Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Audrey N., Time Traveler’s Wife
Thackery, Vanity Fair
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
Sigrid Undsett, Kristin Lavransdotter
Sue Miller, The Good Mother
Dorothy Allison, Cavedweller
Lynn Freed, Leaving Home
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Elizabeth Bowen, any title
Jane Smiley, any title
Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
Denise Giardina, Saints and Villains
E. M. Forster, Passage to India
Ernest Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying
Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
Ellen Douglas, Can’t Quit you Baby
Geraldine Brooks, March
Christina Stead, The Man Who Loved Children
Isabel Allende, any title
Agnes Smedley, Daughter of Earth
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
Vida Sackville West, any title
Elizabeth Gaskell, any title
Edith Wharton, any title
Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April
Dorothy Bryant, any title.
Jane Urquhart, any title
Jane Gardam, The Flight of the Maidens
Ursula Hegi, any title
Anne Patchett, Bel Canto
Barbara Pym, any title
Maxine Hong Kingston, any title
Anchee Min, any title
Betty Bao Lord, any title
Pearl Buck, any book
Magda Szabo, The Door
Qanta Ahmed, In the Land of Invisible Women
Fauziya Kassingja, Do They Hear You When You Cry
Helene Cooper, The House at Sugar Beach
Ngozie Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
Isak Dinesen, any title