50 greatest books by Women Authors

[gwywnnydd]

I've read about half. Most I liked, but I still hate Wuthering Heights.

THE TOP 50 BOOKS

1 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

2 Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

3 Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

4 Middlemarch, George Eliot

5 Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

6 Persuasion, Jane Austen

7 Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

8 Emma, Jane Austen

9 Unless, Carol Shields

10 To Kill A Mocking Bird, Harper Lee

11 The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

12 White Teeth, Zadie Smith

13 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling

14 Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell

15 To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

16 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling

17 The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

18 Silas Marner, George Eliot; Possession, AS Byatt

20 The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

21 Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf ; The Mill On The Floss, George Eliot

23 Bridget Jones' Diary, Helen Fielding; Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

25 The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood

26 Chocolat, Joanne Harris

27 The Shipping News, E. Annie Proux

28 Little Women, Louisa M Alcott

29 The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch; I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith

31 Family Bites, Lisa Williams

32 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling; The Shell Seekers, Rosamund Pilcher

34 Orlando, Virginia Woolf; The Thornbirds, Colleen McCullough

36 Fingersmith, Sarah Waters

37 The Girl With The Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier; Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson; Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

40 Clan Of The Cave Bear. Jean Auel

41 The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

42 The Secret History, Donna Tartt

43 Five Quarters Of The Orange, Joanne Harris

44 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JK Rowling = Beloved, Toni Morrison

46 Bel Canto, Ann Patchett

47 Hotel Du Lac, Anita Brookner

48 The Bell, Iris Murdoch

49 Regeneration, Pat Barker

50 The Bone People, Keri Hulme = The Color Purple, Alice Walker

Comments

[karenbynight.livejournal.com]

Omitting Like Water For Chocolate and keeping Clan of the Cave Bear? Blasphemy!

Re:

[gwywnnydd.livejournal.com]

IIRC, this was ranked based on a telephone survey. That probably explains any discrepancys between the ranking and what we know it should be :).