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70 Women of Genius

Several works worth knowing about. Nonfiction, prose and poetry. Favouring those with highly developed style and innovative material. Also including great writers pre-1800s. A large international breadth is lacking. Side note: one entry, The Owl, is in error, but unfortunately I cannot edit once published (Sadegh Hedayat is a great author, but was not meant for this list).
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The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
The Tale of Genji
1
Murasaki Shikibu
If Not, Winter (Sappho)
If Not, Winter
2
Sappho
The Making of Americans (Gertrude Stein)
The Making of Americans
3
Gertrude Stein
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
4
George Eliot
Ethics of Ambiguity (Simone De Beauvoir)
Ethics of Ambiguity
5
Simone De Beauvoir
Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage
6
Human Condition (Arendt Hannah)
Human Condition
7
Arendt Hannah
The Pillow Book (Sei Shonagon)
The Pillow Book
8
Sei Shonagon
The Heptameron
The Heptameron
9
The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy (Mina Loy)
The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
10
Mina Loy
The Big Green Tent (Ludmila Ulitskaya)
The Big Green Tent
11
Ludmila Ulitskaya
Feminist Theory From Margin to Centre
Feminist Theory From Margin to Centre
12
Poems, Protest & a Dream (Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz)
Poems, Protest & a Dream
13
Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
14
Kristin Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset)
Kristin Lavransdatter
15
Sigrid Undset
View With a Grain of Sand
View With a Grain of Sand
16
Citizen (Claudia Rankine)
Citizen
17
Claudia Rankine
The Saddlebag (Bahiyyah Nakhjavani)
The Saddlebag
18
Bahiyyah Nakhjavani
Consuelo (George Sand)
Consuelo
19
George Sand
Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
Mansfield Park
20
Jane Austen
Collected Poems of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle (H.D.))
Collected Poems of H.D.
21
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
22
Love in a Fallen City (Eileen Chang)
Love in a Fallen City
23
Eileen Chang
Thus Were Their Faces (Silvina Ocampo)
Thus Were Their Faces
24
Silvina Ocampo
The Autobiography of Red (Anne Carson)
The Autobiography of Red
25
Anne Carson
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
The Waves
26
Virginia Woolf
Christine De Pizan
Christine De Pizan
27
Jazz (Toni Morrison)
Jazz
28
Toni Morrison
The Christine Brooke-Rose Omnibus (Christine Brooke-Rose)
The Christine Brooke-Rose Omnibus
29
Christine Brooke-Rose
Ariel (Sylvia Plath)
Ariel
30
Sylvia Plath
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong (Jahyun Kim Haboushi)
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong
31
Jahyun Kim Haboushi
The Complete Claudine (Collette)
The Complete Claudine
32
Collette
Event Factory (Renee Gladman)
Event Factory
33
Renee Gladman
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton (Edith Wharton)
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
34
Edith Wharton
Distant View of a Minaret (Alifa Rifat)
Distant View of a Minaret
35
Alifa Rifat
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson)
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
36
Emily Dickinson
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
37
Carson McCullers
The War (Marguerite Duras)
The War
38
Marguerite Duras
History
History
39
The Quest for Christa T
The Quest for Christa T
40
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