A Running List…

Not in any particular order, here are the books that have been suggested to me to read. I’ll add more as the year goes on. (Note: I’m not including anything I’ve already read). Feel free to add to the list via comments, just remember the rules: Must be written by a woman with a woman as the primary protagonist!

Girl, Interrupted * Susan Kaysen
Go Ask Alice * Anonymous
The Help * Kathryn Stockett
The Secret Life of Bees * Sue Monk Kid
The Poisonwood Bible * Barbara Kingsolver
Gone with the Wind * Margaret Mitchell
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight * Jennifer E. Smith
Ahab’s Wife * Sena Jeter Naslund
How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents * Julia Alvarez
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings * Maya Angelou
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn *  Betty Smith
The Pilot’s Wife * Anita Shreve
The Tiger’s Wife * Téa Obreht
Ophelia * Lisa M. Klein
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding * Julia Strachey
Island Beneath the Sea * Isabel Allende
How to Build a Girl * Caitlin Moran
Their Eyes were Watching God * Zora Neal Hurston
The Elegance of the Hedgehog * Mureil Barbery
The Bay of Angels * Anita Brookner
The Opposite of Loneliness * Marina Keegan
A Girl Named Zippy * Haven Kimmel
Someday, Someday, Maybe * Lauren Graham
All Over the Map * Laura Fraser
My Salinger Year * Joanna Rakoff
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street * Susan Jane Gilman
Stern Men * Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things * Elizabeth Gilbert
Brown Girl in the Ring * Nalo Hopkinson
Sunishine * Robin McKinley
Storykiller * Kelly Thompson
The Girl Who Would be King * Kelly Thompson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle * Shirley Jackson
The Daughters of Danaus * Mona Caird
The Hero and the Crown * Robin McKinley
Boy, Snow, Bird * Helen Oyeyemi
Lumberjanes * Noelle Stevenson
Travel Light * Naomi Mitchison
Everything Leads to You * Nina LaCour
The Diviners * Libba Bray
You’re Never Weird on the Internet * Felicia Day
Wild * Chryl Strayed
Mama Day * Gloria Naylor
The Inheritance of Loss * Kiran Desai
Fun Home * Alison Bechdel
Dietland * Sarai Walker