top 100 books by women, might be interesting for research sake and about portrayl etc

1. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2. Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
3. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
4. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
5. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
8. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
9. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
10. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
11. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
12. Burger’s Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
13. The Dollmaker by Harriette Simpson Arnow
14. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
15. My Ántonia by Willa Cather
16. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
17. Fanny by Erica Jong
18. Obasan by Joy Kogawa
19. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
20. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
21. The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing
22. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
23. Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
24. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
25. Her First American by Lore Segal
26. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
27. The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker
28. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
29. Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
30. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
31. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
32. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
33. Anya by Susan Fromberg Shaeffer
34. Trust by Cynthia Ozick
35. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
36. The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
37. Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann Beattie
38. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
39. A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
40. Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
41. The Group by Mary McCarthy
42. The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy
43. The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
44. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
45. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
46. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
47. Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
48. Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson
49. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
50. Beloved by Toni Morrison
51. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
52. Mr. Fortune’s Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner
53. Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
54. Progress of Stories by Laura Riding
55. Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
56. The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
57. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
58. Possession by A.S. Byatt
59. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
60. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
61. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
62. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
63. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
64. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
65. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
66. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
67. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
68. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
69. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
70. Things Invisible to See by Nancy Willard
71. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
72. Disturbances in the Field by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
73. Civil Wars by Rosellen Brown
74. Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
75. The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford
76. Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith
77. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
78. The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein
79. The Children of Men by P.D. James
80. Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi
81. The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon
82. Collected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
83. Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis
84. The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
85. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
86. The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O’Brien
87. Realms of Gold by Margaret Drabble
88. The Waterfall by Margaret Drabble
89. The Locusts Have No King by Dawn Powell
90. The Women’s Room by Marilyn French
91. The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
92. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
93. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
94. Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen
95. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
96. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
97. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
98. The Drowning Season by Alice Hoffman
99. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
100. The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer