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Fiction and Literature

• Adams, Jane. Tradeoffs. William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1983.
• Ahern, Cecelia; Patricia Scanlan; Gemma O’Connor; and Sarah Webb. Irish Girls are Back in Town. Downtown Press, 2004.
• Alcott, Louisa May. Little Men and Jo's Boys. Blackie & Son, Ltd.
• Aldridge, Sarah. The Nesting Place. Naiad Press, 1982.
• Allende, Isabel. The Enchantress. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1988.
• Allende, Isabel. Of Love and Shadows. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. Alfred A. Knopf. Inc., 1987.
• Alther, Lisa. Other Women. Signet Books, 1984.
• American Astroanalysts Institute, The. Astroanalysis: ARIES, March 21-April 20. The Berkley Publishing Group, 1986.
• Ariyoshi, Sawako. The River Ki. Trans. Mildred Tahara. Kodansha International, LTD., 1981.
• Arnold, Madelyn. Bird-Eyes. Seal Press, 1988.
• Atwood, Margaret. The Edible Woman. Seal Book, 1969.
• Austen, Jane. Emma. Airmont Publishing Company.
• Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Signet Books, 1961.
• Banks, Lynne Reid. The Backward Shadow. Siman & Schuster, Inc., 1970.
• Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood. New Directions Book, 1937.
• Bawden, Nina. The Grain of Truth. Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.
• Beattie, Ann; Joyce Carol Oates; Alice Walker; Katherine Anne Porter; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Alice Adams; Bobbie Ann Mason; Sylvia Plath; Kate Chopin; Louisa May Alcott; Laurie Colwin; Jayne Anne Phillips; and Toni Cade Bambara. American Wives: Thirty Short Stories by Women. Ed. Barbara H. Solomon. New American Library, 1986.
• Benedict, Elizabeth. Slow Dancing. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1985.
• Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Forest House. Penguin Books, 1993.
• Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Mists of Avalon. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1982.
• Bradley, Marion Zimmer. Oath of the Renunciates: The Shattered Chain & Thendara House. Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1983.
• Brady, Maureen. Folly. The Crossing Press, 1982.
• Brady, Maureen. Give Me Your Good Ear. Spinsters Ink, 1979.
• Brantenberg, Gerd. Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes. Trans. Louis Mackay. Journeyman Press, 1985.
• Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Scholastic Book Services.
• Brown, Rita Mae. Six Of One. Bantam Books, 1978.
• Brown, Rita Mae. Venus Envy. Bantam Books, 1993.
• Burdekin, Katharine. Swastika Night. Feminist Press, 1937.
• By Women: An Anthology of Literature. Ed. Marcia McClintock Folsom and Linda Heinlein Kirschner. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.
• Callenback, Ernest. Ecotopia. Bantam Books, 1975.
• Cameron, Anne. The Journey. Spinsters/Aunt Lute Book Company, 1986.
• Carey, Lisa. The Mermaids Singing. Avon Books, 1998.
• Cartier, Xam Wilson. Be-Bop, Re-Bop. First Ballantine Books, 1987.
• Cather, Willa. O Pioneers!. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941.
• Charnas, Suzy McKee. Motherlines. Barkley Publishing Corporation, 1978.
• Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. The Women’s Press, 1978.
• Clausen, Jan. Mother, Sister, Daughter, Lover. The Crossing Press, 1980.
• Cunha, Helena Parente. Woman Between Mirrors. Trans. Fred P. Ellison and Naomi Lindstrom. University of Texas Press, 1989.
• Dawson, Angel. Angel's Astoria: A Book of Short Stories.
• Dawson, Angel. Incidents Adventures and Episodes to go with an Effectual Female: A Book of Short Stories.
• Diamant, Anita. The Red Tent. Picador U.S.A., 1997.
• Dinesen, Isak. Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales. University of Chicago Press, 1977.
• Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass. Random House, Inc, 1985.
• Donoghue, Emma. Hood. Harper Collins Publishers, 1995.
• Dreher, Sarah. Stoner McTavish. New Victoria Publishers, 1985.
• Duffy, Maureen. That's How It Was. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962.
• Dworkin, Andrea. Ice and Fire. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986.
• Eden Emily. The Semi-Attached Couple and the Semi-Detached House. The Dial Press, 1982.
• Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood. George Braziller, Inc., 1979.
• Emecheta, Buchi. Second Class Citizen. George Braziller, Inc., 1975.
• Enchi, Fumiko. The Waiting Years. Trans. John Bester. Kodansha International, LTD., 1980.
• Ephron, Nora. Heartburn. Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1983.
• Erdrich, Louise. The Beet Queen. Henry Holt & Company, 1986.
• Erdrich, Louise. Tracks. Henry Holt & Company, 1988.
• Erhart, Margaret. Unusual Company. Plume Printing, 1987.
• Figes, Eva. Nelly's Version. Pantheon Books, 1977.
• Fleming, Kathleen. Lovers in the Present Afternoon. Naiad Press, 1984.
• Forrest, Katherine V. Curious Wine. Naiad Press, 1983.
• Forster, E. M. Maurice. W. W. Norton & Company, 1971.
• Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers. Ed. Frieda Forman; Ethel Raicus; Sarah Siblerstein Swartz; and Margie Wolf. Second Story Press, 1994.
• Frame, Janet. The Edge of the Alphabet. George Braziller, Inc., 1962.
• Garcia, Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban. Ballantine Books, 1992.
• Gearhart, Sally Miller. Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women. Ross, Elizabeth. Alyson Publications, Inc., 1979.
• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Herland. Pantheon Books, 1979.
• Gordimer, Nadine. Selected Stories. Penguin Books, 1975.
• Gordon, Mary. The Company of Women. Random House, Inc, 1980.
• Green, Hannah. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Signet Books, 1964.
• Guest, Judith. Ordinary People. Ballantine Books, 1976.
• Harris, Ruth. Modern Women. St. Martin’s Press, 1989.
• Hazelton, Lesley. Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 2007.
• Home To Stay: Asian American Women's Fiction. Ed. Sylvia Watanabe and Carol Bruchac. Greenfield Review Press, 1990.
• Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. In Search of Love and Beauty. Penguin Books, 1983.
• JLove. That White Girl. Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2007.
• Johnson, Toby. Plague: A Novel about Healing. Alyson Publications, Inc., 1987.
• Jones, Jo. Come Come. Sheba Feminist Publishers, 1983.
• King, Stephen. Dolores Claiborne. Penguin Books, 1993.
• Kogawa, Joy. Obasan. Random House, Inc., 1981.
• Langley, Dorothy. Swamp Angel. Ed. Helen Bugbee. Academy Chicago, 1982.
• LeGuin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness. Walker and Company, 1969.
• Lessing, Doris. The Summer Before the Dark. Bantam Books, 1973.
• Lessing Doris. Briefing For a Descent into Hell. Bantam Books, 1971.
• Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Gift from the Sea. Random House, Inc, 1975.
• Mansfield, Katherine. Stories. Random House, Inc., 1991.
• Marshall, Paule. Brown Girl, Brownstones. Feminist Press, 1959.
• Marshall, Paule. Praisesong for the Widow. E.P. Dutton, Inc. 1983.
• McCullers, Carson. The Member of the Wedding. Bantam Books, 1946.
• Midnight Birds: Stories of Contemporary Black Women Writers. Ed. Mary Helen Washington. Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980.
• Miller, Sue. The Good Mother. Harper & Row, Publishers, 1986.
• Miner, Valerie. Blood Sisters. St. Martin’s Press, 1982.
• Moore, Susanna. The Whiteness of Bones. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1989.
• Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1986.
• Mpe, Phaswane. Welcome to our Hillbrow. University of Natal Press, 2001.
• Mukherjee, Bharati. Jasmine. Ballantine Books, 1989.
• Mukherjee, Bharati. The Middleman and Other Stories. Grove Press, 1988.
• Mukherjee, Bharati. The Tiger's Daughter. Penguin Books, 1971.
• Naylor, Gloria. Bailey's Café. Random House, Inc., 1992.
• Newman, Leslea. Good Enough to Eat.
• Newman, Leslea. In Every Laugh A Tear. New Victoria Publishers, 1992.
• Newman, Leslea. Secrets. New Victoria Publishers, 1990.
• Nin, Anais. The Four-Chambered Heart. The Swallow Press, 1959.
• O’Brien, Edna. The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue. Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1986.
• Oliver, Mary. American primitive:  poems. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.
• Oliver, Mary. Winter hours:  prose, prose poems, and poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
• Olsen, Tillie. Tell Me a Riddle. Dell Publishing, 1978.
• Olsen, Tillie. Yonnondio: From the Thirties. Dell Publishing, 1974.
• Ousmane, Sembene. God's Bits of Wood. Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1962.
• Park, Severna. Speaking Dreams. Firebrand Books, 1992.
• Petry, Ann. The Street. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946.
• Piercy, Marge. Braided Lives. Ballantine Books, 1982.
• Piercy, Marge. The High Cost of Living. Fawcett Crest, 1978.
• Piercy, Marge. Small Changes. Ballantine Books, 1973.
• Piercy, Marge. Vida. Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1979.
• Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar.  Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971.
• Porter, Katherine Anne. The Leaning Tower. New American Library, 1970.
• Porter, Katherine Anne. Pale Horse, Pale Rider. New American Library, 1962.
• Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. Random House, Inc., 1957.
• Ressmeyer, Georgia Jo. Bernice: A Comedy in Letters. Iowa City Women’s Press, 1984.
• Robinson, Marilynne. Housekeeping. Bantam Books, 1989.
• Sarton, May. The Education of Harriet Hatfield. W. W. Norton & Company, 1989.
• Sarton, May. Kinds of Love. W.W. Norton & Company, 1970.
• Sarton, May. The Magnificent Spinster. W. W. Norton & Company, 1985.
• Schulman, Sarah. Girls, Visions and Everything. Seal Press, 1986.
• Schulman, Sarah. The Sophie Horowitz Story. Naiad Press, 1984.
• Scott-Heron, Gil. The Vulture and the Nigger Factory. Payback Press, 1996.
• Segal, Lore. Her First American. Fawcett Crest, 1985.
• Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Bantam Books, 1981.
• Shulman, Alix Kates. Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen. Bantam Books, 1972.
• Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Harper & Row, Publishers, 1947.
• Suyin, Han. ...and the Rain my Drink. Little, Brown, and Company, 1956.
• Suyin, Han. The Enchantress. Bantam Books, 1985.
• Suyin, Han. A Many-Splendored Thing. Little, Brown, and Company, 1952.
• Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1989.
• Taylor, Sheila Oritz. Faultline. Naiad Press, 1982.
• Taylor, Valerie. Prism. Naiad Press, 1981.
• Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. Ed. George Gibian. Trans. Louise Maude and Ayler Maude. W. W. Norton & Company, 1970.
• Voigt, Cynthia. When She Hollers. Scholastic Inc., 1994.
• Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1982.
• Walker, Alice. Meridian. Washington Square Press, 1976.
• Walker, Alice. Possessing the Secret of Joy. Pocket Star Books, 1992.
• Walker, Alice. The Temple of My Familiar. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1989.
• Walker, Alice. The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Pocket Books, 1970.
• Welty, Eudora. Delta Wedding. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1974.
• West, Nathanael. The Day of the Locust. Signer Books, 1939.
• West, Rebecca. The Return of the Soldier. The Dial Press, 1918.
• What are You Looking at? The First Fat Fiction Anthology. Ed. Donna Jarrell and Ira Sukrungruang. Harcourt, Inc., 2003.
• Wilson, Barbara. Cows and Horses. Eighth Mountain Press, 1988.
• Winslow, Christa. The Child Manuela. Trans. Agnes Neill Scott. Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1989.
• Women and Fiction 2. Ed. Susan Cahill. Signet Books, 1978.
• Women Writing: An Anthology. Ed. Denys Val Baker. St. Martin’s Press, 1979.
• Woodson Jacqueline. Autobiography of a Family Photo. Penguin Books, 1995.
• Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1927.
• Woolf, Virginia. The Voyage Out. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1948.

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