.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,154,299 ratings
9.
The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club
by: Amy Tan
3.97 avg rating — 703,455 ratings
10.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 3.70 avg rating — 59,338 ratings
11.
My Ántonia
My Ántonia 3.84 avg rating — 144,878 ratings
12.
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 209,524 ratings
13.
Orlando
Orlando 3.87 avg rating — 109,476 ratings
14.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,222 ratings
15.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 3.99 avg rating — 116,858 ratings
15.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,839 ratings
17.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth 3.97 avg rating — 103,549 ratings
18.
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by: Anne Rice
4.02 avg rating — 633,916 ratings
19.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 342,019 ratings
20.
Possession
Possession 3.90 avg rating — 83,132 ratings
21.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence 3.97 avg rating — 189,961 ratings
22.
The Shipping News
The Shipping News 3.88 avg rating — 150,753 ratings
23.
Hotel du Lac
Hotel du Lac 3.61 avg rating — 24,757 ratings
24.
Clear Light of Day
Clear Light of Day 3.72 avg rating — 4,002 ratings
25.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 4.15 avg rating — 123,956 ratings
26.
The Beet Queen
The Beet Queen 3.87 avg rating — 14,457 ratings
27.
Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome 3.45 avg rating — 134,946 ratings
28.
The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook 3.77 avg rating — 24,231 ratings
29.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
We Have Always Lived in the Castle 3.92 avg rating — 273,885 ratings
30.
Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying 3.47 avg rating — 22,980 ratings
31.
A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Acres 3.82 avg rating — 71,379 ratings
31.
Excellent Women
Excellent Women 3.91 avg rating — 19,603 ratings
33.
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield 4.14 avg rating — 2,882 ratings
34.
The Women's Room
The Women's Room 3.99 avg rating — 9,268 ratings
35.
The Group
The Group 3.68 avg rating — 16,964 ratings
35.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating — 103,294 ratings
37.
The Well of Loneliness
The Well of Loneliness 3.76 avg rating — 18,807 ratings
38.
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) 4.32 avg rating — 1,080,088 ratings
39.
The Kitchen God's Wife
The Kitchen God's Wife
by: Amy Tan
4.04 avg rating — 87,074 ratings
40.
The Accidental Tourist
The Accidental Tourist 3.90 avg rating — 107,789 ratings
41.
Heat and Dust
Heat and Dust 3.55 avg rating — 8,490 ratings
42.
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 3.80 avg rating — 33,722 ratings
43.
Obasan
Obasan 3.70 avg rating — 8,228 ratings
44.
The Little Disturbances of Man
The Little Disturbances of Man 3.95 avg rating — 2,120 ratings
45.
Nightwood
Nightwood 3.61 avg rating — 14,255 ratings
46.
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1)
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 51,241 ratings
46.
The Grass Is Singing
The Grass Is Singing 3.83 avg rating — 14,772 ratings
48.
The Children of Men
The Children of Men 3.67 avg rating — 51,110 ratings
49.
The Death of the Heart
The Death of the Heart 3.64 avg rating — 8,894 ratings
50.
The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue
The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue 3.89 avg rating — 4,342 ratings
51.
The Waves
The Waves 4.14 avg rating — 51,061 ratings
52.
Trust
Trust 3.26 avg rating — 70 ratings
53.
The Company She Keeps
The Company She Keeps 3.76 avg rating — 965 ratings
54.
Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools 3.67 avg rating — 2,930 ratings
55.
A Book of Common Prayer
A Book of Common Prayer 3.80 avg rating — 6,263 ratings
56.
Memento Mori
Memento Mori 3.61 avg rating — 7,115 ratings
57.
The Stone Diaries
The Stone Diaries 3.89 avg rating — 41,489 ratings
58.
Play It As It Lays
Play It As It Lays 3.91 avg rating — 85,300 ratings
59.
The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)
The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3) 4.09 avg rating — 18,096 ratings
60.
The Dollmaker
The Dollmaker 4.17 avg rating — 3,788 ratings
61.
The Optimist's Daughter
The Optimist's Daughter 3.52 avg rating — 15,056 ratings
62.
Stones from the River (Burgdorf Cycle, #1)
Stones from the River (Burgdorf Cycle, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 96,154 ratings
63.
Mr Fortune's Maggot
Mr Fortune's Maggot 3.70 avg rating — 210 ratings
64.
Woman on the Edge of Time
Woman on the Edge of Time 3.92 avg rating — 18,313 ratings
64.
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
The Third Life of Grange Copeland 4.14 avg rating — 4,584 ratings
64.
Progress of Stories
Progress of Stories 4.33 avg rating — 69 ratings
67.
Rubyfruit Jungle
Rubyfruit Jungle 3.91 avg rating — 46,003 ratings
68.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 3.54 avg rating — 13,204 ratings
69.
Sexing the Cherry
Sexing the Cherry 3.84 avg rating — 18,756 ratings
70.
The Mountain Lion
The Mountain Lion 3.86 avg rating — 1,345 ratings
71.
Tell Me a Riddle
Tell Me a Riddle 3.97 avg rating — 2,554 ratings
72.
Stones for Ibarra
Stones for Ibarra really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,296 ratings
73.
Civil Wars
Civil Wars really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 61 ratings
74.
Wise Blood
Wise Blood 3.82 avg rating — 36,566 ratings
75.
The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 211,222 ratings
75.
Burger's Daughter
Burger's Daughter 3.50 avg rating — 2,266 ratings
77.
Novel on Yellow Paper
Novel on Yellow Paper 3.54 avg rating — 572 ratings
78.
Bastard Out of Carolina
Bastard Out of Carolina 4.14 avg rating — 46,997 ratings
79.
Ceremony
Ceremony 3.84 avg rating — 25,797 ratings
79.
Chilly Scenes of Winter
Chilly Scenes of Winter 3.87 avg rating — 1,550 ratings
81.
Annie John
Annie John 3.72 avg rating — 12,522 ratings
82.
The Blue Flower
The Blue Flower 3.43 avg rating — 6,498 ratings
83.
The Fifth Child
The Fifth Child 3.63 avg rating — 23,562 ratings
84.
The Life and Loves of a She Devil
The Life and Loves of a She Devil 3.76 avg rating — 6,288 ratings
85.
The Pumpkin Eater
The Pumpkin Eater 3.66 avg rating — 2,974 ratings
85.
The Realms of Gold
The Realms of Gold 3.94 avg rating — 545 ratings
87.
Anya
Anya 3.97 avg rating — 1,432 ratings
88.
Cold Comfort Farm
Cold Comfort Farm 3.88 avg rating — 53,857 ratings
89.
The Locusts Have No King
The Locusts Have No King 3.94 avg rating — 568 ratings
90.
A Severed Head
A Severed Head 3.74 avg rating — 6,551 ratings
91.
Disturbances in the Field
Disturbances in the Field 4.05 avg rating — 573 ratings
92.
The Drowning Season
The Drowning Season 3.49 avg rating — 3,650 ratings
93.
Geek Love
Geek Love 3.95 avg rating — 71,416 ratings
94.
The Mind-Body Problem
The Mind-Body Problem 3.83 avg rating — 1,227 ratings
95.
Nights at the Circus
Nights at the Circus 3.88 avg rating — 14,347 ratings
95.
The Waterfall
The Waterfall 3.72 avg rating — 565 ratings
97.
Her First American
Her First American 3.73 avg rating — 624 ratings
98.
Things Invisible to See
Things Invisible to See 3.80 avg rating — 215 ratings
99.
Anywhere But Here (Mayan Stevenson, #1)
Anywhere But Here (Mayan Stevenson, #1) 3.56 avg rating — 3,245 ratings
100.
Life in the Iron Mills
Life in the Iron Mills 3.43 avg rating — 1,380 ratings
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