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Our Mega List of Books by Women Authors You Read this Year - The Ladies FingerThe Ladies Finger
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Motherwit (2013) by Urmila Pawar

Graphic Novels

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

2. Adi Parva (2012) by Amruta Patil

Novels

1. The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker

2. The Cosmopolitans (2015) by Anjum Hasan

3. The Green Road (2015) by Anne Enright

4. Gulab (2014) by Annie Zaidi

5. The Zoya Factor (2008) by Anuja Chauhan

6. Sleeping on Jupiter (2015) by Anuradha Roy

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

8. The Poisonwood Bible (1998) by Barbara Kingsolver

9. Herland (1915) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

10. Americanah (2013) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

12. Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier

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

14. Honor (2013) by Elif Shafak

15. East Lynne (1861) by Ellen Wood

16. Room (2010) by Emma Donoghue

17. The Sealed Letter (2008) by Emma Donoghue

18. Fear of Flying (1973) by Erica Jong

19. Human Acts (2014) by Han King

20. A Little Life (2015) by Hanya Yanagihara

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

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

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

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

25. The Japanese Lover (2015) by Isabel Allende

26. The Lowland (2013) by Jhumpa Lahiri

27. Hausfrau (2015) by Jill Alexander Essbaum

28. Among Others (2011) by Jo Walton

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

30. Nineteen Minutes (2007) by Jodi Picoult

31. Hangwoman (2012) by K. R. Meera

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

33. Zindaginama (1979) by Krishna Sobti

34. Seeing Red (2012) by Lina Meruane

35. The Door (1987) by Magda Szabo

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

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

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

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

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

41. Shadow & Soul (2015) by Nandita Bose

42. Who Fears Death (2010) by Nnedi Okorafor

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

44. Close to Home (2014) by Parvati Sharma

45. The Fountain Overflows (1956) by Rebecca West

46. A Disobedient Girl (2009) by Ru Freeman

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

48. Fingersmith (2002) by Sarah Waters

49. The Little Stranger (2009) by Sarah Waters

50. The Paying Guests (2014) by Sarah Waters

51. Crowfall (2013) by Shanta Gokhale

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

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

54. Sula (1973) by Toni Morrison

55. Life after Life (2013) by Kate Atkinson

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

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

58. Crazy for You (1999) by Jennifer Crusie

59. Mr. Fox (2011) by Helen Oyeyemi

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

61. Eileen (2015) by Ottessa Moshfegh

62. The Gypsy Goddess (2014) by Meena Kandasamy

Crime Fiction

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

2. The Secret Gardener (2013) by Kalpana Swaminathan

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

Science Fiction

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

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

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

4. Remnant Population (1996) by Elizabeth Moon

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

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

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

8. Kindred (1979) by Octavia E. Butler

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

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

Young Adult

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

2. The Lie Tree (2015) by Frances Hardinge

3. Talking of Muskaan (2014) by Himanjali Sankar

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

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

Non-Fiction

1. Karukku (1992) by Bama

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

3. Tiny Beautiful Things (2012) by Cheryl Strayed

4. Farewell Kabul (2015) by Christina Lamb

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

6. Folded Clock (2015) by Heidi Julavits

7. Hard Choices (2013) by Hillary Clinton

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

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

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

11. Lioness Arising (2010) by Lisa Bevere

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

13. The Argonauts (2015) by Maggie Nelson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

22. Chernobyl Prayer (1997) by Svetlana Alexievich

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

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

Poetry

1. Dream Girl (2015) by Clementine von Radics

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

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

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

5. A Poetry Handbook (1994) by Mary Oliver

6. milk and honey (2014) by Rupi Kaur

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

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