published 2005, avg rating 3.86 — 712,087 ratings — 815,253 ratings — again she was trembling, the words were not releasing her. 2,338,655 ratings — 222,368 ratings — 172,791 ratings — 498,274 ratings — published 2018, avg rating 4.05 — It would be safe to say that there cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families. 647,966 ratings — 1,556 books — 1,428 voters. published 2008, avg rating 4.57 — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone book. 2. 845,143 ratings — 259 books — 1,320 voters. Welcome back. List RulesVote up the greatest women writers based on their works in all genres, including short fiction, novels, poetry, non-fiction, and essays. At the same time, recognizing great female authors is an exercise we here at Powell's are dedicated to undertaking again and again — emphatically, enthusiastically, unapologetically.

Favorite Georgette Heyer Book! published 2014, avg rating 3.79 — published 2003, avg rating 4.62 — published 2013, avg rating 4.26 — 1,777,073 ratings — 519,035 ratings — 2,797,977 ratings — published 2003, avg rating 4.53 — updated Jun 05, 2014 07:57AM — published 1985, avg rating 4.47 — Refresh and try again. Emily Dickinson Jane Austen Charlotte Brontë Virginia Woolf Mary Shelley Agatha Christie Toni Morrison George Eliot Harper Lee Louisa May Alcott Sylvia Plath Flannery O'Connor Edith Wharton Mary Wollstonecraft J 6,353,168 ratings — 0 people liked it, The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6), The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback), We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1). 1,337,046 ratings — 7,009,258 ratings — 680,261 ratings —

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And so we present to you 25 female writers we admire for their vision, their fearlessness, their originality, and their impact on the literary world and beyond. published 1962, avg rating 3.92 —

407,065 ratings — 264,409 ratings — Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, A Witness for the Prosecution, And Then There Were None, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, Silas Marner, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Casual Vacancy, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, Mary: A Fiction, Always Coming Home, The Day Before the Revolution, La casa de los espíritus, Daughter of Fortune, The Golden Notebook, The Grass Is Singing, Death Comes for the Archbishop, A Lost Lady, The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Little House in the Big Woods, The Long Winter. 2,155,559 ratings — We have celebrated female authors on the Books site before, but we contacted some of our readers and asked them to tell us which female writers shaped their … 784,817 ratings — 319,369 ratings — Best Nora Roberts Novels. 445,343 ratings — 2,496,109 ratings — published 1847, avg rating 4.50 — 323,824 ratings — J.K. Rowling – no introduction needed but she is also Robert Galbraith. published 1963, avg rating 4.57 — Error rating book. women-writers. published 2009, avg rating 4.01 — published 1813, avg rating 4.33 —

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2,319,460 ratings — 2,100,147 ratings — 4,482,119 ratings — published 1947, avg rating 4.09 — published 1939, avg rating 4.24 — 1,569,290 ratings — 1,675,179 ratings — Best of Brontë. published 1960, avg rating 4.26 — “Have you ever felt in your inmost being, the conscience of others?' 954,604 ratings —

published 2011, avg rating 4.09 — published 1969, avg rating 3.94 — 703,270 ratings — Best Alice Hoffman Novel. published 2010, 2 chapters — published 1811, avg rating 4.04 — published 1847, avg rating 3.81 — Strong Female Characters Written by Female Authors. published 2002, avg rating 4.52 — published 2017, avg rating 4.13 — Strong Female Characters Written by Female Authors, Women on the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" List, Jane Austen Books, Sequels, Bios and more, Future Classics: Best science fiction by women written 2001-2010, Women Writers from Central & Eastern Europe in English Translation, Speculative Fiction Classics (pre-1980) by Female Authors, Flavorwire: 50 Books by Women Authors to Read for #ReadWomen2014, ATY 2020 - A Book by an Author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers. 2,502,514 ratings — 335,300 ratings —

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Tempers strain and recover, hearts break and heal, strength falters, fails, and comes near to giving way altogether, every day, without being noted by the closest lookers-on.”, avg rating 4.11 — Jacqueline Woodson, N.K. published 1993, avg rating 4.47 — Vote up the greatest women writers based on their works in all genres, including short fiction, novels, poetry, non-fiction, and essays. published 1868, avg rating 4.07 — published 1815, avg rating 4.26 — 2,984,278 ratings — 2,791,679 ratings — published 2015, avg rating 4.00 — 2,893,804 ratings — 1,157,039 ratings — The following shelves are listed as duplicates of this shelf: 2,582,613 ratings — published 2000, avg rating 4.13 — 57 books — 752 voters. 2,426,792 ratings — published 2007, avg rating 4.01 — published 2009, avg rating 4.04 — Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. 14 books — 347 voters. published 2010, avg rating 4.15 —