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FEBRUARY 8, 2010
An Every Woman Reading List from More Magazine
I love reading lists and rarely pass up the chance to browse one. One I came across recently was in More Magazine:

Top 100 Books Every Woman Should Read

The first 21 books consist of classics but you've got to wonder at some of the choices. I'm not certain how Erica Jong's Fear of Flying is keeping company with Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Little Women but all in all it's a pretty good list.

Part II covers Noteworthy titles, which includes one of my favorites, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, and the perennial Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell. Somehow, Fear of Flying shows up again.

Part III Nonfiction has the superior West With the Night by Beryl Markham, The Liar's Club by Mary Karr and a favorite of one our staff and a pulitzer prize winner to boot, The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed.

Part IV is probably the list that I'm the least familiar with, this one being Poetry.

100 books is a lot for one list of recommendations and a lot for most women to read in a life time. I'm certain some women will try. Looking over the list you'll probably find you've read many already. Myself, I've read several but there's a few  I've never come across. I think I'd like to read this one and will add it to my GoodReads list:

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.

Even with 100 books, there's always something missing though it's not hitting me over the head right now. How about you? What flagrant omission do you see?


 


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