| Twentieth-Century Women Writers | ||||
| List compiled by Theresa Strouth Gaul | ||||
| Year | Author Last Name | Author First Name | Book | |
| 2009 | Adichie | Chimamanda Ngozi | The Thing Around Your Neck | |
| 1993 | Allison | Dorothy | Bastard out of Carolina | |
| 1974 | Angelou | Maya | Gather Together in My Name | |
| 1999 | Anzaldua | Gloria | Borderlands/La Frontera | |
| 1954 | Arnow | Harriet | The Dollmaker | |
| 1985 | Atwood | Margaret | The Handmaid’s Tale | |
| 1996 | Atwood | Margaret | Alias Grace | |
| 1963 | Barnes | Djuna | Nightwood | |
| 1983-2008 | Bechdel | Alison | The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For | |
| 1968 | Brooks | Gwendolyn | The Mecca | |
| 1979 | Butler* | Octavia | Kindred | |
| 1993 | Butler | Octavia | Parable of the Sower | |
| 1990 | Byatt | A. S. | Possession | |
| 1997 | Cao | Lan | Monkey Bridge | |
| 1962 | Carson | Rachel | Silent Spring | |
| 1994 | Castillo | Ann | Massacre of the Dreamers | |
| 1913 | Cather | Willa | O Pioneers! | |
| 1915 | Cather | Willa | The Song of the Lark | |
| 1918 | Cather | Willa | My Antonia | |
| 1925 | Cather | Willa | The Professor’s House | |
| 1927 | Cather | Willa | Death Comes for the Archbishop | |
| 1997 | Chambers | Veronica | Mama’s Girl | |
| 1899 | Chopin | Kate | The Awakening | |
| 1984 | Cisneros | Sandra | House on Mango Street | |
| 1991 | Cisneros | Sandra | Woman Hollering Creek | |
| 1984 | Cliff | Michelle | Abeng | |
| 1987 | Cliff | Michelle | No Telephone to Heaven | |
| 1976 | Clifton* | Lucille | Generations | |
| 1994 | Danticatt | Edwidge | Breath, Eyes, Memory | |
| 1970 | Didion | Joan | Play it as it Lays | |
| 1996 | Didion | Joan | The Last Thing He Wanted | |
| 1986 | Dove | Rita | Thomas and Beulah | |
| 2003 | Erdich* | Louise | The Master Butchers Singing Club | |
| 1982 | Erdich | Louise | Love Medicine | |
| 2003 | Finney | Nikky | The World is Round | |
| 1924 | Fisher | Dorothy Canfield | The Home-Maker | |
| 1963 | Friedan | Betty | The Feminine Mystique | |
| 1978 | Giovanni | Nikki | Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day | |
| 1916 | Gladspell | Susan | Trifles | |
| 1916 | H. D. | Sea Garden | ||
| 1952-54 | H. D. | Helen in Egypt | ||
| 1959 | Hansberry | Lorraine | A Raisin in the Sun | |
| 1943 | Hathaway | Katherine Butler | The Little Locksmith | |
| 1987 | Hejinian | Lyn | My Life | |
| 1973 | Houston | Jeanne Wakatsuki | A Farewell to Manzanar | |
| 1937 | Hurston | Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God | |
| 1962 | Jackson | Shirley | We Have Always Lived in the Castle | |
| 1961 | Jacobs | Jane | The Death and Life of Great Amer Cities | |
| 1980 | Jordan | June | Poem About My Rights | |
| 1997 | Jordan | June | Kissing God Goodbye | |
| 1985 | Kincaid | Jamaica | Annie John | |
| 1988 | Kincaid | Jamaica | A Small Place | |
| 1998 | Kingsolver* | Barbara | Poisonwood Bible | |
| 2000 | Kingsolver | Barbara | Prodigal Summer | |
| 1988 | Kingsolver | Barbara | Bean Trees | |
| 1976 | Kingston | Maxine Hong | The Woman Warrior | |
| 1980 | Kingston | Maxine Hong | China Men | |
| 1999 | Lahiri | Jhumpa | Interpreter of Maladies | |
| 2003 | Lahiri | Jhumpa | The Namesake | |
| 1929 | Larson | Nella | Passing | |
| 1960 | Lee | Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird | |
| 1974 | LeGuin | Ursula | The Dispossessed | |
| 1994 | LeGuin | Ursula | A Fisherman of the Inland Sea | |
| 2007 | LeGuin | Ursula | Powers | |
| 1982 | Lorde | Audre | A New Spelling of My Name | |
| 1984 | Lorde | Audre | Sister Outsider | |
| 1959 | Marshall | Paule | Brown Girl, Brownstones | |
| 1983 | Marshall | Paule | Praisesong for the Widow | |
| 1957 | McCarthy | Mary | Memories of a Catholic Girlhood | |
| 1936 | Mitchell | Margaret | Gone with the Wind | |
| 1968 | Moody | Anne | Coming of Age in Mississippi | |
| 1919 | Moore | Marianne | Poetry | |
| 1970 | Morrison* | Toni | The Bluest Eye | |
| 1973 | Morrison | Toni | Sula | |
| 1977 | Morrison | Toni | Song of Solomon | |
| 1981 | Morrison | Toni | Tar Baby | |
| 1992 | Morrison | Toni | Playing in the Dark | |
| 1998 | Morrison | Toni | Paradise | |
| 2008 | Morrison | Toni | A Mercy | |
| 1987 | Morrison | Toni | Beloved | |
| 1975 | Mukherjee | Bharati | Wife | |
| 1993 | Mukherjee | Bharati | The Holder of the World | |
| 1988 | Naylor | Gloria | Mama Day | |
| 1969 | Oates | Joyce Carol | Them | |
| 1992 | Oates | Joyce Carol | Black Water | |
| 2006 | Oates | Joyce Carol | Black Girl/White Girl | |
| 1952 | O’Connor | Flannery | Wise Blood | |
| 1965 | O’Connor | Flannery | Everything that Rises Must Converge | |
| 1980 | Olsen | Tillie | Tell Me A Riddle | |
| 1994 | Paley | Grace | Collected Stories | |
| 1996 | Parks | Suzan-Lori | Venus | |
| 2001 | Parks | Suzan-Lori | Topdog/Underdog | |
| 1946 | Petry | Ann | The Street | |
| 1963 | Plath | Sylvia | The Bell Jar | |
| 1981 | Plath | Sylvia | Collected Poems | |
| 1983 | Rich | Adrienne | Your Native Land, Your Life | |
| 1984 | Rich | Adrienne | The Fact of a Doorframe | |
| 2004 | Rich | Adrienne | The School Among the Ruins | |
| 1980 | Robinson | Marilynne | Housekeeping | |
| 2004 | Robinson | Marilynne | Gilead | |
| 1938 | Rukeyser | Muriel | Book of the Dead | |
| 1949 | Rukeyser | Muriel | Life of Poetry | |
| 1996 | Sapphire | Push | ||
| 1998 | Senna | Danzy | Caucasia | |
| 1971 | Sexton | Anne | Transformations | |
| 1993 | Shields | Carol | The Stone Diaries | |
| 1977 | Silko | Leslie Marmon | Ceremony | |
| 1991 | Smiley | Jane | A Thousand Acres | |
| 2002 | Sontag | Susan | Regarding the Pain of Others | |
| 2010 | Stafford | Jean | The Mountain Lion | |
| 1909 | Stein | Gertrude | Three Lives | |
| 2000 | Trethewey | Natasha | Domestic Work | |
| 2006 | Trethewey | Natasha | Native Guard | |
| 1995 | Viramontes | Helena | Under the Feet of Jesus | |
| 1970 | Walker | Alice | The Third Life of Grange Copeland | |
| 1982 | Walker | Alice | The Color Purple | |
| 1992 | Walker | Alice | Possessing the Secret of Joy | |
| 2001 | Walker | Rebecca | Black, White, and Jewish | |
| 1999 | Waters | Sarah | Affinity | |
| 1941 | Welty | Eudora | A Curtin of Green and Other Stories | |
| 1949 | Welty | Eudora | The Golden Apples | |
| 1972 | Welty | Eudora | The Optimist’s Daughter | |
| 1905 | Wharton | Edith | The House of Mirth | |
| 1917 | Wharton | Edith | Sumner | |
| 1920 | Wharton | Edith | The Age of Innocence | |
| 1986 | Williams | Sherley Ann | Dessa Rose | |
| 1992 | Winterson | Jeannette | Written on the Body | |
| 1996 | Wolf | Christa | Medea | |
| 1923 | Yezierska | Anzia | Salome of the Tenements | |
| 1923 | Yezierska | Anzia | Children of Loneliness | |
| 1925 | Yezierska | Anzia | Bread Givers | |
| 1927 | Yezierska | Anzia | Arrogant Beggar | |
| Note: Names marked with an * also had a vote for “anything by her.” | ||||
| Year | Author Last Name | Author First Name | Book | |
| 1899 | Chopin | Kate | The Awakening | |
| 1905 | Wharton | Edith | The House of Mirth | |
| 1909 | Stein | Gertrude | Three Lives | |
| 1913 | Cather | Willa | O Pioneers! | |
| 1915 | Cather | Willa | The Song of the Lark | |
| 1916 | Gladspell | Susan | Trifles | |
| 1916 | H. D. | Sea Garden | ||
| 1917 | Wharton | Edith | Sumner | |
| 1918 | Cather | Willa | My Antonia | |
| 1919 | Moore | Marianne | Poetry | |
| 1920 | Wharton | Edith | The Age of Innocence | |
| 1923 | Yezierska | Anzia | Salome of the Tenements | |
| 1923 | Yezierska | Anzia | Children of Loneliness | |
| 1924 | Fisher | Dorothy Canfield | The Home-Maker | |
| 1925 | Cather | Willa | The Professor’s House | |
| 1925 | Yezierska | Anzia | Bread Givers | |
| 1927 | Cather | Willa | Death Comes for the Archbishop | |
| 1927 | Yezierska | Anzia | Arrogant Beggar | |
| 1929 | Larson | Nella | Passing | |
| 1936 | Mitchell | Margaret | Gone with the Wind | |
| 1937 | Hurston | Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God | |
| 1938 | Rukeyser | Muriel | Book of the Dead | |
| 1941 | Welty | Eudora | A Curtin of Green and Other Stories | |
| 1943 | Hathaway | Katherine Butler | The Little Locksmith | |
| 1946 | Petry | Ann | The Street | |
| 1949 | Rukeyser | Muriel | Life of Poetry | |
| 1949 | Welty | Eudora | The Golden Apples | |
| 1952 | O’Connor | Flannery | Wise Blood | |
| 1952-54 | H. D. | Helen in Egypt | ||
| 1954 | Arnow | Harriet | The Dollmaker | |
| 1957 | McCarthy | Mary | Memories of a Catholic Girlhood | |
| 1959 | Hansberry | Lorraine | A Raisin in the Sun | |
| 1959 | Marshall | Paule | Brown Girl, Brownstones | |
| 1960 | Lee | Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird | |
| 1961 | Jacobs | Jane | The Death and Life of Great Amer Cities | |
| 1962 | Carson | Rachel | Silent Spring | |
| 1962 | Jackson | Shirley | We Have Always Lived in the Castle | |
| 1963 | Barnes | Djuna | Nightwood | |
| 1963 | Friedan | Betty | The Feminine Mystique | |
| 1963 | Plath | Sylvia | The Bell Jar | |
| 1965 | O’Connor | Flannery | Everything that Rises Must Converge | |
| 1968 | Brooks | Gwendolyn | The Mecca | |
| 1968 | Moody | Anne | Coming of Age in Mississippi | |
| 1969 | Oates | Joyce Carol | Them | |
| 1970 | Didion | Joan | Play it as it Lays | |
| 1970 | Morrison* | Toni | The Bluest Eye | |
| 1970 | Walker | Alice | The Third Life of Grange Copeland | |
| 1971 | Sexton | Anne | Transformations | |
| 1972 | Welty | Eudora | The Optimist’s Daughter | |
| 1973 | Houston | Jeanne Wakatsuki | A Farewell to Manzanar | |
| 1973 | Morrison | Toni | Sula | |
| 1974 | Angelou | Maya | Gather Together in My Name | |
| 1974 | LeGuin | Ursula | The Dispossessed | |
| 1975 | Mukherjee | Bharati | Wife | |
| 1976 | Clifton* | Lucille | Generations | |
| 1976 | Kingston | Maxine Hong | The Woman Warrior | |
| 1977 | Morrison | Toni | Song of Solomon | |
| 1977 | Silko | Leslie Marmon | Ceremony | |
| 1978 | Giovanni | Nikki | Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day | |
| 1979 | Butler* | Octavia | Kindred | |
| 1980 | Jordan | June | Poem About My Rights | |
| 1980 | Kingston | Maxine Hong | China Men | |
| 1980 | Olsen | Tillie | Tell Me A Riddle | |
| 1980 | Robinson | Marilynne | Housekeeping | |
| 1981 | Morrison | Toni | Tar Baby | |
| 1981 | Plath | Sylvia | Collected Poems | |
| 1982 | Erdich | Louise | Love Medicine | |
| 1982 | Lorde | Audre | A New Spelling of My Name | |
| 1982 | Walker | Alice | The Color Purple | |
| 1983 | Marshall | Paule | Praisesong for the Widow | |
| 1983 | Rich | Adrienne | Your Native Land, Your Life | |
| 1983-2008 | Bechdel | Alison | The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For | |
| 1984 | Cisneros | Sandra | House on Mango Street | |
| 1984 | Cliff | Michelle | Abeng | |
| 1984 | Lorde | Audre | Sister Outsider | |
| 1984 | Rich | Adrienne | The Fact of a Doorframe | |
| 1985 | Atwood | Margaret | The Handmaid’s Tale | |
| 1985 | Kincaid | Jamaica | Annie John | |
| 1986 | Dove | Rita | Thomas and Beulah | |
| 1986 | Williams | Sherley Ann | Dessa Rose | |
| 1987 | Cliff | Michelle | No Telephone to Heaven | |
| 1987 | Hejinian | Lyn | My Life | |
| 1987 | Morrison | Toni | Beloved | |
| 1988 | Kincaid | Jamaica | A Small Place | |
| 1988 | Kingsolver | Barbara | Bean Trees | |
| 1988 | Naylor | Gloria | Mama Day | |
| 1990 | Byatt | A. S. | Possession | |
| 1991 | Cisneros | Sandra | Woman Hollering Creek | |
| 1991 | Smiley | Jane | A Thousand Acres | |
| 1992 | Morrison | Toni | Playing in the Dark | |
| 1992 | Oates | Joyce Carol | Black Water | |
| 1992 | Walker | Alice | Possessing the Secret of Joy | |
| 1992 | Winterson | Jeannette | Written on the Body | |
| 1993 | Allison | Dorothy | Bastard out of Carolina | |
| 1993 | Butler | Octavia | Parable of the Sower | |
| 1993 | Mukherjee | Bharati | The Holder of the World | |
| 1993 | Shields | Carol | The Stone Diaries | |
| 1994 | Castillo | Ann | Massacre of the Dreamers | |
| 1994 | Danticatt | Edwidge | Breath, Eyes, Memory | |
| 1994 | LeGuin | Ursula | A Fisherman of the Inland Sea | |
| 1994 | Paley | Grace | Collected Stories | |
| 1995 | Viramontes | Helena | Under the Feet of Jesus | |
| 1996 | Atwood | Margaret | Alias Grace | |
| 1996 | Didion | Joan | The Last Thing He Wanted | |
| 1996 | Parks | Suzan-Lori | Venus | |
| 1996 | Sapphire | Push | ||
| 1996 | Wolf | Christa | Medea | |
| 1997 | Cao | Lan | Monkey Bridge | |
| 1997 | Chambers | Veronica | Mama’s Girl | |
| 1997 | Jordan | June | Kissing God Goodbye | |
| 1998 | Kingsolver* | Barbara | Poisonwood Bible | |
| 1998 | Morrison | Toni | Paradise | |
| 1998 | Senna | Danzy | Caucasia | |
| 1999 | Anzaldua | Gloria | Borderlands/La Frontera | |
| 1999 | Lahiri | Jhumpa | Interpreter of Maladies | |
| 1999 | Waters | Sarah | Affinity | |
| 2000 | Kingsolver | Barbara | Prodigal Summer | |
| 2000 | Trethewey | Natasha | Domestic Work | |
| 2001 | Parks | Suzan-Lori | Topdog/Underdog | |
| 2001 | Walker | Rebecca | Black, White, and Jewish | |
| 2002 | Sontag | Susan | Regarding the Pain of Others | |
| 2003 | Erdich* | Louise | The Master Butchers Singing Club | |
| 2003 | Finney | Nikky | The World is Round | |
| 2003 | Lahiri | Jhumpa | The Namesake | |
| 2004 | Rich | Adrienne | The School Among the Ruins | |
| 2004 | Robinson | Marilynne | Gilead | |
| 2006 | Oates | Joyce Carol | Black Girl/White Girl | |
| 2006 | Trethewey | Natasha | Native Guard | |
| 2007 | LeGuin | Ursula | Powers | |
| 2008 | Morrison | Toni | A Mercy | |
| 2009 | Adichie | Chimamanda Ngozi | The Thing Around Your Neck | |
| 2010 | Stafford | Jean | The Mountain Lion | |
| Note: Names marked with an * also had a vote for “anything by her.” | ||||
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