Women in Literature:
A bibliography that celebrates female characters

Allende, Isabel. Daughter of Fortune. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
Call number: 863.64 A432D

Angelou, Maya. The Heart of a Woman. New York: Random House, 1981.
Call number: 811.54 A584H

Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood. New York: New Directions, 1946.
Call number: 813.52 B261N

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: Signet Classic, 1991.
Call number: 823.8 B867J1991

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking-Glass. Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, 196-?.
Call number: 823.8 D645A

Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926.
Call number: 813.52 C363MB

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories. New York: Bantam, 1981.
Call number: 813.4 C549AW1984

Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.
Call number: 813.54 C579H 1991

Eliot, George. Middlemarch. New York: New American Library, 1963.
Call number: 823.8 E42M1981

Esquivel, Laura. Like Water for Chocolate: a Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
Call number: 863.64 E77C

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings. New York: Bantam Books, 1989.
Call number: 813.4 G487Y

Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees. New York: HarperPerrenial, 1992.
Call number: 813.54 K55b

Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. New York: Vintage Books, 1977.
Call number: 301.451951 K55W

Morrison, Toni. Sula. New York: Knopf, 1974.
Call number: 813.54 M882SU

Mukherjee, Bharati. Jasmine. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989.
Call number: 813.54 M953j

Robinson, Marilynne. Housekeeping. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980.
Call number: 813.54 R663H

Silko, Leslie. Gardens in the Dunes. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Call number: 813.54 S583g

Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. [n.p.]: Everybody's Vacation Publishing Co., 1943.
Call number: 813.52 S643T

Tan, Amy. The Kitchen God's Wife. New York: Vintage, 1993.
Call number: 813.54 T161K1993

Walker, Alice. In Love and Trouble. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.
Call number: 813.54 W177I

"'Perhaps it hasn't one,' Alice ventured to remark.

'Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.'"

- Alice, Alice in Wonderland

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