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54 Books by Women That Every Decent Reader Should Know

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Gertrude Stein the Making of Americans
Gertrude Stein the Making of Americans
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Carson McCullers the Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers the Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
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Jane Bowles My Sister's Hand in Mine
Jane Bowles My Sister's Hand in Mine
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Eileen Myles Inferno
Eileen Myles Inferno
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Joan Didion Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion Year of Magical Thinking
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Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
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Emily Brontë
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Zora Neale Hurston
Valerie Solanas S.C.U.M. Manifesto
Valerie Solanas S.C.U.M. Manifesto
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Cookie Mueller Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
Cookie Mueller Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
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Susan Sontag Against Interpretation
Susan Sontag Against Interpretation
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Sheila Heti How Should a Person Be?
Sheila Heti How Should a Person Be?
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Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
Song of Solomon
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Toni Morrison
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Flannery O'Connor)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
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Flannery O'Connor
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley
Interview With the Vampire (Anne Rice)
Interview With the Vampire
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Anne Rice
The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton (Anne Sexton)
The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton
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Anne Sexton
Leslie Feinberg Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg Stone Butch Blues
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Mary Gaitskill Because They Wanted To
Mary Gaitskill Because They Wanted To
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Gender Trouble (Judith Butler)
Gender Trouble
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Judith Butler
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Middlemarch – George Eliot
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Alison Bechdel Fun Home
Alison Bechdel Fun Home
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The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
The Hunger Games
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Suzanne Collins
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
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Linda Yablonsky the Story of Junk
Linda Yablonsky the Story of Junk
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Chris Kraus I Love Dick
Chris Kraus I Love Dick
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Anne Desclos/Pauline Réage the Story of O
Anne Desclos/Pauline Réage the Story of O
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Patti Smith Babel
Patti Smith Babel
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Lynne Tillman Someday This Will Be Funny
Lynne Tillman Someday This Will Be Funny
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Sharon Olds Satan Says
Sharon Olds Satan Says
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Anne Carson Autobiography of Red
Anne Carson Autobiography of Red
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Dorothy Allison Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
Dorothy Allison Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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Jeanette Winterson
A.M. Homes Music for Torching
A.M. Homes Music for Torching
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Self-Help, Lorrie Moore
Self-Help, Lorrie Moore
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Lydia Davis)
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
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Lydia Davis
Michelle Tea the Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One G
Michelle Tea the Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One G
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Kate Bornstein Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
Kate Bornstein Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
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Francine Prose Household Saints
Francine Prose Household Saints
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Cynthia Ozick the Pagan Rabbi
Cynthia Ozick the Pagan Rabbi
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