Suggested booklist ACOW

I really want to finish up my Century of Women project and it seems like it will be helpful to put together a suggested booklist to work from for the remaining years.

 

  1. 1920: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie; the Wreath by Sigrid Undset; The House in Dormer Forest by Mary Webb
  2. 1921: The Wife by Sigrid Undset; Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim;
  3. 1928: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf; Quicksand by Nella Larsen; The Draycott Murder Mystery by Molly Thynne;
  4. 1971: Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks; Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor, Penmarric by Susan Howatch
  5. 1974: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard; The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip; The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen Woodiwiss; Eve’s Hollywood by Eve Babitz
  6. 1975: ?
  7. 1976: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice; Speedboat by Renata Adler; For Her Own good by Barbara Ehrenreich; Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan
  8. 1978: The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye; The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch; Evergreen by Belva Plain; The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
  9. 1979: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter; Kindred by Octavia Butler; Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwicke
  10. 1989: A Kingdom of Dreams by Judith McNaught; A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons; Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block; Who Cooked the Last Supper by Rosalind Miles
  11. 1992: The Secret History by Donna Tartt; Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce; Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison; The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
  12. 1995: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman; Songs in an Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris; Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler; The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid
  13. 1997: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant; The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy; Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs; Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman