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100 Years of Books by Women
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By popular vote, 100 books were chosen to represent and highlight the last 100 years of female fiction.
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A Book of Mediterranean Food (Elizabeth David)
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A Girl Is a Half Formed Thing
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Place of Greater Safety
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Bell Hooks)
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Ariel
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At the Source (Gillian Clarke)
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Babette'S Feast, Isak Dinesen
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Bad Behaviour (Mary Gaitskill)
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The Bastard of Istanbul (Elif Shafak)
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Beloved (Toni Morrison)
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Bonjour Tristesse (Francoise Sagan)
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Brick Lane (Monica Ali)
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Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories (Annie Proulx)
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Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
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Dept. of Speculation (Jenny Offill)
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The Collected Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Parker)
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Everyday Sexism (Laura Bates)
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Falling Awake (Alice Oswald)
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Frost in May (Antonia White)
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Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
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Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
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Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
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Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling)
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Headscarves and Hymens (Mona Eltahawy)
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Heartburn (Nora Ephron)
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Henry and June (Anais Nin)
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Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)
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How to Be a Woman (Caitlin Moran)
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How to Eat (Nigella Lawson)
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How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed (Slavenka Drakulic)
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I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
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Into That Darkness
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Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)
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Lullaby (Leïla Slimani)
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Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (Elizabeth Taylor)
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My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
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Notes on a Scandal (Zoe Heller)
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