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HomeThe FAKOur Mega List of Books by Women Authors You Read t ...

Our Mega List of Books by Women Authors You Read this Year

December 15, 2016
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The other day we asked folks on Twitter what was the best thing they read this year. All women authors, of course. And woah, what a super-duper crowdsourced list emerged from this conversation. Enjoy, buy, borrow, read.

(Our list of your favourite new books released in 2016 is over here. Go check it out too.)

Short Stories

Graphic Novels

Novels

Crime Fiction

Science Fiction

Young Adult

Non-Fiction

Poetry


Short Stories

1. Public Library and Other Stories (2013) by Ali Smith 

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2. Fish in a Dwindling Lake (2007) by Ambai 

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3. In a Forest, a Deer (2000) by Ambai 

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4. The Ballad of Sad Café (1951) by Carson McCullers 

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5. Sleeping with Movie Stars (2011) by Gitanjali Kolanad 

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6. Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings (2008) by Kuzhali Manickavel 

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7. Things We Found During the Autopsy (2014) by Kuzhali Manickavel 

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8. The Inner Courtyard: Stories by Indian Women (1994) edited by Lakshmi Holmstrom

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9. A Manual for Cleaning Women (2015) by Lucia Berlin

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10. Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen (2009) by Marilyn Chin

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11. Thus Were Their Faces (2015) by Silvina Ocampo 

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12. Motherwit (2013) by Urmila Pawar 

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Graphic Novels

1. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) by Alison Bechdel

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2. Adi Parva (2012) by Amruta Patil

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Novels

1. The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker 

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2. The Cosmopolitans (2015) by Anjum Hasan 

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3. The Green Road (2015) by Anne Enright 

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4. Gulab (2014) by Annie Zaidi 

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5. The Zoya Factor (2008) by Anuja Chauhan 

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6. Sleeping on Jupiter (2015) by Anuradha Roy 

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7. The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy 

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8.  The Poisonwood Bible (1998) by Barbara Kingsolver

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9. Herland (1915) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 

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10. Americanah (2013) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

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11. Palace of Illusions (2008) by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 

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12. Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier 

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13. The Neapolitan Novels (2011 – 14) by Elena Ferrante 

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14. Honor (2013) by Elif Shafak 

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15. East Lynne (1861) by Ellen Wood 

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16. Room (2010) by Emma Donoghue 

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17. The Sealed Letter (2008) by Emma Donoghue 

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18. Fear of Flying (1973) by Erica Jong 

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19. Human Acts (2014) by Han King

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20. A Little Life (2015) by Hanya Yanagihara 

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21. Boy, Snow, Bird (2013) by Helen Oyeyemi 

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22. A Place of Greater Safety (1992) by Hilary Mantel 

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23. The Taj Trilogy (2002 – 10) by Indu Sundaresan 

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24. The House of Spirits (1982) by Isabel Allende

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25. The Japanese Lover (2015) by Isabel Allende 

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26. The Lowland (2013) by Jhumpa Lahiri

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27. Hausfrau (2015) by Jill Alexander Essbaum 

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28. Among Others (2011) by Jo Walton 

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29. My Sister’s Keeper (2004) by Jodi Picoult 

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30. Nineteen Minutes (2007) by Jodi Picoult 

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31. Hangwoman (2012) by K. R. Meera 

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32. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013) by Karen Joy Fowler 

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33. Zindaginama (1979) by Krishna Sobti 

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34. Seeing Red (2012) by Lina Meruane 

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35. The Door (1987) by Magda Szabo

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36. Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell 

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37. To Bed with Grand Music (2009) by Marghanita Laski 

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38. All My Puny Sorrows (2014) by Miriam Toews 

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39. The Tale of Genji (1021) by Murasaki Shikibu 

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40. Paro: Dreams of Passion (1999) by Namita Gokhale 

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41. Shadow & Soul (2015) by Nandita Bose 

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42. Who Fears Death (2010) by Nnedi Okorafor 

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43. for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (1975) by Ntozake Shange 

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44. Close to Home (2014) by Parvati Sharma

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45. The Fountain Overflows (1956) by Rebecca West 

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46. A Disobedient Girl (2009) by Ru Freeman 

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47. Karachi, You’re Killing Me! (2014) by Saba Imtiaz 

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48. Fingersmith (2002) by Sarah Waters

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49. The Little Stranger (2009) by Sarah Waters 

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50. The Paying Guests (2014) by Sarah Waters

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51. Crowfall (2013) by Shanta Gokhale 

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52. The Invention of Wings (2014) by Sue Monk Kidd 

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53. God Help the Child (2014) by Toni Morrison 

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54. Sula (1973) by Toni Morrison 

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55. Life after Life (2013) by Kate Atkinson

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56. A God in Ruins (2015) by Kate Atkinson

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57. The Island of Lost Girls; Escape #2 (2015) by Manjula Padmanabhan

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58. Crazy for You (1999) by Jennifer Crusie

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59. Mr. Fox (2011) by Helen Oyeyemi 

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60. White is for Witching (2009) by Helen Oyeyemi 

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61. Eileen (2015) by Ottessa Moshfegh

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62. The Gypsy Goddess (2014) by Meena Kandasamy

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Crime Fiction

1. The Daughter of Time; Inspector Alan Grant #5 (1951) by Josephine Tey 

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2. The Secret Gardener (2013) by Kalpana Swaminathan 

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3. The Girl on the Train (2015) by Paula Hawkins 

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Science Fiction

1. Ancillary Justice; Imperial Radch #1 (2013) by Ann Leckie

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2. The Natural Way of Things (2015) by Charlotte Wood 

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3. To Say Nothing of the Dog; Oxford Time Travel #2 (1998) by Connie Willis 

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4. Remnant Population (1996) by  Elizabeth Moon 

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5. Station Eleven (2014) by Emily St. John Mandel

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6. MaddAddam Trilogy (2009 – 13) by Margaret Atwood 

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7. The Heart Goes Last (2015) by Margaret Atwood 

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8. Kindred (1979) by Octavia E. Butler 

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9. Wild Seed; Patternmaster #1 (1980) by Octavia E. Butler 

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10. The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin 

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Young Adult

1. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (2015) by Becky Albertalli 

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2. The Lie Tree (2015) by Frances Hardinge 

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3. Talking of Muskaan (2014) by Himanjali Sankar 

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4. House on Mango Street (1984) by Sandra Cisneros 

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5. Ashwathy and the Boot of God (2015) by Sowmya Rajendran

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Non-Fiction

1. Karukku (1992) by Bama 

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2. ain’t i a woman (1981) by bell hooks

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3. Tiny Beautiful Things (2012) by Cheryl Strayed

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4. Farewell Kabul (2015) by Christina Lamb 

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5. My Life on the Road (2015) by Gloria Steinem 

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6. Folded Clock (2015) by Heidi Julavits 

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7. Hard Choices (2013) by Hillary Clinton 

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8. Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood (1995) by Jan Marsh 

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9. Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (2005) by Jeanette Winterson 

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10. Behind the Beautiful Forevers (2012) by Katherine Boo 

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11. Lioness Arising (2010) by Lisa Bevere 

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12. This Sex Which is Not One (1977) by Luce Irigaray  

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13. The Argonauts (2015) by Maggie Nelson 

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14. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (2011) by Mindy Kaling 

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15. Why Not Me? (2015) by Mindy Kaling 

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16. Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2014) by Mona Eltahawy 

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17. I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (2006) by Nora Ephron

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18. Talking About Detective Fiction (2009) by P. D. James

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19. Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka’s Civil War (2014) by Rohini Mohan 

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20. A Handbook for My Lover (2015) by Rosalyn D’Mello

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21. Lafayette in the Somewhat United States (2015) by Sarah Vowell

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22. Chernobyl Prayer (1997) by Svetlana Alexievich

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23. Second-Hand Time (2013) by Svetlana Alexievich

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24. Cut-outs, Caste and Cine Stars (2008) by Vaasanthi 

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Poetry

1. Dream Girl (2015) by Clementine von Radics 

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2. Geographies of Light (2009) by Lisa Suhair Majaj 

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3. Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014) by Louise Gluck 

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4. A Stranger’s Mirror (2015) by Marilyn Hacker 

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5. A Poetry Handbook (1994) by Mary Oliver

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6. milk and honey (2014) by Rupi Kaur 

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7. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (2011) by Warsan Shire 

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