Yeah, I know: mostly dead white guys. I did spend 1996 on a mission to read up on women authors. The following is a list of
what I read. Note that I didn't necessarily enjoy every one of these books, and in fact I detested The Awakening
and The Waves.
Isabel Allende, The House Of The Spirits
Jane Austen, Emma, Persuasion, Lady Susan/The Watsons/Sanditon
Brontë, Anne, Agnes Grey, The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Charlotte, Shirley, Villette, The Professor
Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle, Six Of One
Phyllis Chesler, Women & Madness (nonfiction)
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
George Eliot, The Mill On The Floss, Middlemarch, Adam Bede
Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic Of Sex (nonfiction)
Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, North And South
Lilian Hellman, Scoundrel Time (purportedly nonfiction)
Ursula LeGuin, Four Ways To Forgiveness
Kate Millett, Flying, Sita (nonfiction)
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, Beloved
Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
Alice Walker, Possessing The Secret Of Joy
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Not much to show for a whole year, but hey, I have other responsibilities too. Like for instance
maintaining my home page. If you have any recommended reading, don't hesitate to e-mail me.