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Flavorwire is another source of these top 50 lists, and they have several women centered lists:
- 50 Excellent Novels by Female Writers Under 50 That Everyone Should Read
- Girl Canon: 50 Essential Books About the Female Experience
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Octavia Butler
- Kate Chopin
- Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler
- Bluets by Maggie Nelson
- I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
- Iris Murdoch
- Virgina Woolf
- Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
- Kyung-sook Shin
- Catherine Mansfeild
- Virginia Lee Burton
- Cunt by Inga Muscio
- A.M. Holmes
- Angela Davis
- Rebecca Solnit
- Joan Didion
- Lydia Davis
- Amor and Psycho by Carolyn Cooke
- Lorrie Moore
- Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
- Margaret Atwood
- Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Beverly Cleary
- Alison Bechdel
- Susan Sontag
- J.K. Rowling
- The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton
- Sylvia Plath
- The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
- Tove Jansson
- Annie Dillard
- bell hooks
- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
- Ursula Leguin
- An Unquiet Mind by Kaye Redfield Jamison
- A.L. Kennedy
- The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
- How Should a Person Be by Shelia Heti
- Unmastered by Katherine Angel
- Shirley Jackson
- Daphne Dumaurie
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
- Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
- Just Kids by Patti Smith
- Dorothy Parker
- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
- Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
- Audre Lorde
- I Rigoberto Menchu by Rigoberto Menchu
- Roxane Gay
- Xialu Guo
- Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
- Willa Cather
- Patricia Highsmith
- Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
- Speedboat by Renata Adler
- Donna Tartt
- Alice Walker
- Mary Renault
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I really could go on and on and on.
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