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Ultimate Best Books

Genre: Feminism (10 books)

The best classic books from the Feminism genre.

The Color Purple

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

4.07 (15)

You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy.

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The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

3.93 (15)

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

#58
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Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

3.38 (13)

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.<br> <br> For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning—fresh as if issued to children on a beach.

#116
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To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.43 (14)

"Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.

#118
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The Awakening

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

3.38 (7)

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside, kept repeating over and over: <br>"<i>Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi!</i> That's all right!"

#145
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The Golden Notebook

The Golden Notebook

Doris Lessing

4.0 (4)

The two women were alone in the London flat.

#244
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A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

3.5 (6)

But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction -- what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain.

#250
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The Second Sex

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir

4.75 (4)

Woman?

#309
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Rubyfruit Jungle

Rubyfruit Jungle

Rita Mae Brown

4.0 (3)

No one remembers her beginnings.

#440
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The road from Coorain

The road from Coorain

Jill Ker Conway

4.0 (3)

The western plains of New South Wales are grasslands.

#548
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