| Leila Aboulela, The Kindness of Enemies |
| Susan Abulhawa, The Blue Between Sky and Water |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun |
| Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova |
| Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow |
| Svetlana Alexievich, Voices From Chernobyl |
| Clare Allan, Poppy Shakespeare |
| Sarah Addison Allen, Lost Lake |
| Isabel Allende, Eva Luna |
| Karin Altenberg, Island of Wings |
| Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies |
| Tahmima Anam, The Good Muslim |
| Natacha Appanah, The Last Brother |
| Chloe Aridjis, Asunder |
| Bridget Asher, All of Us and Everything |
| Margaret Atwood, Oryx & Crake |
| Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice |
| Mariama Bâ, Scarlet Song |
| Toni Cade Bambara, Those Bones Are Not My Child |
| Gioconda Belli, The Inhabited Woman |
| Karen Bender, Refund |
| Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III |
| Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers |
| Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre |
| Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights |
| Gwendolyn Brooks, The Bean Eaters |
| Lauren Buekes, The Shining Girls |
| NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names |
| Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity |
| Leonora Carrington, The hearing trumpet |
| Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee |
| Susan Choi, American Woman |
| Kate Chopin, The Awakening |
| Sonya Chung, Long for This World |
| Caryl Churchill, Top Girls |
| Lucille Clifton, Mercy |
| Simin Daneshvar, Sutra & Other Stories |
| Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions |
| Edwidge Danticat, Claire of the Sea Light |
| Meaghan Daum, Unspeakable |
| Dola de Jong, The Tree and the Vine |
| Grazia Deledda, After the Divorce |
| Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day |
| Emily Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson |
| Joan Didion, Democracy |
| Rita Dove, On the Bus With Rosa Parks |
| Yasmine El Rashidi, Chronicle of a Last Summer |
| Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero |
| George Eliot, Middlemarch |
| Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood |
| Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues |
| Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend |
| Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower |
| Paula Fox, Desperate Characters |
| Lauren Francis-Sharma, Til the Well Runs Dry |
| Ru Freeman, On Sal Mal Lane |
| Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances |
| Mary Gaitskill, The Mare |
| Petina Gappah, The Book of Memory |
| Elena Garro, First love ; &, Look for my obituary |
| Louise Gluck, Faithful and Virtuous Night |
| Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist |
| Jorie Graham, Erosion |
| Linda LeGarde Grover, The dance boots |
| Paula Gunn Allen, America the Beautiful: Last Poems |
| Marilyn Hacker, Names |
| Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness |
| Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun |
| Eve Harris, The Marrying of Chani Kaufman |
| Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route |
| Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus |
| Bessie Head, The Collector of Treasures |
| Amy Hempel, Reasons to Live |
| Cristina Henriquez, The Book of Unknown Americans |
| Christine Dwyer Hickey, The Cold Eye of Heaven |
| Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt |
| Arlie Hochschild, The Second Shift |
| Alice Hoffman, Survival Lessons |
| Sara Sue Hoklotubbe, Deception on All Accounts |
| bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics |
| Keri Hulme, The Bone People |
| Dương Thu Hương, Paradise of the Blind |
| Hồ Xuân Hương, Spring Essence |
| Ulfat Idilbi, Grandfather’s Tale |
| Elfriede Jelinek, Women As Lovers |
| Han Kang, The Vegetarian |
| Mary Karr, The Liar’s Club |
| Kazue Kato, Blue Exorcist |
| Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey |
| Porochista Khakpour, The Last Illusion |
| Vénus Khoury-Ghata, A House at the Edge of Tears |
| Suki Kim, Without You, There Is No Us |
| Jamaica Kincaid, See Now Then |
| Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible |
| Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior |
| Natsuo Kirino, Out |
| Sana Krasikov, One More Year |
| Jean Kwok, Girl in Translation |
| Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland |
| Laila Lalami, Secret Son |
| Nella Larsen, Passing |
| Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Random Family |
| Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird |
| Yiyun Li, Kinder Than Solitude |
| Gloria Lisé, Departing at Dawn |
| Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star |
| Inverna Lockpezer, Cuba: My Revolution |
| Alia Mamdouh, The Loved Ones |
| Dacia Maraini, The Silent Duchess |
| Ronit Matalon, The Sound of Our Steps |
| Ayana Mathis, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie |
| Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing |
| Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs |
| Ai Mi, Under the Hawthorn Tree |
| Gabriela Mistral, Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral |
| Nadifa Mohamed, Black Mamba Boy |
| Lorrie Moore, Bark |
| Marianne Moore, The Poems of Marianne Moore |
| Toni Morrison, Sula |
| Bharati Mukherjee, The Tree Bride |
| Alice Munro, Family Furnishings |
| Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head |
| Eileen Myles, School of Fish |
| Azar Nafisi, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books |
| Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You |
| Hualing Nieh, Mulberry and Peach |
| Sara Nović, Girl at War |
| Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, I Do Not Come to You by Chance |
| Silvia Ocampo, Thus Were Their Faces |
| Nnedi Okorafor, Binti |
| Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic |
| Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox |
| Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation |
| Cynthia Ozick, Foreign Bodies |
| ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere |
| Grace Paley, The Little Disturbances of Man |
| Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog |
| Shahrnush Parsipur, Kissing the Sword |
| Ann Patchett, Bel Canto |
| Anna Politkovskaya, A Russian Diary |
| Katha Pollitt, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights |
| Claudia Rankine, Citizen |
| Alifa Rifaat, Distant View of a Minaret and Others Stories |
| Suzanne Rivecca, Death Is Not An Option |
| Riverbend, Baghdad Burning |
| Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things |
| Vedrana Rudan, Night |
| Sonia Sanchez, Does Your House Have Lions? |
| Sappho, The Complete Works of Sappho |
| Noo Saro-Wiwa, Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria |
| Åsne Seierstad, The Angel of Grozny |
| Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton |
| Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji |
| Kyung-sook Shin, Please Look After Mom |
| Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book |
| Ana Maria Shuah, The Weight of Temptation |
| Leslie Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead |
| Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars |
| Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Marivi Soliven, The Mango Bride |
| Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost |
| Susan Sontag, Styles of Radical Will |
| Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love |
| Gertrude Stein, Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and other early writings |
| Aoibbhean Sweeney, Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking |
| Elizabeth Crane, When the Messenger Is Hot |
| Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement |
| Valerie Taylor, The Girls in 3-B |
| Lygia Fagunda Telles, The Girl in the Photograph |
| Lynne Tillman, No Lease on Life |
| Dubravka Ugresic, Thank You For Not Reading |
| Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters Street |
| Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas |
| Jean Valentine, Little Boat |
| Lara Vapnyar, There Are Jews in My House |
| Marja-Liisa Vartio, The Parson’s Widow |
| Josefina Vicens, The Empty Book |
| Alice Walker, The Color Purple |
| Sarah Waters, Fingersmith |
| Eudora Welty, The Optimist’s Daughter |
| Phillis Wheatley, The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley |
| Zoe Wicomb, You Can’t Get Lost In Cape Town |
| Joy Williams, The Visiting Privilege |
| G. Willow Wilson, Ms. Marvel |
| Virginia Woolf, Orlando |
| Alexis Wright, Carpentaria |
| Sarah E. Wright, This Child’s Gonna Live |
| Tiphanie Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning |
| Samar Yazbek, Cinnamon |
| Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen |
| Haifa Zangana, Dreaming of Baghdad |
