Celebrating Women: Literary Works By Women

The Yellow Wallpaper (M.A. Reilly, 2011)

This is not meant as a complete list of literary works by women about women, but rather a handful of books I hope you might enjoy.

Allende, Isabel. 2005. Eva Luna: A Novel. New York: Dial. (Novel).

Anzaldúa, Gloria E.  and Ana Louise Keating. 2002. This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformations. London: Routledge. (Poems, Letters, Stories, Essays).

Atwood, Margaret. 1986/1998. The Handmaid’s Tale.  New York: First Anchor books. (Novel).

Browder, Catherine. 1993. The Clay that Breathes. Milkweed. (Short Stories).

Butler, Judith. 2006. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London: Routledge. (Theory).

Cheung, Fiona. 2010. The Scent of the Gods. University of Illinois Press. (Novel).

Chopin, Kate. 1899/1994. The Awakening and Selected Stories. Piublic Domain. (Novel, short stories).

Colette. 2002. My Mother’s House and Sido. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. (Memoir).

de Monteflores, Carmen.  1995. Singing Softly/ Cantando Bajito.  Aunt Lute Books. (Novel).

Erdrich, Louise. 2009. The Plague of Doves. New York: HarperColllins. (Novel).

Fuller, Margaret. 1994. The Portable Margaret Fuller. New York: Viking. (Essay).

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. 1891/2006.  The Yellow Wallpaper.  Public Domain. (Short Story).

Glancy, Diane. 2011. The Dream of a Broken Field. University of Nebraska Press. (Essay).

Gordimer, Nadine. 2012. No Time Like the Present.  New York; Farrar, Straus & Giroux. (Novel).

Hoffman, Alice. 2012. The Dovekeepers: A Novel. New York: Scribner. (Novel).

hooks, bell. 1997. Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood.  New York: Holt. (Memoir).

Ivins, Molly. 2004. Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America. New York: Vintage (Essay).

Jewett, Sarah Orne. 1896/2006. Country of the Pointed Firs. Public Domain. (Novel).

Johnson, Josephine. 1934/1992. Now in November. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY. (Novel).

Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees. New York: HarperCollins. (Novel).

Lopez-Medina, Sylvia. 1993. Cantora. New York: Ballantine Books. (Novel).

Lorde, Audre. 1986.  Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Crossing Press (Essays, Speeches)

Menchú, Rigoberta. 2010. I, Rigoberta Menchú, An Indian Woman in Guatemala. New York: Verso. (Testimony).

Mohr, Nicholas. 1985. Ritual of Survival: A Woman’s Portfolio. Arte Publico Press. (Short stories and novella).

Morrison, Toni. 2005. Love. New York: Vintage. (Novel).

Naylor, Gloria. 1983. The Women of Brewster Place. New York: Penguin. (Novel).

Norris, Kathleeen. 2001. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. Mariner Books. (Essay).

O'Brien. Edna. 2002. The Country Girls. New York: Plume. (Novel).

Olsen, Tillie. 2003. Silences. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY.

Parker, Dorothy. 2006. The Portable Dorothy Parker. New York: Penguin. (Short stories, poetry).

Quindlen, Anna. 2006. One True Thing. New York: Random House. (Novel).

Rhys, Jean. 1992. Wide Sargasso Sea. New York: Norton. (Novel).

Smiley, Jane. 1991. A Thousand Acres. New York: Anchor. (Novel).

Tyler, Anne. 1996. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. New York: Ballantine. (Novel).

Urquhart, Jane. 2012. Sanctuary Line. Emblem Line. (Novel).

Viramontes, Helena Maria. 1996. Under the Feet of Jesus. New York: Plume. (Novel).

Williams, Terry Tempest. 1995. An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field. New York: Vintage. (Essay).

Wolf, Naomi. 2002. The Beauty Myth: How Image of Beauty are Used Against Women. New York: Harper. (Research, essay, documentary)

Woolf. Virginia. 2005. A Room of One’s Own. Mariner Books. (Essay).

-------------------. 2002. The Common Reader. Mariner Books. (Essay).

Xiao Hong.2006. The Field of Life and Death & Tales of Hulan River. Translated by Howard Goldblatt. Cheng & Tsui.

Yezierska, Anzia. 2003. The Bread Givers: A Novel. New York: Persea. (Novel).

Zitkala- Sa. 1921/2010. American Indian Stories. CreateSpace. (Short stories).