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Strong Women in Fiction

Dorothy Allison	Bastard Out of Carolina
Julia Alvarez	Yo!
Laurie Anderson	Fever, 1793
Tina McElroy Ansa	Baby of the Family Ugly Ways
A. Manette Ansay	Vinegar Hill
Elizabeth Arthur	Antarctic Navigation
Rilla Askew	Fire in Beulah
Margaret Atwood	Cat's Eye
Jean Auel	Clan of the Cave Bear
Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice
Raffaela Barker	Hens Dancing
Nevada Barr	Anna Pigeon mysteries
James Scott Bell	A Greater Glory
Constance Beresford Howe	The Book of Eve
Elizabeth Berg	Durable Goods Joy School Open House Ordinary Life: Stories The Pull of the Moon Range of Motion Talk Before Sleep True to Form
Christopher Bohjalian	Midwives
Sue Ellen Bridgers	Home Before Dark Sara Will
Anne Bronte	Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Bruce Brooks	Midnight Hour Encores
Elizabeth Buchan	Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman
Olive Ann Burns	Cold Sassy Tree Leaving Cold Sassy
Octavia Butler	Kindred
Angela Carter	Nights at the Circus
Kate Chopin	The Awakening
Sandra Cisneros	The House on Mango Street
Mary Higgins Clark	Where are the Children?
Karin Cook	What Girls Learn
Patricia Cornwell	Kay Scarpetta mysteries
Anne Eliot Crompton	A Woman's Place
Donna Woolfolk Cross	Pope Joan
Chris Crutcher	Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Karen Cushman	Catherine Called Birdy
Sandra Dallas	Diary of Mattie Spenser
Edwidge Danticat	Breath, Eyes, Memory
Dianne Day	Fremont Jones mysteries
Charles deLint	Memory and Dream
Sarah Dessen	Someone Like You
Anita Diamant	The Red Tent
Peter Dickinson	Eva
Michael Dorris	A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Margaret Drabble	The Gates of Ivory
Clyde Edgerton	Walking Across Egypt Lunch at the Picadilly
Janet Fitch	White Oleander
Fanny Flagg	Fried Green Tomatoes
Clare Francis	Night Sky
Charles Frazier	Cold Mountain
Diana Gabaldon	Outlander Dragonfly in Amber Voyager
Ernest J. Gaines	The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Kaye Gibbons	Charms for the Easy Life Ellen Foster On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon Sights Unseen A Virtuous Woman
Dorothy Gilman	Mrs. Pollifax novels The Tightrope Walker
Ellen Glasgow	Vein of Iron
Molly Glass	Jump-off Creek
Rumer Godden	In This House of Brede
Gail Godwin	Evensong
Arthur Golden	Memoirs of a Geisha
Olivia Goldsmith	First Wives Club Switcheroo
Sue Grafton	Kinsey Milhone mysteries
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey	A Woman of Independent Means
Brian Hall	The Saskiad
Thomas Harris	The Silence of the Lambs
Jim Harrison	Dalva The Road Home
Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter
Ursula Hegi	Stones from the River
Peter Hoeg	Smilla's Sense of Snow
Alice Hoffman	Blue Diary Turtle Moon Seventh Heaven
Pam Houston	Cowboys are my Weakness
Josephine Humphries	Rich in Love
Zora Neale Hurston	Their Eyes Were Watching God
Elizabeth Jolley	The Well
Welwyn Wilton Katz	Whalesinger
Laurie King	Monstrous Regiment of Women Kate Martinelli mysteries
Barbara Kingsolver	The Bean Trees Pigs in Heaven Animal Dreams Prodigal Summer
Annette Curtis Klause	The Silver Kiss
Bev LaHaye and Terri Blackstock	Times and Seasons Showers in Season Seasons Under Heaven
Wally Lamb	She's Come Undone
Anne Lamott	Crooked Little Heart
Margaret Lawrence	Hearts and Bones
Harper Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird
Billy Letts	Where the Heart Is
Sonia Levitin	Incident at Loring Groves
Penelope Lively	Moon Tiger
Beverly Lewis	Heritage of Lancaster County series: The Shunning The Confession The Reckoning October Song
Mary Mackey	The Year the Horses Came
Jill McCorkle	Carolina Moon
Sharyn McCrumb	Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries
Sara Maitland	Home Truths
Jo-Ann Mapson	Hank and Chloe
Beryl Markham	West With the Night
Catherine Marshall	Christy Julie
Carol Matas	In My Enemy's House
Norma Fox Mazer	Out of Control
Jane Mendelsohn	I Was Amelia Earhart
Franklin Miles	My Brilliant Career
Dawn Miller	The Journal of Callie Wade
Sue Miller	The World Below
Margaret Mitchell	Gone With the Wind
Miriam Grace Monfredo	Glynis Tryon series: North Star Conspiracy Seneca Falls Inheritance
Lucy Maud Montgomery	Anne of Green Gables Emily of New Moon
Robert Morgan	Gap Creek
Gilbert Morris	No Woman So Fair
Lynn Morris and Gilbert Morris	Cheney Duvall, M.D. series: Stars for a Light A City Not Forsaken Toward the Sunrising Driven With the Wind
Toni Morrison	Beloved Sula The Bluest Eye
Marcia Muller	Sharon McCone mysteries
Sister Carol Anne O'Marie	Sister Mary Helen mysteries
Sena Jeter Naslund	Ahab's Wife
Katharine Neville	The Eight
Robert C. O'Brien	Z for Zachariah
Joan O'Hanneson	Scarlet Music: Hildegard of Bingen
Whitney Otto	How to Make an American Quilt
Sara Paretsky	V. I. Warshawski mysteries
Gary Paulsen	The Night the White Deer Died
Cathie Pelletier	Beaming Sonny Home
Elizabeth Peters	Amelia Peabody mysteries
Tracie Peterson	City of Angels Angels Flight Angel of Mercy
Thomas Perry	Vanishing Act Dance for the Dead
Ann Petry	The Street
Eugenia Price	Before the Darkness Falls Savannah Stranger in Savannah To See Your Face Again
Anna Quindlen	Black and Blue
Ayn Rand	Fountainhead
Linda Raymond	Rocking the Babies
Francine Rivers	Leota's Garden Unshaken
Anne B. Ross	The Pilgrimage
Dori Sanders	Her Own Place
Sapphire	Push
Mary Sarton	As We Are Now
Ntozake Shange	Liliane
Paula Sharp	I Loved You All
Audrey Schulman	The Cage
Nevil Shute	A Town Like Alice
Betty Smith	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Lee Smith	Fair and Tender Ladies
Martin Cruz Smith	Rose
Mitchell Smith	Due North
Dana Stabenow	Kate Shugak mysteries
Danielle Steel	Wings Long Road Home
Lalita Tademy	Cane River
Amy Tan	The Bonesetter's Daughter Joy Luck Club The Kitchen God's Wife
James Alexander Thom	The Red Heart
Cynthia Voigt	When She Hollers
Alice Walker	The Color Purple
Mary Willis Walker	Under the Beetle's Cellar
Katharine Weber	Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Michael C. White	A Brother's Blood
Joan Wilder	Romancing the Stone
Kate Wilhelm	Barbara Holloway novels
Connie Willis	Doomsday Book
Janice Woods Windle	True Women
Lisa Wingate	Tending Roses
Barbara Wood	The Prophetess
Marly Youmans	Catherwood