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Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics)
1.  Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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  "Probably the best novel ever written."
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Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Modern Classics)
2.  Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean Rhys
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  "A profound work that completely changes one's awareness of Jane Eyre."
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Nervous Conditions
3.  Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
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  "Among my first introductions to post colonial African fiction.  It's fabulously written and has a lot of important things to say."
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The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories
4.  The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories by Angela Carter
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  "Dark, powerfull and insightful.  Full of layered images and possibilities for the reader to interact with the text."
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Bliss and Other Stories
5.  Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
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  "The title story is among the best codifications of lesbian desire I have come across."
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The Weather in the Streets
6.  The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
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  "Subtle and compelling."
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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
7.  Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
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  "A little overdone at times but great stuff all the same."
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Three Lives (Twentieth Century Classics)
8.  Three Lives (Twentieth Century Classics) by Gertrude Stein
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  "Envisions a new way of expressing reality.  Stein was almost as great a genius as she believed herself to be."
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To the Lighthouse (Wordsworth Classics)
9.  To the Lighthouse (Wordsworth Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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  "Heavily autobiographical, light and profoundly moving."
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The Yellow Wall-Paper
10.  The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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  "Frightening and true.  One to make every feminist's blood boil."
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The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics)
11.  The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics) by Margaret Atwood
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  "Somewhat flawed, occasionally inelegant but more often shiningly brilliant."
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The Color Purple
12.  The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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  "Sparkling and competent.  You will be in safe hands from the first word as you are led calmly and gently from one profound idea to the next."
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Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
13.  Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
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  "Over studied but with good reason."
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics)
14.  Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Brontë
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  "Remember the cramped and limited lives these women led and be amazed when you see their minds sprawl out into the worlds of experience and emotion denied to them."
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Northanger Abbey (Penguin Popular Classics)
15.  Northanger Abbey (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
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  "Way underrated.  Probably her funniest work and a brilliant parody of the gothic tradition."
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Feminist Fables
16.  Feminist Fables by Suniti Namjoshi
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  "Sharp, funny and touching.  The best example of the feminist revision tradition that I have read."
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Wise Children
17.  Wise Children by Angela Carter
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  "A clever fun read that it pays to have your brain engaged for."
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