A while ago, a woman friend of mine was saying that she wanted to read some literary fiction by women writers but had a hard time choosing where to start. I told her that I have really enjoyed fiction written by women and would send her a list to get her started browsing in the library. I thought I would reproduce it her for you, dear readers, along with some pictures of a small portion of the overloaded shelves of fiction in our downstairs library (nonfiction upstairs, of course). I have since quit buying books, for the most part, and have been making wonderful weekly trips to the Urbana Free Library.
Here's the list. Warning: It's LONG, but incomplete, of course, because I've read many that I didn't think of when writing this. But it should get some of you started. Barbara Kingsolver:
The Bean Trees, Ann Hood:
Somewhere off the Coast of Maine, Julia Glass:
Three Junes, Mary McGary Morris:
Songs in Ordinary Time, Jennifer Haigh:
Mrs Kimble, Ann Patchett:
Bel Canto, Penelope Lively:
Moon Tiger, Carol Goodman:
The Lake of Dead Languages, Mary Lawson:
Crow Lake, Anne-Marie MacDonald:
The Way the Crow Flies, Ursula Hegi:
Stones from the River, Sue Miller:
Lost in the Forest, Audrey Niffenegger:
The Time Traveler's Wife, Jane Harris:
The Observations, Joanne Harris:
Gentlemen and Other Players, Beth Gutcheon:
Leeway Cottage, Gail Tsukiyama:
Women of the Silk, Sigrid Nunez:
The Last of Her Kind, Amy Tan:
The Bonesetter's Daughter, Kate Atkinson:
Case Histories, Jane Urquhart:
The Underpainter, Jennifer Egan:
The Invisible Circus, Elizabeth McCracken:
The Giant's House, Elizabeth Hay:
Student of the Weather, Lynn Sharon Schwartz:
The Writing on the Wall, Laura Kalpakian:
These Latter Days, Andrea Levy:
Small Island, Elisabeth Rosner:
Speed of Light, Joan Barfoot:
Lucky, Carol Shields:
The Stone Diaries, Sarah Waters:
Fingersmith, Bobbie Ann Mason:
Feather Crowns, Helen Dunmore:
Talking to the Dead, Margaret Atwood:
The Blind Assassin, Pat Barker:
Double Vision, Doris Lessing:
The Summer before Dark, Jane Hamilton:
Map of the World, Joyce Carol Oates:
When We Were the Mulvaneys, Jane Smiley:
The All-True Adventures of Lily Newton, Isabel Allende:
House of the Spirits, Alice Munro:
Dance of the Happy Shades, Kate Morton:
The House at Riverton, Lionel Shriver:
We Need to Talk about Kevin, Jhumpa Lahiri:
The Namesake . . . and on and on.
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