Books by Women Authors
by
John Q McDonald
--- 11 July 2025
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Adler, Margot:
Heretic's Heart
Albaret, Céleste:
Monsieur Proust
Alcott, Kathleen:
America was Hard to Find
Astley, Thea:
Coda
Atwood, Margaret:
The Blind Assassin
Austen, Jane:
Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane:
Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane:
Sense and Sensibility
Austin, Mary:
The Ford
Baker, Kage:
In the Garden of Iden
Baker, Susan:
Following Proust
Bambara, Toni Cade:
The Salt-Eaters
Barbery, Muriel:
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Beaton, M. C.:
Death of a Gossip
Beattie, Ann:
Mrs. Nixon
Bjornerud, Marcia:
Timefulness
Bowen, Elizabeth:
A Time in Rome
Brautigan, Ianthe:
You Can't Catch Death
Brill, Amy:
The Movement of Stars
Brontë, Emily:
Wuthering Heights
Brooks, Geraldine:
March
Brosh, Allie:
Hyperbole and a Half
Brown, Rita Mae:
Southern Discomfort
Brown, Rita Mae and Sneaky Pie:
Catch as Cat Can
Brown, Rita Mae and Sneaky Pie:
Murder at Monticello
Butler, Halle:
The New Me
Butler, Octavia E.:
Parable of the Sower
Byatt, A.S.:
Babel Tower
Byatt, A.S.:
The Matisse Stories
Byatt, A.S.:
A Whistling Woman
Cadora, Karen:
Stardust Bound
Cain, Amina:
Indelicacy
Cain, Chelsea:
Dharma Girl
Cain, Chelsea (ed.):
Wild Child
Chase, Marilyn:
The Barbary Plague
Chessman, Harriet Scott:
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
Chevalier, Tracy:
The Lady and the Unicorn
Chopin, Kate:
The Awakening
Christie, Agatha:
Cards on the Table
Christie, Agatha:
Death in the Air
Christie, Agatha:
Death on the Nile
Cline, Emma:
The Girls
Cole, K. C.:
Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens
Crosby, Caresse:
The Passionate Years
Crossette, Barbara:
So Close to Heaven
Crossman, Susanna:
Home is Where We Start
Das, Britta:
Buttertea at Sunrise
Davies, Marion:
The Times We Had
Davis, Lydia:
The End of the Story
Davis, Thulani:
Maker of Saints
Dean, Barbara:
Wellspring
Dektar, Molly:
The Ash Family
DiCamillo, Kate:
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Didion, Joan:
Play it as it Lays
Didion, Joan:
Where I was From
Dinesen, Isak:
Shadows on the Grass
Donoghue, Emma:
Frog Music
Drexler, Madeline:
A Splendid Isolation
Duras, Marguerite:
The Ravishing of Lol Stein
Egan, Jennifer:
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Elkin, Lauren:
Flâneuse
Elkin, Lauren:
No. 91/92
Ernaux, Annie:
Shame
Ernaux, Annie:
Simple Passion
Evanovich, Janet:
Dangerous Minds
Farrelly, Elizabeth:
Blubberland
Feinberg, Leslie:
Stone Butch Blues
Fisher, Welthy Honsinger:
The Top of the World
Fitzgerald, Penelope:
The Beginning of Spring
Fitzgerald, Penelope:
The Golden Child
FitzPatrick, Nina:
The Loves of Faustyna
Foschini, Lorenza:
Proust's Overcoat
Frame, Janet:
The Carpathians
Frame, Janet:
Living in the Maniototo
Frank, Suzanne:
Peter Eisenman's House VI
Frisbee, Mary:
Satori Ranch
Gaskell, Elizabeth:
Ruth
Glück, Louise:
Faithful and Virtuous Night
Goonan, Kathleen Ann:
The Bones of Time
Gornick, Vivian:
The Odd Woman and the City
Grafton, Sue:
A is for Alibi
Grafton, Sue:
B is for Burglar
Grafton, Sue:
C is for Corpse
Grafton, Sue:
D is for Deadbeat
Grafton, Sue:
E is for Evidence
Grafton, Sue:
F is for Fugitive
Grafton, Sue:
G is for Gumshoe
Grafton, Sue:
H is for Homicide
Grafton, Sue:
I is for Innocent
Grafton, Sue:
J is for Judgment
Grafton, Sue:
K is for Killer
Grafton, Sue:
L is for Lawless
Grafton, Sue:
M is for Malice
Grafton, Sue:
N is for Noose
Grafton, Sue:
O is for Outlaw
Grafton, Sue:
P is for Peril
Grafton, Sue:
Q is for Quarry
Grafton, Sue:
R is for Ricochet
Grafton, Sue:
S is for Silence
Grafton, Sue:
T is for Trespass
Grafton, Sue:
U is for Undertow
Grafton, Sue:
V is for Vengeance
Grafton, Sue:
W is for Wasted
Grafton, Sue:
X
Grafton, Sue:
Y is for Yesterday
Graham, Caroline:
Death in Disguise
Grau, Shirley Ann:
The Keepers of the House
Groff, Lauren:
Arcadia
Grundstein, Margaret:
Naked in the Woods
Guest, Judith:
Ordinary People
Gunnars, Kristjana:
The Rose Garden
Hadley, Tessa:
Free Love
Hadley, Tessa:
The Past
Harvey, Samantha:
Orbital
Hayter, Sparkle:
The Chelsea Girl Murders
Hayward, Clane:
The Hypocrisy of Disco
Hazzard, Shirley:
The Great Fire
Herndon, Joan V.:
Maria X
Heschong, Lisa:
Thermal Delight in Architecture
Hildyard, Daisy:
Emergency
Hood, Ann:
Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine
Horan, Nancy:
Loving Frank
Horton, Lucy:
Country Commune Cooking
Howard, Francine Thomas:
Paris Noire
Howorth, Lisa:
Summerlings
Hunt, Rebecca:
Everland
Hurston, Zora Neale:
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxtable, Ada Louise:
Frank Lloyd Wright
Itäranta, Emmi:
The Moonday Letters
Jacobs, Jane:
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jelinek, Elfriede:
The Piano Teacher
Jemisin, N. K.:
The Fifth Season
Jewett, Sarah Orne:
The Country of the Pointed Firs
Johnson, Joyce:
Minor Characters
Kadohata, Cynthia:
The Floating World
Kadohata, Cynthia:
In the Heart of the Valley of Love
Kahakauwila, Kristiana:
This is Paradise
Kennedy, Pagan:
Confessions of a Memory Eater
Kennedy, Pagan:
Platforms
Kiernan, Emily:
Great Divide
Kingsolver, Barbara:
The Bean Trees
Kingsolver, Barbara:
High Tide in Tucson
Kingsolver, Barbara:
Holding the Line
Kingsolver, Barbara:
Pigs in Heaven
Kingsolver, Barbara:
The Poisonwood Bible
Kingsolver, Barbara:
Prodigal Summer
Kingsolver, Barbara:
Unsheltered
Kitchen, Paddy:
A Most Unsettling Person
Kleeman, Alexandra:
Something New Under the Sun
Kogawa, Joy:
Obasan
Koppel, Lily:
The Astronaut Wives Club
Kushner, Rachel:
The Mars Room
Laing, Olivia:
The Lonely City
Lamott, Anne:
All New People
Lamott, Anne:
Bird by Bird
Lamott, Anne:
Crooked Little Heart
Lawless, Jill:
Wild East
Leaming, Linda:
Married to Bhutan
Lee, Harper:
To Kill a Mockingbird
LeGuin, Ursula K.:
The Dispossessed
LeGuin, Ursula K.:
The Left Hand of Darkness
LeGuin, Ursula K.:
The New Atlantis
L'Engle, Madeleine:
A Wrinkle in Time
Leon, Donna:
A Noble Radiance
Lessard, Suzannah:
The Architect of Desire
Lesser, Wendy:
You Say to Brick
Lessing, Doris:
The Sweetest Dream
Levesque, Emily:
The Last Stargazers
Levin, Gail:
Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography
Lively, Penelope:
The Purple Swamp Hen
Lopez, Erika:
Flaming Iguanas
Lord, M. G.:
Astro Turf
Lorrah, Jean:
The Vulcan Academy Murders
Lurie, Alison:
Foreign Affairs
Macdonald, Helen:
H is for Hawk
Machacek, Anastasia Galadriel:
Growing up Hippie
Mandel, Emily St. John:
Sea of Tranquility
Manguso, Sarah:
Very Cold People
Manheim, Camryn:
Wake Up, I'm Fat!
Marcus, Clare Cooper:
House as a Mirror of Self
Marcus, Clare Cooper:
Iona Dreaming
Markham, Beryl:
West with the Night
Marshall, Paule:
Praisesong for the Widow
Martinac, Paula:
Out of Time
Maso, Carole:
Aureole
Maso, Carole:
AVA
Maso, Carole:
Ghost Dance
Maso, Carole:
The Room Lit by Roses
McCarthy, Mary:
The Oasis
McDermid, Val:
1979
McFerrin, Linda Watanabe:
The Hand of Buddha
McLynn, Pauline:
The Woman on the Bus
Michaels, Lisa:
Split
Millar, Margaret:
The Cannibal Heart
Minichino, Camille:
The Beryllium Murder
Minichino, Camille:
The Boric Acid Murder
Minichino, Camille:
The Carbon Murder
Minichino, Camille:
The Helium Murder
Minichino, Camille:
The Hydrogen Murder
Minichino, Camille:
The Lithium Murder
Minot, Susan:
Evening
Moore, C. L.:
The Best of C. L. Moore
Muhlstein, Anka:
Balzac's Omelette
Murcutt, Miriam, and Richard Starks:
Lost in Tibet
Murdoch, Iris:
An Accidental Man
Murdoch, Iris:
The Flight from the Enchanter
Murdoch, Iris:
The Green Knight
Murdoch, Iris:
The Sandcastle
Murphy, Pat:
The City, Not Long After
Napoli, Lisa:
Radio Shangri-La
Nesbit, TaraShea:
The Wives of Los Alamos
Newman, Janis Cooke:
The Russian Word for Snow
Ng, Fae Myenne:
Bone
Niffenegger, Audrey:
The Time Traveler's Wife
Nors, Dorthe:
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
Oates, Joyce Carol:
Solstice
Oldenbourg, Zoé:
The World is not Enough
O'Connor, Mary-Frances:
The Grieving Brain
O'Faolain, Nuala:
Are You Somebody
Parker, Ann:
Silver Lies
Parker, Ann:
Iron Ties
Patterson, Mary:
The Iron Country
Pearson, Allison:
I Think I Love You
Perks, Micah:
Pagan Time
Phillips, Kate:
White Rabbit
Piercy, Marge:
Woman on the Edge of Time
Pipher, Mary:
Reviving Ophelia
Pipher, Mary:
Seeking Peace
Proulx, E. Annie:
Accordion Crimes
Proulx, E. Annie:
Postcards
Quin, Ann:
Tripticks
Ray, Janisse:
Drifting into Darien
Ray, Janisse:
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Reagan, Nancy:
I Love You, Ronnie
Rooney, Sally:
Normal People
Roy, Anuradha:
Sleeping on Jupiter
Sarraute, Nathalie:
Childhood
Sarraute, Nathalie:
Here
Satrapi, Marjane:
Persepolis
Schorow, Stephanie:
Inside the Combat Zone
Sciolino, Elaine:
The Only Street in Paris
See, Carolyn:
Golden Days
Shields, Carol:
The Stone Diaries
Shipstead, Maggie:
Astonish Me
Shute, Jenefer:
Life-Size
Slater, Lauren:
Lying
Smiley, Jane:
Moo
Smith, Lee:
Family Linen
Smith, Lee:
Fancy Strut
Smith, Patti:
Just Kids
Smith, Patti:
M Train
Sobel, Dava:
Galileo's Daughter
Sobel, Dava:
Longitude
Sperber, A. M., and Eric Lax:
Bogart
Spiotta, Dana:
Eat the Document
Starr, Lilian A.:
Tales of Tirah and Lesser Tibet
Stein, Gertrude:
Picasso
Still, Dorris Shelton:
Sue in Tibet
Swann, Maxine:
Flower Children
Tamirat, Nafkote:
The Parking Lot Attendant
Tan, Amy:
The Hundred Secret Senses
Telscombe, Anne:
Miss Bagshot goes to Tibet
Teltscher, Kate:
The High Road to China
Terán, Lisa St. Aubin de:
The Hacienda
Tippins, Sherill:
Inside the Dream Palace
Todd, Ruby:
Bright Objects
Tokarczuk, Olga:
Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
Tyler, Anne:
Breathing Lessons
Undset, Sigrid:
The Axe
Undset, Sigrid:
The Snake Pit
Urquhart, Jane:
The Underpainter
Uruburu, Paula:
American Eve
Uzuner, Buket:
The Sound of Fishsteps
Vale, Rena:
Taurus Four
Vowell, Sarah:
Assassination Vacation
Vowell, Sarah:
Unfamiliar Fishes
Vreeland, Susan:
Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Walker, Alice:
Meridian
Walters, Minette:
The Ice House
Wangchuck, Ashi Dorji Wangmo:
Treasures of the Thunder Dragon
Ward, Jesmyn:
Salvage the Bones
Watkins, Claire Vaye:
Gold Fame Citrus
Weber, Caroline:
Proust's Duchess
Welles, Patricia:
Babyhip
Wells, Rebecca:
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Welty, Eudora:
One Writer's Beginnings
Welty, Eudora:
The Optimist's Daughter
Welty, Eudora:
The Ponder Heart
Weston, Carolyn:
Poor, Poor Ophelia
Wharton, Edith:
The Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith:
Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith:
The House of Mirth
Wharton, Edith:
Summer
Wilby, Sorrel:
Tibet: A Woman's Lone Trek Across a Mysterious Land
Willis, Connie:
Doomsday Book
Willis, Connie:
Passage
Willis, Connie:
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Wilson, Rebecca:
A House with no Roof
Winterson, Jeanette:
Written on the Body
Wolff, Diane:
Tibet Unconquered
Wolitzer, Meg:
The Position
Wood, Summer:
Wrecker
Woolf, Virginia:
Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia:
The London Scene
Woolf, Virginia:
Orlando
Woolf, Virginia:
To the Lighthouse
Xinran:
Sky Burial
Yamanaka, Lois-Ann:
Blu's Hanging
Yoshimoto, Banana:
Kitchen
Yoshimoto, Banana:
N.P.
Yourcenar, Marguerite:
A Coin in Nine Hands
Zeppa, Jamie:
Beyond the Sky and the Earth
Zhang, Lijia:
"Socialism is Great!"
Zink, Nell:
Nicotine
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