A Reading Survey
Via Brandon via Fido the Yak. Instructions: Bold the works you've read, italicize the works you might like to read, place question marks by the authors you've never heard of, place an asterisk by authors if you've read any of their other works.
*Alcott, Louisa May--Little Women
*Allende, Isabel--The House of Spirits
Angelou, Maya--I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
*Atwood, Margaret--Cat's Eye
*Austen, Jane--Emma
Bambara, Toni Cade--Salt Eaters
Barnes, Djuna--Nightwood
de Beauvoir, Simone--The Second Sex
*Blume, Judy--Are You There God It's Me Margaret
Burnett, Frances--The Secret Garden
Bronte, Charlotte--Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily--Wuthering Heights
Buck, Pearl S.--The Good Earth
Byatt, A.S.--Possession
Cather, Willa--My Antonia
*Chopin, Kate--The Awakening
*Christie, Agatha--Murder on the Orient Express
*Cisneros, Sandra--The House on Mango Street
Clinton, Hillary Rodham--Living History
Cooper, Anna Julia--A Voice From the South
Danticat, Edwidge--Breath, Eyes, Memory
Davis, Angela--Women, Culture, and Politics
Desai, Anita--Clear Light of Day
Dickinson, Emily--Collected Poems
Duncan, Lois--I Know What You Did Last Summer
DuMaurier, Daphne--Rebecca
*Eliot, George--Middlemarch
*Emecheta, Buchi--Second Class Citizen
*Erdrich, Louise--Tracks
*Esquivel, Laura--Like Water for Chocolate
*Flagg, Fannie--Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Friedan, Betty--The Feminine Mystique
Frank, Anne--Diary of a Young Girl
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins--The Yellow Wallpaper
*Gordimer, Nadine--July's People
*Grafton, Sue--S is for Silence
Hamilton, Edith--Mythology
*Highsmith, Patricia--The Talented Mr. Ripley
*hooks, bell--Bone Black
*Hurston, Zora Neale--Dust Tracks on the Road
Jacobs, Harriet--Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Jackson, Helen Hunt--Ramona
*Jackson, Shirley--The Haunting of Hill House
Jong, Erica--Fear of Flying
Keene, Carolyn--The Nancy Drew Mysteries (any of them)
Kidd, Sue Monk--The Secret Life of Bees
Kincaid, Jamaica--Lucy
*Kingsolver, Barbara--The Poisonwood Bible
*Kingston, Maxine Hong--The Woman Warrior
*Larsen, Nella--Passing
*L'Engle, Madeleine--A Wrinkle in Time
Le Guin, Ursula K.--The Left Hand of Darkness
Lee, Harper--To Kill a Mockingbird
*Lessing, Doris--The Golden Notebook
*Lively, Penelope--Moon Tiger
Lorde, Audre--The Cancer Journals
Martin, Ann M.--The Babysitters Club Series (any of them)
McCullers, Carson--The Member of the Wedding
*McMillan, Terry--Disappearing Acts
Markandaya, Kamala--Nectar in a Sieve
Marshall, Paule--Brown Girl, Brownstones
Mitchell, Margaret--Gone with the Wind
Montgomery, Lucy--Anne of Green Gables
?Morgan, Joan--When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost
*Morrison, Toni--Song of Solomon
Murasaki, Lady Shikibu--The Tale of Genji
Munro, Alice--Lives of Girls and Women
*Murdoch, Iris--A Severed Head
*Naylor, Gloria--Mama Day
Niffenegger, Audrey--The Time Traveller's Wife
*Oates, Joyce Carol--We Were the Mulvaneys
O'Connor, Flannery--A Good Man is Hard to Find
*Piercy, Marge--Woman on the Edge of Time
*Picoult, Jodi--My Sister's Keeper
*Plath, Sylvia--The Bell Jar
Porter, Katharine Anne--Ship of Fools
*Proulx, E. Annie--The Shipping News
Rand, Ayn--The Fountainhead
Ray, Rachel--365: No Repeats
Rhys, Jean--Wide Sargasso Sea
Robinson, Marilynne--Housekeeping
?Rocha, Sharon--For Laci
Sebold, Alice--The Lovely Bones
Shelley, Mary--Frankenstein
Smith, Betty--A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith, Zadie--White Teeth
Spark, Muriel--The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Spyri, Johanna--Heidi
?Strout, Elizabeth--Amy and Isabelle
*Steel, Danielle--The House
*Tan, Amy--The Joy Luck Club
*Tannen, Deborah--You're Wearing That
*Ulrich, Laurel--A Midwife's Tale
Urquhart, Jane--Away
*Walker, Alice--The Temple of My Familiar
*Welty, Eudora--One Writer's Beginnings
*Wharton, Edith--Age of Innocence
*Wilder, Laura Ingalls--Little House in the Big Woods
Wollstonecraft, Mary--A Vindication of the Rights of Women
*Woolf, Virginia--A Room of One's Own
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