Women Writers Meme

[rolanni]

Instructions:
Bold the ones you've read.
Italicize the ones you have wanted/might like to read.
* Another book by this author read, but not this
??Place question marks by any titles/authors you've never heard of??
*** I’ve tried it and abandoned it
XXX Life Is Too Short



Alcott, Louisa May–Little Women

??Allende,Isabel–The House of Spirits

XXXAngelou, Maya–I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

XXXAtwood, Margaret–Cat's Eye

Austen, Jane–Emma

??Bambara, Toni Cade–Salt Eaters

??Barnes,Djuna–Nightwood

***de Beauvoir,Simone–The Second Sex

*Blume, Judy–Are You There God? It's Me Margaret

Burnett, Frances–The Secret Garden

Bronte, Charlotte–Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily–Wuthering Heights

Buck, Pearl S.–The Good Earth

??Byatt, A.S.–Possession

Cather, Willa–My Antonia

??Chopin, Kate–The Awakening

Christie, Agatha–Murder on the Orient Express

??Cisneros,Sandra–The House on Mango Street

XXXClinton, Hillary Rodham–Living History

?Cooper, Anna Julia–A Voice From the South

?Danticat,Edwidge–Breath, Eyes, Memory

??Davis,Angela–Women, Culture, and Politics

??Desai,Anita–Clear Light of Day

Dickinson, Emily–Collected Poems

??Duncan, Lois–I Know What You Did Last Summer

DuMaurier, Daphne–Rebecca

***Eliot, George–Middlemarch

??Emecheta, Buchi–Second Class Citizen

??Erdrich, Louise–Tracks

Esquivel, Laura–Like Water for Chocolate

Flagg, Fannie–Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe -- if only to see if it was anything like the movie...

Friedan, Betty–The Feminine Mystique

Frank, Anne–Diary of a Young Girl

??Gilman, Charlotte Perkins–The Yellow Wallpaper

??Gordimer, Nadine–July's People

Grafton, Sue–S is for Silence

Hamilton, Edith–Mythology

Highsmith, Patricia–The Talented Mr. Ripley

??hooks, bell–Bone Black

??Hurston, Zora Neale–Dust Tracks on the Road

??Jacobs,Harriet–Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Jackson,Helen Hunt–Ramona

Jackson, Shirley–The Haunting of Hill House

Jong, Erica–Fear of Flying

Keene, Carolyn–The Nancy Drew Mysteries (any of them)

Kidd, Sue Monk–The Secret Life of Bees

??Kincaid, Jamaica–Lucy

Kingsolver, Barbara–The Poisonwood Bible

Kingston, Maxine Hong–The Woman Warrior

??Larsen,Nella–Passing

L'Engle, Madeleine–A Wrinkle in Time

Le Guin, Ursula K.–The Left Hand of Darkness

***Lee, Harper–To Kill a Mockingbird

Lessing, Doris–The Golden Notebook

??Lively, Penelope–Moon Tiger

??Lorde, Audre–The Cancer Journals

Martin, Ann M.–The Babysitters Club Series (any of them)

McCullers, Carson–The Member of the Wedding

McMillan, Terry–Disappearing Acts

?? Markandaya, Kamala–Nectar in a Sieve

??Marshall, Paule–Brown Girl, Brownstones

Mitchell, Margaret–Gone with the Wind

Montgomery, Lucy–Anne of Green Gables

?? Morgan, Joan–When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost

??Morrison, Toni–Song of Solomon

Murasaki, Lady Shikibu–The Tale of Genji

??Munro, Alice–Lives of Girls and Women

??Murdoch, Iris–Severed Head

??Naylor, Gloria–Mama Day

Niffenegger, Audrey–The Time Traveller's Wife

??Oates, Joyce Carol–We Were the Mulvaneys

*O'Connor, Flannery–A Good Man is Hard to Find

??Piercy, Marge–Woman on the Edge of Time

??Picoult, Jodi–My Sister's Keeper

Plath, Sylvia–The Bell Jar

??Porter, Katharine Anne–Ship of Fools

Proulx, E. Annie–The Shipping News

*XXXRand,Ayn–The Fountainhead

?" Ray, Rachel–365: No Repeats

Rhys, Jean–Wide Sargasso Sea

??Robinson,Marilynne–Housekeeping

?? Rocha, Sharon–For Lac

Sebold, Alice–The Lovely Bones

Shelley, Mary–Frankenstein

Smith, Betty–A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

??Smith, Zadie–White Teeth

Spark, Muriel–The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Spyri, Johanna–Heidi

?? Strout, Elizabeth–Amy and Isabelle

XXXSteel, Danielle–The House

Tan, Amy–The Joy Luck Club

??Tannen, Deborah–You're Wearing That

Ulrich, Laurel–A Midwife's Tale

??Urquhart, Jane–Away

Walker, Alice–The Temple of My Familiar

Welty,Eudora–One Writer's Beginnings

* Wharton, Edith–Age of Innocence

??Wilder, Laura Ingalls–Little House in the Big Woods

??Wollstonecraft, Mary–A Vindication of the Rights of Women

XXXWoolf, Virginia–A Room of One's Own

AHEM:

Caudwell, Sarah -- the Young Barrister mysteries

Heyer, Georgette -- any of her Regencies or mysteries

Sayers, Dorothy -- any of the Peter Wimsey books

Tiptree, James Jr. -- The Women Men Don't See; Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

Edited to Add: AHEM 1.5

McCaffrey, Anne -- Dragonflight

Norton, Andre -- Witch World

Comments

[saruby.livejournal.com]

Ok, you're kidding, right? You must have heard of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Every girl our age read at least one of her books, didn't they?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Had to Google her just now, and, nope -- never read any of the Little House books. I think my sister read every single one of them, though; she's six years behind me. Me, I cut a wide swath through Lois Lenski, Oliver Butterworth, Walter Farley, Maugerite Henry and that lot. And while I read a couple of my sister's Nancy Drews, I cut my teeth on the Judy Bolton mysteries by Margaret Sutton, which were, IMHO far superior.

Judy Bolton

[(Anonymous)]

Hurray! Someone else who remembers Judy. Most people just look at me blankly when I mention her. (Of course, many people do that when I mention books I've read. Guess I have odd tastes. :) ) What I liked most is how she grew up over the series. From student to wife, it seemed so natural. My library sold them at a book sale I didn't know about years ago :( and I've never seen her at used bookstores. I guess people who like her, hold on to her.

Re: Judy Bolton

[gilraen2.livejournal.com]

I have an almost complete set of Judy Bolton's and would like to pick up the three or four missing books before having a last read and selling the set on ebay. I always liked Judy better than Nancy Drew or the others of that ilk because she was much more REAL and she learned things about herself and matured. Margaret Sutton, Judy's author, lived until just a few years ago and was apparently in full control of her mental faculties until she died. You can google for "Phantom Friends" and find the fan organization and, I think, a discussion group.

[noiseinmyhead.livejournal.com]

what do you mean life is too short? too short to read these ?

and Wollenscraft is Selly's mother.....

[od-mind.livejournal.com]

Never heard of "The Yellow Wallpaper"? Highly recommended, but don't read it when you're depressed. It's quite short.

Missing from the list:

Lois McMaster Bujold
Octavia Butler
C.J. Cherryh
Dorothy Dunnett
Josephine Tey

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

Where did you get the original list? Who decided to list book 19 of a series?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Where did you get the original list?

I'd seen it in a couple places on my Flist.

Who decided to list book 19 of a series?

Well, that's the interesting part. It's a Dumb List; smacks of someone typing a buncha women authors and titles off the top of their head and throwing it out there to see who'll bite. As you'll note, I added names to my version. Other people are apparently loath to do this, because they don't understand the protocols which went into making the list in the first place, and don't want to mess it up. *shrug* I mean, really, it's a meme; it was sufficiently interesting and I needed a displacement activity. No deep meanings, here...