Inspiring Female Writers - P'lease Mr. Talese

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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,828 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 477,046 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,634,307 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,837 ratings
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,775 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,690,096 ratings
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My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash, #1)
My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash, #1) 3.59 avg rating — 182,264 ratings
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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,849 ratings
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The Most of Nora Ephron
The Most of Nora Ephron 4.24 avg rating — 2,676 ratings
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The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating — 40,393 ratings
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Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 102,621 ratings
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,260,174 ratings
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,166 ratings
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Fates and Furies
Fates and Furies 3.59 avg rating — 145,788 ratings
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories 4.17 avg rating — 48,608 ratings
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem 4.19 avg rating — 78,772 ratings
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SuperMutant Magic Academy
SuperMutant Magic Academy 3.99 avg rating — 8,033 ratings
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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 238,011 ratings
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The Weight of Blood
The Weight of Blood 3.76 avg rating — 23,021 ratings
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The Secret History
The Secret History 4.16 avg rating — 950,928 ratings
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I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections
I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections 3.80 avg rating — 35,606 ratings
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The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,591 ratings
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The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2) 3.73 avg rating — 48,468 ratings
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The Garden Party and Other Stories
The Garden Party and Other Stories 3.80 avg rating — 13,138 ratings
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Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 342,010 ratings
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,393,461 ratings
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The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place 4.20 avg rating — 21,533 ratings
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My Ántonia
My Ántonia 3.84 avg rating — 144,878 ratings
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The White Album
The White Album 4.03 avg rating — 47,355 ratings
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The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3)
The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3) 3.68 avg rating — 20,408 ratings
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What You Owe Me
What You Owe Me 4.15 avg rating — 2,122 ratings
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Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen 3.95 avg rating — 22,340 ratings
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Johnny Wander, Vol. 1: Don't Burn the House Down
Johnny Wander, Vol. 1: Don't Burn the House Down 4.34 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 227,558 ratings
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The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch 3.96 avg rating — 1,010,705 ratings
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The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss 3.83 avg rating — 58,104 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Seabiscuit: An American Legend 4.23 avg rating — 167,151 ratings
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Evening in Paradise: More Stories
Evening in Paradise: More Stories 3.94 avg rating — 4,605 ratings
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The History of Love
The History of Love 3.92 avg rating — 139,286 ratings
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Prodigal Summer
Prodigal Summer 4.05 avg rating — 123,793 ratings
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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver 4.57 avg rating — 26,340 ratings
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House of Light
House of Light 4.33 avg rating — 4,323 ratings
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The Optimist's Daughter
The Optimist's Daughter 3.52 avg rating — 15,056 ratings
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The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper 4.07 avg rating — 338,333 ratings
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Find Me
Find Me 3.47 avg rating — 1,890 ratings
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Society's Child: My Autobiography
Society's Child: My Autobiography
by: Janis Ian
4.01 avg rating — 1,196 ratings
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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me 4.02 avg rating — 16,571 ratings
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Pretty In Ink: Women Cartoonists 1896-2013
Pretty In Ink: Women Cartoonists 1896-2013 3.98 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose 4.27 avg rating — 3,843 ratings
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The Waves
The Waves 4.14 avg rating — 51,061 ratings
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145,398 ratings
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Remarkable Creatures
Remarkable Creatures 3.89 avg rating — 54,493 ratings
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One Tuesday Morning (9/11, #1)
One Tuesday Morning (9/11, #1) 4.40 avg rating — 21,874 ratings
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The House of the Spirits
The House of the Spirits 4.29 avg rating — 304,699 ratings
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Skim
Skim 3.76 avg rating — 17,089 ratings
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Essential Writings
Essential Writings 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)
Chocolat (Chocolat, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 129,696 ratings
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Fingersmith
Fingersmith 4.02 avg rating — 115,250 ratings
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Air, Volume 1: Letters from Lost Countries
Air, Volume 1: Letters from Lost Countries 3.30 avg rating — 1,426 ratings
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All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists
All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists 3.78 avg rating — 1,612 ratings
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Wandering Son, Vol. 1
Wandering Son, Vol. 1 3.97 avg rating — 3,384 ratings
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Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal 4.10 avg rating — 92,188 ratings
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Picnic at Hanging Rock 3.66 avg rating — 29,110 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,528 ratings
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Silver Sparrow
Silver Sparrow 3.90 avg rating — 45,097 ratings
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Orange Is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black 3.72 avg rating — 204,777 ratings
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Over Easy
Over Easy
by: Mimi Pond
3.62 avg rating — 2,703 ratings
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Talk: NPR's Susan Stamberg Considers All Things
Talk: NPR's Susan Stamberg Considers All Things 3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,550 ratings
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right 4.31 avg rating — 26,734 ratings
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Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)
Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1) 4.21 avg rating — 38,339 ratings
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Miseducation of Cameron Post 4.06 avg rating — 58,961 ratings
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Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,995 ratings
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The Customer Is Always Wrong
The Customer Is Always Wrong
by: Mimi Pond
3.91 avg rating — 1,512 ratings
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The Light Between Oceans
The Light Between Oceans 4.04 avg rating — 473,502 ratings
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The Red Tent
The Red Tent 4.20 avg rating — 624,047 ratings
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The Teahouse Fire
The Teahouse Fire 3.48 avg rating — 3,696 ratings
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The Historian
The Historian 3.80 avg rating — 273,598 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
Outlander (Outlander, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 1,132,108 ratings
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Adaptation (Adaptation, #1)
Adaptation (Adaptation, #1) 3.63 avg rating — 7,966 ratings
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The Heat of the Day
The Heat of the Day 3.40 avg rating — 2,742 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
The Thirteenth Tale 3.98 avg rating — 323,028 ratings
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia 4.25 avg rating — 143,201 ratings
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 80,332 ratings
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Yellow Rose
Yellow Rose 3.59 avg rating — 323 ratings
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Stranger Than Life: Cartoons and Comics 1970-2013
Stranger Than Life: Cartoons and Comics 1970-2013 4.28 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Half the World in Winter
Half the World in Winter 3.43 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 4.28 avg rating — 196,305 ratings
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My Soul to Keep (African Immortals, #1)
My Soul to Keep (African Immortals, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 7,410 ratings
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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality 3.78 avg rating — 1,118 ratings
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Seattle Laughs: Comic Stories About Seattle
Seattle Laughs: Comic Stories About Seattle 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
Strange Weather in Tokyo 3.69 avg rating — 49,450 ratings
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Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)
Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 83,240 ratings
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Magic Beginnings (Magical Girls Academy, #1)
Magic Beginnings (Magical Girls Academy, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books) 4.11 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18) 4.12 avg rating — 294,160 ratings
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Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America 3.98 avg rating — 942 ratings
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A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing 3.48 avg rating — 13,675 ratings
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The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food 4.20 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution 3.97 avg rating — 22,307 ratings
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