Best Books Written by Women

Essential fiction and non-fiction by women — the most celebrated female voices in literature.

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

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