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Women in fiction

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The optimist's daughter

Eudora Welty

1972

Middlemarch

George Eliot

1871 ★ 4.2

Before I say goodbye

Mary Higgins Clark

2000

Age of Iron

J. M. Coetzee

1990

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Lisa See

2006 ★ 3.4

Christmas Letters

Sheila Roberts, Debbie Macomber, Renee Raudman

2006

The hours

Michael Cunningham

1998 ★ 4.4

Blue Smoke

Nora Roberts

2005 ★ 4.3

The Edible Woman

Margaret Atwood

1969 ★ 3.6

Works (Awakening / Beyond the Bayou / Desiree's Baby / Kiss / Locket / Ma'ame Pelagie / Pair of Silk Stockings / Reflection / Respectable Woman)

Kate Chopin

1981

Dangerous Tides

Christine Feehan

2006 ★ 4.9

The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction (Athénaïse / At the ‘cadian Ball / Awakening / Désirée’s Baby / Elizabeth Stock’s One Story / Emancipation

Kate Chopin

2003

Black-eyed Susans / Midnight birds

Mary Helen Washington

1990

Divining women

Kaye Gibbons

2004

Forms of the Novella

Joseph Conrad, Katherine Anne Porter, David H. Richter et al.

1981

The witness

Sandra Brown

1995 ★ 4.3

For matrimonial purposes

Kavita Daswani

2003

Sylvia\'s Lovers Complete

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

1863 ★ 4.3

Orlando

Virginia Woolf

1928 ★ 4.1

The Alchemy (The Creoles #3)

Lynn Morris, Gilbert Morris

2004

The Awakening & Other Stories (Athenaise / At the 'cadian Ball / Awakening / Belle Zoraide / Desiree's Baby / Kiss / Lady of Bayou St. John / Madame Celestin's Divorce / Miss Mcenders / Pair of Silk Stockings / Point At Issue / Regret / Respectable Woman / Shameful Affair / Story of an Hour / Wiser Than a God)

Kate Chopin

1995

Hannah Coulter

Wendell Berry

2004

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1850 ★ 3.4

Horseplay

Judy Reene Singer

2004

Hollywood wives, the new generation

Jackie Collins

2001

The Drowning Season

Alice Hoffman

1979

At Paradise Gate

Jane Smiley

1981

Dark Paradise

Tami Hoag

1995

Four Ways to Forgiveness

Ursula K. Le Guin

1995

Nine Short Novels by American Women

Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter, Ann Lane Petry et al.

1993

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